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PDF file on IIS site is not accessible when opened from a browser

I am creating a PDF file with IIS (with some code) and save it to a folder which has IIS anonymous authentication enabled. When I try to open it through its URL, IIS gives me a 401 "Unauthorized&...
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IIS Redirects to multiple subfolders then errors when I use different rule name

I have a very strange issue which I couldn't figure out. In the IIS under URL rewrite module I have a redirect rule, which works absolutely fine when it is under a specific rule name, however, when I ...
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Cant set correct .Net version in IIS Server Pool

I am trying to setup a .Net based RestApi that should be hosted on a Windows Server running IIS. But for some reason i have no luck getting my pool configured as needit to make it work. Here is the ...
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SSL certificates apparently confusing different websites

My VPS contains a dozen or so websites, with several SSL certificate including the following. *.railtrax.com *.insiderarticles.com Currently, all the *.railtrax.com websites are working fine. But ...
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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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virtualizing physical IIS box into Hyper-V breaks API, Server 2012 R2

I have a physical IIS server that works just fine but when I convert it into Hyper-V, it seems to break an API I use to activate serial numbers. It just doesn't seem to connect. Everything else still ...
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Why aren't my websites configured in IIS using the correct certificates?

My sites are similarly named: hi.api.domain.tld hi.test.domain.tld The .api domain is my api and .test is the webapp that consumes the api. I've got a certificate for each one but they don't seem to ...
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How to solve ID1059 Cannot authenticate the user error?

I am not really experienced regarding a server/IIS issue. So I will try my best to explain the problem. I have two same web applications on two different servers (Test and Live Server). Both servers ...
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Website not available after publishing

We use Windows 10 with IIS10 for developing my webapps in Visual Studio 2019. Now I've published my working dev site to the production server running IIS 6.2 on Windows Server 2012. However, when ...
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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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FTP Hostname and Username combied "|" (IIS windows server 2012 r2)

I have setup a working FTP site but a specific setup is being asked... This is credentials I use to login to my FTP (This works just fine) Host: "Myhostname" Username: "MyUserName" Password: "...
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host a java project (war) on IIS

I created a new site sample on IIS. I put in : C:\tools\jetty\webapps : the war sample.war C:\inetpub\wwwroot\sample the file web.config --> as result : navigate with http://localhost:1122/sample, ...
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IIS8 - websites start automatically on Windows Server 2012 r2

several websites running on 2 different servers with win server 2012 r2 and iis8 keep starting by themselves after being stopped by me from IIS manager. They keep starting after about 20 minutes from ...
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FTP PASV mode using a broad range of ports

I have an IIS which has some FTP sites hosted which use multiple port numbers for FTP. Some of the client computers connect to this FTP server in a specific port, say one FTP site would be using port ...
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How do you disable TLS 1.0 for a specific website in IIS 7?

Everything I can find on disabling TLS 1.0/1.1 and SSL 3.0 involves editing the registry to disable it at the server level. Unfortunately our website communicates with a vendor application that still ...
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Cannot Set up HTTPS site on IIS and windows server 2012 [closed]

I seem to have a strange problem. I had an HTTPS site with an SSL certificate set up on a windows 2012 server and it ran fine but it was not on the default 443 port. So to access the site you would ...
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Getting CA signed SSL certificates for Windows servers on internal network

I'm hitting a wall here so need some help. I am currently involved in a project that will require use of a third party software installed on one of our internal servers. The software in question ...
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Secondary SSL Certificate on same IIS application

On Azure web apps, there is a default SSL certificate signed by Azure. If you add a custom domain and a certificate for that domain the Azure certificate still exists and it is visible with ssl ...
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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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Client can't authenticate to IIS site using Kerberos

We have several IIS hosted sites using windows authentication. Some of our users can logon in one of the sites, but getting never-ending authentication challenge in another (the second one is used in ...
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SQL attacks every 5 minutes

I'm looking at our Windows Server 2012 R2 logs and can see many of these type of warnings/errors http://example.com/page.aspx?aa4=1&bb3=20999999.1 union select unhex&c=E,1,...
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IIS LAN and WAN separate SSL certificates for the same server

I have a public web server that's also extensively used from the LAN. We're standing up a Windows AD CA server for the LAN side but we'll also need a public SSL Certificate for the web server. The ...
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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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Give IIS 8 Permission to Write to a Network Folder

Created an API using ASP.Net MVC on the .Net Framework. It runs on Windows Server 2012R2. I built a POST Action that uploads an image locally to the server, compresses and renames it. This part works ...
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PHP is looking for php.ini in C:\php rather than C:\Windows

My monitoring software (Dynatrace) messed up php on my web servers. For some reason all of my IIS websites are loading the php.ini file from C:\php-5.4 instead of C:\Windows. From phpinfo(): ...
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Users receive either a 401 or 500 error when attempting to access a website hosted on a 2012 r2 server

iis users can't go to websites on 2012 r2 server. they receive either a 401 error or internal server error. Attempts don't show up in the system log. I have checked the iis application pools, the open ...
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What ports do I need to open for my EC2 security group to run FTP on Windows Server 2012?

