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Wincache stops running, with PHP and IIS

I'm running PHP 7.2.22, with Wincache 2.0.0.8 on IIS 8.5, Windows Server 2012 R2. Everything runs well most of the time. But about every few days, Wincache stops running. PHP and everything else ...
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Retrieve parent folder size for each IIS site

Im trying to get a list of sites from IIS (8.5) to include the folder size but cant get this to work. Below is the current code i have that is working without the size Import-Module webAdministration #...
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IIS 8.5 and 10, max value that can be set for IIS Requests/Recycle?

Per DISA we're required to set the recycling option for requests. I can't seem to track down what the max value for this should be or when the counter gets restarted? If app pools are configured to ...
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IIS 8.5 (Win 2012R2) + Automatically redirects to HTTPS when binding added

I try to understand a strange behavior I've never seen before. I have a site. HTTP hostname-binding on port 80 are configured. The site are accessible on HTTP. When I add a HTTPS binding (tried bout ...
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Is granting write and execute permissions for app pool a bad idea? (IIS 8.5 on win 2012)

in a scenario where multiple websites will be running on IIS 8.5, each website has its own app pool, the app pool has full permissions to write (including uploading DLL) along with execute permissions ...
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Migrating from IIS 8.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to IIS 10 on Windows Server 2019

I want to ask you a suggestion about how to proceed in migrating an entire IIS (version 8.5) in Windows Server 2012 R2 to IIS (version 10) on Windows Server 2019. I need a nearly automatic procedure ...
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Windows Authentication not working on Windows Server 2012 R2

I've exhausted every bit of me to get Windows Authentication to work on the server and I cannot find any help on the internet. Windows authentication is working on my local PC, below is what I've done ...
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IIS 8.5 Two HTTPS Sites same IP same port. 2nd site throws "server IP address could not be found"

I have an IIS on server 2012 R2, and two https sites: Both of them are properly directed to my server (I checked it using https://dnschecker.org/#A), both of them has it's own certificate. My ...
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Integrated Windows Authentication No Longer Working As Before With Some Windows Clients

Recently a custom application of mine that is hosted on IIS 8.5, Windows Server 2012 R2 that uses Windows Integrated Authentication against Active Directory stopped working properly on some Windows ...
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IIS Manager is loading the wrong internal DLL

I'm on Windows Server 2012 R2 and IIS 8.5.9600 that was working fine in a development environment. All of a sudden IIS Manager is giving me errors about missing functions when trying to use the UI, ...
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PHP 7.3 doesn't show in WPI in IIS 8.5

I have 3 Windows servers, two of them are Windows Server 2012 R2 - IIS 8.5 and the other is Windows Server 2012 - IIS 8.0 I wanted to update to PHP 7.3.x automatically through the Web Platform ...
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IIS Windows authentication works when I authenticate with {user}, but doesn't when I authenticate with {domain1}\{user}

I spun up an IIS server on my domain and verified I could go to http://mycomputername and it displays the default IIS page. I then enabled Windows Authentication and disabled anonymous authentication ...
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Hosting one application with multiple vanity routes

Problem We currently have two ASP.NET MVC projects being served up from a Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS 8.5 like so: foo hosted on server.com/foo bar hosted on server.com/bar However, the code of ...
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Event ID 15021 HttpEvent on a wildcard SSL certificate but only get the error on a couple sites

I have IIS running on Windows Server 2012 R2. I have a wildcard SSL certificate on 14 subdomains. I'm seeing a lot of errors in the Event Viewer. Event ID: 15021 Source: HttpEvent An error occurred ...
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Website Deployment Configuration Issues - 404 error

I have created a website using VisualStudio 2013 to be used on an organizations intranet. I have successfully deployed it (locally) such that the "Test" version is running on my desktop and ...
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can't bring https protocol to running

I have a wordpress website, hosted on Windows Server 2012. http is working, but https is not! I got a SSL certificate from the provider (via digicert), and installed in into the Certificate Store in "...
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Details Log on IIS 8.5

