IIS – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows.

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Setting up DNS web server from scratch [closed]

I am a novice in setting up webserver. Where should I get a step by step instruction for setting up the DNS for my new web server. Server: Windows 2008 Server R2 I have a Static IP. Two domains need ...
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Installshield in VS2012 and deployment of web application in IIS7.5

I deployed a web application in IIS 7.5 using installshield. But after deploying the site I am facing below error on accessing the site from URL. HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is ...
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http://www.mysite.com/c/v to display different domain:http://www.myothersite.com/c/v

My site is written in asp.net using C#/MVC 4.5, and is hosted on Windows Server 2008, IIS7. # It has the following route https://mysite.com/c/v. When the user types in https://www.myothersite/c/v, I ...
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How to increase memory and cache size for application pool in IIS 7 efficiently [closed]

I search internet for increase memory and cach for application pool in IIS 7 but all topics are diffused and I do't know the effect of that settings together. can some body describe How I can ...
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Redirect multiple cctld's subdomains to tld subdomain

I have a site I use for development testing on one of our development servers, it is hosted at dev.domain.com. I basically want to have www.domain.com, www.domain.ca, fr.domain.ca all point to ...
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Set up stand-alone IIS server with wildcard SLL cert?

We have a server for IIS 7.5 set up in our DMZ zone for clients to connect to through VPN only, so the client connects through VPN and then uses a web service "locally". We would like to apply our ...
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Port numbers for SSL

We have an existing web site with HTTP on port 80 and HTTPS on port 443. I'm adding a second site to that now, and from what I understand, I cannot host two sites on the same SSL port. So my ...
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IIS 7.5 site is stopped, but it still responds to requests with 404 errors

What you'd expect when you select a site in the IIS console and choose the "stop" button is that all bound ports would stop responding, right? That's what it did in earlier versions of IIS, at least. ...
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Setting up second website on second interface IP [closed]

I've got an IIS 7.5 box running with two IPv4 addresses. I've set up one site on 192.168.1.13 and bound it to site1.com I've then done the same thing for the second site 'site2.com' and bound it to ...
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Setting UP IIS for www access

I have server that I connect to via Remote Access. On it I have IIS7 and a web application that works. The server itself has an static ip address that I can ping, also I set up filezilla server and I ...
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Shared web resources (IIS environment) — best practices? [closed]

. . We have a growing issue to address, and I was curious as to what best practices were. Here's the deal: we have multiple domain names and web folders (all under the same corporate umbrella). For ...
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MVC4 App opens with directory listing and gives a 404 for any direct URL's entered in the browser

I've just deployed a previously (on my local IIS) working MVC4 app to IIS 7.5 on the dev server. After tweaking this and that - one knows how these things get forgotten - the app finally launches, but ...
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Two Web Servers - User directed to nearest [closed]

Good news, my business in the UK (offering a cloud service to customers). is growing, and we are seeing a large increase in US customers. However we are seeing a performance hit due to to service ...
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Default Wordpress site on IIS

We have multiple wordpress installations on our IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) Server as follows: http://www.example.com/site_one http://www.example.com/site_two http://www.example.com/site_three These ...
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How to handle CNAME host redirect to virtual directory?

I have an internal website and virtual directory http://server2012/logs. I created a CNAME on my DNS server as LOGS -> server2012. I would like to set it up so that http://LOGS redirects to ...
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301 redirect bulk aspx urls on IIS

We recently relaunched an old aspx site as a new Drupal site on the same domain. No 301 redirect was implemented. I have outputted a list of 1000 urls that need to be 301 redirected. Most of the ...
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IIS 7.5 setting error page with iis stopped

Can you set a custom Error page if IIS is stopped or recycling for an extended period of time?
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Tuning WebServer Response -

I have this sam e question on StackOverflow and I was advised to ask it here hoping for more information. Here is the question: I am in rather unfavorable situation. I have aspdotneststore front ...
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IIS to parse php in a .dll files [closed]

The .dll files ain't the dynamic link library. That's what the client side software calls for (cannot change). Its essentially a php script that should run and return specific values. However ...
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IIS - HTTP Redirect all requests for one virtual directory to another

How do I set up an HTTP Redirect rule to redirect all requests for a virtual directory to another virtual directory, when I don't know the hostname or complete URL, and cannot use the URL Rewrite ...
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Adding an ASP website in IIS7.5 on Windows 7

I'm trying to add an ASP website under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 and am having no luck so far. This site is just for me to hit locally. I need to make some changes to some of the HTML in some of the ASP ...
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Google Analytics on a web farm?

Is it possible to use Google Analytics on a web farm so that it collects stats on what happened on each server in the farm? eg: Instead of visits, show visits per server (helps us check the load ...
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How to redirect a old URL using web.config (IIS)

I'm still very new to using URL rewrites and redirects and I'm having some problems on something I thought was quite simple... I've just rebuilt a website and want to redirect the old URLs to the new ...
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IIS7 as site title

When I search for my website on google both the title and description are showing as IIS7, how can I change this to a proper description?
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Links in my site have been hacked

In my site I prefix the images and links with the domain of the site for better SEO using the code below: public static string GetHTTPHost() { string host = ""; if ...
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Can web applications running on IIS7 Windows Server 2008 R2 be forced to immediately detect changes to hosts file?

