IIS7 - General

Windows 7, IIS 7.5 and the Firewall... General Firewall Questions.

wil2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:20:13 GMT

I installed IIS 7.5 on my Windows 7 machine last night for development work.

Basically, I want to run a few sites on different ports - I do not want to have to mess around with hosts files or DNS entries, I simply want to have a few sites active just on localhost and switch between them by port numbers... Then change the home folder when I am done to another project.

Everything works fine locally. I then went from another machine and it did not work. I enabled the "World Wide Web Services (HTTP Traffic-In)" rule under Inbound Rules, and it works without problems for Port 80, however, none of the additional sites work.

I have created additional rules and that works, however I feel like I have left the machine open as it just doesn't feel right!

Why is the default rule targeted to port 80 and not the IIS process/service itself?

Why does it have "Apply to all programs and services" and not just the "World Wide Web Publishing Service / W3SVC"?

Is there a better way of doing this? - I don't want to have to create a new rule each time I want to enable/disable a site and I do not remember having to do this on XP which was the last time I used IIS on a development machine where I used multiple ports (but I could be wrong).

Default Document settings in iis 7.0

snarasingh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:38:08 GMT

Hi All,

I'm trying to move my website from iis 6.0 to iis 7.0. I created a test site using 7 for one of my virtual directory i need to setup the default document as "vendorsearch.aspx?a=2"

in iis 7 i'm getting the error "?" not allowed... any workaround??

(facing lot of issues from 32 bit to windows server 2008 64 bit because of ajax and other dll's..any good article...)

JSP on IIS 7.5?

mnq — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:00 GMT

Hey,

Maybe it's stupid question but can I run JSP pages on IIS 7.5? Or I have to use Tomcat?

If I can, please tell me what .dll or something I need to run it. Thanks!

IIS 7.5 User/Pass

mrsyer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:20:15 GMT

Hello all,

we recently just switched our GIS server to a new computer. We are using Windows 7 Home Premium with IIS 7.5. Previously, we used XP with IIS 5.1.

In 5.1, there was a very simple process of right clicking 'Default Web Site' and selecting the 'IIS Password' Tab, and then selecting which folder you wanted to add a user/pass to.

How can I go about adding usernames and passwords like I did in IIS 5.1.

Thank you for your time and help,

Mr Syer

IIS not starting

kdes1983 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:03:28 GMT

when I type http:// localhost/ it will not opening iis

but when I type https:// localhost/ it will opens localhost

I am new to IIS please help me

Self signed certificate

web2000 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:19 GMT

If I use IIS Server manager to create self signed certificate and use that in TS Gateway for remote connection over SSL, will there be any issue other than just warning I get about the certificate authority.

I just want to confirm that connection will be over SSL and data will be encrypted while making RDP connection. I can live with the warnings.

Can someone please tell me that self signed certificate will work the same way as trusted certificate (Except the warnings) and will encrypt the data on wire.

Thanks in advance

Need help with IIS7/SQL2008 std connector

Kevin510 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:31:10 GMT

I've got a windows 2008 standard server with SQL 2008 standard and IIS7 installed. The web app we have made reads from the database fine but it won't write to the database. For example when I click the join button and fill out the new user page, the data doesn't get written to the 'user' table. However I can write to the database by using a script we wrote to generate a user within the sql server manager so i know the database can be written to logged in as the same credentials used for the database connection specified in the web.config file.

I should also add that SQL is NOT running in mixed mode, we'd prefer not to have to run it in mixed mode for the production environment. Also sql is setup to do windows authentication. The app works fine in a dev environment using iis7 and sql 2008 express so I know it's not an app design issue, it's got to be a configuration problem.

I am using impersonate in the web.config file and have logged in as that user and confirmed i can directly write to the database in the database manager. The account also has db reader/writer access, so i double checked that.

