xp pro sp2 iis issue

Hi all,

I just recently installed Virtual Server 2005 on my XP Pro SP2 machine which
has IIS on it. VirtSvr05 installs a virtual directory with scripts &
executables permissions and windows integrated authentication. The problem
is everytime I try to launch the web admin tool for it, I get a 404 error. I
checked the IIS logs and here is what I get:-

17:48:01 127.0.0.1 GET /virtualserver/vswebapp.exe 401
17:48:01 127.0.0.1 GET /virtualserver/vswebapp.exe 404
17:48:59 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
17:48:59 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
17:49:27 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
17:49:27 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
17:50:12 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
17:50:12 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2005-09-19 18:01:36
#Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
18:01:36 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
18:01:36 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
18:23:42 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
18:23:42 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
18:23:45 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
18:23:45 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
18:32:17 127.0.0.1 GET /virtualserver 401
18:32:17 127.0.0.1 GET /virtualserver/ 302
18:32:17 127.0.0.1 GET /virtualserver/Default.htm 200
18:32:17 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
18:33:05 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/ 401
18:33:05 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/Default.htm 200
18:33:08 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404
18:33:11 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/ 401
18:33:11 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/Default.htm 304
18:33:52 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/Default.htm 304
18:33:55 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/Default.htm 304
18:33:56 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 404

It looks like it is denying access to vswebapp.exe. I have verified that I
dont have URLScan on my machine. Any ideas?

TIA!

v-wdxu
Mon Sep 19 21:37:40 CDT 2005

Hi,

Does this issue happen in your windows xp box or in another box IE window?
Since no any urlscan utility is installed in your Windows XP, I have one
troubleshooting suggestion that you could check the NTFS setting of the
virtual server folder if you are using the NTFS disk format. You could
check this by
1. right-clicking the virtual server folder in Windows File Explorer,
2. select properties item in the menu
3. at the properties window, please select the security tab(if no this tab,
means your disk doesn't use NTFS then).
4. if using NTFS, please assign everyone account with all the permission
into the listbox "Group or user names"

This way, we grant all the access to this folder so that no NTFS security
restriction will be applied.

Look forward to your troubleshooting result!

Best Regards,
Wei-Dong XU
Microsoft Product Support Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
It is my pleasure to be of assistance.

param
Tue Sep 20 09:12:17 CDT 2005

Hi,

It happens from the same windows xp box in IE. I cannot browse to the ip
address of this box from another machine on the network. I get a page cannot
be displayed. Locally I can hit the default website fine. Infact I even put
a default.htm page in the directory of the /virtualserver folder and I can
get to that page fine. I verified everyone has read & execute permissions on
the virtualserver folder.

What am I missing?

"Wei-Dong XU [MSFT]" <v-wdxu@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:dFrwMxYvFHA.1472@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Does this issue happen in your windows xp box or in another box IE window?
> Since no any urlscan utility is installed in your Windows XP, I have one
> troubleshooting suggestion that you could check the NTFS setting of the
> virtual server folder if you are using the NTFS disk format. You could
> check this by
> 1. right-clicking the virtual server folder in Windows File Explorer,
> 2. select properties item in the menu
> 3. at the properties window, please select the security tab(if no this
> tab,
> means your disk doesn't use NTFS then).
> 4. if using NTFS, please assign everyone account with all the permission
> into the listbox "Group or user names"
>
> This way, we grant all the access to this folder so that no NTFS security
> restriction will be applied.
>
> Look forward to your troubleshooting result!
>
> Best Regards,
> Wei-Dong XU
> Microsoft Product Support Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> It is my pleasure to be of assistance.
>

v-wdxu
Wed Sep 21 02:18:55 CDT 2005

Hi,

Thanks for the troubleshooting result!

From your log at the first post, I know the default.htm is served as 200 in
IIS 5.1. But for the vswebapp.exe, there is one 401 rasied first and then
one 404 error. This is to say, when IIS is going to execute the
vswebapp.exe file, it can't run it mostly because IIS doesn't have enough
permission to run it. Since vswebapp.exe is designed to work in CGI, I'd
suggest you could configure the site authentication method to Basic
authentication. The configuration steps is introduced at this kb(though it
applies for windows 2000, the setting is the same in windows xp):
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308160

Expect to your testing result!

Best Regards,
Wei-Dong XU
Microsoft Product Support Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
It is my pleasure to be of assistance.

param
Wed Sep 21 12:04:12 CDT 2005

Basic Authentication worked. Why is that?

thanks!

"Wei-Dong XU [MSFT]" <v-wdxu@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2RTTDznvFHA.768@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the troubleshooting result!
>
> From your log at the first post, I know the default.htm is served as 200
> in
> IIS 5.1. But for the vswebapp.exe, there is one 401 rasied first and then
> one 404 error. This is to say, when IIS is going to execute the
> vswebapp.exe file, it can't run it mostly because IIS doesn't have enough
> permission to run it. Since vswebapp.exe is designed to work in CGI, I'd
> suggest you could configure the site authentication method to Basic
> authentication. The configuration steps is introduced at this kb(though it
> applies for windows 2000, the setting is the same in windows xp):
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308160
>
> Expect to your testing result!
>
> Best Regards,
> Wei-Dong XU
> Microsoft Product Support Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> It is my pleasure to be of assistance.
>

v-wdxu
Thu Sep 22 02:53:11 CDT 2005

Hi,

That's a great news it works! :-)

Currently as I know, the vswebapp.exe is designed working as CGI
application which co-operate very well with the basic authentication; but
can't work with the integrated authentication method. This should be one
issue by design and one kb article may be provided for this.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any further question on this
matter.

Best Regards,
Wei-Dong XU
Microsoft Product Support Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
It is my pleasure to be of assistance.

param
Fri Sep 23 11:21:01 CDT 2005

They also need to update VS Server 2005 installer to switch to Basic Auth.
It installs as Integrated Auth.

thanks!

"Wei-Dong XU [MSFT]" <v-wdxu@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CXrE4q0vFHA.780@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> That's a great news it works! :-)
>
> Currently as I know, the vswebapp.exe is designed working as CGI
> application which co-operate very well with the basic authentication; but
> can't work with the integrated authentication method. This should be one
> issue by design and one kb article may be provided for this.
>
> Please feel free to let me know if you have any further question on this
> matter.
>
> Best Regards,
> Wei-Dong XU
> Microsoft Product Support Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> It is my pleasure to be of assistance.
>

v-wdxu
Sun Sep 25 21:44:03 CDT 2005

Hi ,

Thanks for the great suggestion! I have sent the product feedback on this.

Have a nice day!

Best Regards,
Wei-Dong XU
Microsoft Product Support Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
It is my pleasure to be of assistance.