Questions tagged [iis]
Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) is a server developed by Microsoft for Windows. Questions about IIS should be limited to its setup and configuration for a local development environment.
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Can I use another port other than 443 for SSL communication?
I have an application that communicates via SSL, however, Port 443 is already in use by an IIS instance on that same server. Can I use another port other than 443 for SSL communication?
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Cannot start service W3SVC on computer '.'
I just installed IIS7, but whenever I want to start it, the following error occurs:
What's wrong with it ?
I have Windows 7 64-bit build 7600 and have installed .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET ...
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How do I turn off caching in IIS7?
I'm developing an ASP classic site under Windows 7 (form a queue ladies). The problem is IIS seems to be heavily making use of its cache for both static and dynamic content which really conflicts with ...
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How can I pass my Windows credentials in cURL?
I'm writing a script that uses cURL to pull data from an internal web server. I can explicitly use --user combined with --ntlm and everything works well, but I can't get it to recognize whomever's ...
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How do I disable the IIS server on Windows 10 and free up port 80?
I want to use TiKi to use as a collaboration website.
Up until Windows 10 arrived I've never had any trouble installing development tools using the LAMPP, WAMPP, or XAMPP website installers. Tools ...
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Trying to start app pool via Powershell Script - getting error intermittently
I have a batch script that allows me to turn off a site, deploy files and turn the site back on.
Stop the application pool - works
Stop the website - works
Deploy files - works
Start Application Pool ...
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IIS and HTTP/2 server support
Reading the article "What's new in the .NET framework"...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171868(v=vs.110).aspx
...it states...
Most of the major browsers support HTTP/2, so it's ...
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Create Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with Subject Alternative Name (SAN) on Windows without third party tools
I need to create a CSR on Windows with Subject Alternative Names. Normally I use the built in feature from IIS but it does not give the alternative to use Subject Alternative Name (SAN).
I know that ...
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How to restart PHP on Windows? Unable to find the socket transport "ssl"
I am trying to load the openssl module, I uncommented it in the php.ini:
extension=php_openssl.dll
But when running my script I get an error:
Failed to connect: 0 Unable to find the socket ...
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Does Windows 10 Home Edition have IIS?
I know IIS has to be activated from Control Panel -> Turn Windows Features On or Off. I've done is in Windows 10 Pro version.
I want to buy a Windows 10 Home version and I want to be sure, that it is ...
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Where can I find IIS in Windows 7?
I’ve got IIS installed and enabled on Windows 7, but I don’t know where to open it so that I can configure a website.
I seem to remember that in Windows XP it was somewhere in the Control Panel, but ...
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Does a Window 10 license allow using it as a Web server?
I am looking to set up a Web server for a project.
The server would be using a custom application developed in VB.Net using SQL Server for data storage. The application uses 3rd party components (DLL'...
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How to restore IIS settings and Default Web Site?
On Windows 8.1 with IIS8.
How to restore IIS settings and Default Web Site?
I've a machine that all the application pools and web sites have been deleted from its IIS.
I've tried to remove and ...
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IIS 10 - Cannot read \\?\<EMPTY> configuration file
Everything worked correctly on my IIS, but I installed Windows Fall Creators Update and everything stopped working.
I get an 503 - Service Unavailable error on every app and page inside my AppPool I ...
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Page not found in IIS, but it's there
I have just installed IIS on Windows Server 2008. If I go to localhost, the default page is displayed, so the web server is ok.
I have added a folder with a page in it in the \inetpub\wwwroot ...
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How can I force all traffic to go through OpenVPN connection
I'm using a VPN connection provided by a commercial company. This provides me with a static IP.
There's an external database server I want to connect. The db server is configured to allow ...
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What, exactly, is "Default Website"?
Between IIS 6 and IIS 7.5 (and versions prior to 6 as well, I am sure), there's Default Website under Sites. I've never really questioned what, exactly, Default Website means. It seems that the ...
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What is System32\config\systemprofile?
So I recently figured out that IIS will use C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile as it's "user" directory for folders like AppData in certain situations.
Now, I'm trying to understand why this ...
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Installing Microsoft SEO Toolkit on Windows 10
I used the Microsoft SEO Toolkit a while back and remember it being useful.
Microsoft SEO Toolkit
I would like to install it on Windows 10, however the installation fails stating that IIS Version 7....
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How do I restart the IIS application pools from command line?
How do I restart the IIS application pools from command line, like I can do from IIS Manager, without restarting IIS itself with iisreset and having to wait up to a minute for it to come back online?
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How to add users to a FTP site in Windows 7's IIS?
I've setup a HTTPS and FTP site in IIS but how can I add users to use the FTP site?
Does they necessarily need an account with password in the computer to be able to use it?
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Create website in IIS from powershell with multiple bindings
I'm trying to make simple script so my site can be reached both as www.example.com and simply example.com. How do I pass it as a binding argument?
Here's what I try:
$iisApp = New-Item $iisAppName -...
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Adding Self Signed Certificate to trusted root certificate store using Command Line
Is there any way to add certificate to Local Computer's Trusted Root Certification Authority using command line? I tried using certmgr.exe, it shows success but when i check root CA, i don't see my ...
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401 Error after Sharing wwwroot folder on HomeGroup in IIS7, Windows 7
After sharing my wwwroot folder to the rest of my homegroup, I'm now getting the following error on my website:
Server Error
401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied
due to invalid credentials. ...