I'm looking for some other ideas because i'm stumped at the moment. I'm also new to iis7/sql2008 web deployments so I don't have a lot of back history to draw on for a solution. Hopefully someone here can help?

how to remove/delete virtual directoy and site in iis7 using microsoft.web.administrator

hardikvaishnav — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:19:20 GMT

Hi,

i wnat to remove/delete virtual directoy from iis7. i use microsoft.web.administrator namespace. i try my self to remove virtual directory but it not work. so please provide some example.

my code which i try to remove virtual directory is below when i remove virtual directory than virtual directory remove from iis manager but application icon is there i want to remove that also.

ServerManager sm1 = new ServerManager();

                Site defaultSite = sm1.Sites["Default Web Site"];
                foreach (Microsoft.Web.Administration.Application app in defaultSite.Applications)
                {
                    string strName = defaultSite.Name;

                    string strt = app.Path;
                    string strPoolName = app.ApplicationPoolName;

                    string strDirname = app.Path;
                    if (strDirname.IndexOf('/') == strDirname.LastIndexOf('/'))
                    {
                        strDirname = strDirname.Replace("/", "");
                    }

                    if (app.VirtualDirectories.Count > 0)
                    {
                        foreach (VirtualDirectory vdir in app.VirtualDirectories)
                        {
                            if (strDirname.ToLower().Equals("VdirName")) // Virtual directory Name
                            {


                                VirtualDirectoryCollection vcoll = app.VirtualDirectories;
                                vcoll.Remove(vdir);
                                sm1.CommitChanges();

                            }

                            Console.WriteLine(" Virtual Directory: {0}", vdir.Path);
                            Console.WriteLine("   |-PhysicalPath = {0}", vdir.PhysicalPath);
                        }

                    }

thanks in advance

PDF Download Problems with IIS7

aremac — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:23:10 GMT

Hi,

I've very recently migrated from a Windows 2003 Standard edition server to a Windows 2008 Server and I'm having problems with PDFs. When I try to download PDFs, in IE8 they will sometimes download successfully, sometimes partially download and not open and sometimes not open at all. In Firefox, they just won't open. I have changed the in-built file download limit of ASP in IIS7 to 15MB from 4MB and that made no difference (my files range in size up to 12MB).

The only difference from when my files downloaded properly to now is the change in OS on the server and therefore going from IIS6 to IIS7.

The files are all appropriately FTP'd onto the server, they are not corrupted (they open perfectly fine on the server itself). I am absolutely stumped as to what the problem is - possibly an incompatibility between IIS7 and Adobe PDFs of a certain size? Am I missing a setting in IIS7 which will solve this easily and quickly?

As a workaround I have tried to change the MIME type in IIS7 for PDFs to application/octet-stream and also tried x-application/attachment to force IE and Firefox (plus other browsers) to download the PDFs rather than try to view them in the browser, which Firefox does perfectly but IE still insists on trying to view in the browser.

A strange fact is if you download the PDF in Firefox but 'open with Internet Explorer, IE actually opens the file perfectly whereas if you try to open the link directly in IE, it only partially downloads and then stops.

I'm really, really hoping someone can help me as I don't know what the next step is if I can't fix this and the workaround doesn't work!

Kind regards,

Aremac

Does IIS SMTP Server support IPv6

CeylonSoft — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:34:02 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know if IIS 7.0 running on Windows 2008 support IPv6? Is there a new version of the SMTP server for Windows 2008?

There is a new version of FTP server 7.5 for IIS 7.0.

Thanks,

Allen

Win2008 SP2 IIS7.0 open PDF/DOC problem

namtab — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:48:26 GMT

Hi,

I've been following this thread http://forums.iis.net/t/1161071.aspx for the past two weeks.
It seems that I have a similar issue, just NOT on Win2008 R2 IIS 7.5.

I have been recommended to create a new thread so here it goes.

I have a simple intranet web app that mixes Classic ASP and ASP.NET 3.5.
In order to support a 3rd party control, the apppool runs in classic mode.
Everything works decently except for all PDF files.

When linking from the app to a PDF file, client browsers behave as follows:
- IE (7 & 8) does not open the file, never gets to displaying the Adobe Reader plugin interface, HANGS choking a CPU core.Only way to close it is killing the process tree (strange enough I've noticed there two iexplore processes for the same user even though I have only 1 tab opened in IE8). This happens on the server itself (TS) and on any client (tried just about a dozen).
- Firefox 3+ handles everything brilliantly, PDF's are opened and viewed correctly

As I need to ensure functionality of the app, I've tried "reverting" to doc versions of the PDF's, as virtually all the clients have Office set up. The disturbing thing is that the same thing happens with the *.doc files. Clients never see the file, browser hangs.

