Just wanted to check, what's the best way to rename the server name within IIS, have preinstalled IIS on the new 2022 Windows server no sites have been created yet, but will need to rename the server and IIS before we do.
Is this the best way to do this as seen in the attached image, rename the server in IIS by right click and then select "rename" and then saving its configuration by closing it.
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I have Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 and have the IIS 7 running.
I have coded a web application on a seperate laptop and would like to publish it now on my server (serves as AD, DNS, File Server, IIS) that runs locally and has no external access. We will be using the application internally only.
I have followed the steps to install a website on IIS, however, it does not work. Below are the steps I have done.
Created a folder hierarchy and pasted the code files there. (check below image. The code files are inside wwwroot)
Create a new website from the IIS Manager as the below image.
The wwwroot folder has SYSTEM permission and it inherits the permissions from the parent. (Does it need to have other permissions?!?)
Whenever I visit the website, I get an error that the page is not found.
UPDATE
Upon #Ravi A's answer below, I have tried his steps as the below image, but the username is not found and the error persists.
Any ideas what is wrong?
windows iis website
You need to add a binding in your DNS i.e. ping mysite.local should resolve to the server IP, in your case since it's a intranet it should resolve to 192.168.1.253.
See here on how to do it. You need access to DNS Manager.
Also since you are not clear on DNS mapping leave the hostname empty and use machine name or IP to browse the site.
I have MVC4 web application project in visual studio 2010. When I want to start it, I have the following error:
Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server: Port"80" is in use.
The problem came after changing the property "Use Local IIS Webserver"
http://blog.lextudio.com/2012/10/port-already-in-use-then-who-uses-it/
If you already have something monitoring port 80 (such as full IIS), then you cannot use another thing to monitor the same port.
Thus, if you do want to use IIS Express, make sure in Project Url: field you specify another port number other than 80.
In VS 2013:
Go to your Web Project Properties, Web Tab.
Select "IIS Express" from the dropdown.
Enter a project URL, such as http://localhost:64510/
If you have "Override application root URL" checked, uncheck it.
The port is probably in use. I usually end the iisexpress.exe. This works if for some reason the port is open and you want to close it.
CTRL+ALT+DEL -> Task Manager ->End process for iisexpress.exe
I just had this happen to me, and didn't understand why as everything had worked fine until restarting my machine. Seems that the full IIS service was running, but only within the manager had it been STOPPED, so when I restarted it turned back on.
FIX IT THIS WAY:
Open up the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager (use search programs and files, too. See image)
Right click on localhost (top level, left pane), select STOP. Not called 'localhost'? This will probably be called your machine name, but if you hover over the top level on the left pane, you should see 'https://localhost/'. This is what you want. Right click and select STOP.
Now, this is assuming you only want to run IIS Express sites, as anything that required the full IIS won't be running. You should be good to go!
If IIS is running and you are using IIS Express you should stop IIS for it to work.
Such error can appear when YourApp.csproj file contains conflicted settings.
<!-- conflicted settings -->
<UseIISExpress>true</UseIISExpress>
...
<IISUrl>http://localhost/application/</IISUrl>
If you want to use IIS Express you should change IISUrl to http://localhost:11222/ or another free port.
<!-- settings for IIS Express -->
<UseIISExpress>true</UseIISExpress>
...
<IISUrl>http://localhost:11222/</IISUrl>
If you want to use IIS you should set UseIISExpress to false.
<!-- settings for IIS -->
<UseIISExpress>false</UseIISExpress>
...
<IISUrl>http://localhost/application/</IISUrl>
Another answer does mention this, however, if you're using IIS Express within Visual Studio AND have IIS enabled in Windows Features; It will be the "Default IIS Site" that is using port 80. Simple open IIS and stop the site running by right-clicking on the top node.
Sql Server could also be the culprit. I stopped Sql Server and it freed up the port.
This is very simple to reproduce:
Create a new VM (xtra small in my case, tried both Windows 2012
and 2008R2)
Install IIS using default config.
