Questions tagged [iis-6]

IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server application and a set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft as part of Windows. IIS version 6 is shipped with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are end of life, so migration to newer releases must be done.

Internet Information Services (IIS) is a web server and a set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft as part of Windows.

IIS version 6 is shipped with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are end of life, so migration to newer Windows releases must be done.

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Send mail using localhost SMTP

I am trying to setup SMTP server on IIS for sending mails. The SMTP server is intended to be used by the ASP.NET code in C#. I was previously using gmail smtp wherein i provided the smtp.gmail.com as host with secure port and my gmail uid/pwd. That…
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Asp.net mvc 4 on iis6: "The page cannot be found"

I am having trouble getting ASP.Net MVC 4 running on IIS 6. First, i got "Directory listing denied" and that already solved after I setup extensionless urls based on Phil Haack's blog post: ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough. Now, I'm getting "The…
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ASP.NET MVC on IIS6

Where can I find some good pointers on best practices for running ASP.NET MVC on IIS6? I haven't seen any realistic options for web-hosts who provide IIS7-hosting yet. Mostly because I don't live in the U.S. So I was wondering on how you best build…
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User ASP.NET runs under

I'm a bit confused about how ASP.NET, what user it runs under? On iis 7.5 and on 6.0 A few of the user accounts that I'm not clear on are Network Service IUSR AppPool Any clarification on the different users would be appreciated and security…
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How can you get a .NET 4.5 website to run on IIS6?

I've got an old Windows 2003 server running IIS 6, and I chose .net 4.5 for my latest web app. Problem is I can't get it to run on the server... .NET 4.0 framework is installed. I've run aspnet_regiis and deployed the website. I gave it it's own…
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Web App getting Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'

I see that many people get this error, but their situations all appear a little different from mine. I have a ASP.NET 4.0 web app that runs in IIS 6.0 on a Windows 2003 Server. When I Remote to the web server box and log on there and access the…
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Parse errors are not displayed

I want PHP to display parse errors on screen. What I get instead is a blank page. Nothing gets written to server's error log file. My setup: PHP5.2.9/IIS 6 (not Apache!). My PHP.INI: error_reporting=E_STRICT display_errors =…
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Is there a difference between SSLv3 and TLS1.0?

Is there a difference between SSLv3 and TLSv1? How does IIS6.0 control what type of security is used for a website enabled with HTTPS? MS says that there is a hierarchy in which the security and encryption level is negotiated before connection is…
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Why can't I connect to a WCF service with net.tcp but i can with http?

I have a WCF service running on the IIS with a ServiceHostFactory. It's running fine with the WSHttpBinding but because of the speed and everything being on the same network (no firewalls) i want to speed up things a bit using the NetTcpBinding…
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How do I recycle an IIS AppPool with Powershell?

I haven't really done any Windows scripting at all, so I am at a loss on how to pull this one off. Anyway, basically what we want to do is have a script that will take an argument on which IIS AppPool to recycle. I have done some research on…
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What Causes "Internal connection fatal errors"

I've got a number of ASP.Net websites (.Net v3.5) running on a server with a SQL 2000 database backend. For several months, I've been receiving seemingly random InvalidOperationExceptions with the message "Internal connection fatal error". Sometimes…
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programmatically control output caching - disable or enable cache according to parameter value

We've got a fairly standard e-commerce scenario with paged lists of products within categories. For better or worse, about 80% of visitors never navigate past the first page, depending on the category there may then be 5-10 more pages of results…
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WCF not running under IIS 6.0

Trying to get my WCF service running under IIS 6. I have created the .svc and aspnet_isapi.dll mapping according to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752241.aspx When viewing the Server1.svc page, I am getting a 404. I have tested the site…
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ASP.NET routing on IIS 6

I have created a basic site using ASP.NET routing according to Mike Ormond's example "Using ASP.NET routing Independent of MVC". This works fine on my local machine running the built-in web server. However, when I deploy it to my server (Windows…
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Unable to start debugging on the web server. The debugger cannot connect to the remote computer in MVC

I've just started to work on a MVC project. It's a web portal. I've set my sites on my local IIS 6.0 But when I want to start debugging, I get this error: Unable to start debugging on the web server. The debugger cannot connect to the remote…
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