At this stage I am almost certain there is some wrong configuration in IIS. I haven't done anything fancy in IIS. Just a simple virtual directory under the Default Website, duplicated the Classic ASP.NET AppPool just to have a separate one for my app (restarting faster), enabled ASP.
I tried a custom HttpHandler for "*.pdf" paths as suggested in the mentioned thread, but NOTHING changed.
I've checked MIME types, everything is OK by default.
I've checked log files. Initial request get 200, subsequent ones get 304's.
Another one of our clients has the same hw & sw configuration with the the same IDENTICAL problems.
I can provide any configuration details.

I am basically clueless. I would great appreciate any kind of help /assistance anyone out there can provide.

Thanks.

how to create virtual directoy and site in iis7 using microsoft.web.administrator

hardikvaishnav — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:37:11 GMT

Hi,

I want to create virtual directory and site programmatically for windows installer. i used Microsoft.web.Administrator namespace for iis. so please provide some example.

Thanks in advance

how to programmatically delete/Create perticular application pool in iis7 using Microsoft.web.administrator

hardikvaishnav — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:30:04 GMT

Hi,

Currently i develop installer into that i used microsoft.web.administrator namespace.

my old code for delete/create application pool is based on directory entry now i want to rewrite that code to Microsoft.web.administrator namespace.

I try to write some code but i don't know that is right or not so please check both code and give me some suggestion.

Old Code

DirectoryEntry IIS = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/W3SVC/AppPools");

                    DirectoryEntries deAppPools = IIS.Children;

                    foreach (DirectoryEntry deAppPool in deAppPools)
                    {
                        if (deAppPool.Name.ToLower().Equals(Name.ToLower()))
                        {
                            deAppPool.DeleteTree();

                            break;
                        }
                    }

                    DirectoryEntry deNewPool = deAppPools.Add(Name, "IIsApplicationPool");
                    deNewPool.CommitChanges();
                    deNewPool.Properties["MaxProcesses"].Value = 1;
                    deNewPool.Properties["AppPoolAutoStart"].Value = 1;
                    deNewPool.CommitChanges();

New Code

ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager();
                    ApplicationPoolCollection applicationPoolCollection = serverManager.ApplicationPools;


                    foreach (ApplicationPool applicationPool in applicationPoolCollection)
                    {
                        if (applicationPool.Name.ToLower().Equals("weblender"))
                        {
                            //serverManager.ApplicationPools.Remove(applicationPool);
                             break;
                        }

                    }
                    serverManager.CommitChanges();

                    ApplicationPool appPool = serverManager.ApplicationPools.Add("WebLender");
                    appPool.AutoStart = true;
                    serverManager.ApplicationPools.Add(appPool);
                    serverManager.CommitChanges();

i want to set "MaxProcesses" and "AppPoolAutoStart" and schemaClassName like "IIsApplicationPool" in old code.

Thanks in advance.

IIS7 replace my custom 404 error management

foxontherock — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:11:52 GMT

In my asp.net application, I created a module to do some url rewriting. IN this module, I also verify that all non valid call are executed by my err404.aspx page. This page has only 2 lines of code:

Response.StatusCode = 404
Response.StatusDescription = "Not Found"

I do not use the 404 redirection in my web.config, every 404 error is 100% managed by my module.

This is how I manage my 404 in my httpmodule

app.Context.RewritePath(p.ResolveUrl("~/err404.aspx"), False)

But now I have 1 big trouble. If I open an invalid page on my local iis, using http://localhost/myapp/potato.gif that do not exist, I see my err404 executed. If that url is called remotely (http://mycomputer/myapp/potato.gif), it seems that IIS capture that the err404 executed returns an err404 code, and it replace my 404 page with its own.

