I have been running a data server based on IIS/ASP/SQLServer for a few years on my old PC (hereafter PC1) now running Windows 10 and too old to move on to Windows 11. The ASP code files and shared library files are located in folders code and lib, respectively, both of which under the site's root directory. The code files in folder code start with the directive <!— #include virtual=“/lib/library.asp” —> and it all works fine.
I have now got a new PC (hereafter PC2) running Windows 11 and am attempting to transfer the data server to this new device. I have installed IIS on PC2, imported the code and library files with the same folder structure as on PC1 and ensured that all Windows Features and IIS Settings on PC2 match those on PC1. However, when I call up an asp page on PC2, I get the error message “Include file not found”.
I have tried various approaches suggested in on-line user groups, such as setting the IIS parameter EnableParentPaths to True or selecting ServerSideIncludes under Windows features, but none of these worked (and none of these required on PC1). I have checked permissions to the library folder but found them (as expected) to be identical to those of the code folder.
I can’t understand why I get a different behaviour on PC1 and PC2 when all settings are identical (bar the fact that they run different versions of Windows and therefore IIS). Unless I missed out a well-hidden setting somewhere out of IIS and Windows Features?
I am running out of ideas to sort this out. Any suggestion would be welcome.
Thank you for your answers. Yes SSI is installed and yes I should move away from ASP, but the learning curve is steep and I need to get this working first.
I have actually stumbled on the answer by accident: I had restarted the site on IIS after the various changes but I hadn't restarted the PC. Doing so seems to have solved the problem, as I am now through. How stupid of me not to have figured this out earlier! Lesson learnt.
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After recently upgrading my computer from 7 to 10 I am having issues with sharing files. I have set up a network share directory on the computer however when anyone connects to it they only see a small subset of the files (ie seeing 10 files instead of 100's).
This can be either someone on another Windows 10 computer or Android. I've even tried disabling the firewall with no success.
Any one with ideas on how to get something so simple to work?
I have a similar issue that's probably related or of the same origin.
Since I can't use my Windows 10 homegroup any longer (different issue), and I can't change/unset the homegroup, I set Advanced Sharing Settings -> All Networks -> Turn off password protected sharing. Now I can access most of my files, with the exception of some extentions, like .mkv
When viewing a folder those files simply don't show up.
This post needs help from experienced iis administrators, but must be explained in details for EXTREME newbies.
What I am doing:
I have two computers, both running Windows 10. One is a desktop and one is a laptop.
iis is enabled on both computers. Each computer can access the iis web server from the other and pull up a page from the other - using the ip address.
There is no DNS or host files being used (this is by ip address only), nor do I want to use any sort of naming.
Both computers are running an identical website, and the website files are in a different directory than the default. The structure is like this:
C:\inetpub\ROOT\myWebsite\myIndex.html
web.config
Changes I've made - now a few problems.
On both computers I have deleted the DefaultAppPool and the default website that comes installed with iis. This has not stopped the website from completely working, so adding that back seems unlikely to fix my problem.
I have deleted my application pool and website from iis (never deleting the actual files from the file system) several times, and added it several times. Each time I do this, my site comes back, but with the same problem I am having.
I have deleted all of the default documents, and the only default document listed in iis is myIndex.html.
myIndex.html initially displays a graphic image (using the standard tag), and this image comes up. Sort of. See explanation below.
The problem I am having
Before I started this project, I had iis working on the desktop with the default site and app pool and simply added some of my own files with really simple text content and some pics. I had replaced the default iis splash image with my own image, and all that worked with no problem.
the image that comes up is a link to another page that has a list of links to other stuff in my website. It all works no problem there.
Now, with the setup I have now, on the desktop I was originally using (in the paragraph above) if I pull up my website locally, myIndex.html loads in the browser and my image comes up, and everything works fine.
The same is true on the laptop, when I access the site locally.
