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Answer: HTTP compression in IIS 6.0 causing problems with certain users #fix #development #answer

HTTP compression in IIS 6.0 causing problems with certain users

We’re getting a few sporadic customer calls (less than 0.1% of our users) complaining of not being able to access my company’s website – either they get a blank page (if they use IE), or a “Content Encoding Error” that says the page uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression (if they use FireFox).

The current suspicion is…

Solution: Error When Installing PHP5 on IIS6 #development #dev #fix

Error When Installing PHP5 on IIS6

I am trying to install PHP on my Windows Server 2003 machine that is using IIS6. I followed this guide for installing it, including using the binaries of fastCGI. I think I did everything correctly, however, when I went to create my phpinfo(); page I get the following: Server Error, unable to connect to fastcgi server.

I’ve tried looking in all the logs I can…

Fixed: Chinese Hacker-Bots attempting to exploit our systems 24/7 #answer #computers #solution

Chinese Hacker-Bots attempting to exploit our systems 24/7

Our sites our constantly under attack from bots with IP addresses resolving to China, attempting to exploit our systems. While their attacks are proving unsuccessful, they are a constant drain on our servers resources. A sample of the attacks would look as such:

2010-07-23 15:56:22 58.223.238.6 48681 xxx.xx.xx.xx 80 HTTP/1.1 GET…

Fixed: Respond to HTTP OPTIONS with basic auth #solution #it #fix

Respond to HTTP OPTIONS with basic auth

We have a web site hosting Office documents behind IIS6 Basic authentication.

IE has an authentication token for basic auth, which it presents to download the file. The user clicks “Open”, and then Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery does a HTTP OPTIONS request on the directory the file was served from. However, Office does not have the auth token that IE…

Fixed: Can an IIS worker process's Virtual Memory use exceed the Private Memory limit? #development #computers #dev

Can an IIS worker process’s Virtual Memory use exceed the Private Memory limit?

For example, if I configure the following limits for an Application Pool in the “Recycling” settings:

Virtual Memory: 512Mb Private Memory: 128Mb – or “used memory” in IIS 6 parlance

Can the process use, say, 90Mb of physical memory but have requested the use of 256Mb of Virtual memory and thus not trigger a recycle?

A…

How-to: IIS6: Web Site presenting the wrong SSL certificate #development #answer #fix

IIS6: Web Site presenting the wrong SSL certificate

Consider an IIS6 installation with multiple Web Sites. Each is intended to be a different subdomain with its own cert (not a wildcard cert). Each has their host-header specified properly.

foo.example.com – port 443. Require SSL w/128 bit. Working properly! It presents its SSL cert properly to the browser. Configured for a specific IP address.

b…

Fixed: Self generate SSL Certificate for IIS6? #development #answer #computers

Self generate SSL Certificate for IIS6?

Hi guys is it possible to create your own SSL cert for IIS 6? If so does anyone have a link to a good guide on the web?

Thank!

John

Answer [by Zanchey]: Self generate SSL Certificate for IIS6?

Do you mean a self-signed cert? You could use the IIS6 Resource Kit‘s SelfSSL tool: see http://codeforeternity.com/blogs/technology/archive/2008/02/15/creating-self…

Fix: IIS6: How to troubleshoot a 404 error in an ASP.NET application? #programming #dev #computers

IIS6: How to troubleshoot a 404 error in an ASP.NET application?

I have an ASP.NET application on a Windows Server 2003/IIS6 that refuses to run for some reason (it’s the Xerox Centre, if that info helps). It has been working flawlessly before though on this server.

Now, all I get if I try to open the app homepage (http://some.intranet.server/XeroxCentreWareWeb/) is a “404 – File or directory…