I've a web application running on IIS.
It's a Visual Studio Project with asp pages.
Now my questions:
1) If i need a log where i can see who access the site (at least datetime and ip or something like this) how i can do this???
2) It's possible?
Probably you have to know this: i don't have registration/login in the application.
I can use some IIS tools?? Or i need to write code??
I've try to find something on the net but i prefer a direct question.
Thanks
Yes you can browse to the IIS logs on the server it is hosted on. To do this you first need to find the application ID of the site with the problem in IIS. To do this click on your site name in IIS and click on advanced settings in the actions pane. Here you will see the ID of the site. Remember this.
Next you need to browse to C:\inetpub\logs\logfiles if C is the root of your file system and you have installed a default IIS instance. If you haven't then it should be within inetpub.
You will see a series of folders, one for each site setup in IIS, with a naming convention like this W3SVCx. X is what you application ID is.
Within this folder you will see active log files, one for each day the site was browsed too, with the date of the log within the file name (u_exYEARMONTHDATE)
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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)
I have a file uploading and viewing page in ASP.Net 1.1 using VB. Now the page will be visible in intranet as well internet. Here in my case the intranet and internet servers are different. How can i save the uploaded file in the intranet server and view from there subsequently when the activity is done using the internet server?
I'd suggest that you have both instances of the application (intranet and internet) save their uploaded files to a common location. I'm going to assume, given that you're targeting .net 1.1 that you're probably looking for a solution/directions for IIS 6.0 or below, rather than the 7.x that comes with Vista/Server 2008.
You need to firstly decide where you're going to store the uploaded files, it could be on the Intranet server, the Internet server or a 3rd "filestore" server. Having done that, you can map that location to a commonly named Virtual Directory on each of your two web servers as follows:
Start "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager" (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools)
Expand the "Web Sites" node and find the virtual directory for your application
Right click on the virtual directory and choose "New" > "Virtual Directory..."
In the wizard that appears, give the folder alias as something like SharedUploadFiles
Specify the path in the next step as something like \\192.168.100.1\SharedUploadFilesStore (i.e. wherever you've chosen to store the files
The next step will require security credentials. Set these as a username and password that has read/write access (as appropriate) to the share you've specified in step 5.
In the "Virtual Directory Access Permissions" step set the permissions as appropriate, click Next and then Finish.
Your application will now be able to access files in that share as if they were part of your web servers file system. So, if you had a file located at \\192.168.100.1\SharedUploadFilesStore\sample.txt, you would then be able to access it through both:
http://internetdomain.name/MyWebAppName/SharedUploadFiles/sample.txt
and
http://intranet.mycompany.local/MyWebAppName/SharedUploadFiles/sample.txt
My knowledge of how to solve any issues you encounter whilst configuring this isn't that deep, and you'd probably get a better answer at http://www.serverfault.com/ as whilst your question is a programming one, the answer I've given isn't a programmatic solution (not that it always has to be! =)
I am using a 3rd party component which creates settings files based on hard-coded file paths i.e. they are compiled into the DLL e.g.
%APPDATA%\Vendor\Settings.ini
I have created a few console/service applications that use this and work very well. However, I am now trying to use a similar approach via my ASP.NET MVC web application and the settings file never seems to write out!
Usually if the application is running under my acconut for example the file would be written to somewhere like:
C:\Documents and Settings\James\Application Data\Vendor\Settings.ini
So I thought if the website AppPool was running under the same account the file would be saved to the same place....However, it never appears. The account is an admin account running under Windows server 2003.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Have you checked to see if the settings file is created in the App_Data folder in the web application? If not, could you put an existing settings file there and see if it uses it?
It's not about the webpool account, it's about guest user's account.
Go to the properties of your site in IIS, Directory Security and in the anonymous access click on the Edit button, there you'll see wich account is been used when someone access your site.
Couldn't find a solution to this, so I decided to develop a local WCF service (which would create the settings file in the correct directory path) and just accessed it via my web application.
I have an ASP.net Website. the project' content is in a folder called MyWebSite.
When I run my application from Visual Web developer 2008, the browser displays the following address in the address bar:
http: // localhost/ MyWebSite /Default.aspx
I want to be able to run my Website from the following address:
http://localhost/
Can anyone help me please?
Thanks in advance.
Since it is already running on IIS, I would just change the Physical Path of the Default Website. The original value for this field is something like below in IIS7.
%SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot
If you change this field to the path of your MyWebSite folder than you will be able to access the web site from just http://localhost.
I have seen it recommended to change this value from its default as a means of better security. However, I am trying to think of any drawbacks to doing this and the only one I can think of is that hard coding the path might cause some of your other development relative paths to be confusing.
You can go in and change the bindings settings in IIS but I advise against this. If you deploy your site as is, it should resolve correctly on a hosted server (the way you want it). Try this first and see :-)
Create a new website on IIS named MyWebSite, then in Visual Studio do a File->Open->Website. Choose Local IIS and select your website.
Then it will just run it under what ever name you gave the website. In this case you could make it http://MyWebSite/
Note: running Vista and Windows 7 will need elevated privileges.