Questions tagged [iis7]
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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CDN SSL Sertificate - Two web sites on IIS 7.0 - Port 443 Issue
I am using imperva CDN as proxy for my two web sites.
Also i am using IIS 7.0 (Windows server 2008-R2) as my web host.
Web site 1 is like : www.test-1.com
Web site 2 is like : www.test-2.com
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Prevent Imperva CDN from showing origin IP info when we stop web site on IIS
I am using a CDN as proxy for my web site.
When i stop that web site on IIS & open web site in browser(without https://) default page of IIS shows like below:
CDN supports SSL.
For configure web ...
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subfolder is not resolved without force typing https
I have set up the subdomain reg.example.com on a dedicated windows server 2019 (not the same server as example.com). The main url works when I don't type https (I simply enter reg.example.com in ...
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Identical records in IIS logs
While inspecting the web server logs, I came across several instances of separate records that look just the same. For example:
#Fields: date time s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-...
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How would you implement redirects for domain canonicalization, no-www, and HTTPS for IIS 7.5
For the moment I'm stuck with an IIS-server, unfortunately not my best subject (I'm much better w. Apache).
We have a site on a Win 2008 R2 Server with IIS 7.5.
It's an old site and we are working on ...
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IIS7 Rewrite to block bad inbound linking not working
I want to block users to our site that are coming from links on seriously inappropriate website (e.g. warez, link bait sites, etc).
I have tried this but doesn't work - I go to the blocked site, ...
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IIS7 rewrite rule triggers 404 rather than redirecting to new pagw
We recently replaced most of our default pages from default.htm to default.asp.
Rewrite rules work fine if it's a sub-folder, e.g. example.com/help/default.asp where the default.htm was deleted. If ...
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My WordPress site is slow when I'm not using a VPN
I host a WordPress site which isn't behaving as I'd expect.
Its taking an age to load, sometimes timing out before its finished.
However, if I have my VPN (PIA) enabled, it loads immediately and is ...
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IIS 7.5 maxQueryStringLength configuration question
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server running IIS 7.5.
Applications running inside are occasionally making GET requests to themselves with a rather long parameter list (up to 3000 chars) and this, when ...
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Does Classic ASP pages called with Querystring parameters are cached by the HTTP-level Kernel cache?
Our company have a website made in Classic ASP, which most of them are static pages.
We have enabled Kernal cache for 30 seconds in our web.config file in order to speed-up the displaying of all our ...
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In IIS 7.5, how do you redirect an HTTPS domain to the canonical domain?
So I have a site configured with example.com:80 and www.example.com:80, as well as a certificate for port 443.
When a user goes to the www.example.com:80 or 443, which has the SSL certificate ...
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URL rewrite problem on IIS7.5
My aim is to create Friendly URLs for a website hosted on IIS 7.5.
The site has 3 pages with the following URLs:
http://www.example.com/contact.php?langid=1&title=contact
http://www.example.com/...
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Are there settings that must go into the IIS ApplicationHost.config file only?
Are there setting that must go into ApplicationHost.config opposed to into web.config file under the IIS web server? I.e. Are there any settings not allowed in web.config, or can I move all my ...
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Track Google Analytics from a redirected domain using IIS
I have a olddomain.com that redirects to newdomain.com and we want to know the best way to track how many people are coming from olddomain.com on Google Analytics?
Currently I have two rewrite ...
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Newbie looking for some help, iis vs wamp [closed]
I have been banging my head against a wall for several days now, searches rarely uncover the issue I'm having or a solution to the problem. Which I'm sure is a combination of my ignorance and not ...
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IIS URL Rewrite Wildcards
I have some URLs as follows
http://localhost/wordpress/latest/joe/12
http://localhost/wordpress/latest/bloggs/14
http://localhost/wordpress/latest/thing/15
I would like to redirect them to
http://...
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IIS 7.0 HTTP Redirect not rolling back
This is a very strange situation. We have a number of sites hosted on a IIS 7 webserver. We put in a redirect for one subdomain to go to another site.
Because we only have one web.config file, it ...
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What kind of attack causes a JavaScript 'out of memory' on the attackers device?
We experienced a strange attack yesterday.
Our error log picked up the same 'out of memory' JavaScript error from a single IP address every 10 seconds. The requests came from 6 client ports on the ...
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UCC cert for single IIS7.5 site with multiple domains forwarded via rewrites
We have a site that has 80-some-odd aliases. In other words, each host name's DNS entry points to the same IP address and port number, and when they reach our IIS7.5 server they are forwarded to the ...
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Will http to https rewrite rule affect SEO ranking?
I recently started serving all my pages over https instead of http.
I did so using this rewrite rule:
<rule name="force https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<...
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IIS7 webpage redirect question
Noob question here. I searched, but couldn't quite find anything that would explain how to do this. I'm using IIS7 on a 2 server web farm with traffic being load balanced to either of the two servers. ...
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Why does my IIS virtual directory serve folders but not files?
I have a network share (say, \\mysite\myshare) being served by an IIS 7.5 virtual
directory at (say) http://www.example.com/myshare. From a web browser, I can click & navigate every folder and ...
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Can I configure external content to be served publicly in a folder on a subdirectory that is normally internal?
So I get an email from my boss saying that our VP would really like to use our subdomain.companyname.com/portal for a vendor. Keep in mind that I host "subdomain" now internally and that vendor is ...
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IIS Physical Path Incorrect
I have created a WebSite in IIS, with the following correct physical path: d:\inetpub\wwwroot\nameofsite. When i try and browse for this site, I get a 404 resource missing error. From the webserver, ...
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Does IIS 7.5 use a separate "AppDomain" for each subdomain?
