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Logging Windows Credential Name

abhishes — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:33:44 GMT

Hello,

I want to configure my IIS 7 in such a way that if anyone access any website on this IIS box, IIS logs their windows credentials to a file.

Can IIS be configured to do this?

Live Smooth Streaming Publishing point

vivasen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:20:40 GMT

i'm new to iis media. my live_smooth.isml state is in START mode

but the Archive, Fragment and Stream are in STOPPED mode

How do i start them

thanks

Rewrite rules only works in sub-directory

Dsypher — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:54:56 GMT

Hi,

I'm having touble with the imported rewrite rules. My CodeIgniter application only works inside a sub-directory i.e. www.mysite.com/site but it wont work when its in the root directory.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.php" />
                <add value="default.aspx" />
                <add value="Default.htm" />
                <add value="Default.asp" />
                <add value="index.htm" />
                <add value="index.html" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Execute, Script" />
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Any sort of help would be appreciated.

Problem copying IIS setting - web deploy incorrectly changing App Pool setting from No Managed code to .Net 1.1

power01 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:35:47 GMT

Hi,

After a using web deploy to copy all the IIS settings to load balanced server one App Pool is defaulting back to .NET 1.1 instead of no managed code.

We do not use .Net on any sites in that App Pool. What would cause this?
I have seen it happen on our Production and Dev Enviornment. The App Pool is a new one that was the first to be created other than the default ones.

All the subsequent App Pools do not seem to have this problem.

We are using Windows 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5

Configuring .NET settings by editing .config files manually

trey.jonn — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:38:36 GMT

ASP.NET Configuration can be set using the ASP.NET MMC Snap-In or by editing .config files present at different levels: website, virtual directory\application or web server levels. I'm trying to find out how to set customErrors, which is defined in sectionGroup <system.web> in machine.config by editing a .config file manually i.e. not using the Snap-In

Does customErrors have to be contained inside <system.web> when it is configured in a .config file or can it be set elsewhere?

Re-phrasing the question, is it possible to define customErrors such that it can be accessed programmatically with an XPath of:
/customErrors/@mode and at the same time not be accessible using these 2 XPaths:

/configuration/system.web/customErrors/@mode or
/configuration/location/system.web/customErrors[@mode]

configure IIS use SSL

chucitdlu — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:30:34 GMT

hi all

how to configure IIS use SSL.

in the people opinion, As you, have using the ssl?

thanks

trying to move to another iis7.5 server - problem with disk space

merk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:27:55 GMT

I'm trying to export an entire IIS75 server to another machine. I'm doing this by right clicking on the server name in IIS manager, selecting export and then letting it go. But it seems like it's generating a large temp file, and then trying to convert that temp file into a zip file. And it's going to run out of disk space.

so, what's a better way to do this? Any way to get it to skip zipping the file? Or is there any way to import everything directly between the two servers instead of creating a package? I'm guessing i'd have to set up the msdeploy service on the source server?

The other option i can consider would be skip exporting 1 or 2 particularly large websites and import those individually. How would i exclude specific websites though? When doing the export and selecting webserver, i dont seem to be able to exclude websites, unless i go with the apphost option.

thanks

Mime type is not getting updated.

apeksha.godiyal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:58:26 GMT

Hi,

I have Windows Server 2008 R2, so I must be running IIS 7.5. I am trying to change the default mime type associated with an extension. Fot that I changed the global mime map and also added the <staticContent><mimeMap> section to web.config.

However, when the browser downloads my file, I see that the http header still has the old mime type.

Am I missing anything? What is the correct way to change the mime type of a file?

Apeksha

IIS Turns Sites on and Off

newsportalsite — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:52:08 GMT

Hello. This is my first time on the forums so please tell me if you need any more information than I provide.

We have multiple servers, most running 2008 with one older server running 2003, that run our web service. I dont know if ti makes any difference but we run 4 additional MSSQL servers.

We have one "control" server where we do most of our maintenance, like updating client records and turning sites on and off (due to receiving/not receiving payment).

For some reason, sites are getting turned on and off even if no one here "tells" them to. Admittedly, we have wrote an API for IIS in ColdFusion, and this could be the problem, but last week I modified our API to write to a log every time it is called. We have no logs to show the sites getting turned back on, just when we turned them back off.

