I have a hosted web site built using ASP.Net. I was working on an update and wanted to install it in a sub folder of the domain to test it. I published it using VS 2010, but the site would not run. I contacted the vendor and they made some changes. Although the site run you must type in the full path to default.aspx to view the main page. I was expecting that typing the path in to the browser will find and load default.aspx; instead it shows the folder contents in the browser window.
I contacted the vendor again and they said I must use IIS 7 or above to turn off folder browsing myself or they could do it for me for one-time fee of $95. I downloaded IIS and logged in to my domain, but I don't see the folder where the new site is. If fact, I don't see any of my folders or files. I don't see a WWWRoot. I'm not really sure what I'm looking at.
How do I find the folder in IIS? If I can find it I see the option to turn off folder browsing.
Greg
Enable or Disable Directory Browsing in IIS 7
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731109%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731109%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage. For information about opening IIS Manager, see Open IIS Manager (IIS 7). For information about navigating to locations in the UI, see Navigation in IIS Manager (IIS 7).
In Features View, double-click Directory Browsing.
In the Actions pane, click Enable if the Directory Browsing feature is disabled and you want to enable it. Or, click Disable if the Directory Browsing feature is enabled and you want to disable it.
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I am new in Asp.Net
I have enabled features of IIS 7 on my windows system and able to see IIS manager.
I created an application but build/run application through visual studio it goes to browser and run the application with different port number. When i stop build/run application through visual studio and again i refresh browser application could not run.
I want to run application without visual studio. How to do this.
It gives this : http://localhost:9864/
To configure IIS with a new website follow these instructions:
Open IIS manager, right click Sites (At the right menu) and click Add Website
Give the site a Site Name, The physical path on your machine, and a Host Name
There are some conventions as for what website physical path to choose you can read about it in this SO question
In Windows Explorer go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and Edit the hosts file
Add this line at the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 your-chosen-host-name-from-iis-ie-localhost.testsite.com
And save the file
Thats about it. You can open your browser and browse the Host Name you chosen for your website or in IIS right click your site and click Manage Website - Browse
Important note
If you wish to use the same address as your VS uses (http://localhost:9864/) then on step 2 leave the Host Name textbox blank and instead change the Port textbox to your desired port (9864). In this case you can also ignore step 3.
As a site note:
If you installed IIS on your machine after the VS installation you might get some conflicts. You might be able by this stage to browse to static content as html but not .NET resources like aspx files. If by browsing to .NET files you get a message saying The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration you can solve it with this SO question
I was Working through Microsoft's example on Deploying a Web Site Project. As the example suggested, I used the tool to place the compiled website in a local directory, and then creating a virtual directory in IIS and pointing it to that directory. Then I converted the virtual directory to an application. I tried browsing to the local website (http://localhost/TestSite03/SamplePage.aspx) but got an error that it could not access the config file due to permissions. I read this post and decided that I should add IIS_IUSRS to the site. I did this by right clicking on TestSite03 in IIS Manager and choosing "Edit Permissions". After that it just stopped working. The browser would spin when I went to the site, and eventually display a 'page not available' page. Same thing when I go to http://localhost now also. I tried removing the application, but localhost is still not working. I did look at other values while I was trying to get the TestSite03 working, but I don't think I made any other changes. Anyone know what I might have done wrong here?
Things I tried for localhost not working:
Reordering the default page configuration.
Restoring the default page order to inherited value.
Adding a default.htm page.
Making the directory browsable.
Restarting the Default Web Site
Rebooting the computer
Checking permissions
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Possibly Relevant info:
Windows 10,
Visual Studio 2013
.Net Framework 3.5 used for the test site
Chrome and edge browsers.
I've received some files for a site I'd like to update and am trying to get it running in IIS locally. IIS is working - if I go to http://localhost I get the index.htm file - but if I go to http://localhost/aspxsite/ (their files) I get "This page can't be displayed".
I'm very unfamiliar with this stuff - any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm running IIS 7.5.7600.16385 on Windows 7 Pro.
1.Open IIS Manager.