However, if I attempt to access the desktop site (using its ip address) from the laptop, it pulls up the old splash image from the default site I deleted.( I left those files there even though I deleted the site from within iis). All those files are in the default location C:\inetpub\wwwroot.
If I move those files to another directory, thus leaving C:\inetpub\wwwroot completely empty, then when I access the site on the desktop (via the ip address) from the laptop, my new site comes up without a problem.
While it seems I may have solved my problem by moving the file from the previous project, doing that does not teach me how iis is actually working, and why files from a website that no longer exists in iis are still being accessed from remote computers.
So, please teach me something about the internal workings of iis, and how it chooses to access the different application pools and websites.
Again, please word your answers for complete newbies, because I know a little but not enough to get real technical.
I have been reading posts on stackexchange.com and other sites; links to microsoft docs etc. That's not helping as those docs are expecting too much prerequisite knowledge, and speaking in terms that are not really explaining things in a way I can understand.
You have described several different problems. I will try to address each of them (contrary to S/O recommendations).
First, when you make changes, and they don't seem to show up, it is usually because of caching. IIS always wants to cache files/configs. So does your web browser. So, to force an accurate test, you need to dump your browser cache and cycle IIS (to make sure it drops its cache and loads new files and configs). Start there.
Second, IIS is designed for settings inheritance. Which means, each app and each folder will inherit settings and permissions from the parent, unless you override them. Overriding them can be done by files and/or IIS configs (application vs folder). The IIS configs are the stronger of the two.
Also, the IIS config for "default files" might have come into-play for your test. If you didn't set up MyIndex.html as the top-most default file, then IIS would look for other files first. In fact, if you don't have MyIndex.html in the list of default files, IIS would have to depend on your app to choose that as a default page (MVC routing, etc).
This one is too bizarre for me. In my Framework 4.0 WinForms app, FileSystemWatcher recently started giving me a null for OldName and only the parent folder for OldFullPath, not the full path of the old filename. However, some of the Windows 7 computers do this while others do not. I tried uninstalling our company anti-virus program temporarily but that didn't make any difference. I rolled back my code but it didn't make any difference.
I tried switching my application from Framework 4.0 to 4.5.2 but the problem persisted. In fact, I believe the problem is at a lower level than .NET because I wrote a test C++ program that uses ReadDirectoryChangesW() and a similar problem occurs: the problem computer never receives the FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_OLD_NAME notification, only the FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_NEW_NAME one.
I compared running processes and ended ones that are running on the problem computer but not on the non-problem one. Both computers are up to date with Windows Updates; I am hoping not to have to start uninstalling them.
I have one Windows 8 computer and the problem is not there; however, upgrading from 7 to 8 is not an option for several other deployments.
It just occurred to me to look at kernel32.dll on the respective machines, since that is where ReadDirectoryChangesW() lives. It's different.
Worky: v6.1.7601.18798
No worky: v6.1.7601.18869
Was there a recent change to the API that I need to accommodate?
Update: I found a non-working machine with v6.1.7601.18409 so that's not the problem.
In a word, Kaspersky.
To elaborate, I thought I had already tested removing KAS but maybe I didn't reboot after or something, and it's odd because it is also installed on a computer at work that does not present the problem--same version of KAS.
Note that this version is a corporate version, which installs:
Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for Windows
and
Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent
A central policy is pushed out to each client computer and enforced. It has control over settings, like trusted applications (a whitelist). When IT pushed out a whitelist entry for my specific application, it fixed the problem.
Note that there are several checkboxes to select for each trusted application entry. This fix only needed one of them.
Under Settings | Anti-Virus protected | Exclusions and trusted applications | Settings, there is a list that can be added to.
Do not scan opened files
X Do not monitor application activity
Do not inherit restrictions of the parent process (application)
Do not monitor child application activity
Allow interaction with application interface
Do not scan network traffic
Honourable mention must go to my co-worker, Arti Chauhan, who suggested more than once that KAS might be the problem. I thought I had fully tested when I guess I hadn't.