It is beginning to put a stress on our accountant because she turns the sites off, checks to make sure they are off, and then leaves for the day. When she returns, the sites are turned back on and the log files have no entries for them.

What would cause IIS (or another program we have on our servers) to turn these sites on and off? The vast majority of the time it is off-to-on, but once or twice it has been on-to-off (which arguably causes more trouble than off-to-on).

Thanks in advance for any help your able to give.

Nick

WMI error on enumerating pools on Windows 2008 but not on Windows 2008 R2

artisticcheese — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:39:51 GMT

Hello, I can not make simple powershell script to work on plain Windows 2008 install but it works on Windows 2008 R2. Ad hoc query is below. It returns actual Application Pools when run on Windows 2008 R2 but errors out below if run on vanilla Windows 2008

PS C:\Users\admin> gwmi -namespace "root\WebAdministration"
cmdlet Get-WmiObject at command pipeline position 1\
Supply values for the following parameters:
Class: ApplicationPool
Get-WmiObject : Provider load failure
At line:1 char:5
+ gwmi <<<

Strange behavior sending Binary Data from ISAPI Extension

djbandini — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:37:33 GMT

I'm writing an ISAPI Extension (IIS 7) that needs to send back Content-Type: application/octet-stream data with some custom HTTP headers. I've tried a lot of different combinations of trying to send the headers and data but so far i've yet to figure out what ISAPI is doing, because the packet created IS NOT what i requested. I have Wireshark running and the strange thing is ISAPI is splitting my 'single' 600 bytes requests into two (or more) packets. The first packet is "Content-Length:0" with no data and the second packet is my data with none of the extra headers i've tried to add.

Documentation does not discuss binary data or if ISAPI needs a qualified boundary or some other field before and after the binary data. I scaled back my code to just :

pECB->ServerSupportFunction(pECB->ConnID, HSE_REQ_SEND_RESPONSE_HEADER_EX, "200 OK", "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"....)

pECB->WriteClient( pECB->ConnID, (LPVOID)(data)....)

I just read the bug about sending a continuous data stream and tried turning off flushing. After setting HSE_REQ_SET_FLUSH_FLAG to FALSE...THIS WORKED!! But i'm still having the issue that it doesn't like my headers. Each header is defined as Header-Name:Value\r\n, with mulitple concatenated in a row. I place the Content-Type at both the beginning/end of the header list and the packet now just sends Content-Length:0, no errors on ServerSupportFunction or WriteClient.

Exampe... [] = "Confirm:1\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n".

Anyone ever sent a binary stream or multiple HTTP headers? I can't seem to find this example.

Strange behavior sending Binary Data from ISAPI Extension

djbandini — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:37:10 GMT

Documentation does not discuss binary data or if ISAPI needs a qualified boundary or some other field before and after the binary data. I scaled back my code to just :

pECB->ServerSupportFunction(pECB->ConnID, HSE_REQ_SEND_RESPONSE_HEADER_EX, "200 OK", "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"....)

pECB->WriteClient( pECB->ConnID, (LPVOID)(data)....)

Exampe... [] = "Confirm:1\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n".

Anyone ever sent a binary stream or multiple HTTP headers? I can't seem to find this example.

Cannot execute start /w pkgmgr

alainbnn — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:14:01 GMT

According to official doc http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx

one should execute

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures; IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors; IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility; IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics; IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools; IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication; IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic; IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility; IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

but operation fails with "incorrect parameters".

so how to correct ?

thanks.

Issues with rules being implemented

legacy2013 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:09:15 GMT

Hi,

I am new to using URL rewrite and for some reason, none of the rules I make are implemented. I thought I was typing stuff wrong at first but I've tried a few examples and they all didnt work either, the website just goes directly to the default web site of the proxy in IIS, is there something turned off that I just need to turn back on???