I removed the default 404 error managing in IIS at the root of my site, and after that it does not replace my page by its own, it only eliminates my page and the browser shows a 404 error message generated by the browser.

How do I tell IIS to do nothing when it detects a status code 404? And why is it doing this only from remote calls, not local calls?

Ok, I boke it; now how do I fix it?

curtisdehaven — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:27:55 GMT

Hi All... Granted, we did something dumb - now what?

We have a test server running Server 2008 with IIS7. While trying to fix some other unrelated problem, we made a change to a setting for an Application Pool. Advanced Settings / Process Model - we changed Identify to one of the built-in accounts. Our problem got worse - IIS would no longer server an aspx page; it yielded a 500 error. So we set the Identify back to Network Service; but we now still get the 500 errors.

Before we made that change, we could at least serve an aspx page, but after changing Identity back to Network Service, we're still getting 500 errors. Even if we add a new web site, it doesnt work. We've tried restarting things and even a reboot - all to no avail.

Before making things even worse, we'd like to understand what happened and properly fix it. Any thoughts?

Many thanks! -- Curt

Programmatically Creating AppPools/Websites On A Remote Server

JacksonShredder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:44:19 GMT

I've scoured the net and have found some things that appear to be useful but it turns out not to be so.

I'm trying to create websites programmatically on a remote server( Server 2008 Std, IIS7). Initially I found these links which have the answer if you're running the code locally:

http://dnknormark.net/post/Adding-an-Application-Pool-to-IIS7-programmatically.aspx

http://dnknormark.net/post/Adding-a-Website-to-IIS7-programmatically.aspx

However, the web server is located across the network and I'd be running my application at my desktop, preferably. Is there anything available that lists the steps to take to connect to IIS7 that lends itself to quick and simple form design. There are going to be a lot of sites set up within the next few months and the prospect of creating them all by hand doesn't thrill me in the least.

Thanks!

Can I make this app in IIS?

ikke_ook — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:14:42 GMT

Hi,

I'm thinking of making a web application using VS2008 but I don't know if it is possible to configure IIS to make it work. Suppose I have the contoso.com domain, the app needs to do the following:

if a user navigates to www.bob.contoso.com, the page displays: "Hello Bob". I don't know the user's name in advance and the pageaddress should remain as it was typed.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

how to get root path of virtual directory in iis7

hardikvaishnav — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:45:06 GMT

Hi,

I create one window application to install website to server.

i used Microsoft.web.Administrator namespace for IIS7. i don't want to install iis6 compatibility role. so how to find virtual directory root path .also i don't want to use directorentry to find root path of virtual directory.

Thanks in advance

Convert some code form directoryservice to microsoft.web.administrator

hardikvaishnav — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:06:45 GMT

I create one window application to install website to server.

now i used Microsoft.web.Administrator namespace for IIS7. so my code is written for IIS6 so
i want to convert some part of IIS6 coding to IIS7 using "Microsoft.web.Administrator"
my code is below .

   DirectoryEntry deIIS = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/W3SVC");

    DirectoryEntries desIISChildren = deIIS.Children;

    foreach( DirectoryEntry deChild in desIISChildren)
    {
     foreach (DirectoryEntry deRoot in deChild.Children)
     {

      if (deRoot.Name.ToUpper().Equals("ROOT"))
      {
       foreach (DirectoryEntry deVirtualDir in deRoot.Children)
       {

            string strPath = deVirtualDir.Properties["Path"].Value.ToString();

        DirectoryEntry deRoot = deVirtualDir.Parent;
            DirectoryEntry deSite = deRoot.Parent;

            string VirtualDirectoryAppName = deVirtualDir.Properties["AppFriendlyName"].Value.ToString();

            string RootDirectoryAppName = deRoot.Properties["AppFriendlyName"].Value.ToString(); // ""

            string WebsiteName = deSite.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString(); // "Default Web Site"


            string WebsitePath = deSite.Path; //"IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1"

            string VirtualDirectory = deVirtualDir.Name; //IphoneWeb
            string VirtualDirectoryPath = deVirtualDir.Path; // "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/ROOT/IphoneWeb"
            string VirtualDirectoryRootPath = deRoot.Path; // "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/ROOT"
            string VirtualDirectoryLocalPath = strPath; //

