IIS and ODBC Logging
Hello Everyone,
I want to setup ODBC logging for my IIS, SMTP, and FTP traffic on my
web/mail servers. I know the mechanics of how to do this, but I am concerned
that I wont be able to get the same level of detail while using ODBC as I
would have using the extended IIS logging format.
I have looked at the default fields that are written to in the database, and
I was wondering if anyone knows how I can achieve the same level of extended
information to the SQL database.
Thanks very much in advance,
- NuTs Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360771
Cannot browse from other computer for FTP
Hi,
I have IIS 5.1 setup in Windows XP Pro in one of my home network computer.
This computer can display files in ftp://localhost (or use ip address of
this computer, ftp://192.168.1.102), but my other computer in the same LAN
connection can not see the files when I try ftp://192.168.1.102 unless I
check the firewall off in Windows Firewall setting. It looks like the
firewall that is blocking me to browse files from other computer, but I
already have FTP port 21 added to the Exceptions list in 192.168.1.102
computer. Are there other ports that I need to add to the Exceptions list in
order to browse without check the firewall off in Windows Firewall?
Thanks in advance.
Tony Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360770
SMTP Problem
Hi,
SMTP is setup on a server with correct MX record pointing to its static IP
however, if I telnet the machine from another computer outside the network,
it does not respond
I want to know if there is a way in Windows 2003 server to make sure that
ports 25 and 10 aren't closed
this machine can sent emails with no problem
thanks Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360769
WebDAV - Where the properties go?
HI,
Can any one know where the WebDEV properties are stored in the server? I
want to set the custom ("dead") properties programmatcially using PROPATCH
method. For example, I want to set the "Status", "Category", "BranchName"
some thing like this. I want to make sure that these properties exists along
with the file when I take the back-up or move the files to different network
drive.
What I figured out is that, if I move or copy OR edit or rename the file
within the same server harddisk, it has its properties. But if I move the
file to a different computer and copy it back to the server, it lost its
properties.
Can anybody know where these properties are stored? and How I can make these
properties persist along with the file?
Thanks in advance
Thanga Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360766
forms no longer submit after applying Windows Firewall
Just applied the Windows Firewall using the Security Analyzer Wizard on a
Windows Server 2003 machine hosting our websites. Now, forms on our sites
will no longer submit.
We get a FrontPage Error, check your application log for errors message when
submit is pushed. There are no messages in the application log on the web
server.
I do have failed security audits in my security log that read the following:
Object Open:
Object Server: Security
Object Type: File
Object Name: C:\FRONTPG.LOG
Handle ID: -
Operation ID: {0,14007729}
Process ID: 3548
Image File Name: C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Primary User Name: Webserver$
Primary Domain: Domain
Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E7)
Client User Name: IUSR_Webserver
Client Domain: Domain
Client Logon ID: (0x0,0xD0DA6A)
Accesses: READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
WriteData (or AddFile)
AppendData (or AddSubdirectory or CreatePipeInstance)
WriteEA
ReadAttributes
WriteAttributes
Privileges: -
Restricted Sid Count: 0
Access Mask: 0x120196
Not sure if the above failed audit is related to it or not. I've tried
doing a rollback on the security analyzer wizard and shutting off the Windows
Firewall. I get the same error. This worked perfectly fine until the
firewall was implemented yesterday afternoon. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360765
Virtual directory dissapeared
Hi,
I am running IIS 6.0 on a windows 2003 server environment. It seems after
configuring FrontPage server extensions the virtual directory has dissapeared
from IIS. The resource in the application pool still points to it, but the
vd is not under the default website anymore. Very strange. I can still
access the website on the internet. Is there something wrong with iis config
or registry that would cause such a problem?
note: If i try to recreate the VD it says the alias is already in use.
thanks Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360764
IIS6 question: How to pass through?
Hi,
I would like to be able to do the following;
We have a domain name under IIS, lets call it;
mysite.com
On my IIS server I have installed a mail server application. This has a
webmail facility, which can be accessed like this;
mysite.com:8000
What I want though is to create a sub domain called
webmail.mysite.com
Which internally redirects to the correct URL. The problem is that one of
the companies I work for have a very strict firewall, so a simple redirect
isn't sufficient. I also want to do something groovy like this;
pc1.mysite.com
Which will actually point to a PC on my internal network at home so that I
can login over VNC.
Can anyone make any suggestions on how to do this?
