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Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) is a server developed by Microsoft for Windows. Questions about IIS should be limited to its setup and configuration for a local development environment.

IIS (Internet Information Services - formerly called Internet Information Server) is a web server created by Microsoft for their operating systems for servers. Its first version was introduced with Windows NT Server version 3.51, and went through several updates. Currently, the most current version is IIS 8.5 (only available in Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1)

The version of IIS is tied to the version of the operating system it is running on.

One of its characteristics is to generate dynamic HTML pages, that unlike other web servers, uses proprietary technology, ASP (Active Server Pages), but can also use other technologies with the addition of third-party modules.

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How do I restart the IIS application pools from command line?

How do I restart the IIS application pools from command line, like I can do from IIS Manager, without restarting IIS itself with iisreset and having to wait up to a minute for it to come back online?
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Configure IIS to support http://localhost

I am running IIS on Windows 2012 R2. For some reason, when I start IIS, http://localhost/link does not load , but http://{my machine name}/link does work. That tells me my IIS started and listening on port 80. And able to handle 'link' as url path.…
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Allow IIS7.5 to serve up a file larger then 2 GB

I have a website running on IIS7.5 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. I'm attempting to download a file from the site that is 3GB. But the download just stops at 2GB. No error in the log. What I have done: Set maxRequestEntityAllowed to 10000000 for the…
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How to kill w3wp.exe conclusively (IIS8, Win Server 2012)?

Whenever I kill process w3wp.exe, it's being recreated anew. It's a child of svchost.exe. Even stopping the IIS using the IIS Manager leaves it alive. How come ? It is in IIS-8, Windows server 2012
Tar
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Quickest way to run IISRESET as administrator

Trying to optimize my day here, making do with IIS... When executing IISRESET from the Run dialog or from cmd.exe, I get an access denied error. So executing IISRESET gets annoying - involving both mouse and keyboard: Start -> Run -> cmd…
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accessing IIS externally?

What do I need to do to allow external access to my win seven IIS webpage? My internal webpage is hiding behind a router and a firewall (Windows firewall) I need to be able to address certain aspects on my hard disk in order to build the webpage…
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What are OPTIONSVerbHandler and TRACEVerbHandler and StaticFile on IIS HandlerMappings?

I am running a PHP app using FastCGI and in the Handler Mappings I see the following: Name | Path | State | Path Type | Handler | Entry Type …
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IIS 7.5 Api calls won't work (HTTP 404)

The API which I'm building is running in IIS express in Visual studio and on a test server which uses the same IIS as the live server. On both the IIS express and the test server works the API just fine, but when we put it on the live server it…
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Access IIS site from internet

I just created a site in C# that I host in IIS6, it can be used locally but I'd like to configure it so users can access to it from the web. The client has provided me a public IP that I tried to setup to the site in IIS but it did not work so I…
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Route http web requests to Plex port on same server

I have a blank site running in IIS, bound to port 80 HTTP traffic. This sits behind a router that port-forwards HTTP traffic to my server. Publicly I have a domain registered and use FreeDNS.Afraid.org as my dynamic DNS provider to point at my…
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IIS page cannot be found

I added the IIS role to my Windows 2003 server for a client that is running ASP. They have a default.aspx page in the site they sent me. I added a site and gave it a path of C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\_client_site When I try to browse to it at…
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BITS Upload Error in IIS 7 Win 2008 R2 SP 2

In Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager; When I attempt to "Allow clients to upload files" (Default website -> Bits Uploads), I get the following error: An error occurred while enabling BITS uploads. Please check the event log for more…
Ashfaq Ahmad Shinwary
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Change the port of IIS 7.5 Express

I have just installed IIS 7.5 Express (via VS 2010 SP1), now the sites in IIS 5.1 won't start. I think it might be because IIS 7.5 Express is using port 80. I'm trying to change the bindings, however I don't think you can use the IIS7 manager to…
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How can I get my virtual directory in IIS to work. (Can't read web.config file)

I created a virtual directory to a network share. Both the virtual directory and the network share have Everyone Full Control permissions. The directory is full of zip files to be downloaded from the website. In IIS Manager, I can view the contents…
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IIS How can I produce a continuous log stream?

I've had a problem with my IIS that I could only log daily: Why does the IIS only write logs once per day? The answer helped a lot, BUT I've run into a problem with it. In essence: I manage to configure it so that I get up to hourly logs. But when…
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