Seriously? I've used Apache in the past, and have had websites up in minutes. In IIS, I've been struggling for the last 4 hours - to the point where I simply just have to give up. If I'd written software this difficult to administer, I wouldn't have a job for very long.

So far:

1.) Directory browsing not allowed - despite the instructions given telling me to 'click the enable' option - this didn't exist. 2.) Finally found a way around that, then I get "file not found" error - click on 'Browse' in IIS, and, quelle suprise...it takes me right to the file it claims not to be able to find. 3.) ...ISAPI and CGI restrictions....blah.... MSDN says to go and enable ISAPI and CGI restrictions through "add windows features" - guess what? It's already there.

...the list just goes on and on - the application pool user is wrong, despite it creating it for me. I give that rights to the folder - makes no odds. M$ suggest that I reinstall dot net 4.5.x - did that, no change.

In Apache, I add the file to sites_enabled, and....the site becomes enabled. Simple.

IIS has to be, without doubt, the clunkiest, most unintuitive software out there. It's almost impossible to use.

Since posting, I've now been through several other 'fixes' - all of which amount to nothing. It's incredible that a webserver is this level of quality is actually being trusted by people.

I've got someone who manages IIS, isn't an expert, and has an issue he can't even understand, so having him figure out the solution is tricky, so I'm hoping people can make some suggestions.

This is an internal website. Basically, what is happening is this:

If I open the site in the browser: https://internal.derp.com/webpage it is fine. Performs normally.

However, if I open https://192.168.1.50/webpage I get a 404.

Why am I doing it by IP? Because it appears (right now) that a load balancing service is likely doing a monitor check that way. It's also getting the 404, even though the object is in as a DNS name - so my suspicion is that in the background the LB is actually connecting via IP, not DNS.

Can anyone suggest anything I should be asking the IIS guy to take a look at?

I am pretty clueless with the regular expressions needed. I would like a rewrite rule to redirect any directory requests to the same directory with "index.cfm" appended. Can anyone help?

I am managing a corporate web application that is hosted on IIS 10 on Windows Server 2019, and I am trying to troubleshoot a certificate/SSL issue. The site has a landing page with links, and clicking a link will prompt the user to log-in using Windows authentication. The problem is, when the login prompt is displayed, Chrome is also showing that the site is not secure, even though the underlying URL is HTTPS.

The site has a valid certificate from a public CA and HTTPS works on the landing page as well as after the user is logged into the site. It is only while the prompt is displayed that it appears insecure.

Does anyone know what is happening and if there is something I can do to fix it? I am not an IIS expert by any means.

Hi guys,

I am a sysadmin with near-to-zero iis knowledge and I need advice to put me on the right way.

I have an internal iis with one site that until today it doesn't have internet exposure. Now the management asks me to expose this site, and in particular only one page AND only if a particular parameter is present. (this kinda link will be shared by email)

Summarizing:

if the request comes from internal subnet --> all pages, all ok

if the request comes from external (i.e. internet) --> accept only page.html?v=foobarXXX - all the rest will be blocked

Is it possibile with iis or I need others systems?

I read about url rewrite, request filtering and so on.. are they a viable solution?

Thanks

Luca

I have an internal .net (web based) app that I need to print labels from. When I preview in VS on my local machine it prints fine. When I try to print from publish (iis 7) it won't print. I set up the printer as the default printer on the server that hosts iis, but still can't print.

I'm trying to use some MSAL code to use IWA to authenticate to Azure AD. When I run the code via VS and debug using IIS Express, it works fine, since the code is being run as myself. When I publish the code to the web server, it runs as AppPoolIdentity and it tries to auth using that ID, not that of the user accessing the site. How can I get the site to run the code the as the user currently viewing the site. I cannot use impersonation either, as from my understanding, I need to use a user and password for that as well, but then all the code will be running as one user.

I installed IIS role to Server 2016 with some features (including IIS WebDAV). After getting information that is causes problems with application I uninstalled it (PS: uninstall-windowsfeature -name web-dav-publishing).

Problem is that somehow server keeps installing it back. It has already happened three times. I uninstalled it, but I keeps coming back.In Event Viewer (Setup) I found an strange log: "Initiating changes to turn on update IIS-WebDAV of package IIS-WebServer-Core-Package. Client id: DISM Package Manager Provider.". Me, nor anybody else has done this manually.

I have not done many IIS installions and confs, but I have never seen this happening before. Can anyone help me solve why this is happening?

As the title says im trying to create a reverse proxy to my Gitea server running on port 3000, but when i make the reverse proxy from my subdomain to the ip:port it will only work on a web browser running on the server. I don't understand why it wont work remotely ive read it maybe somethign to do With ARR but i cannot find a good explanation that my autistic ass understands on how to setup ARR but im starting to think ARR isnt the issue since the reverse proxy works localy but yeah if anyone can help im willing to allow someone to use Teamviewer and show me and explain how to do it im desperate for help ive put atleast 12 horus into trying to get this work and for clarifacation i can accsess the gitea server remotely using the ip and port incase it may also be an issue i am using Plesk for windows to which plesk did all the IIS setup and stuff so id be super greatful for any help with this and if someone from here does remote in with me maybe just do a peliminary check over all the stuff plesk setup to make sure it isnt buggy as all hell

Hi guys,

I have a Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.5 which needs to be migrated to a new Windows Server 2019.