Many thanks
John Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360763
what is the safest way to reload global.asa in IIS 6.0?
i read in othe threads on this group that making any change to the
global.asa file and saving it will initiate the application shutdown /
application start up process and reload the application. iis finishes
up all active sessions, refuses new connections, then recompiles
global.asa.
the global.asa is super simple. it just builds an array into an
application variable:
Sub Application_OnStart
' brief comment describing the array
Dim aInfo(2,2)
aInfo(0,0) = "A"
aInfo(0,1) = "B"
aInfo(1,0) = "C"
aInfo(1,1) = "D"
Application("AppArray") = aInfo
End Sub
and it works just fine.
so the method we were using to force a global.asa reload was the
following:
1. add a WHITE SPACE character to the end of the COMMENT LINE
2. save the global.asa file
this would generate the following error in asp pages that reference the
Application variable:
"Type mismatch. An unexpected data type was encountered."
a sample line generating this error would look like this:
Dim aLocalArray
aLocalArray = Application("AppArray")
to fix this error, we would have to actually remove the WHITE SPACE
character that was added to the live global.asa file, and then the asp
pages would all work correctly.
so obviously, my questions are:
* why on earth does adding white space to a vbscript comment cause
global.asa to suddenly break asp pages that reference its application
variables?
* what is the official "safe" way to reload global.asa in IIS 6.0?
thanks for any help,
jason Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360762
IIS6 cannot start a CMD process
Hello
I'm having difficulty with an application running under IIS6 which runs a
process called HTMLDOC by shelling out to a command prompt - it is not
working, apparently because it is not able to start the CMD process. Anyone
got any ideas?
We had this app working under IIS5 on win2K and are trying to migrate it to
IIS6 on W2003.
I notice that when it runs on IIS5 it seems to be using the IWAM account to
run the CMD process whereas on IIS6 it seems to be trying to use the IUSR
account - but I don't know how you would pre-determine which of these
accounts it would use?
Thanks Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360759
Performance Counter not working on one website
I am running the WebService / CurrentConnections performance counter.
It works fine for one of the websites I'm looking at, but not for
another.
The one it doesn't work for, the polling vertical red line doesn't even
move.
Is there a setting somewhere that controls whether a web site can be be
'polled' or not?
I am using Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.
Thanks,
John Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360754
Additional Help for SSL on IIS 6.0?
Thanks for the help. I set SSL port and worked through another error
related to certificates and now have a new error. Here is the relevant data
from the SSL Diag log:
Probing SSL...
Connecting to 192.168.1.254:443
Connected
Handshake: 78 bytes sent
Handshake: 1051 bytes received
Handshake: 310 bytes sent
#WARNING:Handshake: unspecified error receiving data
#WARNING:Handshake: 0x80090304 (-2146893052) error
[ W3SVC/948978326/root ]
AccessSSLFlags = 264 (0x108)
AccessSSL = True
AccessSSL128 = True
AccessSSLNegotiateCert = False
AccessSSLRequireCert = False
AccessSSLMapCert = False
There were no other errors in the log. Any additional information would be
greatly appreciated.
carl Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360749
Disable Automatic Password Synchronization in IIS 6.0
I need from an anonymous asp page under IIS6.0 to access a network resources
file.
After investigation, I found that is not permit by design, but it may be
possible if
You Disable Automatic Password Synchronization in IIS 6.0.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q207671
I cannot find this setting in IIS6.0.
Of course if the Q207671 is not applicable to IIS6.0, can you point me to
the correct article?
Thanks in advance Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360746
w3wp.exe identification
Hi,
If I have 5 application pools and 5 w3wp.exe processes how to identify which
app pool uses which w3wp process?
best regards
Przemo Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360742
HTTP_URL different under IIS6 (vs. IIS5)
yesterday I discovered that a number of scripts on our site have been
relying on
Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_URL")
to deliver the server-relative URL requested, *even* when this results
in a 404-Error. (this has been convenient in a number of cases.)
apparently this doesn't change when the request is successful, but it
appears that after a 404-Error (which we handle with our own script)
the value of this server variable under IIS6 is now, e.g.
