The version of Microsoft's web server that comes with Server 2012 and Windows 8. It adds support for multiple SSL-certs for a single IP (SNI), web sockets, Application Initialization.
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Troubleshooting WebPI 5.0 Dependency Issues (It wants to bring in an old PHP version)
I am working on a Windows 2012 R2 Server with IIS 8 installed, now I am trying to get PHP 7.1.1 (x64) installed using the Web Platform Installer and am running into a dependency issue I am unsure how to troubleshoot.
After launching WebPI I click on…

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how to track down security problems between IIS web servers?
The new version of our website is built on a Windows 2012 server.
We are having a problem that it cannot display pdf reports that are stored on another server which is running Windows Server 2003
How could I track down if there is a credentials or…

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Can you run a DNS on the same machine as your webserver? If so, how do you set it up?
Two-fold question from someone who has very little server experience.
I've set up a simple IIS8 (Windows 2012) server with a website on it. That works fine.
I can access it outside of my house (yes, this is a SMALL server running in my house), but…

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Getting 401.2 error with IIS basic authentication instead of a password prompt
When I deploy a web site locally in IIS on Windows 7 with a section in web.config allowing a single local user to authenticate, it works fine.
Navigating to…

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IIS slow in loading Report Viewer
We are running IIS & SSRS on the same production server and have two types of reports - one running through Report Viewer, connecting to SSRS (remote mode) and the other calling the SSRS web service to generate PDFs.
For both of the report types, it…

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HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently from the IIS for two minutes
The IIS for two minutes was redirecting from www.exaple.com to www.example.com. Nobody fixed it - it was a temporary fault.
There is URL Rewrite 2.0 installed which has one rule which was not changed for years and everything was fine until last…

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Cannot bind port 8531 to https through IIS 8 for WSUS
Our WSUS previously had https bound to port 8531 in IIS, but I was trying to get SSL to work on it and ran into some issues where my WSUS console wouldn't connect anymore. The event logs were showing some errors about not being able to reach…

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IIS8 PHP7 multiple php websites
I'm running PHP7 on IIS8 on Windows Server 2012 R2. Up to yesterday everything was fine as I only had 1 PHP website hosted, I started to host a second website and now php works on only one website at a time.
If I restart IIS and visit one website…

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Nexus Repository OSS reverse proxy
I have a Windows Server 2012-R2 Server running Nexus Repository OSS on localhost:8081. I configured a Reverse Proxy in IIS with the following rule:
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IPv6 website not working in IIS 8
I'm new to IPv6 but I thought it would work in the same way as IPv4 (in regards to configuring in IIS)
My domain name provider states that I need to set up the AAAA record, not the A record. As such I do, and I point to my server
I bind my website…

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Redirect absolute URL Server 2012 IIS
We are moving to a new domain and need to redirect users from the original to the new domain.
One of the things I need to do is have it set up so if a user has a saved link such as www.domain.com/questions it redirects to…

Shane Superfly MacNeill
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Permissions issue on C:\Windows\System32\inetserv
We have Windows 2012 server with IIS 8 on it.
There is an ASP.NET application running on this server which authenticates via a REST API to a separate application. That separate application responds back with an .XML file named login.xml, which the…

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IIS 8 FTP - how do I find out failed user authentication (and client IP) in the log?
Hello this is a mystery for me. We have an FTP server in our company and some accounts are sometimes locked because of repeated logins with bad password. I am trying to search in the ftp logfile (u_ex160330.log) but have no idea if it is logged…

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URL redirect for a domain & URL (Windows Server 2012)
I am shutting down an old intranet application, and in order to please my users, I would like to have a friendly page that tells them where they need to look instead.
Another team however have published a document that contains a link to the old…

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Can I prohibit IIS from fetching intermediate SSL certificates via AIA?
According to this answer IIS can use Authority Information Access certificate extension to retrieve missing issuer certificate.
Here's the scenario. There's an IIS installation with an HTTPs endpoint which has an SSL certificate. Normally the IIS…

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