iis6

WCF Typed Faults and Internal Server Error code 500?

Here is my response envelope: <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt; <s:Body> <s:Fault> <faultcode>s:Client</faultcode> <faultstring xml:lang="en-US">The creator of this fault did not specify a Reason.</faultstring> <detail> <ServiceFault xmlns="http://schemas....

Why does PHP PEAR report that it can't find some DLL's on Windows?

I'm trying to do a system wide install of PEAR on my web server. When I execute go-pear.bat in the PHP installation folder from the command line I get the following error windows popping up: --------------------------- php.exe - Unable To Locate Component --------------------------- This application has failed to start because php_mbstr...

FireFox "XML Parsing Error" with Hello World WebSite!

Hello I get the following problem when trying to open an ASPX page in FireFox: "XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: http://localhost/FrameworkTest2/Default.aspx Line Number 1, Column 1:" This site works fine in IE. To get to the root of the problem, I removed all code and built a "Hello World" page instead. This works in I...

looking at various mod_rewrite solutions for iis 6

Hi I have inherited a iis system with predominately php-mysql sites. We are looking to put in a few sites (mod-x and wordpress) where we need mod_rewrite for our iis 6 on 2003 win server. I am quite keen to choose a solution where we can might be able to just port over the standard install of the above systems to a lamp box without chan...

Difference in time-taken in IIS and ASP.NET

Hello I'm developing an ASP.NET (3.5) webservice application, hosted on IIS6/Win2003. The webservice logs the timestamp of the call at start and just before the return. This allows me to query the time-taken. I've also added time-taken to the standard IIS log (W3C extended) The webservice is then stress-tested (5 threads, 200 calls per...

IIS7.0 to IIS6.0

So after months of work I load the project on the clients computers after months of them assuring me they run windows server 2008. It's not is 2003 and so IIS6.0. Does anyone have an easy way to downgrade my web.config to IIS6.0? currently I get Parser Error Message: Unrecognized attribute 'type'. sectionGroup name="system.web.extens...

Will creating a new app pool disrupt anything in IIS 6?

I have a website in IIS 6, let's call it "WebSite1." I have a virtual application underneath it, let's call it "VirtualApp1." Both of these are set up to use the same application pool, "AppPool1." I want to create a new application pool, "NewAppPool," and switch VirtualApp1 to using it, while leaving the rest of WebSite1 running under Ap...

IE6 Z-Index Difference Between 2 Servers

So, I have 2 servers that serve pages. I am running ColdFusion on Windows Server 2003 with IIS6. I created the site and synchronized the files between the 2 servers. In the right hand side of my site is a popup div for the search. On Server1 in IE6, this div works perfectly, on server 2 it gets cut off. Due to the synchronization so...

How to upgrade IIS 6 web app, so it opens in visual studio on machine running IIS 7.

My web apps created in VS 2008 on Windows Server 2003, refuse to open in VS 2008 on Windows Server 2008. "The Web Application project 'MyProjectName' is configured to use IIS. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components: IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration Compatibility Authentication". I want noth...

Getting 404 When Requesting MVC Page within Classic ASP Application

Current Application Server Configuration: IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition SP2 .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Current Application Architecture Classic ASP 3.0, referenced within HTML Frames A few ASP.NET Web Forms System.Web.Mvc.dll copied to Web Application bin folder To test the feasibility of gradually incorporating ASP.NE...

Helicon Redirect to IIS6 Virtual Directory - .htaccess Syntax and location

I'm moving my blog which was in a physical folder (/blog/) on my IIS 6 web server to a virtual directory called the same name (blog) running BlogEngine.net, the virtual directory is running in the same application pool as the parent website. I want to redirect each .html post to the new BlogEngine.net URL. e.g. http://www.mywebsite...

Avoid network login prompt

Hi all. Hope this is the right place to be asking this, so my apologies if it isn't. I have written a number of web applications which use Windows authentication to allow uer access. The only problem is that we have 2 domains at work, one called student.local and one called staff.local. All of the servers sit on the staff.local domain...

Cookies. Case Sensitive Paths. How to rewrite URLs.

We have a sizable collection of applications (>50) all running under a single domain but with different virtual directories. Pretty standard stuff. We store cookies using paths to segregate cookies by application. Paths are set the the Application Path. This seems to work fine as long as the casing of the URL is the same as the applicat...

IIS moving virtual directory to file share breaks impersonation of logged on user

We have an instance of IIS6 running an intranet website with Windows Authentication and Impersonate = true so that it uses the NT credentials passed in by the clients browser. The AppPool is set to run as a network service user: serviceAcctX so that we can undo impersonation in rare cases (to read or write a resource that the client user...

Problem: Failed to load perf counters from the computer <comp name> | help please.

I am using the Web Application Stress tools from Microsoft to run some stress tests on a Windows 2003 IIS 6 server. I am running the WAS tool from a windows XP machine. I have been following this tutorial and when trying to add perf counters I get the following error : Failed to load the perf counters from the computer \mycomp D...

IIS 6 - Only certain directories are being logged

I have 3 websites on a Windows 2003 server with IIS 6. They all have the same logging options set up. (As far as I can tell) However, one of the sites is only logging 2 .NET applications, and is not logging anything else on the site, even though there are thousands of files. The other 2 sites on the server seem to be logging everything a...

Using Microsoft Web App Stress tool to stress test image uploading

Hi all I have developed a web application that I want to stress test. The app uses a Flash swf to allow users to browse for images on their machine and upload them to the webserver. This swf will read jpg images from local file system, resize them and generate a thumbnail and then upload these as byteArray to an AMFPHP script that write...

w3wp.exe and Page Faults

Hi all, I am having problems with a web server that I am working on, and I just can't seem to figure this one out. The server is running Server 2003 and IIS6. My w3wp process on a medium traffic site has hit 100% CPU usage, and is having huge page faults (PF Delta is around 15k). At times where we have around 800 users online, the pr...

Which counters should I use in Windows Performance Monitor when logging performance during stress testing of a web app?

I am setting up windows performance monitor to log activity on a web server while running MS Web application stress tool. Which counters should I choose to give me the best picture of where I have bottlenecks, slow performance and response etc? cheers ...

cycling IIS app pool cause slow first user experience

When i recycle the application pool for my web app via IIS MMC, the first user to request a page within the webapp will experience a really slow response from the site. After that initial request, every page there after is fine. The user could also log off the site, come back later and the speeds are quick. My concern is with the first, ...