404;http://hostname/URL
(where we used to get just
/URL
i can work around this problem (and to some extent having this clue is
useful) but I thought I would check whether this behavior has
officially changed. (other sites, like ours, are likely to upgrade or
migrate from IIS5 to IIS6 in the coming months or years.)
cheers,
Tim Hanson Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360741
Creating Virtual Directories using DirectoryEntry - HRESULT: 0x8000500F
Hello,
The following C# method (taken from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iissdk/html/f55859db-6d44-46f3-ab25-751a23629f4a.asp)
successfully creates a virtual directory at a specific location.
static void CreateVDir(string metabasePath, string vDirName, string
physicalPath)
{
// metabasePath is of the form
"IIS://<servername>/<service>/<siteID>/Root[/<vdir>]"
// for example "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root"
// vDirName is of the form "<name>", for example, "MyNewVDir"
// physicalPath is of the form "<drive>:\<path>", for example,
"C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot"
Console.WriteLine("\nCreating virtual directory {0}/{1}, mapping
the Root application to {2}:",
metabasePath, vDirName, physicalPath);
try
{
DirectoryEntry site = new DirectoryEntry(metabasePath);
string className = site.SchemaClassName.ToString();
if ((className.EndsWith("Server")) ||
(className.EndsWith("VirtualDir")))
{
DirectoryEntries vdirs = site.Children;
DirectoryEntry newVDir = vdirs.Add(vDirName,
"IIsWebVirtualDir");
newVDir.Properties["Path"][0] = physicalPath;
newVDir.Properties["AccessScript"][0] = true;
// These properties are necessary for an application to be
created.
newVDir.Properties["AppFriendlyName"][0] = vDirName;
newVDir.Properties["AppIsolated"][0] = "1";
newVDir.Properties["AppRoot"][0] = "/LM" +
metabasePath.Substring(metabasePath.IndexOf("/", ("IIS://".Length)));
newVDir.CommitChanges();
Console.WriteLine(" Done.");
}
else
Console.WriteLine(" Failed. A virtual directory can only be
created in a site or virtual directory node.");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Failed in CreateVDir with the following
exception: \n{0}", ex.Message);
}
}
The limitation is that the virtual directory can only be created under
a Server or VirtualDir object. My IIS has the following structure:
[site]/[vdir]/[subfolder]
Where [site] is an iis site, [vdir] is a virtual directory and
[subfolder] is a folder that resides under the physical folder that is
pointed to by [vdir]. Now, I can successfully create a new virtual
directory under [vdir], but what I want to do is create one under
[subfolder].
I can do this manually within IIS but not programmatically. The
SchemaClassName reported by DirectoryEntry for [subfolder] is
IIsObject, so the above code in it's original form (correctly) falls
to the else branch. If I modify the if statement and attempt to
create the virtual directory under [subfolder] I get a HRESULT:
0x8000500F exception.
According to (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/generic_adsi_error_codes.asp)
this means "E_ADS_SCHEMA_VIOLATION - The attempted action violates the
directory service schema rules".
So, if I can create a virtual directory manually in IIS at this
location, even though the SchemaClassName is not strictly a
VirtualDir, why cant I do it programmatically using DirectoryEntry
methods? Is there a workaround for this? Can I "cast" the
SchemaClassName of IIsObject to IIsWebVirtualDir? Any other hints or
tips?
Thanks in advance,
Steve Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360738
.exe extension
my computer is running 2003 iis
i found that some extension can not be download at client side
for example .exe or .avi
but they can download .zip
I checked MIME Type, the .exe and .avi listed on mime type
what's wrong Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360731
Does anyone know server side webdav programming? thanks.
Hi,
I found webdav is very good. I want to develope some code to handle webdav
request. But I could not find any resource about it. Does anyone have
experience about this, please help.
Thanks! Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360730
IIS 5 HTTP Headers not working - corrupt metabase?
Hi,
We are running IIS 5 on a Windows 2000 SP4 server. We are running several
sites in IIS and they seem to work OK - except it for the HTTP headers
setting. We have set HTTP headers to "Expire Immediately" for certain
sites. However this setting is ignored and when I view the raw HTTP header
settings it returns something like "Cache control: private, max-age=86400"
and the pages are cached by IE.
I have been using explicit HTTP header cache control directives in our ASP
and ASPX pages to stop the pages being cached. This seems to work. However
if I take these away the HTTP header in IIS are ignored and the pages are
cached by IE.
Has anyone had similar problems. Could it be problems in the metabase?
Could the HTTP header setting be being ignored for some reason? Can any
recommend a tool to check this?
Another possible factor is that we have installed a new software firewall on
that server recently (Visnetic firewall). It has a HTTP filter on it.
However it does not seem to be the cause.