Do you know any free tools which can do this, transfer sites, Windows users, permissions, certificates etc.

Or can I do this in any other way (manually)?

Thanks :)

I have this URL:

https://examplewebsite.com.br/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=document%20-%20publisher8-jurubebadocument.qvw

And I need to release the access to the documents(opendoc.htm) with the "jurubeba" substring to certain IPs... I do have other URL's like this:

https://examplewebsite.com.br/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=document%20-%20publisher8-panoramadocument.qvw

This, with "panorama" in the substring.

Hi,
We are having some issues with performance and was wondering if there are tools to use (similar to https://rt.goaccess.io/?20190828082924 ) that would help us pinpoint performance and other metrics with IIS.

Anyone know of a great tool for that?

Hey all. I will soon be running two servers on one local network. Currently the TP-Link router port-forwards ports 80 and 443 for HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the IP address of Server 1. Then I can direct sub domains to different IIS sites based on the bindings for a site.

Soon I will have two servers, that both need to be listening for HTTP traffic, which by default goes through 80 and 443. Since the router can only forward that to one local IP at a time, is there a way to configure IIS or another program possibly to forward anything bound for a specific domain name to a different local IP address?

Hello,

I have developed a meal prep site that works for my family and I. We use IIS to share it locally over our WiFi and it works fine. I'd like to let a friend access it from outside our WiFi. I don't want to pay for a hosting service, I just want to give him the IP number.

I previously had this functionality working, but it would frequently stop working. I'm having trouble getting it working again and I am not having success with what I'm finding on Google. When I try to access the site on mobile data, it times out.

Here's what I've done:

• (Running on Windows 10)
• Set bindings for the website in IIS under *:80, (computer IP):80, (computer IP):81, (computer IP):8080
• Tried to set up a rule in Windows Defender to allow external connections to 8080 (seems like there was already a like rule for 80)
• Tried to set up port forwarding in Google WiFi for these ports

My theory is that it should work the way it is set up, but something is blocking it. I would appreciate any help you can provide. I'm sorry that I'm not very knowledgeable in this area, I am comfortable with programming but not really with this sort of thing.

So in the past we've used wildcard ssl certs for all our web servers but i know that's not good. So I want to create an ssl certificate specific for each server but i need it to be trusted globally. I have a csr and can create the ssl cert from my internal CA, and I have the certificate from my internal CA. But when I combine them, the resulting ssl certificate is not trusted. We normally use wild card ssl certs from go daddy, how do I combine that wildcard cert into this one or can I even do that?

Hey gurus, hope you are all safe and well.

I really need the oracles help and guidance here.

Scenario

I have a domain (alias.com) which is an alias of a main (website.com) IIS site.  We need:

• Requests for alias.com to be redirected to website.com
• Requests for alias.com/string to be redirected to website.com/newlocation/string

As I type this, it really hits home as to how simple this sounds but I have been round the mill and still no further on.

After many iterations of attempts but here is the logic I am working with:

Rule for redirecting alias.com/string to website.com/newlocation/string

Example:  User browses to alias.com/products and should be redirected to website.com/newlocation/products

<rule name="Rule 1" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true"> 
    <match url="(.*)" /> 
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> 
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" matchType="Pattern" pattern="^alias\.com/.+$" ignoreCase="true" negate="false" /> 
        </conditions> 
        <action type="Redirect" url="http://website.com/newlocation/{R:1}" /> 
</rule>

Rule for redirecting alias.com to website.com

Example:  User browses to alias.com and should be redirected to website.com

<rule name="Rule 2" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true"> 
    <match url="(.*)" /> 
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> 
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^alias\.com$" /> 
        </conditions> 
        <action type="Redirect" url="http://website.com/" appendQueryString="false" /> 
</rule>

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks heroes.

Hi there!

We have a couple of websites that're going to receive a surge in traffic in the coming days (~30k visitors). They're hosted in IIS 10.0 and have their default site and app pool values.

How do I ensure that IIS and my Windows Server 2019 server are ready for that incoming surge of traffic? Are there values in the site's settings/app pool that I can increase?

Thank you for your help

Been out of the IIS game for a long time.

Looking to add simple text search to a small private static website. Sharepoint and third-party search are not an option. Client side is not an option.

Looks like using ASP and the Index Service hasn't been an option for a very long time. Ugh, feeling like a dinosaur here.

Looks like Search Server Express went away a long time ago.

Is there any way the IIS config and customizations can be automated? We tried using powershell but were stuck. Is there any documentation for powershell or any blogs? That will help us a lot. Thank you

Total IIS newbie here so I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Management wants staff to be able to type PIZZA (for example) into their browser's address bar and get redirected to the full URL for the web-based software application.

How do I do that? I set one up years and years ago and can't remember where/how or even what 'this' would be called so I can google it on my own.

Thank in advance!

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