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Unmanaged DLLs fail to load on ASP.NET server

This question relates to an ASP.NET website, originally developed in VS 2005 and now in VS 2008. This website uses two unmanaged external DLLs which are not .NET and I do not have the source code to compile them and have to use them as is. This website runs fine from within Visual Studio, locating and accessing these external DLLs corr...

Looking for real-time web server analytics package

I am the programmer for the Education department at a county hospital. I would like to be able to see some real-time stats on an IIS6 web server that is only accessible in-house. I'm looking for something similar to what 1and1.com provides for their customers (if you're familiar with what they offer). I have a Classic ASP/VBScript based...

IIS 6 404 for default document

I have an ASP.NET website deployed on IIS 6. I have several folders in my app containing handlers like log.ashx, default.ashx and so on. I have default document configured in IIS, so that I can type www.mydomain.com/tools in the browser, and I will get the /tools/default.ashx. IIS gives me 404 all the time, which is my problem. I also ...

Problem implementing Paul Johnson's Web Widget code, it works in VS 2008 but not in deployment to IIS 6.0

Using the instructions from Paul Johnson's Web Widgets page I created my own custom widget. However because I was deploying to IIS 6.0 I utilized the web.config change recommended to render the page since the IIS 7.0 configuration management option was not available in IIS 6.0. The widget renders correctly when debugging with VS 2008. ...

IIS6 - How do I redirect users to another site for every page with a few exceptions?

I have a website setup in IIS 6, let's say it's called http://www.this.com. I have setup a redirection for this website to http://www.that.com which maintains the directory structure and query parameters as follows: http://www.that.com$S$Q - using the option "The exact URL entered above" This works great, whenever someone requests, fo...

How to do 301 redirects in asp.net from old Apache mod_rewrite style urls when moving a site from php to asp.net?

Hi I have an existing site in php running on Apache using the mod_rewrite plug-in. In other words, I currently have urls like www.example.com/section/subsection/ which Google and others have indexed. However, the site needs a major upgrade, and I would like to move it to asp.net. I only have the option of using a shared hosting solutio...

IIS6.0 Application Pool

Hi Guys, Is there anyway how to check which website is being used with that pool without browsing each website and checks its assigned pool? I have approximately 35 websites and I can't afford browsing the websites one by one.... Thanks ...

Running multiple virtual directories on IIS - any performance issues?

I need to run 8-10 instances of my application on IIS 6.0 that are all identical but point to different backends (handled via config files, which would be different for each virtual directory). I want to create multiple virtual directories that point to different versions of the app and I want to know if there is any significant perform...

IIS6 Available Memory for 32-Bit Application with Web Garden on x64 OS (32Gb Ram)

We have IIS6 running on a 64-bit Windows 2003 server with 32Gb physical RAM. Due to some older 32-bit dependencies within our .NET 3.5 ASP.NET application, we are currently forced to run our IIS worker process in 32-Bit wow64 mode which I understand gives us access to 4Gb of memory for our worker process. My question is if we use the We...

Sys is undefined - ajax issue in IE 7 only

I have a weird issue that only seems to be affecting IE 7. The web site is a 3.5 c# asp.net website that utilizes ajax and the ajax control toolkit deployed to a win 2003 server. Everything appears to be correct in the web.config. In fact, everything works perfectly in IE6 and Firefox 3. It is only in IE7 that I get the dreaded sys is un...

Basic Authentication with IIS 6.0 and Asp.Net

Is it possible to provide Basic authentication to clients using ASP.Net to authenticate the request in IIS 6.0 (I am pretty sure this is doable in 7.0 without much pain). ...

Server Error ASP.NET 2.0

Hi Guys can you please help me with this error? What is it? Server Error in '/' Application. The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in t...

"URL Rewriting"/Routing with .net 3.0 and IIS 6.0

Hello, I wonder what the best approach is for a situation where I want to have the user type in http://myserver/something/20 and get redirected (301 or 302) to http://someotherserver/applications/something/modules/default.aspx?id=20 For .net 3.5 and IIS 7 I found some solutions, but unfortunately I am stuck with .net 3.0 and IIS 6....

ASP.NET - Single large web request triggers System.OutOfMemoryException - Still have plenty of available memory

Environment: Windows 2003 Server (32 bit); IIS6, ASP.NET 2.0 (3.5); 4Gb Ram; 1 Worker Process We have a situation where we have a very large System.XmlDocument is being loaded into memory, and then it heads into a complied XSL transform. What is happening is when a web request comes in the server is sitting in an idle state with 2500Mb...

Assembly reference error on web site with same signature

I've more than one ASP.NET 2.0 web site on IIS 6 and Windows Server 2003. Each site reference some DLLs: design, logic and so on. Each site is on a different ApplicationPool with default configuration about recycling techniques. Every DLL is strong named (not delayed) and has a version that never changes (2.0.0.0), all DLLs are placed i...

Worker process recycles because it reached its virtual memory limit

We host a rather large (self written) ASP.NET website for our customers. It consists of a web service, a web site and a image serving web site, all three in their own virtual directory. The three virtual directories are together in one application pool. The pool has both memory limits (maximum virtual memory and maximum used memory) set ...

Increase file upload size limit in iis6

Is there any other place besides the metabase.xml file where the file upload size can be modified? I am currently running a staging server with IIS6 and it is setup to allow uploading of files up to 20mb. This works perfectly fine. I have a new production server where I am trying to setup this same available size limit. So I edited t...

Is there a difference between SSLv3 and TLS1.0?

Is there a difference between SSLv3 and TLSv1? How does IIS6.0 control what type of security is used for a website enabled with HTTPS? MS says that there is a hierarchy in which the security and encryption level is negotiated before connection is established. What is this hierarchy? Is SSLv3 available in IIS6.0 by default on Windows S...

Virtual Directory pointing to UNC share

I have an app that uploads documents to the server through the standard When sent my application to the production server, I found out that they had the server load balanced. My solution to this was to place the upload directory into a network share and then create a virtual directory pointing to the share. I have set permissions on ...

Max limit for a single form field?

I am running into a randomly occuring issue, and it looks like either there is a bug in the third party control we are using or the size of a form field is limited. I've seen there is a limit in classic asp http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN;q273482 but is there a limit in .net? I believe if we reached the max limit se...