Within an IIS worker process, separate sites (i.e. domains) run in their own app domain.
I have a site example.com which has a wildcard DNS record (i.e. *.example.com pointed to an IP.) Will ...
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How do I increase the upload size in IIS?
I can't upload more than 2 MB. I read that IIS' max. upload size is 4 (actually 4,2) GB and ASP.NET's is 2 GB.
I really can't think of an alternative. I could change the max. upload size in PHP but ...
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Setup Etherpad on a IIS7 machine with Port 80
I downloaded Etherpad for Windows
On IIS7 Server I've created the directory "etherpad" and now I want to access from external. But while IIS Service is working on Port 80 the etherpad service is ...
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Pointing domain to VPS webserver
I am hosting a webserver using IIS on my VPS and I have a domain through godaddy, how would I go about forward my domain to the webserver without mirroring the site using A records.
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Common Header & Footer for HTML Site
I'm about to re-work an old HTML-based site and would like to separate out the header and footer of the content into separate files as they'll be common to all pages. The current site author just ...
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Can I redirect a root site under IIS to a subdirectory, without affecting other applications?
I'm running IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008R2.
I currently run a site at the root of mydomain.edu. I also have a variety of applications (e.g., mydomain.edu/calendar, mydomain.edu/research, ...
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What does an empty list of "IP Address and Domain Restrictions" mean?
In IIS 7 for a certain subfolder of a web application.
Does an empty list imply a "deny all" or an "allow all"?
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IIS 7.5 Request Filtering
I keep getting 404.7 (FILE_EXTENSION_DENIED) on a sub directory I have under my Default Web Site.
Request Filtering allows htm and html files on the server level and the site level.
A few months ...
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How to package web site configuration for distribution
Is there a way, preferably PowerShell based, to extract all the configuration data for a particular web site, for installing that web site on site at clients?
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Force HTTPS using 301 Redirect on IIS7 gets 401.1 Error
I've got a site that is using an Execute URL in the 403.4 error page slot that calls a page named forcessl.aspx. Here's the contents of the file:
strWork = Replace(strQUERY_STRING, "http", "...
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Separate "Editor" domain for single Plone Site
We currently run our Plone site across two servers, one (our DB server) that hosts the Data.fs & blobstorage and only runs the Zeoserver, and another (our App server) that runs four clients which ...
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URL rewrite - Cross domain javascript
I have a site site.domain1.com that needs to launch content from another domain - content.domain2.com but I encounter cross-domain JS issues when doing this directly.
I basically need to make site....
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How to redirect all IE8 users to a specific URL?
I have W2008 running IIS and have about 20 websites (all PHP, about half are WP) running on it.
Currently I have this in the header on a few sites and it is working. But it is getting hard to ...
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Migrate a ASP.NET web service from http to https. How to create a SSL certificate that works in test environment on IIS 7.5?
I have a question regarding a web service, http and https. First of all, there is a quite similar question with an accepted answer on StackOverflow. Like the questioner on SO, I have a simple working ...
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How do I troubleshoot rewrite and permalink issues for wordpress using IIS 7 W2008?
I know this question is kind of a WP and kind of a webmaster issue. I am really stuck troubleshooting how IIS is handling rewrites and permalinks. Anyone that can offer an explanation or demarcation ...
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Does amount of URL parameters affect SEO?
I've recently just finished building a small website and created friendly URLs using IIS7.5' rewrite module.
The site has now been passed to the client's SEO guy and he says the friendly URL format I'...
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Why is App Pool Identity not created until first request is received?
I work for a software company and regularly deploy our web applications on our customers IIS boxes via an install wizard which was developed in-house.
The install process by default creates a new App ...
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What is the IIS equivalent of a rewrite rule that sends all requests to a PHP file?
I've always used Apache for all my web development work and I'm struggling to get my head around IIS. I've got an API that re-routes all requests to one particular file: 'api.php', how would I do the ...
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Moving just the DokuWiki data directory on other server
I have installed DokuWiki on IIS7. As per my teams requirement we have to move just the Data directory to other server location, e.g.:
IIS7 installed DokuWiki location: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\dokuwiki\...
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Point subdirectory to seperate website in IIS7 (hosted on same server)
I have 2 websites on the same server in IIS7. These websites are required to be separate (Application Pools will not suffice). I have a single domain and am not able to create subdomains. Because ...
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Redirect IP Address to Domain Name on IIS
I am attempting to redirect the IP address of my domain to the domain name and am running into trouble. The IP address does not redirect to the domain name listed in the redirect statement below.
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How do I make a web site on my own PC, without DNS, available to others?
I thought if I removed the host name from the site's binding, like the Default Web Site, just my machine name in the URL would work, but I replaced the binding, and thought my machine name/IP address, ...
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What's the system account to run ASP.NET web app for each sites in IIS with different application pool?
Suppose I have many different website created on IIS 7 on Windows 2008 R2.
Each of them may have different application pool:
.NET 1.1
.NET 2.0
.NET 3.5
.NET 4.0
What the system account to run all ...
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Allow (and correct the URL) when there is a special character such as %26 using IIS and the rewrite module
I'm struggling with a legacy app that uses special characters like %26 in the URL. The characters don't affect the app but can't be changed, so I'm trying to get IIS to deal with them.
I've tried ...
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Redirect rule to new site still requires old site to be active
I have two websites being served on IIS 7.5 Windows Server 2008, with one site (projects.com) recently moved so that it now sits under the 2nd site (mainsite.org). This sub-site has numerous resources ...
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How to create subdomain link to SQL Server 2008
I would like to know how to create a subdomain that is a link to an SQL Server database. I have Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008. I have a static IP on the Windows server, and I have a ...
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