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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Why is IIS 7 is ignoring certain (but not all) MIME types for compression? Giving error: DYNAMIC_COMPRESSION_NOT_SUCCESS - Reason 12

So, I'm a bit of an IIS7 n00b but I've used most of the old IIS systems going back to 3. I'm trying to turn on dynamic compression and it's working, mostly. It doesn't work for my ADO.Net Data Service (Astoria) requests, batched or not. I found the…
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IIS 7 returns 304 instead of 200

I have a strange issue with IIS 7. Sometimes it seems to return a 304 instead of a 200. Here is a sample request captured with Fiddler: (Note that the file requested is not located in my browsers cache yet.) GET…
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Load balancing using IIS7 request routing and load balancing module

Microsoft has a lot of documentation about their somewhat new load balancing and request routing module for IIS7 located here: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2009/02/16/iis7-request-routing-and-load-balancing-module-released.aspx, but I'd like…
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iis 7 log file directory

under my log directory I have a list of subdirectories: W3SVC1, W3SVC2, W3SVC3, etc, etc. How do I match those folders with each website on IIS?
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Is it safe to set validateIntegratedModeConfiguration=false in order to continue using identity impersonate=true?

We have upgraded an ASP.NET web application from IIS6 to IIS7 integrated mode. Our application uses: and therefore we have had to set: Is this sensible? My…
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Is there a way to make my local AppCmd.exe to refer to a remote server?

I need to remotely administrate IIS via command-line. Is there a way to make my local AppCmd.exe refer to a remote server? So that every command I pass to AppCmd.exe would be executed in another machine?
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IIS 7.5 doesn't load static html pages

There is an IIS 7.5 freshly installed on a dedicated server. ASP.NET 4.0 Web app copied to its folder, new website is created on its own IP on post 80, IIS_IUSR and IUSR accounts have read/execute rights on site's folder, the site is assigned to its…
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Can't open IIS manager

Folks, Very strange issue here - I simply cannot open the IIS 7 manager by choosing it directly. My OS is Windows 7, and as such, I can see it's opened on the Start Menu aswell as a preview of the window itself when I hover over it. I cannot…
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IIS aborts request thread with Win32 status 995

We have a site where we have trouble on our production server, but not on my dev machine with request beeing aborted (hence, zero response). It fails after exactly 1:19 minutes each time, and the request on my dev machine takes approx 1:44. The…
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How to enable directory browsiing in IIS7?

How I enable directory browsing in IIS7? MS technet says this can be done in the IIS console: Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage. In Features View, double-click Directory Browsing. In the Actions pane, click Enable if…
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Convert Application back to Virtual Directory in IIS7

This is really simple if IIS6 but I can't seem to figure out how to convert an Application back into a Virtual Directory in IIS7 without having to delete it and recreate it from scratch.
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Windows 2008 R2 Standard server - how to disable RC4

I have just used www.ssllabs.com and ran a few tests - my server is capped to a B grade because my server accepts RC4 This server accepts the RC4 cipher, which is weak. Grade capped to B. I've researched and found that to disable RC4 I need to add…
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Cannot create self-signed SSL certificate with IIS 7

I'm trying to create a self-signed certificate from within the IIS 7 snap-in, with little luck. When prompted for a friendly name for the certificate, I type in the name, and click OK, but then I am shown: There was an error while performing this…
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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 this out of the box, but my setup does not appear…
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How to improve Windows Server 2008 R2 to handle many connections?

It has been a few days so far that I am trying to figure how to solve this problem. First of all, I am running a website with an average daily page view of 350,000. Previously, all ads management (tracking click and impression that each ads has…
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