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How can I remove extraneous virtual directories from Exch 2016?

I am experimenting with setting up Exchange 2016 in a lab environment. Created a VM for DC and another for Exchange (both Server 2016). I ran in to some issues with the Exchange install and decided ...
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Occasional Authorization Errors with IIS, Azure Files and DFS

We'd had some IIS apps configured to run as a local user with admin privs per the standard recommended practice: David So's Blog - IIS and Azure Files. Some sites' app pools were running as domain ...
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IIS Case insensitive Virtual Directory(App) issue

I have an app in IIS whose url is "http://localhost/MAIN", please note the uppercase virtual directory. When I try to access this url with a lower case app/virtual directory name, like "http://...
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how do i edit the username and password prompt window for my protected virtual path?

I am using abyss web server X2 to create this username and password prompt window for my protected virtual path. I would like to edit this prompt window or pop up with my custom text for the visitors....
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How do you setup a virtual directory for background intelligent transfer service uploads on iis 8.5 on windows server 2012 R2?

Here is what I did: From server manager installed BITS IIS Server Extension From IIS manager created virtual directory under default website (using DefaultAppPool with ApplicationPoolIdentity) From ...
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virtual directory for a domain folder when IIS is not on the domain

I have set up a Windows 2012 R2 Server not on the domain as I understand that is better security for the IIS server not to be on the domain. However I want the website user to have read only links to ...
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Mount cloud storage as network drive for iis site virtual directory

I have a rackspace hosted server that I'd like to "add" more storage to. Rather then pay for an additional drive to be physically added to my server I'd like to consider leveraging cheaper cloud ...
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IIS total file size limit per user

I have a virtual directory shared among all users on an IIS 7 FTP server (they still have their private directories). I'll have to limit the maximum amount of files that each user may upload in this ...
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Copy PHP website to virtual folder under IIS 8.5

I would like to make an existing PHP Website (Apache) run on a virtual folder under IIS 8.5. With the help of some nice online tools I translated the following .htaccess content: <IfModule ...
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Configuration of virtual directory for off-domain server in IIS 8.5

Setup: A web server (Windows 2012 R2, IIS 8.5) outside of domain (called MY_WEB_SERVER) A virtual directory pointing to a NAS server on a domain (called MY_NAS_SERVER) An application set on virtual ...
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Virtual Directory application web.config conflicting with SharePoint web.config

My ASP.NET 3.5 application is created in a virtual directory under a SharePoint website in IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003). This application runs on a separate application pool than that of the SharePoint ...
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IIS 8.5 access specific file ends in 403.14

In IIS I created a virtual directory to my media asset folder, which contains all images for my application. For some reason I can't access images in one subdirectory directly, it ends in http error ...
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IIS 7.5 FTP Virtual Directory with Shared Configuration

I have an Clustered IIS FTP service using the methods outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974603 When adding a new virtual directory, it is not available in the FTP site unless I failover ...
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Windows 2012:IIS 8: Restrict Virtual Directory to Local IPs

The server is a Windows 2012 server. In its IIS 8, there is a virtual directory, say 'arcgis'. I want to restrict access to that specific directory only to local computers. The local IPV4 addresses ...
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DNS subdomain linking to service on port 5000 [duplicate]

My website is running on AWS EC2 on /var/www/html on port 5000. I would like to create a DNS A Zone test.example.com linked to that website. On the domain page I can only add the IP, not the port, so ...
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Site cannot be loaded after transferred to virtual directory

I have a website which is working perfectly now. The location of the website files (in my server) is at C:\Hosting Spaces\admin\www.mysite.com and it's accessible by URL from http://app.mysite.com ...
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IIS7.5 Virtual Directory Wrong Physical Path

I have been fighting this problem for hours, and I can't make IIS (7.5 on 2008r2) do the right thing. Every time I try to go to the photos virtual directory, I get a 404.0 and the physical path listed ...
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IIS FTP Publishing with virtual directories not working

I have a website configured with a shared configuration on a network drive that has FTP publishing activated. The site is duplicated with all settings and files to backup host. So both hosts have the ...
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Adding virtual directory in IIS which points to shared path on another machine without AD

I have machines EXTERNAL and INTERNAL (lets call them EXT and INT). Both machines are not part of AD (no network accounts, only local ones) and both machines have Administrator accounts using ...
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Where to place files for download on website? [closed]

Out of these following options, what would you guys recommend as a best practice or approach? I have a website that has a ton of pdf and word files that any one can click to download. What is the best ...
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How to list out Virtual Directories in IIS from the all the websites in PowerShell

I have hit a complete roadblock and cannot figure out how to print out the virtual directories for each website in IIS 8. I keep retrieving Applications and empty null argument errors and just can't ...
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Apache Server - Subdirectory on different server [closed]

You have 2 different servers with different IP Addresses. Both servers are Apache based. Server A: already hosts a website (http://example.com) Server B: would host a WordPress website to be in a ...
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Honor EXIF tag on IIS

Forgive me if this isn't the correct area, but figure I'd give it a shot. I have a virtual directory mapped to a fileshare over IIS. On this fileshare are images. When viewing an image through the ...
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How to change IIS Express Virtual Directory password encryption provider?