Create a Web Site using IIS Manager specifying a folder such as
C:\inetpub\simple.
Using Windows Explorer, create a new file called index.txt
Rename the file to index.htm
Edit the file with Notepad to make it a basic but valid html5
document and Save.
From IIS Manager, select the new website and click the Browse
Website link on the right side of the screen.
I get:
HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden
The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.
Now look at the Contents of the web site in IIS Manager and you will see that the file has a .txt extension pasted onto the end : index.htm.txt
This does not happen on my local server.
I am new to Azure and probably missing something very basic but right now I feel like I am going insane. Can anyone put me out of my misery?
This is IIS configuration issue, not Azure specific. And I would not even say it is an issue at all.
index.html is not in the list of default documents for IIS. And has never been. index.htm however is. You get 403.14 forbidden, because Directory Browsing is by default forbidden in IIS. Again, absolutely typical IIS configuration which hasn't changed for ages!
Your solutions:
Configure index.html to be in default documents (read how to do this here)
enable directory browsing (read how to do it here)
For the sake of others as stupid as me, this is all down to Windows Explorer configuration. Normally, the first thing that I do with a new Windows install is to turn off 'Hide known filename extensions'. This time I forgot.
I have deployed a web site to a Win 2008 Web server with IIS7. The site works fine on a Win 2003 Standard server with IIS6. On the 2008 box, whenever I request a page (htm or aspx) from a folder named Reports, I get challenged with the Windows Authentication dialog box.
I have Anonymous Authentication and Forms Authentication enabled on the site. I applied Full Control permissions to the root of the site for both NETWORK SERVICE and IIS_IUSRS, but that hasn't make a difference.
Like a previous post already mentioned, here are the detailed steps to fix this:)
If there is a folder in the application named "Reports" and SQL Server Reporting Services are installedon the server, then Reporting Services Virtual Directory folder that is also named "Reports" will be in conflict with the application "Reports" folder.
To fix this open Reporting Services Configuration Manager (Start->All Programs->MS SQL Server->Configuraton Tools) and change the Virtual Directory under the "Report Manager URL" in the menu on the left.
Did you install MSSQL Reporting Services on your new machine? It'll use the Reports folder for the reporting toolkit (default setting) and under MSSQL 2008 you can't enable anonymous Access out of the box.
whats is the authentication mode in your web.config, verify that is not in Windows
<authentication mode="Windows" />
also be sure to disable integrated windows authentication in iis
You could try running FileMon from SysInternals to see if it is the file system that is sending back the "access denied".
Quote from another forum that solved this issue for me:
"SQL Server Reporting Services creates a folder called Reports by default if you install it on IIS. If you install SQL 2008 then Reporting Services doesn't need to use IIS and instead will try to reserve the URL with the HTTP.Sys service.
I believe this is the cause of the conflict you are seeing. What you could try is changing the URL that Reporting Services uses via the SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration Manager."
Well speaking on the same subject here, yesterday I was deploying my application on Windows Server 2008 running IIS7 w/MSSQL 2008 on there too. In my website's tree structure I had a folder named Reports that had a subfolder in it, and then the actual pages. It looked like this "Reports/SalaryReports/SalaryReport.aspx" The interesting thing was that when I clicked on a hyperlink to go to "Reports/SalaryReports/SalaryReport.aspx" I got a username/password prompt from my server. This did not happen on the VS development server when I ran the application on the development machine. So I was like hmm? I looked at the code-behind in SalaryReport.aspx and did not find anything unusual. So then I put a Default.aspx directly in the Reports folder (thinking maybe it was something wrong with the authentication going two nodes down from the root to get to SalaryReport.aspx) but the server still requested username/password even though there was no security settings applied to this new Default.aspx. So I figured it must be that the folder is named "Reports", so I renamed it to "Reports1" and bigno! Everything worked!....I will still look further in this issue today, but it seems that either an IIS 7 HttpModule (not one of mine) is trying to "reserve" the folder that is named "Reports" for itself or something else...I'll look into the SQL Server Reporting services as the above post mentioned...
