I'm still really a amateur in IIS and I want to be able to block out this file (favicon.ico) from beeing requested.
I don't know where to go from this screen:
You can't block something from being requested but you can deny the response. In the IIS section of your screenshot click on Request Filtering. Then click the URL tab and add a rule such as /favicon.ico. This will force IIS to return a 404 for that URL.
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I was getting "HTTP 403 error Microsoft Edge can’t get to this page", while launching an application from IIS in Windows 10. Please suggest a solution for this.
thanks
If all permissions are set and even though your website shows 403 forbidden, most likely the default page is not set for your website. With IIS, you can configure the default document as follows.
Connect to IIS.
Expand the sites and select the desired website.
From right hand side feature view, click on Default Document.
Set your desire default page and save the settings.
While you browse any website, IIS searches for the default page to be displayed. If the first default document is not available, IIS will look for the next default page from the list. When IIS is unable to find any match and directory listing is enabled for that particular website, IIS will show you the list of folders. If directory listing is disabled, IIS will return an HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden message to the browser.
If an empty application gives you a 403 I can think of two immediate reasons.
The permissions are wrong. You might need to give the application pool user (IIS AppPool\NAMEOFAPPPOOL with recommended configuration) read permission to the directory.
You don't have any content. If you try to access a directory in IIS you will get a 403. Add a file and try to access that directly, or a Default.aspx or index.html file to the directory you're trying to access.
Without having a url rewriter such as ISAPI_Rewrite available, is it possible to achieve the following:
I would like a user to browse to http://www.jjj.com/directory where /directory does not actually exist. IIS transfers the user to not-found.cfm.
At this point I can serve index.cfm i.e. http://www.jjj.com/directory/index.cfm.
The url will display just fine and the page loads even though the directory or index.cfm doesn't exist. However I'd like to be able to not have index.cfm in the url.
Ideal:
Page Request to http://www.jjj.com/directory
IIS loads not-found.cfm as the default 404 errorhandler.
Not found strips the CGI.query_string and uses cfswitches to funnel the user to the appropriate controller function. May use onMissingTemplate?
The page request never changes in the URL and the page loads transparently the user with 200 OK status
If a user requests http://www.jjj.com/directory/index.cfm I would 301 redirect to http://www.jjj.com/directory
Current:
Page Request to http://www.jjj.com/directory
IIS loads not-found.cfm as default 404 error handler.
Not found strips the CGI.query_string and uses cfswitches to funnel the user to the appropriate controller function.
The page request changes to http://www.jjj.com/directory/index.cfm with a 200 OK status
You're asking how to cut something but telling us you're not allowed to use a knife or anything resembling one.
Here's my only clever idea using onMissingTemplate().
GET /directory/
-> 404.cfm
-> <cfinclude template="#cgi.script_name#/special.cfm" />
-> fires onMissingTemplate() where you ignore the "special.cfm" bit and just use the rest of the requested path to figure out what controller to wire up to.
This is a kludgy hack, though, so I would try to avoid it myself. Maybe if you explain why ISAPI Rewriting isn't an option, then we might be able to help further.
You can tell IIS to have 404 and 403 errors execute a custom URL on your site (such as /urlhandler.cfm).
Then, you can parse the 'cgi.query_string' and route the application anyway you desire using cfinclude to simply include the correct 'template.cfm', or, you can reformat the input your framework is expecting, or, use a project like http://coldcourse.riaforge.org/.
Just one note, IIS will give you a URL that looks like this: '404;http://yoursite.com/the/url/you/wanted/to/route'.
Is IIS7 on the approved list of software? That can get you native url rewriting and side-step the whole issue.
Second option -- my CFM voodoo is rusty, but I think you can setup IIS6 to look for a CFM page (like you are doing) but then step in at the application level and do the url rewriting/repointing before it actually hits the 404 page.
Another way around it -- find an ISAPI url rewriter that is, say, under the MIT license. Build your own copy. Then have them install that as part of your software package.
