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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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"IIS Admin Service is Disabled" Error When IIS Admin Is Running

Issue: I am trying to start the Default Website on IIS, but I am getting the following error: As you can see, it says that IIS Admin is disabled, when it is actually running. Question: Is there any way to get IIS running? Our VeryImportantWebsite™…
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How to diagnose "Internet explorer cannot display the webpage"

Our web site is working great for 99.99% of our users, but a few people (all of whom use Internet Explorer) are running into an error. Most pages on the site load fine, but for one specific page (the same page for all affected users), all they get…
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How to redirect an specific url with specific variables in iis

The idea is to add a rule to my iis (version 7) to redirect this http://www.mydomain.com/folder/Default.aspx?&variable1=eeee&variable2=aaa to: http://www.mydomain.com/folder/Default.aspx?&variable1=ffff&variable2=gggg But it have to be only with…
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How to deliver documentation for IT tools?

I'd like to deliver an IT tool for use on Windows. The thing is an ISAPI Filter, and I want to describe installation, operations, and configuration. Currently this is done in a text file, which is fairly complete, but I think it is not very…
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Why are 301 redirects intermittently slow or time out in IIS 6?

I'm no IIS wiz, but I can provide any additional info that might be helpful. My site uses a 301 redirect to send requests for mysite.com to www.mysite.com. They are two separate sites in IIS. Most of the time it works without issue, but from time to…
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TeamCity Nuget feed via IIS/ARR/URLRewrite

Versions: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 TeamCity 7.0.2 Tomcat 7.0.27 IIS 7.5 ARR 2.5 URL ReWrite 7.2.2 TeamCity is installed into a pre-existing TomCat installation as a JavaEE WAR. IIS has been successfully setup to reverse proxy calls for TeamCity.…
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PHP mkdir() and move_uploaded_file() Permission Denied with 777

I am writing a PHP script for a client which will be installed on a server which I do not have back-end access to. I only have access to a particular folder and database. My script will upload files and create folders. However I get a permission…
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403 Forbidden when Deploying asp.net 4.0 site to IIS 7

So I have an EC2 instance running, the URL NoWeatherSurprises.com I have the DNS pointing there, and I set up a new site in IIS 7 and pointed it to a folder. I used Visual Studios Web Developer 2010 express to publish to this folder. It now has…
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IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003: HTTP 404 error on Virtual directory; system cannot find the file specified (win32 status code 2)

Very strange problem. I am running Windows Server 2003, with IIS 6.0. In one of the websites, there are three virtual directories: A, B, and C. For whatever reason, and, from my understanding, nobody touched the box, A and C are having a major…
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IIS7 on localhost: sub-domain can't be seen externally only by local machine

I have setup a site on localhost (Win7 32bit) that can be accessed locally or by other machines on our network using http://meeting-room however the sub-domain http://admin.meeting-room can only be seen by the machine hosting the site. The name of…
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IIS FTP daylight savings timestamps are off

The IIS FTP server is reporting file timestamps without applying daylight savings time offset, ie. in Windows explorer, a file shows a modification timestamp of 2012-01-01T01:27 and the FTP server shows it as 2012-01-01T02:27. This is screwing up…
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Webservers - Attached to AD or not?

Do you prefer to run their IIS webservers inside a DMZ that is part of the greater organisation's AD or do you prefer to sacrifice ease of management and user control over (possibly perceived) security? We currently run our IIS boxes outside of the…
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Removing trailing slashes in WordPress blog hosted on IIS

I have a WordPress blog hosted in my IIS virtual directory that has all URLs ending with a forward slash. For example: http://www.example.com/blog/ I have the following rules defined in my web.config:
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Does IIS Sometimes Allocate More Worker Processes Than Configured?

We have an IIS 7.5 web service on Windows Server 2008 that handles WCF requests from C# clients. This service is configured to have Maximum Worker Processes = 1, so it is not a web garden. IIS is setup to recycle itself at the same time every day…
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IIS 7 - The virtual path 'null' maps to another application, which is not allowed

I have run into issue when set up IIS 7 Farm for Load balancing. Add 4 server to IIS Farm with appropriate ports(8080,8081,8082,8083). Also add Inbound rule for IIS Farm. The Tomcat instances listens these ports. When i'm opening url(which i set on…
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