Questions[virtual-directory](server)

Very strange problem. I am running Windows Server 2003, with IIS 6.0. In one of the websites, there are three virtual directories: A, B, and C. For whatever reason, and, from my understanding, nobody touched the box, A and C are having a major issue. Any page in those virtual directories, whether you browse through IIS or an external client, displays a page not found. I looked up the error in the log file. It's a 404.0 HTTP error, Windows Status error 2. So, the page is not found, and the system cannot find the file specified.

The files are there, every single one of them.

As a test, I created a new virtual directory with the name "D" (without quotes), pointing to the same directory as virtual directory "C" and, sure enough, it worked. How is it possible that C does not work and D works, yet they both point to the same physical directory?

As another test, I deleted virtual directory "C" and recreated it. And what happened? The page could not be found for any files in that virtual directory.

I checked IIS's XML files and they looked okay.

There must be some registry entry or some dependency of IIS that is corrupt or missing which is causing problems.

I would really appreciate some advice.

Thank you.

I've recently deployed a web application to my Linux Redhat server using Capistrano which creates the following directory structure in the site's document root:

/var/www/html/example.com/releases/*
/var/www/html/example.com/current

In order to load the current directory on page load, I changed my httpd.conf so that example.com's DirectoryRoot was set to /var/www/html/example.com/current. The problem is that I want certain directories to be available for browsing which are outside the 'current' directory (phpMyAdmin and Bugzilla). I've tried touching a .htaccess file to /var/www/html/example.com but nothing is created...

What do I need to do in order to access directories which are located outside my DocumentRoot? Should I change the DocumentRoot and use .htaccess to forward the web browser to my current directory, or is there a better approach?

Also, as an unimportant side issue: is it wise to use a specific port for certain services? When I used cPanel, they used :2082 and WHM used :2086. Could I do a similar thing on my server to make the services (phpMyAdmin and Bugzilla) a little more hidden?

I have a virtual directory in my site (test environment). It is a UNC share which is also used as a public FTP.

It is configured to connect as a domain admin account and "Test settings" says everything appears to be working. However when I try to connect to it I get:

500 - "Failed to start monitoring changes on \INTRANET\FTP\test\web.config because access was denied"

This is an ASP.NET YSOD. I am not sure why ASP.NET is getting involved at all as it's a static .jpg file I'm requesting.

I tried turning on failed request tracing and this is the specific error:

• ModuleName WindowsAuthentication
• Notification 2
• HttpStatus 500
• HttpReason Internal Server Error
• HttpSubStatus 0
• ErrorCode 0
• ConfigExceptionInfo
• Notification AUTHENTICATE_REQUEST
• ErrorCode The operation completed successfully. (0x0)

If I change the "Physical Path Logon Type" from ClearText to Network. I get the following IIS error:

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server

Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Detailed Error Information

• Module IIS Web Core
• Notification BeginRequest
• Handler Not yet determined
• Error Code 0x80070005
• Config Error Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
• Config File \\?\UNC\INTRANET\FTP\test\web.config

• Requested URL http://test.mydowmain.com:80/uploads/images/ca49acf6-6174-412e-8abd-59fab983e931.jpg

• Physical Path \\INTRANET\FTP\test\images\ca49acf6-6174-412e-8abd-59fab983e931.jpg

• Logon Method Not yet determined

• Logon User Not yet determined
• Failed Request Tracing Log Directory C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles

This does not generate a failed request log strangely enough—I have set the failed request tracing to trace errors with error codes 400-999.

Also worth noting is that if I open the Configuration feature from within IIS, I see an access denied error.

I have exactly the same set up on my local dev machine to the same UNC path and the same user it works. Just on the test server it does not.

What am I doing wrong?

Our current IIS setup as two applications running on different paths at (for example) http://server/sub-a and http://server/sub-b. I want to alias http://server/sub-a as root so that just going to http://server/ will bring up the contents of sub-a. The problem I face is that when I initially set up a ReverseProxy it negatively affected http://server/sub-b. I know this is a fairly common problem- how have you solved it? 99.9% of my experience is with Apache, so I feel a tad lost in the GUI world of IIS.

I'm configuring a site in applicationhost.config for IIS 7.5 Express:

<site name="default" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
    <application path="/">
        <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_BIN%\..\Somewhere\Else" />
                                            <!-- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -->
    </application>
    ...
</site>

I've found that specifying relative paths as shown does not seem to work and will lead to an HTTP 500.19 Internal Server Error. IIS further reports error code 0x8007007b, which, after some googling, seems to indicate an invalid file path syntax.

Is there any way around this error, so that I can use relative physical path for my site's root?