I have a website, at localhost:82
when I type this into IE, it comes up with a 404 error and the requested URL is localhost:80/wwwroot, which is not at all what I requested.
There is no URL rewrite set up. I have tried to set up a tracing rule to see what is happening, however, the instructions at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/266/troubleshooting-failed-requests-using-tracing-in-iis-7/ say to look for "Fail Request Tracing" link, but it doesn't exist in my IIS 7.0 even under administrator.
Not sure where to look or why this is changing my requested URL.
Any help would be appreciated.
Run Fiddler and check the HTTP response.
I'm trying to return a custom 404 page using IIS6. (I have a site that is mostly .shtml pages built using movable type). I have tried it 2 ways:
1) set the 404 error handler in IIS to be type "file" with the path \404.html. This works, but it also means that I can't import the header and footer of my site (hence the .shtml) Trying to point the 404 error handler to 404.shtml results in the default 404 page...i guess IIS can't process shtml files in the 404.
2) set the type to "URL". This works great, except that the response code is no longer 404! Its a 200.
How can I get IIS to respond with a 404 response code with the content of my 404.shtml file?
Given that it's IIS, adding
<% Response.Status = "404 Not Found" %>
to the top of 404.shtml should change the response code to 404.
I am not on a windows machine so I am unable to test it at the moment to verify.
Update:
I was finally able to run a few tests on a IIS 6. As you mentioned in a comment to my post, an .shtml file does not allow script commands to run. So there are at least two ways to work around this:
Instead of naming your custom 404 handling page 404.shtml, name it 404.asp. The user should never see the actual name of the page so it shouldn't cause any issues. Note that "Active Server Pages" must be set to 'Allowed' in the Web Service Extensions folder of IIS.
Modify the page extension mapping for .shtml to use asp.dll instead of ssinc.dll. You can do this from IIS by selecting the website and viewing Properties -> Home Directory tab -> Configuration -> Mappings tab. Note that this is far from an ideal solution because now all your .shtml files will be processed by asp.dll. This could cause your pages to render more slowly (assuming asp.dll processes files more slowly than ssinc.dll due to greater complexity) and violates the principle of least privilege.
If neither of the options fit your situation, then it may still be possible but the solution isn't immediately obvious to me.
In IIS Manager, open the Properties of your Web site (or virtual dir) and go to the Custom Errors tab. There you can set which file is sent in case of each error code, including 404.
I am currently having two domains www.xyz.com and www.pqr.com. If anybody enters xyz.com I need to bringout the website pqr.com
Both are on the same server.
Kindly suggest how to go about this.
Thanks
In internet services manager, right
click on the file or folder you wish
to redirect then select "Properties"
Select the radio titled "a redirection to a URL".
Enter the redirection page
Check "The exact url entered above" and the "A permanent redirection for this resource"
Click on 'Apply'
From http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/6b855a7a-0884-4508-ba95-079f38c77017.mspx?mfr=true
To redirect requests to another Web
site or directory
In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, right-click the Web site or
directory you want to redirect, and
click Properties.
Click the Home Directory, Virtual Directory, or Directory tab.
Under The content for this source should come from, click A redirection
to a URL.
In the Redirect to box, type the URL of the destination directory or
Web site.
If you want to say that "you should always go to foo instead of bar," you want a 301 redirect (which you do with your front-end server). See http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633
A 302 (temporary) redirect should be used in cases where you can't serve a page, but expect it to come back later. Unfortunately, it's the redirect that you get from JSP forward.
A client-side (meta refresh or javascript) redirect should be avoided whenever possible.
Apache docs for configuring a permanent (or temporary) redirect.
If you want pqr.com to appear in the user's browser's address bar, you'll have to send a 301/302 redirect response, either through a script or through your web server's configuration - how to do this depends on what software you are using.
If you are using IIS7 and you have installed URL Rewrite Module then use this article for more information : IIS URL Rewrite – Redirect multiple domain names to one