On my IIS log I found errors that occur randomly when a client calls my WCF service. The error log is this: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 8.5 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2018-12-13 10:...
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How do I open a port on IIS and access it outside the server

I have a Windows VM running Windows Server 2012 on Google Cloud and have installed 2 web application on IIS on the server. Let's take the example IP as 1.2.3.4 One application is hosted on port 80 and ...
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How to point one domain to other domain

We have one site www.abc.com which is hosted on server A and a redirect has been set up on this server which redirect this site to www.xyz.com/reports. www.xyz.com is our sitecore site and having one ...
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SSL Certificate installed successfully but website not accessible

I have installed Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate on a windows-server-2012-r2 machine running iis-8.5. It is an ASP.NET 4.5 website running on an Azure VM. The installation was successful and I can see ...
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The W3SVC service on Server2012R2 failed to stop in the timeout period

Our Devs are trying to do a "push" and it is failing on a single IIS server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) because the push is unable to stop the WWW Publishing Service (W3SVC). We have been ...
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XHR requests not functioning when applying site bindings

I use Windows 2012 Server R2, IIS 8.5, and I have a problem. On localhost, no matter the port I choose, my XHR requests in my code function perfectly. However, when I apply a binding, such as applying ...
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IIS 8.5 is not able to trace the Website Visitor IP Address

I am working with IIS 8.5 on Window 2012 and using IIS Logging feature to get the Visitor IP Address. However, I am not able to see the Visitor IP Address. RAW 2018-04-04 00:00:13 W3SVC8 1**.2**.1**....
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IIS serving page remote but not locally

I'm running: Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS 8.5 I have only one site in IIS and for it I have next config: 2 site bindings Type: http, Ip address: All unassigned, Port: 80, Hostname: example.com Type: ...
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Is there a way to configure IIS to require manual windows authentication even if user browser is configured for automatic logon?

Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS 8.5 Internet Explorer 11 I have an IIS web application that supports Windows Authentication (Providers: Negotiate, NTLM). I have a use case where a given user has ...
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AWS-Connection Issue between Web server and database server in the same region

I have set up a web server and database server in AWS as shown the diagram below aws diagram Web Server: OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Application hosted: VB.NET application in .NET 3.5 framework Web ...
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sc-win32-status 995 and TCP RST on HTTP GET (IIS 8.5)

I'm running a custom PHP/HTML application on Windows Server 2012 R2, IIS 8.5 on my company local intranet (server and clients are at the same location, no VPN, or whatever, only a gateway between ...
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IIS 8.5 403.16 Untrusted Client Certificate

I'm in the process of moving some sites from an IIS 7.5 web server (2008 R2) to an IIS 8.5 server (2012 R2) and one in particular is giving me a fit. The site uses client certs for authentication. ...
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Unable to access port 8080 externally (Windows server 2012 r2)

I have developed a web-service on Visual Studio 2015 and using MySQL DB on Windows 10. I want to deploy it on IIS. So I installed it on my Windows Server 2012 R2 by using How to Install IIS on Windows ...
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Win 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5 intermittent Connection Refused

We suffer from a connection refused problem when the users of our web site try to open it. This problem happens in a random manner, about once or twice a month, and problem continues for a few hours. ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 IIS 10 / HTTP/2

We're currently running Windows Server 2012 R2 for our web server, using IIS 8.5. Is it possible to upgrade that to IIS 10 for HTTP/2 or otherwise enabled HTTP/2 on our current install? Thanks, Matt.
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Let's Encrypt Name Mismatch on SSL Certificate

BACKGROUND I have a website which is up and running and has a SSL certificate that I bought, I didn't know about Let's Encrypt at the time. I am planning a re-write of the application. I'm moving it ...
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IIS 8.5 becomes unresponsive until iisreset, no indication of issue

I have a web app which is load balanced across two Windows 2012 R2 servers with IIS 8.5. Sometimes, it seems the IIS process gets "stuck" on one web server but there is no indication of an issue ...
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IIS 8.5 on Win 2012 R2: Changes for Application Pool identity does not reflect?

