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.
Questions tagged [iis-8]
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IIS and ARR least response time algorithm sample duration
When choosing the load balance algorithm Least Response Time we can set a sample duration (seconds). I could not find a description of the functional use of this parameter with the least response time algorithm. What does this parameter do? We have…

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Installing .net 4.5.1 breaks all sql connections
When I installed .net 4.5.1 on my windows server 2012 (version 6.2 build 9200), all sql server connections were broken. Any time I tried to connect to the sql server, I'd see an error stating:
The message received was unexpected or badly…

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classic asp app not working in IIS 8.5
I've moved my classic asp app to win 2012 R2 (IIS 8.5). This app uses COM component. I've registered this component using regsvr32 and also exported older components from II 6 to II 8.5. I can see those components in control pane->component…

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IIS - most efficient way to redirect many host names
I'm setting up a win 2012 / IIS 8 web server with URL Rewrite module installed to replace an existing web server.
It will have 3 heavily used sites on it mapped to different domain names.
domain1.com (site 1 in IIS with host name binding to…

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How can I find out what is causing "This webpage is not available" in IIS 8?
We have an internal web application running in IIS 8 / Windows Server 2012. Our users are sporadically reporting seeing "This webpage is not available" on a very regular basis. Reloading in their browser of choice will generally cause the page to…

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How do I get a friendly error page to replace the asp.net error page for url "WEB-INF./web.xml"?
This url is part of a pci compliance scan and it is flagging the very sparse asp.net error page returned, which on the live site is a 500 status code and the text
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An exception occurred…

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How do I set up DNS for an intranet web site?
I have a web site running on our local server, 'OBAMA'. In my hosts file on that server, I map engenxt.local to 127.0.0.1, so typing engenxt.local on that machine itself brings up the website.
I would like other machines to access the site via…

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Security configuration in IIS8 does not allow for folders to be created on network shares with ClassicASP
I need to find the IIS8 configuration that allows this code to work with Windows Authentication Enabled. No Anonymous access.
I have a three lines of code written with Classic ASP that are meant to create a folder on a network share. It is setup…

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How to run PHP + IIS8 as Windows User, or should I?
I am creating a PHP website on IIS8 that needs to connect to an SQL Server that is in the same Windows Domain as the IIS8. I am given a Windows Domain user account and asked to connect using its credentials.
I am using sqlserv_connect() for PHP and…

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IIS 8.0 500.19 error on only the first request
I am running IIS 8.0 locally on my machine for testing purposes. I have installed PHP through the web platform installer and everything is working correctly. The only issue I'm running into is the first request that's sent after the web server has…

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IIS8 not serving static content, even though Static Content role is installed
We have a new installation of Windows Server 2012 acting as a development server. I'm attempting to install DotNetNuke to a site, but when I run the install wizard, while the site comes up, static content is not being served (e.g., no images, CSS or…

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Setting up Coldfusion 9 on Windows Server 2012 with IIS8
We've just upgraded our server to Windows 2012 which is running IIS8. I'm at a dead end trying to configure it to run Coldfusion 9 and serve the pages.
It installed fine with no errors but I cannot access the Admin panel (it gives me an 404.3…

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Installing SSL on a Windows Server 2012 with IIS 8.0
We are in the process of moving a website from a machine with Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7.5 to a machine with Windows Server 2012/IIS 8.0 (EC2 instance) as we want to take advantage of the new SNI feature.
This website has an SSL through Go-Daddy,…

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Can IIS be prevented from serving HTTP requests for an IP address (rather than URL)?
TL;DR Can IIS be prevented from serving requests to an IP address (e.g. https://12.34.56.78) while continuing to serve web site URL's?
We have a physical dedicated server hosted by a UK hosting company (Windows 2012 + IIS8). It currently hosts 4…

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Azure Cloud Service / IIS 8 does not reach client browser after long process to generate PDF report
I'm running a .net web app on Azure Cloud Service, Cloud Service provides a VM running Windows 2012 R2 OS with IIS 8.
Issue occurs when client browser goes to a page to trigger a PDF report generation. Report generation takes about 5-6 minutes. Once…

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