In Visual Studio 2012 I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC application which requires a Virtual Directory under the main application directory called "Shared". This happens to point to a UNC path, so I need ...
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ASP.NET Webapp Works as Full Website, but not as Application

I have a fairly simple ASP.NET (targeting.NET 4.0) web app, which is used as a dynamic request form. I have tested this and it is working as a Web Site within IIS 7 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. ...
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mhddfs not support single file to split multiple hard drives.. if file size exceed limit of single storage device

I'm using mhddfs to combine multiple drives that are mounted over network using NFS. e.g. There are three machines Server Name Dir Space Server 1 /home 10 GB Space Server 2 /home 10 GB ...
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Seting up folder from Apache root directory in other hdd and allow php to write on it

please need help... [LINUX] I'm trying to set up a big photos folder in a new hdd over apache. Before it was: /htdocs/photos now I'm trying to create a virtual directory: <IfModule alias_module&...
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How to setup shared folder as virtual directory in IIS 7.5 (cross-domain)

This is my current understanding of how this should be done: (TL;DR for the actual problem, please see the bold text.) Create a folder on you storage server, henceforth known as B. Create a local ...
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New IIS7 virtual directory does not show on FTP client. What needs to happen?

First, I might have to do this maybe once a year, so my memory is failing me as what exactly I did before to get this work because I've been able to do this times prior. We are using an ISS 7 ftp ...
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msdeploy syncing issues

I have 4 Windows 2008 R2 servers. 3 are IIS 7.5 web servers and 1 is a sql server / shared file server. I configured the first web server exactly as I wanted it, then used this msdeploy command to ...
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Joomla in Windows is catching my access to a Virtual Directory where I placed my MVC application

In our windows hosting we use the root (wwwroot) folder to host a JOOMLA website as public website. This is running IIS 7. Then, we created a virtual directory called "App" to host there a ASP.NET ...
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IIS 7 virtual directory on network share access denied

I have a loadbalanced web server where I'm trying to setup a virtual directory on one server (server02) to a network share on the other server (server01). Both servers are IIS 7 on Windows 2008R2. ...
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Why do all my IIS 7 virtual directories get modified when I modify one?

I recently upgraded a Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6 to Server 2008 and IIS 7. This server has over 200 virtual directories which are used to redirect to different pages on the site. The settings didn'...
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IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003: HTTP 404 error on Virtual directory; system cannot find the file specified (win32 status code 2)

Very strange problem. I am running Windows Server 2003, with IIS 6.0. In one of the websites, there are three virtual directories: A, B, and C. For whatever reason, and, from my understanding, ...
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IIS 7.5 AppDomain recycle causing losing session after adding virtual directory to 'Default Web site'

I hope you can help me out here, because i tried to get some answers already in another board (see here) This Question is build on a reply of Scott Forsyth here. When adding a new virtual directory ...
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Rebuilding Exchange 2003 HTTP Virtual Directories in IIS grayed out

Google is bringing up nothing on this subject for me. We had an administrator accidentally delete the "Default Web Site" rather than the virtual directories following these instructions http://...
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Accessing directories outside of DocumentRoot

I've recently deployed a web application to my Linux Redhat server using Capistrano which creates the following directory structure in the site's document root: /var/www/html/example.com/releases/* /...
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website with virtual directory

I have a website running which is using asp.net and iis 7. I made some changes to the website and I wanted to do some testing using the same url but in a sub directory like /private/test So in IIS I ...
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What is the proper way to create virtual directories in Apache without using symlinks?

I am coming from IIS and setting up virtual directories there is so pleasantly easy. You just right-click and add a "virtual directory" pointing to any path you like. This relative path gets reflected ...
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IIS7: How to restrict virtual directory access to specific IP

I have a site set up in IIS, and I have a virtual directory that should only be available to localhost. In IIS6, this was trivial to set up. However, those property sheets are gone in IIS7 and I ...
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IIS 6 - how to create virtual directory like /my/custom/path

I can easily crate a directory structure like c:\temp\mywww\my\custom\path, and then create virtual directory to \mywww and place my files in path subfolder, and I'll be able to access it like: http:/...
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Permissions issue with virtual directory to UNC path

I have a virtual directory in my site (test environment). It is a UNC share which is also used as a public FTP. It is configured to connect as a domain admin account and "Test settings" says ...
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where is information about virtual directories stored?

Server hosted somewhere on internet just broke down, so guys from IT support decided to install Linux temporarily so we can access file system in order to do backup. We have there some web services ...
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Alias a Virtual Directory or Application as Root on IIS 7

Our current IIS setup as two applications running on different paths at (for example) http://server/sub-a and http://server/sub-b. I want to alias http://server/sub-a as root so that just going to ...
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Virtual Directories in Windows File Sharing

I'm running a file share on Windows 7 professional, and I'd like to add a shortcut/virtual directory to other shares. For example, if someone connects to \machinename\share (call that folder A), I'd ...
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IIS7.5/Win2k8 - Accessing Virtual Directories via UNC from non-domain machine to another non-domain machine

Been seriously racking my brain for a while with this. I'm trying to add a Virtual Directory to a site that points to a UNC share. Both machines are not in a domain and I know the machines both see ...
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IIS 7.5 (Express) applicationhost.config: Can a virtualDirectory's physicalPath be a relative path?

I'm configuring a site in applicationhost.config for IIS 7.5 Express: <site name="default" id="1" serverAutoStart="true"> <application path="/"> <virtualDirectory path="/" ...
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In IIS 6, when using a UNC path for a virtual directory “using connect as” is the password secure?

If I use a UNC share for a virtual directory, and use "Connect As" to save the username and password. I'm presuming that these saved credentials are secure? Is that correct? Are the credentials saved ...
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IIS 7.5 virtual directory cannot load assembly which is referenced in the root web.config

I've encountered the following problem with the IIS 7.5. Under root I have a virtual directory which is setup as application running under classic pipeline. it looks like this -root (...
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need assistance in regards to WAMP virtual hosts

Sorry for a question which has probably been brought up many times but I'm yet to find a example that can help me out. At home I have a WAMP server with two folders in the /wamp/www/, so /wamp/www/...

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