Anyways, just wanted to share:)
I'm supposing you don't have a SQL Reporting Services running on the same server:
1 - Give rights to user "IUSR" and the user that's running your application pool.
2 - Overwrite child folder permissions and ownership.
2 - Check if there's a web.config file on that folder setting different access rules.
I've accidentally deleted the default website in IIS; It no longer shows up in the tree of IIS manager and browsing "localhost" returns a 404 error.
I've re-installed IIS, but the default website still doesn't exist... Is it possible to recreate the default website so I can create my folder inside?
Other answers are basically right, thanks to them I was able to restore my default web site, they're just missing some more or less important details.
This was the complete process to restore the Default Web Site in my case (IIS 7 on Windows 7 64bit):
open IIS Manager
right click Sites node under your machine in the Connections tree on the left side and click Add Website
enter "Default Web Site" as a Site name
set Application pool back to DefaultAppPool!
set Physical path to %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot
leave Binding and everything else as is
Possible issues:
If the newly created web site cannot be started with the following message:
Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)
...it's possible that port 80 is already assigned to another application (Skype in my case :). You can change the binding port to e.g. 8080 by right clicking Default Web Site and selecting Edit Bindings... and Edit.... See Error 0x80070020 when you try to start a Web site in IIS 7.0 for details. Or you can just close the application sitting on the port 80, of course.
Some applications require Default Web Site to have the ID 1. In my case, it got ID 1 after recreation automatically. If it's not your case, see Re-create “default Website” in IIS after accidentally deleting. It's different for IIS 6 and 7.
Note: I had to recreate the Default Web Site, because I wasn't able to even open a project configured to run under IIS in Visual Studio. I had a solution with a couple of projects inside. One of the projects failed to load with the following error message:
The Web Application Project is configured to use IIS. The Web server 'http://localhost:8080/' could not be found.
After I have recreated the Default Web Site in IIS Manager, I was able to reload and open that specific project.
Did the same thing. Wasn't able to recreate Default Web Site directly - it kept complaining that the file already existed...
I fixed as follows:
Create a new web site called something else, eg. "Default", pointing to "C:\inetpub\wwwroot"
It should be created with ID 1 (at least mine was)
Rename the web site to "Default Web Site"
I suppose you want to publish and access your applications/websites from LAN; probably as virtual directories under the default website.The steps could vary depending on your IIS version, but basically it comes down to these steps:
Restore your "Default Website" Website :
create a new website
set "Default Website" as its name
In the Binding section (bottom panel), enter your local IP address in the "IP Address" edit.
Keep the "Host" edit empty
that's it: now whenever you type your local ip address in your browser, you will get the website you just added.
Now if you want to access any of your other webapplications/websites from LAN, just add a virtual application under your default website pointing to the directory containing your published application/website. Now you can type : http://yourLocalIPAddress/theNameOfYourApplication to access it from your LAN.
You can try to restore your previous state by doing the following:
Go to IIS Manager
Right-click on your Local Computer.
Point to All Tasks
Point to Backup/Restore Configuration
Select the configuration you want to restore
Wait untill configuration applies
Check out this answer on SuperUser:
In short: Reinstall both IIS and WAS.
In details -
Step 1
Go to "Add remove programs"
"Turn windows features on or off"
Remove both IIS and WAS (Windows Process Activation Service)
Restart the PC
Step 2
Go to "Add remove programs"
"Turn windows features on or off"
Turn on both IIS and WAS (Windows Process Activation Service)
Note: Reinstalling IIS alone won't help. You have to reinstall both IIS and WAS
This approach fixed the problem for me.
Follow these Steps
Restore your "Default Website" Website :
create a new website
set "Default Website" as its name
In the Binding section (bottom panel), enter your local IP address in the "IP Address" edit.
Keep the "Host" edit empty
I deleted the C:\inetpub folder and reinstalled IIS which recreated the default website and settings.