We have several web applications running on several load-balanced servers. We want to have our web applications communicate with each other without first traversing outside the load balancer. For ...
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How do I use IIS7 rewrite to redirect requests for (HTTP or HTTPS):// (www or no-www) .domainaliases.ext to HTTPS://maindomain.ext

I have multiple domain names assigned to the same site and I want all possible access combinations redirected to one domain. In other words whether the visitor uses http://domainalias.ext or ...
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Redirect a url to another url in IIS 7.5

I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewritng and redirecting the url. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only ...
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Problem on application with asp in IIS 7.5 with oracle 11g [closed]

We have an application developed with .Net on server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 wich is linked liked to oracle 11g on another server. Our problem is that we lose the service every two or three or more. The ...
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Converting web.config from iis6 to iis7 format

Im a bit stuck, kinda been lumbered with a website developed over a year ago. The company that designed it and the company that own it dont now speak so i have been lumbered with trying to get it to ...
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Multiple sites, same port, iis7

1 server. 4 websites. I have multiple internal IP addresses. Each one to be allocated to a different website. I thought I should create a new website, bind to domain and internal IP address, point ...
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Masking a redirection in IIS7

My tools: IIS7 1 x Windows 2008 Server IIS URL Rewrite Module 2 (installed) My requirement: Mask the redirection of www.bob.com to www.abc.com/bob/index.html - the end user should not see the ...
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IIS7 - 2 identical asp.net apps in 2 app pools, 1 is responsive and 1 is not

I have an ASP.NET (v4.0) web app that is installed in a virtual directory (as an application) and is hosted in it's own app pool. This is repeated for each instance of the app (i.e. per customer). ...
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IIS 7 IP changed to machine name

I am having an issue with my server switching from using the IP address to machine name. Yesterday, I went into IIS 7 and created a new application under the Default Web Site. I gave it an alias ...
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Disable default error pages/error messages in IIS

I have this web application (ASP.Net MVC 3) that on certain conditions returns a custom JSON string with a HTTP status code for an error (403, 415, 500). It is deployed on a Win 2008 R2 server with ...
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Active Directory auto login to website for domain users

I am putting together an Intranet for a company - I have set up authentication to get into the Intranet from a login box linked to AD via LDAP/ However the client wants (if possible) to have users ...
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How can IIS 7.5 have the error pages for a site reset to the default configuration?

A mishap occurred with web.config to accommodate a subsite existing. I made use of “<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">”. Essentially it was a workaround put in place for ...
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Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?

The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing ...
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Best way to redirect in IIS

We have a website that has two URLs (one for the US side and another for the Canadian side which is then broken into Canadian English and Canadian French). For the purposes of my question, I will ...
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SSL setup with GoDaddy subdomains and EC2 servers

We have two EC2 instances that are used to host various scripts. Our main page 'companyname.com' is hosted with GoDaddy but is unrelated to those EC2 instances. I need to setup SSL connections for the ...
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Web application stopped behaving normally after migration from Dedicated servers to Ec2 servers [closed]

Web application stopped behaving normally after migration from Dedicated servers to Ec2 servers Old Dedicated Server configuration systemtype: 32 bit operating system. RAM: 3.99 Gb Ram Processer : ...
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Different behaviour with windows authentication on IIS7 websites

I need to run a website with just windows authentication. Given the following situation: The location of the default website is: c:\inetpub\wwwroot The location of my code is: c:\Sites\WebApp My ...
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What are reasons some people can't access a website while most others can?

I have a .net MVC 3 Website hosted on a Server 2008 r2 VPS. The site only uses ssl 3.0 connections, so if you connect using http it will bump you up to https. The site is for a small company, just for ...
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Allow directory listing for subdirectories only

I am using webspace hosted on IIS 7.5 (according to phpinfo() ). Currently, I am enabling directory listings for a directory and all its subdirectories by placing a web.config like <location ...
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How to restrict a incoming URL from Google Search link only for a certain File in a Folder of my application

Google Search displays a link to a file in my application, which is located in a certain folder structure. I would appreciate if someone help me in knowing how google picked up this file in its ...
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prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory

I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory. I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or ...
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IIS 7 Require SSL automatically redirect to https://

I've configured IIS 7 to require SSL. I'm wondering if I can automatically redirect non-ssl requests to be encrypted. For example, if a user types in http://domain.com, can IIS redirect the request ...
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IIS and content caching

I'm a web developer and administer of a Windows 2008R2 Cloud Instance with IIS 7. I recently made an update to our website, but when I revisited the website, the website was being viewed with old ...
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In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?

In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module? Using the URL Rewrite ...
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Long time to first byte for static content

I have large time to first byte for static content on IIS 7.5, it's not site specific it's slow for all sites on that server. Web.config setting runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests is set to false, and ...

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