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how to configure IIS 7 so partial content requets/range requests on mp4 static files work.
I need help on how to setup IIS 7 so it can handle partial requests/range requests for serving mp4 files so Chrome can position seek and loop video.
From what I have read IIS is supposed to support ...
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cmd.exe as a built-in application pool identity
My IIS web applications run using the built-in application pool identity IIS APPPOOL\Foo.
Is it possible to run a command-line in the context of IIS APPPOOL\Foo using psexec or some other tool?
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msi for Web Deploy 3.6 for Hosting Servers... where to find?
On Win2012-R2
The Web Platform Installer offers an option (that I need...): "Web Deploy 3.6 for Hosting Servers"
I would like to get this into my dsc script, but cannot find the discrete msi(s) on ...
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IIS sets http header Expires to -1, how do I override this with mod_expires
I'm using an IIS website with a Apache HTTP reverse proxy (mod_proxy with ProxyRequests Off).
I want to control the expires headers in apache (don't ask), but IIS is setting the header Expires: -1.
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IIS 6.0 SSL handshake error
Hi all I installed a trusted certificate in an IIS 6.0 server. I have the port 443 opened in the firewall and I verified the server is listening on that port. However when verifying using openssl I ...
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Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) application + ADFS 2.0 on Classic pipeline mode - Is it possible?
I have a working test application that uses Windows Idendity Foundation SDK and ADFS 2.0 for authentication, which runs on Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5, Integrated managed pipeline application pool ...
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IIS Application Pools do not start due to WAS not starting
I have been dealing with an issue with the IIS service. Every now and then, it stops working for me and it is always the same issue: IIS service and App Pools won't start due to WAS service not ...
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ARR mixing HTTP server variables among client users
What I am trying to do?
I am setting up blue-green deployment to achieve zero down-time deployment.
How is the implementation?
I have one server.
I created a web farm.
I set 3 websites blue,...
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IIS application request routing changes 206 partial content to 200
I've setup a reverse proxy server in an azure cloud service using IIS rewrite rules and the Application Request Routing module (according to the instructions here. Everything is working well except ...
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IIS 500.19 error on 0.01% of requests
We have deployed a simple ServiceStack application delivering Podcast RSS-feeds in IIS 7. Scouring the IIS logs, we found that a tiny amount of the requests get a HTTP 500.19 error code.
Of the ~550 ...
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ARR reverse proxy to Azure Website inside Azure Cloud Service
I am trying to rewrite www.contoso.com/blog/ to a wordpress Azure Website (contosoblog.azurewebsites.net). I have completely configured all inbound and outbound rules, and have tested them locally on ...
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How do I reduce the threads per process limit for an ISAPI app under IIS 7.5
I have a python WSGI application running under an ISAPI extension in IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008. I would like to increase the number of worker processes (which I know how to do) and reduce the ...
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HTTP Debug method reveals Server header on IIS
Stuck with really weird problem and can't figure out how to handle it. So, I have asp web api application hosted in IIS 10. I use IIS Rewrite module with outbound rule which removes any Server header:
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Shared Configuration and AppSettings
We use Shared Configuration for our IIS config, so the same config is used by the webservers. This works well.
We like to share some server-level <AppSettings> between the servers. (in IIS ...
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How to enable two consecutive periods in URL without introducing a security vulnerability
I have a site running on IIS 7.5 which hosts some user-generated content. Recently, I came across a file with two periods in its filename. Let's call it foo..bar.jpg. When I attempt to access it, I ...
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IIS Content and Configuration Sync
We have a Web Farm with IIS 7.5 that has a 3rd party application that syncs IIS Content and Configuration. We used this back in IIS 6 days, when there were no tools in the OS that handled this easily....
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ManagedPipelineHandler - IIS 8.5 intermittent error 500
on our production server we suddenly have intermittent error 500, checking the failed request log I can see the following, but it doesn't help me too much, I can't see where the problem is. Is it ...
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Windows Authentication to a Remote Server within an Intranet Environment
I have several servers (all on the same DC) within an Intranet environment at my company. For simplicity, I'll focus my question on the IIS and SQL Servers. I have an IIS 7.5 web server and a remote ...
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IIS 7.5 not rolling over logs hourly
I have six IIS 7.5 web servers deployed using a Shared Configuration. The properties for the logging in the configuration are set to log Per Site, W3C, and on an hourly schedule:
For five of the web ...
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Is websocket reverse proxy possible with IIS 8.5 & URL rewrite 2.0?
I installed Tomcat as a java app server behind IIS. Using the following rules I can rewrite static pages just fine, but alas, websocket connections are never established:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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IIS SMTP TLS encryption issue
I enabled TLS in IIS SMTP Virtual Server with a self-signed server certificate. Made sure that the certificate has the FQDN of the server. Checked the TLS encryption checkbox in Virtual SMTP > ...
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Configuring client certificates on IIS8 - Error 403.16
I am trying to implement client certificate authentication on IIS 8. I have deployed my configuration on a development machine and verified it working as expected there. However after setting up on ...
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Restrict access to a subdomain with web.config on IIS7?
I need to password protect a "dev" subdomain on a server with the web.config file on IIS7. I don't have access to anything besides the files and web.config, so I can't install modules or anything else ...
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How can I configure IIS to save log files in a given folder without creating a W3SVCXXX folder under it?
You can configure IIS to save its logs in any folder you want; however, even if you configure this setting at the site level, it will always create another folder under the one you choose, called ...
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Users Experience Windows Authentication Prompt for Single ASPX Page Server 2012 IIS 8.5
I have an application published via IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 that can leverage Windows-integrated credentials for SSO. Users can successfully sign in to the application and navigate to the vast ...
