IIS 7.5 Virtual Directory to Mapped Drive - iis

I have an S: which is connected via a username that exists both on server1 & server2.
The mapped drive works fine.
I connect this as a virtual directory called config in IIS it connects and works fine. I can see in content view the files in the mapped drive.
When I attempt to browse to one of these files it gets an error 500
http://www.mydomain.com/config/file.html
file.html is there
I've done this before, Im sure its a permission or security issue somehow, but I cant work it out
500 - Internal server error.
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Give up mapped drives please,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/207671
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257174

The answer was two part.
Part one I was simply browsing the website, I wasn't using https and thus I was getting a different IIS site that didn't have the virtual directory.
Part two was I was using ColdFusion attempting to run a .cfm from the virtual directory, even with the correct website, it still got an error 404.
The resolution for this was to ensure the ColdFusion service was run as Administrator rather than LocalSystem and all was good.
Just for everyones reference, if you create the same username / password on both servers, share using that username, connect using UNC path and that username and it will work, no special permissions or anything.
Thanks to Karl & Lex for the help.

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HTTP Error 404:File or Directory doesn't exist

I have my local site hosted on IIS and Sitecore.
When i am trying to access the site from my local ex: http://xyz.local/ I am getting the following error as shown in the below image. But i am able to access my local sitecore instance ex: http://xyz.local/sitecore/login.
I have tried checking the permissions for the root folder which has full control for all the users.
also tried some of the solutions but didn't work.
Appreciate any inputs on this.
Thanks.

Locally setting up redirect to https://

I have read a few answers to try and find a solution to a ridiculous problem.
I dont have access to a server that I can log on to access phpmyadmin,
What is supposed to happen is that the web url is supposed to be viewed via https, and in most cases this happens.
Except for a particular PC I have at home and it never seems to open in https. Why this is happening on this given machine is completely unknown.
Is there a way I can set up a rule on my local machine that will ALWAYS convert http://pathtomysite.com to https://pathtomysecuresite.com, (possibly via the 'hosts' entry (and yes it is a windows machine running win10).
I could do this on the web server itself, I know how to do this, but the problem is, I don't have, nor am I allowed to have, access to the database server to update the .htaccess or webconfig.xml on the server. (I am 99% sure its Apache, not nginx or IIS).
Any help is allows gratefully received.

Error in non existent global.asa

I have a user's website giving an error in a global.asa file but it does not exist in their web root. It looks like the account has been hacked as it's giving an error about not connecting to a server, and at the same time I see the firewall block outbound connection requests.
msxml3.dll error '80072efd'
A connection with the server could not be established
/LM/W3SVC/6510/ROOT/global.asa, line 66
I've deleted the IIS instance and had the control panel recreate it, but the issue still exists. I've even created a dummy asp file which only displays some text and it happens.
I'm at a loss where this could be being picked up and looking for suggestions. Where might this be set?
I've had the same problem on a w2k3 server (iis6) with many sites, where just one had the fake global.asa;
I've not still found cause but a workaround solution, for me, has been:
open MMC Console (IIS manager)
stop IIS
double click on Web Sites (confirm reload offline configuration)
under every site delete "ghost" global.asa (that you don't find under phisical websites folder)
start IIS

IIS 404 Error even when file exists?

I have been working with IIS 7 for a while and it has worked fine until it just suddenly started throwing 404 errors for my multiple websites even though they actually exist. All of the configurations seems fine (path, default document) but not a single file, no matter the format or location will be loaded.
Another strange thing is that everything works when I try to access the websites via localhost or 127.0.0.1 but not through my external IP.
Does anyone know why this could happen and how I can fix it?
Edit:
It appears this 404 page is not the built in IIS error page. It is associated with nginx but I'm not sure where the file is located on my server or why my pages are being intercepted.
It turns at the server was hijacked by Morfeus F***ing Scanner, which I was not aware was even a thing until this happened. It's activity showed up in the server access logs. I basically had to reset the entire server. It was quite a chore.

Sharepoint authentication with local host works, but machine name does not work

I have a remote connection with server machine. I log in server machine as administrator, open Internet Explorer. If I type both localhost and machine name site works . When I log in as another user and type localhost site works. But when I type the machine name, authentication page comes and when I choose either windows or form authentication nothing happens.
I need to work with machine name otherwise when I try to reach some pages such as approval page I get critical error.
Thank you
Authentication page has a simple JavaScript function which blocks all sites, except Trusted Sites. You need to add "machine name" to trusted sites list in Internet Explorer to activate that JS function.
This is because your System Name is not known in DNS; your remote connection works because the system name is known. When you try to access from the outside it's not.
There is a very quick way to check this; on a connection that DOES NOT WORK, open the Hosts file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) - add the entry: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx systemanme - for example, 10.0.0.20 MySystem. Save the file then open a command window - ping the server name and it should respond. Try the connection again and you should be OK.
The long-term fix is to talk to the system administrator to find out why the system name is not known on the network (often it can be because only the fully qualified domain name is known).

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