Grateful for any info,
Pete Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360729
Integrated authentication with IIS6
Hi,
Here is what I did to use integrated auth in IIS6:
1. created an application pool
2. changed the application pool's identity to a domain account
3. put the domain account to IIS_WPG group
4. create a virtual directory (test) with a simple test.htm and configure it
to use the above created application pool
5. tested and it works fine
6. changed virtual directory to use integrated authentication only
7. use setspn.exe to do the following:
setspn.exe -A Http/computername domain\account
setspn.exe -A HTTP/computername.domainname domain\account
setspn.exe -R computername
8. restarted the computer
9. try http://computername/test/test.htm test page from different computer -
in my home domain (domain functional level 2003), it works fine BUT in my
work place domain (functional level 2000 native), I would get a NT challenge
popup to ask for username and password, even I enter a correct username and
password I still get "HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due
to invalid credentials."
Any idea? Thanks very much!!!
Regards,
John Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360716
IIS 5 Isolation mode
If a server has upgraded from IIS5 to IIS6 and the server is set without the
IIS 5 Isolation mode enabled. Can it be reenabled without any problems to
sites installed?
Thanks. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360713
SMTP server to send email to customers
Hi...from time to time we send out the seasonal promotion email to our
existing customers, currently outsource the service, but due to the
cost, we are thinking of bring it in house.
Thinking of set up a saparated SMTP server, in order not to upset our
exchange server/internal network, let me draw a picture of the setups:
1) a new ADSL connection
2) a firewall
3) a separeted subnet behind the new ADSL
4) a stand alone Windows 2003 server with SMTP service enable or IIS
installed, DNS server points to a the ISP's DNS server.
5) an ASP page to send mail batch from our CRM system.
Will this work?
Is there any limitation on how many messages to be in queue at the
same time?
How would I evaluate the speed/amount of the messages being delivered?
How could it not to be labelled as SPAM by other servers?
Do I actually has to set up a separated subnet in the above steps?
What happend if the SMTP server is at the same domain as Exchange?
Will it change the way how Exchange server sending the email now?
A long question, thanks for the patient.
Fshguo. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360712
schedule to start web server automatically
Hello,
I would like to make sure my web server gets hit periodically every 1 hours
or so in case aspnet_wp.exe process gets recycled because memory consumption
exceeds the setting limit - it would get relaunched and my code (static)
gets to run again.
I can put this in a batch file and have it scheduled to run:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"
http://MySite/website/index.aspx
The problem with that approach is that it doesn't return and a new IE window
will be launched and stay up forever until somebody has to manually shuts it
down.
Do you know any other way? Thanks! Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360707
Display file contents for all extensions
I have a server with a directory that needs to have IIS serve several
files all with varying file extensions. Basically, we need the .*
extensions\ to be able to be requested and served, rather than giving a
404 error. Any ideas on how to do this if we don't know exactly what
filenames will be added? Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360697
need to view contents of metabase (IIS 5) independent of machine
Has anyone seen a utility program that would display the contents of a
metabase.bin in a readable format when it is not on the machine it was
created on.
We have a machine that was hacked to the point of being non bootable from a
sister agency. The security folks have been able to recover the metabase.bin
from the server, but without its underlying server the normal tools for
looking at the metabase are not working. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360694
FTP upload failures on 2003 server-urgent
while uploading 450mb files ftp fails half way through, and I am unable to
continue using ws_ftp. This failure is apparently cvaused by a second FTP
session beginning on another directory on the server. What is the cause of
this interaction, and how do I resolve it?
--
Thanks,
StanD Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360688
ftp timeout?
Hello,
I'm trying to host a couple rather large files w/ Windows 2003 Server FTP.
I've configured the "timeout" parameter on both the site I'm using, and the
main(default) site for HUGE numbers and I'm still getting timeout errors on
clients.
Can anyone suggest what/where I might be missing something? Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360686
How to create ns.domainname.com
Hi,
I would like to create my own DNS server for my DomainName.com such as
NS.Domainname.com and NS1.DomainName.com Does any body know how to do this? I
need help.
Thanks Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360679
iis and dns configuratio behind firewall
I am setting up web servers at a co-location facility. All of the web servers
will be sitting behind a PIX 515 firewall on a private network of 10.10.10.0
addresses. The web servers are currently on the DMZ on our internal network
have multiple IP addresses configured in TCP/IP with the public IP addresses.
Should the new TCP/IP config be setup with private IPs and the sites be
configured with private IPs and let the firewall NAT to the outside?
