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IIS Aplication Pool not When The Server is Turn On?

Hi i have a problem with one server, and the problem is that the server iis does not start automatically one of the app pools that we have for one of our applications, but if you go to the iis and make right click on the app pool and click start the app pools starts fine. Any Idea Jean ...

IIS 6.0 Server Too Busy HTTP 503 Connection_Dropped DefaultAppPool

We have a site which is running on a windows 2003 cluster with 2 64bit machines. The site needs to be able to cope with over 20,000 concurrent users One of the things that the site does is to allow the download of a 2MB file (which is cached in memory). We have low CPU and memory usage. We also have surplus bandwidth. It appears that...

Invalid or expired security context token in WCF web service

All, I have a WCF web service (let's called service "B") hosted under IIS using a service account (VM, Windows 2003 SP2). The service exposes an endpoint that use WSHttpBinding with the default values except for maxReceivedMessageSize, maxBufferPoolSize, maxBufferSize and some of the time outs that have been increased. The web service...

Integrated Windows Authentication in WCF on IIS 6.0

I need to implement Integrated Windows Authentication for a WCF service hosted on IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003) without certificates. The requirement is to simply authenticate Windows Credentials of users within a particular Active Directory group when they hit the service. The Framework version being used is 3.0. WCF Configuration: Th...

Is there a way to subscribe to IIs application pool events?

I'm in the need of monitoring IIs (v6) events. More specifically the application pool and Web Site events. Is there some API or WMI instrumentation to do this? This is not from an application perpective, but from an adminsitration perspective. I am not interested in starting, stopping or recycling programmatically. I'm interested in ...

SQL Timeout Errors

I'm getting a problem with only 1 of about 30 sites we run on a W2003 Web Server. Probably for about 25% of the day, the website constantly returns : SQL Timeout Errors on various connections to SQL (using ODBC) I have checked and updated the ODBC drivers to the latest that I could find (3.5.x?) and I am also checking the SQL server t...

IIS monitoring tool

Hello, I have a need for a tool that would monitor and more importantly log requests on IIS. This tool would have to report basic info about requests such as date/time of request, time spent for request, kbytes transferred... etc What do you people use for such monitoring? ...

IIS Web Sites versus Virtual Directories - why one or the other?

Though I've used both, I never really "got" the decisions or pros/cons that go into whether or not to choose a web site as the root entity of a new app, or a virtual directory underneath an existing web site. I have a vague idea, mostly involving "well, is it a sublocation of a master site that needs its own configuration?," but I'm not ...

Can all apps access all files in Isolated storage on shared asp.net server?

I'm considering using IsolatedStorage for my temporary files. However, the documenation seems to imply that the storage space is determiend by the windows user account, which for an ASP.NET application is NETWORK SERVICES. If there are multiple websites/applications using NETWORK SERVICES as their account, won't that mean they all will...

Multiple subdomains with SSL under IIS

I currently need to have 2 subdomains under the same domain under SSL. Both subdomains (www and affiliate) are on the same IIS server, under the same IP, and each one has specified a host header value (www.mydomain.com and affiliate.mydomain.com) The first subdomain (www), which is the default, works great, with and without SSL. The sec...

Is there a way to ensure that an ASP.NET application is (only) running on the HTTPS protocol?

I'm wondering if there is a way to ensure that an ASP.NET application can only be run using the HTTPS protocol I'm fine with any code (defensive programming measure perhaps?) that can do the trick, or possibly some IIS/web server setting that can get the job done. ...

Windows 2008 x64 - WCF IIS - OracleException ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified

I have WCF service is hosted in IIS on a Windows 2008 x64 machine. This WCF service needs to access an Oracle database but when it tries to do so it encounters an OracleException with the following error message: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified I tried to test the connection to the Oracle database usin...

What is the unrenderable error known only as Beak!? (or Less Than Dot)

I used to get an error every couple days at a shop I worked at, one of the users called it "Beak" because she thought it reminded her of one: <. ...which, in the source, looks like: <P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><B><P><.</B> "Beak" can be readily reserved by bouncing JRun on the Coldfusion...

Getting 404 error with ASP.NET MVC starter project

I just created a ASP.NET MVC project and was able to build and browse it using the Visual Studio Development Server. When I tried to change from Visual Studio Development Server to my local IIS (IIS 5.1) under the project properties Web -> Server. I am able to browse to the default page, but when I browse to any other page I get a 40...

How to do IIS style compression with Cassini?

I have http compression turned on in my production IIS box. Is there a way to turn it on in the Cassini web server (that comes with VS200x)? The reason for this is that I am getting slanted performance results and would like the bandwidth in my dev environment to mirror that of production. Is this possible? ...

"The file has not been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested"

I've installed a set of standard webservices on a Windows 2003, IIS 6 server. When I access anyone of the webservices through my browser I get a .NET yellow screen with the exception: The file '/SuperOfficeWebService/Contact.asmx' has not been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested. The same standard webservices (installed through an .m...

Sending Email via IIS SMTP to external address

Hi, When using the following code to send an email message to an external e-mail address via IIS6 SMTP I am receiving a message stating that the message has been sent, but it never arrives at the destination. I'm using the System.Net.Mail namespace and the following code: MailMessage msg = new MailMessage(); msg.From = new MailAddress...

Why is ScriptResource.axd compressed, even though IIS compression is disabled?

I run an ASP.NET application on IIS 6.0. Usually I have compression turned on for both dynamic and static files. However, I've turned compression off temporarily, but "ScriptResource.axd" is still sent compressed. This does not feel like a misconfiguration, as "WebResource.axd" is not compressed. What is the difference between ScriptRes...

Configuring IIS 6.0 to execute cgi(.exe)

Hi guys... I already create a virtual directory (cgi-bin) with permission : Scripts and Executable... When I test : http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe, I got 404 error, The page cannot be found Am I supposed to Add a EXTENSION mapping to .exe files ? Which executable ? Thanks! ...

Response.Redirect not always redirecting

We have a simple Response.Redirect on a page that is working inconsistently (IIS 6.0). Most of the time it redirects correctly, but we're getting some users that are complaining that instead of redirecting, they are getting the "302 Object moved to here" page. The page displays the header information with the correct location. If you cli...