       }
      }
     }
    }

Thanks in advance

How to get serverstate and servercomment property in IIS7 window application

hardikvaishnav — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:44:59 GMT

Hi,

I develop installer to install site on server. i am running on IIS7 and i don't want to install IIS6 compatibility mode

i used Microsoft.web.Administrator namespace for IIS7. my old code written for only IIS6 so now i want to run that code on IIS7 also my old code is below so please help me tosolve that problem. i wnat to get "serverstate" and "servercomment" metabase property.

so how to write below code using Microsoft.web.Administrator namespace. please give me example if possible.

          List<String> WebSites = new List<string>();
            //ArrayList WebSites = new ArrayList();

            string strStartPath = "IIS://localhost/W3SVC";
            DirectoryEntry deIIS = new DirectoryEntry(strStartPath);

            DirectoryEntries desIISChildren = deIIS.Children;

            foreach (DirectoryEntry deChild in desIISChildren)
            {

string strValue = deChild.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString() + " (" + deChild.Properties["ServerState"].Value + ") - " + deChild.Name.ToString();

}

Thanks in advance

Corrupted looking IIS log entries

Sleuth23 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:40:55 GMT

Greetings,

I have some interesting log entries to share.

2009-10-05 13:33:51 W3SVC1676839673 192.168.48.22 ry.GET /images/logoHorizontal.gif

2009-10-02 20:37:11 W3SVC1676839673 192.168.48.22 gistration.GET /images/icnMySearch.gif

2009-10-02 19:47:42 W3SVC1676839673 192.168.48.22 licableGET /images/icnMyHome.gif

notice the interesting methods, GET and POST have a weird prefix.

Anyone seen anything like this before.

This is happening on a few different Apps on this server.

Resulting error on the client side is 403.1 Forbidden: Execute access is denied.

Communications(networking) has been blamed for some time.

Any ideas would be helpful.

I am waiting to find out if there is a load balancer in the mix.

Sleuth

Logging Woes

bpw — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:59:29 GMT

I rewrite URLs using UrlRewritingNet and IIS7. For example:

Therefore, html pages are handled by IIS.

The problem I have is with logging. In response to a request http://www.mydomain.com/About.html, a typical log entry is:

2009-11-13 13:32:10 W3SVC10 00.000.000.00 GET /Pages/PageContent.aspx - 80 - 00.000.00.00 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+ETC,ETC) http://www.mydomain.com/About.html 200 0 0 16265 761 790

I am not seeing the requested URL in the log. What do I have to do to see the request for the .html file in the logs?

Thanks,

Paul

FTP sessions locked

EyeContact — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:39 GMT

I was uploading several hundred files to our Win2k8 IIS7/FTP7 FTP server today and some uploads failed. I could not resume or overwrite the failed uploads so I logged on the server to manually disconect the sessions but they keep coming back after I disconnect them.

I rebooted my PC and even restarted the FTP site but nothing helps. Everytime I select "Disconnect Session" and hit F5 the session is back.

Any suggestions what's causing this and how to prevent it?

IIS as a file server

abidkhanhk — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:03:32 GMT

hi, i am not sure if this is the right place to ask the question, but i cant really seem to find a general help forum for beginners... i am currently using a third party software to host a small file server at home which i access to download file for my work...the third party server takes alot of resources...

so i want to look into IIS, but it look very very hard to setup...is there any beginners guide?

thanks

Communication between IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0

Sachin Saki — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:46:49 GMT

Hi All,I am facing some issue with IIS 6 and IIS 7. Our ASP.NET 2.0 application is hosted on IIS 6.0 (W 2003 server) and we moved our web services and WCF services from IIS 6 to IIS 7. Previously when we hosting web service and wcf services in IIS 6 on different server under W 2003 server everything was working fine. But after moving web services and wcf services to IIS 7 (windows 2008 RM) and nothing is working. Whenever user tries to connect/login web application which is hosted on IIS 6 its not able to communicate with web service hosted on IIS 7.0 and gets Unauthorized Access Error every time..

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.