I have a project that is written in MSTest. I have 3 machines that has VS2012 Ultimate Update 4 installed. But with this project, on one of my 3 machines, the DeploymentItem are not copied to the output folder which in turn causes unit test failure. The other two machines are fine with the same project. I am using TFS as source control system. Can someone help me fix this issue?
Update: I have given up, this seems to be an issue of VS2012 installation itself cause the same project can run tests fine on other machines
Do you have a different test project on that machine that points to the same output folder?
According to this thread, one of the projects could fail to output in that case.
It could be that you excluded the extra project on the working machines, or that the order in which the projects are built and deployed is different. Are there any other differences (like number of processor cores) between the machines?
Another cause could be differences in user rights on the different machines (depending on the destination directory you are deploying to). Try starting Visual studio on the failing machine by right-clicking on the icon and choosing run as administrator. Does that make any difference?
Since it is working on your other machines, I guess the copy to output directory properties are already true.
This is a wired one and I encountered a similar issue most recently where the build and output to folder was successful in few machines while it was failing in others. My web project was referencing assemblies from the GAC and a folder located in the relative path inside the solution.
Machines where the output was failing, I was receiving this error in the output something like --> Can't locate or access assemblies in the path..
I resolved the issue by
Removing all the assemblies that were referenced form the relative path
(optional) Manually removed the debug and release folders in both bin and obj folders for all projects. (Probably a clean solution option in the build menu will work as well here, but I avoid taking risk and wanted to be sure)
Added back the assemblies from the local path.
Re-build the project
Run the test project and everything was working fine in all machines.
Hope this helps !!!
It turns out it's my own fault. I didn't set the Test settings in the "Test -> Test Settings" menu. But how could I know? VS2012 on my other machines are all configured automatically. For some reason, that particular machine didn't. So there you have it, the answer to the question. It's a simple one. But when you don't know, it's utterly hard.
I know this question has been asked several times around the internet, but I have spent about a week trying to solve this problem with little luck.
I am trying to install JavaCommAPI (an archived Java package to allow communication with rs232) on a remote linux Ubuntu 11.0, 32-bit server in order to deploy a web project which I have developed on a local apache server on my windows PC.
The thing that puzzles me is, I am able to get the .war web project to deploy on a local apache server on a separate 32-bit LinuxMint16 PC by correctly placing the javax.comm.properties, comm.jar, and libSerialParallel.so files in their respective places.
I use System.getProperty("java.library.path"); in order to find the correct library path in order to install correct files.
On my LinuxMint16:
javax.comm.properties -- /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib
comm.jar -- /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/ext
libSerialParallel.so -- /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/i386
....works!
On my remote Ubuntu server I did the exact same for its reported library path
(for example: /usr/local/jdk/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/lib/javax.comm.properties ;
/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/lib/ext/comm.jar ;
/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/lib/i386/libSerialParallel.so)
...fails =(
Things of note: I added the needed apache jars and comm.jar to my libraries in Eclipse using the BuildPath wizard (right click on project --> Build Path-->add external jars) which points to local files on my PC which I obviously cannot use for a remote server which I am only accessing through command line. May this is affecting it somehow?
I tried to get error output (System.err) from the Java Console printed to a separate file for my remote server as that feedback was very helpful in getting all the files sorted on my LinuxMint PC.
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(pathName);
System.setOut(ps);
System.setErr(ps);
Which again, is oddly working beautifully to print the stream to a local .txt file on my LinuxMintPC but not to the one I designate on my remote ubuntu server.
I am really at a wits end here!! Am I mixing and matching appropriate versions of Systems prohibiting things to run smoothly? I am not sure how to proceed from here, if anyone has any insights I would die of happiness. Thanks
I needed to install OPEN JDK7 on my ubuntu, put files in appropriate library paths (as described above) and now it works.