Running Win 2012 R2 and IIS 8.5. When setting a custom identity to run a specific app pool (lets call it "App Pool 1") I get IMHO a really weird behavior. When I click on App Pool 1 and then "Set ...
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website not working over IPv6 ISP

I have domain example.com which is hosted over window server 2012 R2, IIS 8.5. My web server is IPv6 enabled, online tools are able to resolve my domain over both IPv4 and IPv6, My website is ...
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IIS Site Losing Ability to Authenticate With NTLM

We are having a recurring issue with one of our servers that I am not sure how to troubleshoot. The server is used to host an instance of Microsoft TFS and every few weeks Windows Authentication ...
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subdomain with different ip than host isn't working

I have a website http://example.com that needs a subdomain http://shop.example.com In IIS I set up a new website for the shop website and set the hostname binding to shop.example.com in DNS I tried ...
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Manage Multiple IIS servers without shared configuration

We currently have 2 web servers IIS 8.5 in DEV We will push the servers to production to replace our current production servers My question is, is the a way to build scripts on the fly to apply ...
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IIS 8.5 FTP - "501 Server cannot accept argument" in response to PORT command

I am running IIS 8.5 on Windows 2012 R2. I created an FTP site to use port 8021 and when trying to connect using FileZilla (plain FTP), I get the error message "Connection timed out after 20 seconds ...
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Is it ill-advised to make a web app that modifies web.config?

Our organization gets a lot of ticket requests from the Marketing department to create friendly URLs for our production public facing sites. I'm considering creating a simple internal ASP.NET web ...
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New certificate only served if domain is trusted

The SSL certificate for one of our sites expired and I've been given the task of renewing it despite not being a server admin of any sort. I've completed the certificate request and added it to the ...
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How to stop IIS parent website taking priority over virtual application

I have a simple setup. I have a wordpress website setup at the root of a subdomain api.website.com. This will act as documentation for an API. I then have the API itself, built with asp.net and i want ...
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Have IIS not respond if there are no host headers

All of the sites I have hosted in IIS have host header bindings, and I've disabled the Default Website. Right now, if someone hits http(s)://<ipaddress> they still get a 404 response from the ...
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How to remove suspended IIS application pool

I have a web server IIS 8.5. OS v: Windows Server 2012. When number of Hit increase then huge php-cgi.exe open in windows process.But after some time lot of process shows suspended state. As a ...
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Enabling Brotli compression on IIS

My team us currently trying to install Brotli compression on a VPS: Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS8.5 using the 64bit module that can be downloaded here: https://www.iispeed.com/pagespeed/products/...
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CVE-2007-289 MS-DOS device name on IIS 8.5 & ASP.NET 4.5

our security team has recently scanned 1 of our server and the specific vulnerability detected: CVE-2007-2897 Microsoft ASP.NET MS-DOS Device Name DoS (PCI-DSS check) Did some search and found several ...
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IIS 8.5 redirect non www to www not working

Here's the relevant bit of my Web.Config: <rule name="Force WWW and SSL" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="(.*)" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny"> ...
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How Do I Migrate SSL Certificates from an NGINX web server to IIS?

I used to host a website in my Linux Server. I bought a SSL certificate from GoDaddy, and https://www.example.com worked well for the site. Today, I wanted to move the site from the Linux Server to ...
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Certificate Error before redirecting to correct name

Using IIS in Windows server 2012 R2. I have a website which can be reached at url.com and www.url.com. I have https://url.com set up using https://letsencrypt.org/. I want to redirect all incomming ...
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IIS8 IP restrictions

I've got an IIS8/Windows 2012r2 server that is currently running a few sites (perfectly well with no issues). I'm adding a new site that needs to have restrictions to all but a few IP addresses. I'...
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