In the Connections pane, right-click the Sites node in the tree, and then click Add Web Site.
3.In the Physical path box, type the physical path of the Web site's folder, or click the browse button (...) to navigate the file system to find the folder.
Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt and add this line:
127.0.0.1 aspxSiteName
Type in browser http://aspxSiteName
What is the difference between publishing a website to {localdrive}\inetpub\wwwroot and anywhere else on the web server e.g. C:\Website.
I have noticed that I am always left with a directory and a website in the IIS console if I publish to {localdrive}\inetpub\wwwroot.
After reading articles on MSDN, I am still unclear of the difference. I realise that there is probably a simpe answer to this, but I cannot find it.
The web path / is already mapped to c:\inetpub\wwwroot, so /abc is mapped to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\abc automatically.
When you publish to c:\website, you need to set up a virtual path manually.
Nothing too much as your website path in IIS can point to any directory. However, that being said always double check your directory permissions and security settings. In addition, I guess if a hacker did compromised your webserver... the default c:\inetpub\wwwroot is well known.
And just for good measure in case you are having issues - check out the Aspnet_regiis.exe tool on MSDN as it usually solves a lot of issues for folks.
{localdrive}\inetpub\wwwroot is usually used for the default web site that comes with IIS.
Additional Microsoft products use the same directory and take advantage of the virtual directories that exist in the default site.
If this is your personal web site, or a web site you created from scratch, you can publish anywhere you want.
Before you publish, you need to make sure IIS knows where the directory will be, and you need to assign the correct permissions for that folder.
The default website in IIS is mapped to C:\inetpub\wwwroot by default, so publishing to wwwroot makes it easy to add applications as virtual directories.
However, you can publish wherever you like, and either point a virtual directory or new website at your publication location. You simply need to make sure user the App Pool is running as (usually IUSR under IIS7, IUSR_MachineName under previous versions) has read/execute permissions on the folder you are publishing to.
Although they say Virtual Directory created by default for your website in wwwroot and you don't have to configure it again. Many times I found we still have to go there and click on Remove and then click on Create button again :)
Thus it is almost no problem if you create your website outside wwwroot, only difference outside you have to give full path of VD and inside you have to click Remove and then Create button
The problem I had was different from all of the above. I was trying to publish in "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" and the publish failed every time. Than i changed the publish folder to another and it worked. When I launched visual studio as administrator I could copy to C:\inetpub\wwwroot also without problems
I've copied a whole folder which keeps a website inside from a web server to another computer.From the original server I can easily run the web application. Now I need to know what exactly I have to do in order to be able to run the application on the second computer too. I think there are some special considerations with IIS. What and how do I have to set up in IIS?
Follow these steps.
create a new site from left menu By right clicking and add new website.
Give physical path to that folder
Map with the site url
Give permissions to Directory as (like everyone)
Set up the default page if (index page is not present in the directory)
Set framework which ever you are using.
Install the IIS Windows component for whatever version of Windows you're using.
Create a new site in IIS
Point this new site to your web root
Configure DNS for the site (maybe using your hosts file)
There are some considerations to make depending on which version of IIS you are using. It would be helpful to know if you are using 6 or 7.
If you are under 7, you need to copy the site to your IIS directory (typically wwwroot) and then setup the basic settings in IIS by choosing your application pool and such. Application pools are typically (but not always) setup by .Net Framework. You may need to setup your default page and set it as an application. There are many blogs and sites out there that will tell you how to setup this basic functionality but are specific to your application.
For configuring IIS
1. Firstly, in Programs and features go to Turn on and off windows features...in that tick everything under IIS..go to sub folder and tick everything everywhere
Go to Internet Explorer> Setting> Internet Options> Advanced> untick Show friendly http error messages option
Go to IIS manager
a. In default application pool> advanced settings > Set true enable 32-bit program option
b. Go to Asp> setting> expand debugging properties> there will an option of error messages some 2nd last or last option that would be false...set it to true..apply changes
Run vbscript and asp only in Internet Explorer (edge 10 in developer options for pop ups)