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IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows Server operating systems. This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a *version-specific* tag, such as [iis-7], [iis-7.5], etc.

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Microsoft's Windows and Windows Server operating systems.

This is a generic tag. Wherever possible please use a version-specific tag such as:

  • on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
  • on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
  • on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
  • on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  • on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
  • on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2; Windows XP x64 Professional (END-OF-LIFE)
  • on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional (END-OF-LIFE)

It is also recommended that you tag your questions with the appropriate windows-version tags.

IIS 7 and newer versions are built on a modular architecture, plugging in to the kernel-mode HTTP.SYS listener. User-mode Modules can be added or removed individually so that only modules required for specific functionality have to be installed.

IIS includes these module groups:

  • HTTP (request-processing pipeline, errors, redirects)
  • security
  • content
  • compression
  • caching
  • logging and diagnostics

The IIS Manager (INETMGR) is the IIS administrative GUI.

The command-line utility "AppCmd" provides a scriptable interface to the IIS configuration data.

The PowerShell WebAdministration module is included with IIS 7.5+.

The newer PowerShell IISAdministration module is included in IIS 10+. It is the only IIS PS Admin module supported on Nano server at the time of release.

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Why is ASP.NET not in the performance monitor?

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 server. It's virtual, not that that should make any difference. It's only purpose in life is running IIS 7 and it does that quite nicely. However, when I go to the performance monitor, there's not a choice…
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What is the Apache equivalent of IIS site bindings?

With IIS it is very easy to setup bindings between a host name and a website. If I have my DNS setup with the original registrar, all I need to do is update the A records to point to my IIS server and everything just works. Domain Name -> IP Address…
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Setting up a BITS server for upload only

Often we need to have clients send large backup sets to us. We currently use ftp, however we run in to the issue of the ftp client being closed on the client's computer before the the transfer is completed. We would like to use the Background…
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IIS 408 Logging

We have some web systems that in the past have experienced HTTP 408 response codes when making a request. They can happen at any time, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to them. The problem we have is that the client request goes through a TMG…
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how to browse to website on the same machine it's hosted on with IIS 7?

I have 2 websites hosted on an IIS 7 server. I can browse (in Internet Explorer) to the 'Default Web Site' at http://localhost but I want to be able to do the same thing with the other website. From what I can figure I think I need to edit the…
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Enkompass - running a site on VPS without domain name

I have Enkompass setup on a test VPS that does not have a domain pointed towards it. How would I be able to create and test some PHP web applications, and have them work from port 80 from the IP of the VPS? Ex. 111.111.111.11/mytestapp/ Creating a…
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Let IIS 7 return php files as simple html file

I have a virtual server (Windows 2008 R2) with IIS 7.5 and a xxx.php file in one of my websites. This php file contains no php-code and I don't want to install any php-module, I only want the server to return the content of the php file as if it was…
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what would need to change on IIS for SSL Enabled SQL server

I have IIS set with windows intergrated security, the intranet c# web application connects database with trust connection. Everything works fine until we enabled SSL on the database (Sql server 2008), now we have the following error Login failed for…
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How do I host an ASP.Net 4 website on Windows Server 2003?

Not sure if this is a question for Stackoverflow or here, but I'm guessing here is more appropriate. First of all, we have to use Windows Server 2003 32 bit R2 Standard (even though our server has a decent quad core processor and 8GB's of RAM…
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Server Farm Configuration on IIS

Is it possible to have a site under IIS that is not part of a server farm if there are other sites in the farm (and have the site reachable) My setup is that I have TeamCity installed on a Windows server, this is a Tomcat instance listening on port…
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How to configure 503 (service unavailable) response header in IIS 7 web.config?

My site is on a shared host and I need to do some maintainance work, which needs downtime. For SEO reasons I need to cause a 503 http response to be sent to clients. How can I do that from my web.config file (or any other method?)
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Unable to get the private bytes memory limit for the W3WP process

We run several ASP.NET applications on our webfarm, but we noticed a lot of error entry in the event log: Unable to get the private bytes memory limit for the W3WP process. The ASP.NET cache will be unable to limit its memory use, which may lead to…
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Does IIS support HTTP basic auth and form auth at the same time?

preface: I am a web dev who knows apache servers quite well, but I have little to no knowledge of IIS or .NET I work with a developer who has been avoiding a request to add a Basic Auth to a staging server running IIS for a while now. Today he…
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Stop IIS SMTP Server from sending "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)"

I have set the BadMail directory and the 'Send copy of Non-Delivery Report to' fiels is empty but, somehow I am still receiving the failure messages. Is the a way to stop the failure messages?. I am using the default Windows 2008, IIS SMTP Server.
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How to control (and suppress) caching in IIS?

I'm looking to suppress caching for all files that end with .appcache in IIS. If I was using Apache, I would drop the file into a directory and add: ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access" How do I control caching headers in IIS?
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