Windows 2003 IIS 6
I have a virtual directory called offline. I can access the default.htm file via
http://localhost/offline/default.htm
but
http://localhost/offline/config.asp
returns with "The page cannot be displayed".
I can see the file through the IIS manager interface. In the application configuration .asp is listed as an application extension. Execute permissions on the virtual directory are "scripts only"
So the questions is Why won't the file display?
In the IIS Manager under the server node in the tree view select the "Web Service Extensions" node.
On the right hand side ensure "Active Server Pages" is "Allowed". You should have "Server Side Includes" allowed as well.
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I have an IIS box on windows server 2012 and I want to mirror image the same settings, application pools, web sites and other configurations in another server that is also windows server 2012.
How Can I do that?
Is there any possibility to automate this process as I have to do this process very repetitively?
To Backup and Restore IIS configuration to Another Server you could try below steps:
1)if you configured the certificate with old iis site you need to Backup (export) of IIS certificates.
2)open the command prompt as administrator and create IIS configuration backup on the first server by using below command:
cd c:\Windows\system32\inetsrv
appcmd add backup srviis1-backup-2019
srviis1-backup-2019 this is a backup folder name.
After the command has been executed, a folder with your backup name appears in c:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\backup. Here is its contents for my simple website:
administration.config
applicationHost.config
MBSchema.xml
MetaBase.xml
redirection.config
3)Copy the backup folder to the same directory c:\windows\system32\backup on another server.
To display the list of all available backups, run the following command:
appcmd list backup
4)Recover IIS configuration from this backup:
appcmd restore backup srviis1-backup-2019
The list of restrictions and important issues:
The same IIS version has to be used on both servers
If any application pool is run not from the integrated accounts, they
have to be available on another server as well
Before recovery, you should export and migrate all current
certificates to the new server
I found a really genuine and effective way of migrating IIS(complete web application with all settings). It does not depend on IIS version also.
There is an API web deploy api that we can use to do this. We can do this using command line arguments or an IIS extension is also available for the same that will ease your IIS migration.
It can migrate
IIS Websites
Application Pools
Server certificates
Settings of application pools
Settings of websites
Authentication modes
MIME types
Directory Browsing
Output caching
Web binaries
And other related stuff and iis settings can be migrated using web deploy.
Go through https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39277
and download web deploy for your IIS.
i am using php in iis in our windows R2 server, the default localhost path is C:\inetpub\wwwroot and i want to change it to D for the reason that C might be full.
Thanks for the help.
Look here for IIS6:
To change the home directory of a Web site using IIS Manager
In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, expand the Web Sites directory, right-click the Web site you wish to change, and click
Stop.
Use Windows Explorer, to rename the LocalDrive:\Inetpub\Wwwroot directory to the name of your choice. Alternatively, you can copy the
entire \Wwwroot directory tree to a new location.
In IIS Manager, right-click your Web site, and click Properties.
Click the Home Directory tab, and under The content for this resource should come from, click A directory located on this computer,
A share located on another computer, or A redirection to a URL,
depending on where your home directory is located.
In the Local path box, type the path name, share name, or URL of your directory.
Note If you select a directory on a network share, you might need
to enter a user name and password to access the resource.
IUSR_computername is the default account used if another account is
not specified. If you use an account with administration credentials
on the server, clients can gain access to server operations. This
seriously jeopardizes the security of your network. For more
information on security user rights see, "Security Best Practices" in
Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003.
In IIS Manager, expand the Web Sites folder, right-click the Web site you just changed, and click Start.
Yes you can do.... Just do below steps:
1. Open IIS Manager. For information about opening IIS Manager,
see Open IIS Manager (IIS 7).
2. In the Connections pane, expand the Sites node in the tree, and
then click to select the site in which you want to change the physical path
for virtual directory content.
3. In the Actions pane, click View Virtual Directories.
4. From the Virtual Directories page, select a virtual directory in the list.
5. In the Actions pane, click Basic Settings.
6. In the Physical path box, change the path of the virtual directory content.
7. Click OK.
I have an MVC 4 application that I can run using IIS 7.5. In the application properties there is an option to create virtual directory I click that button and nothing happens. When I open IIS Manager I do not see my application under Default WebSite.
UPDATE: I think I am able to setup the virtual directory. But now when I browse the web site it says "A default document is not configured for the requested URL and directory browsing is not enabled on the server".
You should change the path to your default website in IIS to see if it goes to the right place where your solution is.
I am using C#/ASP.NET, IIS6 on Windows Server 2003.
Map the data server shared folder to the WebServer with driver letter V:\
On the WebServer, IIS created a virtual directory and pointed to 'local location' with V:\ . Since there is no 'Connect As', not sure which USER will be used
In my WebMethod, I want to create file on the shared folder with FileStream.Write().
I got IO Exception on the action, any hint?
P.S. I have added ASPNET/NETWORK SERVICE on the data server shared folder.
thanks!
Gavin
Mapped network drives are specific to the user account that created them:
Using Mapped Drives with IIS - MS KB257174
The preferred method of accessing content for the Web server that exists on a remote computer is to use shares that follow the universal naming convention (UNC).
It's very likely that NETWORK SERVICE (or if you're running ASP.NET under impersonation, the site anonymous account) hasn't got this mapping.
To change the location where the virtual directory points to, browse to your site in IIS manager, right click on the virtual directory and select properties. You can then select "A share located on another computer":
The website in IIS has a corresponding app pool and this should tell you the user under which your code wil be running.
You'll the have to grant the appropriate permissions for that share for that user.
When you create a new website on IIS, you get to choose between an "Application" and a "Virtual Directory". What is the difference between those two options?
A virtual directory is just a pointer to where web pages are stored.
An Application reserves memory in IIS for your web pages. If you are attempting to run ASP pages and plan to make use of session variables and the such then you must use an application.
An Application can make use of a virtual directory or it may just exist within the default web site directory (inetpub/wwwroot/)
There are a few differences, here are the biggest:
In IIS 6 and up, you can assign an application a certain "protection" level. (e.g. protection levels, application pools, etc). You can't do this with Virtual Directories
If you are working with ASP.NET, the search for the master "Web.config" file for your application stops at your application level. For a working directory it will actually check your parent hierarchy for settings as well.
These are the two biggest differences in my opinion, although there are other small ones as well.
From the point of view of a web developer:
A virtual directory is the IIS 5 (Windows 2000 and earlier) container for HTML content. A virtual directory can also be configured to allow the interpretation of Active Server Pages (ASP) scripts and/or the execution of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications. A virtual directory CANNOT host an ASP.Net web application.
The "application" container type was introduced with IIS 6 (Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 and later). It allows for hosting of ASP.Net web applications.