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• 11-28-2009, 4:17 AM

  NVGoldenDog Joined on 11-28-2009, 9:13 AM Posts 2

  404 error opening links with .exe extensions Reply Contact Hello. I am working on troubleshooting an issue with IIS7 and a website that has links to .exe files (for downloading). whenever I click on a link with a .exe file associated to it, I get a 404 error. If I rename the file to .zip for example, it opens up and asks what I want to do with the file, which is what I expect to happen with the .exe files. I have moved this site from a previous server that was running IIS6. I suspect it has something to do with PHP being installed, but am not 100% sure on this. I enabled request logging on IIS, and I looked at the .xml of this, but don't see what is causing it. I do see it is logging the 404 error, and if I look at the trace, I see "Buffer No input file specified."  Any ideas on how I might figure out what is causing this and how to fix it?

• 11-28-2009, 4:45 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 4:54 PM MI Posts 3,929	Re: 404 error opening links with .exe extensions Reply Contact try this link http://forums.iis.net/t/1162220.aspx Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 23 hours, 5 minutes ago

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  NVGoldenDog Joined on 11-28-2009, 9:13 AM Posts 2	Re: 404 error opening links with .exe extensions Reply Contact Thanks, that link helped. I noticed that I had a handler mapping for *.EXE and it was pointed to CGI-EXE . I assume I don't need that mapping, is that correct?

• 22 hours, 34 minutes ago

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  qbernard Joined on 03-25-2003, 10:12 PM Malaysia Posts 3,212	Re: 404 error opening links with .exe extensions Reply Contact By default, the mapping is for cgi app and it is disabled by default, you can ignore it. Cheers, Bernard Cheah