New issue LOG_FILE_MAX_SIZE_TRUNCATE

ICIT — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:06:44 GMT

I've updated to the latest stable versions in PHP 5.2.14 and Mysql 5.1.49 using localhost on vista before it was this MODULE_SET_RESPONSE_ERROR_STATUS

now its stating that I'm having Log File max size truncate issues

when I'm trying to do a component install on Joomla using there installer in the admin

I detected this using the Failurelog trace

any help on resolving this issue would be great

thanks

ICIT

can't get rid of the dot

jmgmail2 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:43 GMT

I am trying to get rid of the trailing dot from below like loader.png. The image does not display..it was built with Ruby Rails and was thinking maybe if I could put together a rewrite to eliminate the dot after the png it will work. If I take the same url without the dot and put in browser it works fine. Anyone have any thoughts or ideas.. thanks...jmgmail@aim.com

Smooth Streaming Error: 415 Unsupported Media Type - What is this

alexcallea — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:59:52 GMT

Hi there,

We are currently testing a Smooth Streaming solution. It's generally working quite well but in some occasions we get the following error (and it is always hapening after a while...) :

415 Unsupported Media Type

the detailed log we are getting is the following:

"http://1xx.1xx.1xx.xx1/media/movies/movie.ism/QualityLevels(4176000)/Fragments(video=0)"
--16:09:16-- http://1xx.1xx.1xx.xx1/media/movies/movie.ism/QualityLevels(4176000)/Fragments(video=0)
=> `Fragments(video=0).7'
Connecting to 188.165.158.121:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 415 Unsupported Media Type
16:09:16 ERROR 415: Unsupported Media Type.

I have no idea of what is causing this: is this a server issue or a file / encoding issue (we are using expression encoder4, the file is 1080p Vc-1 encoded).

Any help much appreciated,

Thanks,

Alex

IIS Users Group

terri8502 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:46:55 GMT

Does anyone know if there is such a thing as IIS Users groups? I am looking for one in the Tampa, FL community. I have googled it and nothing comes up. Any guidance is appreciated.

Trouble extending web.config ... help

john.newman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:16:04 GMT

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting a collection to work right. I keep getting this error when my c# module tries to access the config property. In the debugger I can see everything buried in there, but this keeps popping up:

[COMException (0x80070585): Invalid index. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070585)] Microsoft.Web.Administration.Interop.IAppHostElement.GetPropertyByName(String bstrSubName) +0 Microsoft.Web.Administration.ConfigurationElement.GetAttributeValue(String attributeName) +61 TEST.AuthProxyConfiguration.get_SubDomainCollection() +63 TEST.AuthProxy..cctor() +801

Here's my schema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<configSchema>
<sectionSchema name="authProxy">
    <attribute name="enabled" type="bool" defaultValue="false" />
    <element name="authMappings">
      <collection addElement="authMapping" mergeAppend="false" allowDuplicates="false">
        <attribute name="subDomain" type="string" required="true" />
        <attribute name="authUrl" type="string" required="true" />
      </collection>
    </element>
</sectionSchema>
</configSchema>

And here's a web.config snippet

So, I've got an enabled flag (this works fine), and a container element for a collection. Trying to get the collection fails..

C# configuration class: (this is where the problem is i think)

public class AuthProxyConfiguration : Microsoft.Web.Administration.ConfigurationSection
    {

        public const string SectionName = "authProxy";

        [ConfigurationProperty("enabled", DefaultValue = "false", IsRequired = true)]
        public Boolean Enabled
        {
            get
            { return (Boolean)this["enabled"]; }
            set
            { this["enabled"] = value; }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("authMappings", IsDefaultCollection = false),
          ConfigurationCollection(typeof(SubDomainCollection), AddItemName = "authMapping")
        ]
        public SubDomainCollection SubDomainCollection
        {
            get
            { return (SubDomainCollection)this["authMappings"]; } << FAILS everytime, but I see the authMappings element and the child authMapping in the watch....
        }
    }

    public class SubDomainCollection : Microsoft.Web.Administration.ConfigurationElementCollection
    {
    }

    public class SubDomainMapEntry : Microsoft.Web.Administration.ConfigurationElement
    {
        [ConfigurationProperty("subDomain", IsRequired = true)]
        public String SubDomain
        {
            get
            { return (String)this["subDomain"]; }
            set
            { this["subDomain"] = value; }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("authUrl",IsRequired = true)]
        public Uri AuthUrl
        {
            get
            { return (Uri)this["authUrl"]; }
            set
            { this["authUrl"] = value; }
        }

    }

HELP! =) Thanks!

Filter Authemtication for images and other non-sensitive stuff

anilravala — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:00:53 GMT

I am using Windows authentication mode for my application in web.config.