I want to run an FTP site on IIS on Windows Server 2012. I know I have to open port 21 but I read this on one of the AWS pages which suggests that I need to also open a bunch of ports in the upper ...
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Upgrading from Server 2008r2 to 2012r2 with IIS service

I am trying to upgrade Windows Server 2008r2 to 2012r2. Currently I am running IIS and I have a few questions about the upgrade process. Can I do an in-place upgrade directly from server 2008r2 to ...
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Server 2012 R2 Essentials IIS DefaultTSGateway variable

So I want to use RDP externally so have a forwarded domain so /remote then downlaoding RDP file works. However, I get gateway errors (Your computer can't connect to the remote computer because the ...
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How can I debug Windows server 2016 IIS "ERROR 404 - File or directory not found"

I can't get my ASP .NET web app running on my new AWS EC2 VM Windows Server 2016. Web app has been running on Azure VM Windows Server 2012 R2 for years. THE PROBLEM: I get: "ERROR 404 - File or ...
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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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IIS ARR Error 502 - Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server

I have an ARR IIS with a server farm that contains only one server. the site has http and https binding. SSL certificate which installed on both ARR and content server are same and imported and also ...
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How to restrict access to a specific file on iis windows 2012

IIS on Windows 2012 R2 A website has a number of directories and in one of those directories is restricted-page.html to which I want to restrict access to all except a particular windows user. The ...
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IIS port 80 In Use

I cannot start my web site, as 80 is in use. I've performed the checks, and it's being used by PID: 4 which turned out to be SYSTEM ( I obviously cannot stop this) I have also stopped print spooler ...
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IIS 8.5 on Windows 2012 R2 works fine for around a day, then all my sites go down and give 500 errors. How can I diagnose?

In just the last few days IIS 8.5 on my Windows 2012 R2 server started going down. Every 24 hours or so, the server stops shows my webpages when going to a URL, and instead shows HTTP 500 errors. My ...
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Asp.Net application pool crash

We have our application hosted on Windows Server 2012 and IIS 7.5 but the application crashed when it's application pool went above 4.5 GB with just few users. This is the error stack in Windows Event ...
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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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Microsoft Monitoring Agent APM service is inaccessible. Please check that it is not in a disabled state

We encountered an issue where the agent (referred to as the Microsoft Monitoring Agent) in the IIS server - however,the IIS Application Pools began to cause high CPU usage the application server ...
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Monitoring - Calculate bandwidth usage of images

Is there a way to find out the bandwidth usage of a certain mime-type on Windows Server? Eg. How much GB of images is my server serving each month?
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Why does ASP.Net work without ManagedEngine being enabled?

In various places (https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2231761&seqNum=2, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/introduction-to-iis/iis-modules-overview#module-...
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ModSecurity not working on IIS

I've installed the ModSecurity IIS module on a Windows Server 2012 VM. I have a simple test application running on its own app pool. default.aspx -- Just a simple page that spits out the date/time. ...
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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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SSL/TLS on IIS 8 for intranet

I am trying to setup Windows 2012 servers running IIS 8 to use https. I am running into an issue where I can get Google Chrome and IE 11 to accept the ssl certificate but Microsoft Edge and Firefox do ...
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IIS on Server 2012 R2 serving very slowly to remote clients

We've been trying to debug very slow transfer rates for remote clients hitting our web server (IIS on 2k12 R2). The RTT to the client is about 150ms, and we're struggling to get more than about ...
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What is difference between Active Directory Federation Services and Webserver IIS? [closed]

In the Windows world, IIS is used to deploy a website or application and while going through ADFS links from Google I got a feeling that its also allowing user to access web application. What's the ...
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GCM cipher suites are enabled but not discovered by SSL Labs test

I have the following cipher suites enabled on Windows Server 2012 R2 server. However, when I run SSL Labs test, the test discovers only the following cipher suites and the test reports This server ...
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