Can I put my "bin" folder with all of its .dll files at a higher level then the IIS Local Path/web root for the site? I need to keep my dll files in a directory outside of my project is this possible, I tried to use a virtual directory but .net seems to ignore it. Can I use a virtual directory for my bin folder? DUPLICATE: More info p...
I am trying to create a webservice that returns streaming data. For that I created a demo webservice, set HttpContext.Current.Response.BufferOutput = false and I am writing to the same repsonse a few jpeg files flushing in between. On the client side I am doing loHttp = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Url); loWebRespons...
I am trying to send email from an ASP.NET web application using the SmtpClient class. So far I have granted relay access to 127.0.0.1. I am trying to send test emails to my gmail account. The EML files get stuck in the mailroot's queue folder. My WinXP firewall is disabled. I dont get any exceptions in the code but the emails are nev...
I'm having a strange problem here... I have an ASP.NET 3.5 application that has a GridView and a SqlDataSource on the Default.aspx. The GridView is databound to the SqlDataSource. The GridView has a button for each row called "View" that sends the user to a separate page where the row can be edited. I have two installations of this a...
I'm running WinXP Pro SP3 and IIS 5.1 on my home dev machine. As far as I can tell IIS 5.1 only allows me to host one website, which is a problem because I'm working on three at the moment. Is that right, and, if so, is there any way around that limitation? EDIT: This is just for dev/test purposes - I don't want to actually host any liv...
i'm using windows xp sp2. i need to run iis 5.1 to load test a few web pages. however,i'm not able to run iis properly. i don't have visual studio installed. do i need to install it or any other software to run iis 5.1? i'm getting the following error when i run http://localhost/ in my browser. "Server Application Error The server has e...
Due to employer security issues, the development team is not allowed to have IIS on their development PCs. I would like to know if there is a way to have IIS locally and disallow incoming/outgoing connections? The development team would just like to harness the power of IIS for development purposes and not have to worry about "security...
I have just deployed my first application in .NET MVC and i'm having issues. I have resolved the iis 5.1 problems with the routing (If anyone is looking for this go here: http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2008/11/deploy-aspnet-mvc-app-on-windows-xp-iis.html ) **Now my issue is that wherever I call db.SubmitChanges() on my data ...
Hi guys, ive got a stupid problem. My Custom handler is working 100% on Asp.NET Development server but when i publish the site to IIS 5.1 whenever i try to run Comment/Find (which finds a user via an AJAX call) (i know the naming of my handler sux!!! :) I get this error: The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for canno...
Hello, I have this test python file import os print 'Content-type: text/html' print print '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Python Sample CGI</TITLE></HEAD>' print '<BODY>' print "<H1>This is A Sample Python CGI Script</H1>" print '<br>' if os.environ.has_key('REMOTE_HOST'): print "<p>You have accessed this site from IP: "+os.environ["REMOTE_H...
We have a problem with an IIS5 server. When certain users/browsers click to download .zip files, binary gibberish text sometimes renders in the browser window. The desired behavior is for the file to either download or open with the associated zip application. Initially, we suspected that the wrong content-type header was set on the fi...
Hello, If we open IIS 5 Manager and right click on virtual directory --> select Properties so that new window opens up --> click Home Directory tab --> click Configuration, so that again new window opens --> and if in this new window we select Options tab, we are then presented with Enable Session state option. Since Asp.Net already ...
I will apologize in advance as this post is born out of severe frustration. I have a classic asp website that has been running on Windows 2000/IIS5 for years, and another ASP.NET 2.0 site that we've recently started running on the same servers. So far, everything is running well. Last year, I tried upgrading (fresh install) to Windows ...
I have a web application that runs fine under IIS5 or IIS6. I just installed Vista, which has IIS7. I just copied the entire web app over as-is, no changes to any files. I went into the IIS7 manager and created a web appliction under the Default Web Site and pointed it to the app I copied over. When I try to browse to the app in IE, ...
we have a small problem, we are trying to store a institutes proxy URL into a database, we are able to identify the URL correctly but as soon as we try and store that value in a database it only stores the original URL rather than the ProxyURL below is the code for reference protected void checkProxyUrl(string login) { string mainU...
I'm developing a site in VS2008 on a machine running XP SP3 with IIS5. I've named the main page in each directory index.html to avoid the www.domain.tld/directory/pagename.ext scenario of specifying a full path, and also because these pages literally contain an index of the other pages in their directory. When I debug on my local machi...
I have a certificate for that is valid for *.MyCompany.com. That is fine for my dev and test servers because the first part of the URLs for those computers ends like that. I want to test this on my computer and the certificate is incorrect because my computer defaults to the url MyComputer.MyCompany.net. Is there a way to fake out IIS...
Hi everyone, I am using ASP.NET mvc, and DataDynamic ctiver Reports for .NET 3.0 as my reporting engine. I have designed my reports and it warks fine on Visual Studio Development Server. But when I deploy it on my IIS (5.1 on Winxp SP2), I have propblems with AdobeAcrobat reports viewer and chart reports. IIS returns an error: [NotSu...
I have a series of web pages that running off if an IIS (5.1) server. The pages use VBscript in .ASP pages which display and populate a back end database. These pages have been working 100% error free for years. I loaded a Microsoft tool (Visual Studio Express) to try it out. After loading the tool the IIS server started producing err...
I'm serving a .net user control in .dll form. It displays in IE7 fine when served from my external IIS 6 server. However when served from a IIS 5 the control is rendered as a Text Area control with a Scrollbar control on the side. I had a look at the http response - IIS5 is serving this: <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>T...