We are also running primary and secondary DNS for the sites. Will the sites
be setup with public IP addresses?
Thanks for any help. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360678
Permissions with IIS 6.0
I'm running an ASP.Net web application on Windows Server 2003. The
application is attempting to launch a non-ASP.Net web application to no
avail. Specifically, nothing happens when the user clicks a launch button.
The code for launching the second application is of the following format (C#
language):
Response.Redirect("<url_name>")
I suspect this is a permissions issue with Windows Server 2003. The code
runs on Windows XP without any problem. To confirm this, I ran the
PermissionVerifier utility that is part of the IIS 6.0 resource kit. The
test failed, and indicated that ASPNET did not have the
SeInteractiveLogonRight.
The recommended solution is to add the ASPNET client to the "Log on as a
service" policy in the "User Rights Assignment" folder in the "Local Security
Settings" dialogue. However, ASPNET is already included in this group. I
checked all the other policies to insure the proper users had been added.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
GIS System Architect Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360675
My web pages are not being updated correctly
Hello,
I'm having a problem with the IIS 6.0 server, serving up my web pages.
Windows 2003. I have the following four html files and one *.dll
executable.
The first html file, called user.html, contains html code that divides my
web page into 3 frames. (heading frame, left or menu frame, and right
frame). This works fine.
user.html
<html>
...
<frameset rows="125,*" framespacing="2" border="1" frameborder="1">
<frame src="../User/heading.html" scrolling="auto" name="heading">
<frameset cols="200,*" framespacing="2" border="1" frameborder="1">
<frame src="../User/menu.html" scrolling="auto" name="left_frame">
<frame src="../User/home.html" scrolling="auto" name="right_frame">
</frameset>
</frameset>
...
</html>
The second html file, called menu.html, contains the following html code
which has a link.. Clicking on the link will execute a .dll which should
ouptut a new web page. I have the target, as target="_parent".
menu.html
<html>
....
<font face="Arial"><b><a href="../Scenario/Scenario_Link/Scenario_Link.dll"
target="_parent">Scenario</a></b></font>
...
</html>
This .dll, called Scenario_Link.dll, when executed, makes a request to the
server to output the third html file, called scenario_link.html. This web
page will consist of the three frames(heading, menu, and right) where the
right frame will be updated with new html code(fourth html file,
scenario_generation_update_frame.html). The html code for this
scenario_link.html file is:
scenario_link.html
<html>
...
<frameset rows="125,*" framespacing="2" border="1" frameborder="1">
<frame src="../../User/heading.html" scrolling="auto" name="heading">
<frameset cols="200,*" framespacing="2" border="1" frameborder="1">
<frame src="../../User/menu.html" scrolling="auto" name="left_frame">
<frame
src="../Scenario_Generation/scenario_generation_update_frame.html"
scrolling="auto" name="right_frame">
</frameset>
</frameset>
....
</html>
When one clicks on the Link, the .dll is executed, which updates the
scenario_generation_update_frame.html file and then makes a request to the
server with the scenario_link.html file as its source. The server does
output the correct web page the first time, but subsequent clicks on the
Link, does not change the web page even though the file,
scenario_generation_update_frame.html, has been updated and changed, which
is part of the scenario_link.html file which is sourced to the server.
I've tried sourcing the scenario_link.html file as a file and then as a
buffer to the server but the same thing happens. Namely, it works for the
first click, but subsequent clicks the web page is not being updated or
changed even though the scenario_generation_update_frame.html has been
updated correctly.
Any ideas? Let me know if you need more information. Thank you. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360673
Publising Frontpage Website
When I'm ready to publish my Frontpage website, does frontpage have to be installed on the server that I'm publishing too?
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IIS Logs
I am using IIS 5 Logs W3C Extended format I need to collect vital information
on authenticated users on the website?
All the entries for the authenticated username for the fields cs-username
are empty in the above IIS logs the other information appears to be captured
in the above logs The user name and password are entered into an ASPX login
form, but the actual authentication is performed by forms authentication.
I need the username in the log files in order that webtrends log analyzer
could use it to provide meaningful information about the web usage. How can I
code the ASPX login form to push the authenticated username into the IIS
logs?
What object collection in IIS contains the authenticated users or current
user logged on for the session?
See Attached log file and screenshot of the extended properties of IIS. Tag: Error installing Resource Kit for IIS 6.0 Tag: 360668