Is ther any way that i can restrict this authetication for images and non -sensitive stuff in IIS 7.

Thanks

Neal

Configuring .NET settings by editing .config files manually

trey.jonn — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:36:25 GMT

ASP.NET Configuration can be set by editing .config files present at different levels: website, virtual directory\application or web server levels. I'm trying to find out how to set customErrors, which is defined in sectionGroup <system.web> in machine.config by editing a .config file manually i.e. not using the Console

Does customErrors have to be contained inside <system.web> when it is configured in a .config file or can it be set in a different XPath alternatively?

Re-phrasing the question, is it possible to define customErrors such that it can be accessed programmatically with an XPath of:
/customErrors/@mode and at the same time not be accessible using these 2 XPaths:

/configuration/system.web/customErrors/@mode or
/configuration/location/system.web/customErrors[@mode]

The page contains broken hyperlinks.

JayakrishnaK — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:17:31 GMT

hi, i am using IIS SEO tool to analyze our website. i got "The page contains broken hyper links" the description of the error is as follows: The Web page contains the broken link 'http://www.dynamicsexchange.com/ForumCenter/CrmForumSetReview.aspx'. i searching for this URL in the web page but its working fine and it does not contain any spelling errors. then also the tool shows this error. then how to fix this error please help me its urgent. Thanks in advance Jaya Krishna

Issue in website connections

Kiran Ramesh Gogarkar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:15:08 GMT

Hi,
We have a Web Server farm which sets-up in two different site as PR-2 Servers and DR-4 servers having 30:70 Load distribution of Website connections.
We have configured a website on server(windows server 2008 Std Edition 32bit) on both PR and DR site.Its having a prdefined ratio of load distribution i.e. 30:70 and also there is almost 9000 to 14000 website connections on each server.
Few days back we have upgraded all server to Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Edition 64bit and now we are facing some issues in load distribution of website connections that upto 9000 website connections on all server the ratio as 30:70 but after exceeding 10000 web connections it starts fluctuates and ratio becomes 50:50.
Hence please suggest us if there is any problem with number of connections for a site which exceeding 10000 concurrent connections with windows server 2008 R2 Web Edition.

Waiting for reply

Not able to browse website created

Sharmila_2010 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:24:15 GMT

I created simple web aplication using IIS 7 and getting error Handler "PageHandlerFactory-ISAPI-4.0_64bit" has a bad module "IsapiModule" in its module list. Not sure what properties need to be set for the web site to solve this issue. App pool chosen is ASP.net 4.0 classic

Configuring existingResponse in httpErrors

mvierow — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:53:47 GMT

Hello, I've been trying to get my installation of IIS7 working like my installation of IIS6. Down to configuring the error handling and I've been running into some problems. I am not using ASP.NET

I have set existingResponse to PassThrough

C:\>%SystemDrive%\Windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list config "demoerrors" -section:httpErrors
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="PassThrough">
    <error statusCode="401" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="401.htm" />
    <error statusCode="403" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="403.htm" />
    <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/404.cfm" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    <error statusCode="405" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="405.htm" />
    <error statusCode="406" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="406.htm" />
    <error statusCode="412" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="412.htm" />
    <error statusCode="500" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="500.htm" />
    <error statusCode="501" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="501.htm" />
    <error statusCode="502" prefixLanguageFilePath="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\custerr" path="502.htm" />
</httpErrors>
</system.webServer>

Everything works great when I attempt to access a page that sets the status code. My message appears and the default IIS error does not. In the case of 404 errors, I have defined an "ExecuteURL" to a specific path. This does not execute either. That is exactly what I wanted.

Now for some reason however requesting a fictitious standard static page does not work. If I request a page that does not exist, I cannot get the 404 error to fire. I just get a blank white page. Digging through the headers, I see this:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:47:18 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Content-Length is 0... Why is nothing being returned here? I figured it was my own fault in something I did with my ExecuteURL setting, so I removed it and went with the default 404 error. This gave me the same result. I also tried setting the errorMode from Custom to Detailed to DetailedLocalOnly. This didn't help.

Taken from this site:

existingResponse: PassThrough: Leaves the response untouched if an existing response exists.

http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/httpErrors

I am not providing an existing response. Why is IIS not placing the default 404 error message on my page?

Thanks for the help,

Mike