Questions tagged [iis-7]

IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.

IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.

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How to change default application in a website in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7

When I pull up http://localhost in a web browser on my computer (Windows 7, IIS 7.5) I get the IIS 7 welcome image. I have a different website that is set up in IIS that I'd prefer to be the default web site. Can I change that setting somewhere in…
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Installed SSL for domain, now getting connection reset error

I've just installed an SSL certificate for our domain, and now when I try to browse to the site using https I get a connection reset error in FF and chrome both locally and from a client. I can still access the site without SSL (using http). If it…
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Properly handle IIS request with percent sign in url (/%)

I am looking for any kind of solution to properly get an IIS request such as https://stackoverflow.com/% and http://bing.com/% to not display a 400 Bad Request page, but display a custom error page similar to how http://google.com/% and…
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Where & how can I see IIS7 log entries for a specific web site?

All IIS7 is telling me is a folder (i.e. C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles) which contains a couple of subfolders. How can I tell which subfolder/file I should look at? What is the logic behind this folder/file structure? BTW. A side question: Does MS…
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500 Error when using custom account for application pool in IIS 7

I have a very simple site with only static files in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 SP2. When I try to access any static file I get a 500 error. If I rename an html file to have an aspx extension it works fine. The site also works fine when using the…
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What is the downside to sticky sessions with load balancers?

We have a web farm of IIS7 machines which work great. In front of them is an F5 Big-IP hardware load balancer, also working fine :) (source: www.f5.com) Currently we're using an ASP.NET State Service to handle our OutProc state. This is required…
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IIS Manager: What is the Time Elapsed UOM when examining an IIS Worker process?

OK, this has to be msec, but in some docs it is sometimes mentioned as seconds. Thoughts? (UOM is units of measure, e.g. "seconds" or "milliseconds" or whatever)
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How to configure IIS for SVG and web testing with Visual Studio?

Let's say I have a simple web page with svg image in it: not working If I make this page as static html page and view it directly svg is displayed. If I type the address of this svg -- it is displayed. But when I make…
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HTTPS not working; binding set, certificate installed

I've installed the certificate and set up the HTTPS bindings. However, when I load the site on HTTPS it does not load. I've looked at all the settings but everything seems correct. I've restarted the server numerous times. The certificate is stored…
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AppCmd to create a virtual directory in default web site in IIS7

I try to create a virtual directory under the "Default Web Site" in IIS 7 using AppCmd. But first I'd like to see if one already exists. How can I use AppCmd to create a virtual directory under the "Default Web Site" and how can I do an…
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In IIS 7.0, what is the difference between the application pool identity and the web site identity?

In IIS 5.0, by default the identity account of an application pool is ASPNET, and the website, unless impersonation is enabled, run under the account of its application pool's identity. But in IIS 7.0, there are two places where I can configure the…
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How can I add ACL permissions for IIS APPPOOL\* accounts via Powershell?

I want to be able to set the IIS account for new websites to have modify permissions. I have the following script: function Set-ModifyPermission ($directory, $username, $domain = 'IIS APPPOOL') { $inherit =…
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IIS URL Rewrite HTTP to HTTPS with Port

My website has two bindings: 1000 and 1443 (port 80/443 are in use by another website on the same IIS instance). Port 1000 is HTTP, port 1443 is HTTPS. What I want to do is redirect any incoming request using "htt p://server:1000" to…
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Old ssl cert still showing up in browser after installing new

We have an IIS ARR server which load balances out to two different individual IIS servers. The servers in question are our internal Staging servers. Three months ago I created a free Let's Encrypt SSL Cert to use on these servers. As is the case…
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