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Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 w3wp PerfMon monitoring
We have a number of web applications set up as Virtual Directories under one web site on Windows 2003/IIS 6.0 servers. Each VirDir has a dedicated App Pool. One of my users wanted to know if I could ...
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Find out what fields are available to IIS 7 Advanced Logging from Modules
You can install the Advanced Logging module for IIS 7. Once installed you have the option to define new fields from several different sources. One of those sources is other modules.
What I am unable ...
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IIS 7.5: How do I compare the configuration of two "applications"?
On my Windows 7 dev machine, I have two applications configured on IIS 7.5: Both have the same web.config, but one of them works and the other doesn't (no HTTP reply, browser keeps waiting forever).
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IIS7 proxying VisualSVN server refuses to allow Web.config files to be committed
I use IIS 7.5 with the Application Request Routing and URL Rewriting modules to act as a reverse proxy for several apache-based web sites, including VisualSVN Server. I'm having a problem when I try ...
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User Rights Assignment for IIS APPPOOL
I need to deploy an IIS based web application in an environment that uses Group Policy to apply standard user rights assignment for all computers in the Active Directory domain. When the application ...
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Optimizing IIS for serving static content over TLS
I am trying to fine tune an IIS 10 web server for the sole purpose of serving static files.
I've disabled session state, disabled managed code, added all necessary public cache control headers with ...
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Redirect to different domain in using IIS URL Redirect Module not redirecting
I'm using IIS 8.5 with the URL Redirect module installed.
My use case is that we have a defunct web site (www.xyz.com) and would like all requests to this site be redirected to another site (www.123....
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How to restart or cycle IIS App Pool when it reaches certain CPU percentage?
I would like to automatically stop/start or recycle the app pool when it reaches 80% of CPU usage for a certain period of time.
I see that under app pool Advanced Settings, there is a CPU section ...
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Microsoft IIS HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities Registry Keys Recommended Values
Microsoft "fixed" the HTTP/2 vulnerabilities recently discovered. The updates add the ability to create the registry keys to stop the vulnerabilities, they don't actually fix the vulnerabilities ...
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PrivateBytesLimit in web.config doesn't change cache EffectivePrivateBytesLimit
Our web-server has a worker process (w3wp.exe) that uses too much memory. Following this answer I tried to limit how much memory the process can use for caching in the web.config:
<system.web>
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How do I serve a Flask app using HttpPlatformHandler?
I'm trying to use the HttpPlatformHandler module in IIS on Windows Server 2016 to serve a basic application written in Python using Flask. The Python environment is managed using pipenv, and the Flask ...
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file change auditing (especially for web.configs)
We occasionally have configurations in web.config(s) being changed by the IT team on live production servers. I would like to create an audit trail, e.g., "On October 11 the property "foo" in file "...
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Windows Process Activation Service not spwaning w3wp.exe
we have a set of application here that are aspnet running on IIS 8.5 - Win2012-R2.
We have 4.6.2 version of .Net deployed.
On some of our servers, we see a strange behavior where IIS won't reply to ...
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IIS - How to force Windows Authentication first then fall back to Anonymous Authentication
I have a website running on IIS, it works on Windows Authentication (intranet ActiveDirectory), and I am planning to open it to Internet with token-based OAuth (anonymous authentication).
In my ...
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Slow Access to Mapped Drive and WebDav
I'm running a Windows 8.1 x64 media server for my living group on my university's campus which serves about 40 people (though not all at the same time). It has a 1000Mbps synchronous connection to all ...
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Why is my IIS configuration changing?
We host a customer site (the hardware is at a third party data center, but we administer the software). On several different occasions, the customer has reported a problem with the site, and when I ...
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ASP.NET Temporary files taking up too much space
I have approximately 900 applications running on the server where each one points to a folder that contains content that is about 215MB in size.
When I noticed that my server's hard drive was almost ...
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Obtaining a Crash Dump from a dying IIS ASP.NET Worker Process
(Not sure if this is an IIS problem or not, so if this is better suited for SO I'll happily move it...)
We have an IIS-hosted application that is sporadically dying, and the event logs claim that the ...
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IIS - overrideModeDefault enforced in PowerShell, not IIS UI
I am trying to modify an IIS Web Application that is installed, and change the Authentication Methods. The Default Web Site is set to alloy Anonymous, and disable everything else. When I use the ...
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Configuration of virtual directory for off-domain server in IIS 8.5
Setup:
A web server (Windows 2012 R2, IIS 8.5) outside of domain (called MY_WEB_SERVER)
A virtual directory pointing to a NAS server on a domain (called MY_NAS_SERVER)
An application set on virtual ...
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IIS Outbound Bandwidth 2008 vs 2012
I'm working on a project to upgrade web servers to 2012 from 2008. I have the 2012 machines built up and ready to go with site code cloned from the current production 2008 machines, but when load ...
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IIS server slows down with only a few tens of requests
I'm using IIS 7.5 with PHP and I'm having troubles with my application, it is VERY slow and it can take more than 30 seconds to respond sometimes.
I believe this is due to some kind of queue of ...
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Performance counter to show real IIS response time
What performance counter should I use to display current average IIS response time? ASP.NET counters correctly show the time spent in ASP.NET, but real latency is much bigger, which is confirmed by ...
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Using Basic Authentication with IIS Manager Authentication
For a website I would like to add a Basic HTTP 401 Challenge so the visitor will be asked for a username and password before entering the site. Just like in Apache you can use htpasswd and htaccess.
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Powershell IIS plugin - cmdlets not working
I'm pretty much a novice at Powershell so bear with my noobness. I'm specifically trying to run the "Get-WebBinding" cmdlet (which I have successfully run on some of my other servers)
Windows Server ...
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