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How can I investigate 99% CPU usage by w3wp.exe?
w3wp.exe is showing 99% CPU usage. What are the best ways to investigate the cause of this high CPU usage?
Ravi
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How can I get web server information about a page I'm viewing (e.g. Apache or IIS, Windows or UNIX)?
When I check pages for broken links using Xenu's Link Sleuth it usefully lists information about the web server, OS and PHP version
e.g.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8j PHP5.2.9
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How to change listening port on webbserver IIS 7?
How do you change the port to which the webbserver IIS 7 is listening for incoming traffic to whatever portnumber?
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How do I access an IIS web server on a virtualbox from the network of host machine
I've a site running on IIS on a Windows 8 virtual machine.
http://localhost/RTStreamer/Ticker.html
How do I access that site from outside the host machine?
The host machine ip is 168.192.42.1
I've ...
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How to make Internet Explorer automatically login in a certain domain
In IE, when I want to access a SharePoint site, I'm asked for username/password (obviously).
Is there a way to make IE know that, when I access a domain XXX, it should use certain credentials? Even ...
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Is it possible to enable the IIS remote management icons in Windows 10?
In order to use WEBDEPLOY feature from Visual STudio 2015, it is required that the IIS instance you want to deploy to has Remote Management configured, including user configuration. It is not possible,...
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Using .htaccess with IIS
It is necessary for me to make it possible for .htaccess files to be usable with IIS. Is there a way for this to be done? I know that on its own, IIS is not capable of handling this, but could I ...
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Upgrading IIS7 to IIS8
We have planned to upgrade our IIS to version 8, however I'm facing a problem in upgrading IIS7. Here is a snap of my IIS, which seems to be acting weird.
1) It is showing 3 different version ...
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How to add sites to local intranet from command line?
I’d like to add two IP addresses of our servers to the local intranet on a list of computers.
It seems that there are some problem with our policy and some PCs take it while others not.
Is it ...
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534 Local policy on server does not allow TLS secure connections
I am trying to configure a test FTP site via IIS 6.2 on a Windows Server 2012 R2
I created a site and configure the FTP SSL settings. I selected my certificate and choose custom.
If I don't have the ...
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Windows 7 Professional vs Ultimate IIS7 connection limits
is there any difference between simultaneous connections to IIS 7(.5) between Professional and Ultimate versions of Windows 7? Or are there 10 connections for both?
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Slow user session in Windows 2016 Server with SQL Server Standard
I've recently installed a Windows 2016 Server with SQL Server 2016 Standard. The setup is being used as an IIS webserver with Reporting Services.
Anyhow, when connecting to the server via RDP, the ...
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Scheduling starting a service after another service
I have a service that needs to be started only AFTER another service. Is there some way to configure the service to only start once another has finished starting?
Obviously, I could use a delayed ...
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Cannot find IIS management console in Windows 7
i cannot find the IIS management console on Windows7 in the Turn windows features on or off section. please advise on how to get the IIS management Console.
Thank you
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Web and DNS server just for the intranet - configuration
I have a web site set up in IIS, mysite.net, which I want to be accessible ONLY from within my local network. So it's supposed to be an intranet site.
Now, the way the DNS server and the Web server ...
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Firefox Refuses IIS Express Certificate with error "SEC_ERROR_INADEQUATE_KEY_USAGE"
I have IIS Express running a .Net Core web application.
Chrome is able to browse the HTTPS version fine, and until recently so was Firefox. Suddenly I'm getting this error:
Secure Connection ...
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Running IIS command on remote server via Powershell
I am trying to check if an IIS application pool exists on a remote server using a PowerShell script. The command I am running is:
test-path "IIS:\AppPools\DefaultAppPool"
If I run this script ...
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Is IIS available in Windows 7 Professional?
Bit of a problem finding a detailed feature table that covers IIS. It's probably available in Windows 7 Professional. How many sites will it support, or is it unlimited as in Windows XP and Vista?
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IIS in VirtualBox serving files from shared Ubuntu folder
Here's the problem:
I want to use Ubuntu.
But I need to develop ASP.NET (MVC) sites.
So I setup VirtualBox with Win2003 and IIS6.
But I would prefer my working files to be located in my Ubuntu home ...
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How to open port on IIS Firewall
In doc of http://www.telerik.com/team-productivity-tools.aspx it says
In order to access the TeamPulse
components from client machines, you
will need to open the following ports
in your ...
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How can I find out which version of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) my server is running?
My server is running with Windows Server 2003 SP2. How can I check for which version of IIS it is running?
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Unable to connect to FTP server from another computer with FileZilla
I created an FTP server on my local Windows 7 machine with IIS.
I can connect to the server with the machine on which I created the server, but I can't connect to the server with my laptop which is ...
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Localhost not recognized in windows 7 machine
I have IIS installed on my windows 7 machine.
But when I try to browse the localhost I am getting 404.
I tried to put netstat and I see
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
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Can't start IIS website on port 443, even though netstat shows nothing listening on 443
I have to bind my IIS website to port 443. No other port is allowed in my case. In IIS Manager I've bound Default Web Site to port 443:
But when I try to start the website it fails with:
However ...
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IIS and users group
In Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS is running as a web server under usual conditions. The web content however is not from c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ but from some other folder. The web applications are still ...
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