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Martin Hope
paulmorriss
Asked: 2011-05-05 07:00:48 +0800 CST
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I'm using a third party app build on asp.net. It runs on Server 2003/IIS6. I changed the way that app pools are recycled. After this happened the third party application stopped working. Specifically URLs that didn't correspond to files in the third party program directory returned 404 errors.

(I'm not that up to speed on how asp.net works.) What I mean is that if I go to a URL like example.com/thirdparty/page.aspx, when there is a page.aspx file in the third party program directory, the page works. If I go to example.com/thirdparty/stylesheet6.css, when there is no stylesheet6.css file in the program directory, I get a 404 error.

It stopped working after I did this change to the app pools, though I could have changed some other aspect of the IIS configuration by mistake. I've put those app pool settings back how I think they were, but that hasn't fixed it.

The company for this third party software suggests uninstalls and reinstalls and restoring from backup (basically they haven't a clue why it's broken) but I'd like to undo what damage I did because that might be easier.

What sort of changes to IIS configuration could I have done that would break these sort of URLs?

iis iis-6 configuration metabase
Martin Hope
Dan Short
Asked: 2010-09-30 16:39:03 +0800 CST
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I lost the primary hard drive on my web server, and am now faced with a readable hard drive with the old Windows 2003 installation and a virgin installation of IIS6. I need to figure out how to get the IIS6 metabase from the old OS installation to the new OS installation.

I've found lots of information on exporting the metabase from one IIS6 install and importing it into another, but nothing on recovering metabase installation from an inoperable OS.

iis-6 disaster-recovery metabase data-recovery
Martin Hope
sinni800
Asked: 2010-04-16 03:41:29 +0800 CST
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I have many websites hosted on IIS6 and I want to migrate them to IIS7. It is enough if the basic configuration (folder, virtual folders inside, hostheaders, ) is migrated. a great part of the configuration is in web.config anyway. It is even okay if they're just created as "classic" mode applications.

I have tried the following things:

Msdeploy. This copies the whole directoried though, not good... Tried exporting the iis websites to xml... Found nothing to give them to iis7... Anybody got an idea?

migration iis iis-7 iis-6 metabase
Martin Hope
rams
Asked: 2009-05-02 12:53:05 +0800 CST
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If you open the IISMetabase xml file you will see something like

<IIsWebServer   Location ="/LM/W3SVC/1739153350"
        AuthFlags="0"
        ServerAutoStart="TRUE"
        ServerBindings=":80:"
        ServerComment="myWebSite"
    >
</IIsWebServer>

The 1739153350 in the above snippet was automagically generated. Can I hard-code it? If so how do I do it?

TIA rams

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