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chris15

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Since: Jul 20, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:59 pm
Post subject: Correcting invalid default-ISAPI file paths in IIS
Archived from groups: microsoft>public>inetserver>iis (more info?)

I ordered a server from ServerBeach.com which comes with an installation of
Windows 2003 Standard.

Everything was configured properly except for one thing: the default paths
for ISAPI extensions, such as the preconfigured ASP/ASP.NET

The server automatically assigns the path to
C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\ASP.DLL

The problem is that this isn't where the file is. C:\Windows doesn't exist
at all, Windows is located at C:\WINNT

Every time I make a new domain on IIS, it gets the Windows directory. I have
to manually correct it each time I create a new domain.

How can I globally fix this problem to insure it doesn't happen again
without reinstalling the OS?

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someone9

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Since: Aug 25, 2003
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:43 pm
Post subject: Re: Correcting invalid default-ISAPI file paths in IIS [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

FYI: Please do not multi-post in newsgroups

This sounds like a misconfiguration of the server by ServerBeach.com.
Default Windows Server 2003 installations come with all the setting correct
and working.

In any case, the default values are probably inherited from the global
ScriptMaps node, which you need to change.

In the IIS Manager UI, right click properties on the "Web Sites" node.
Select the "Home Directory" tab and click on the "Configuration" button. In
the "Application Configuration" dialog, you need to fix all the paths in
there. This is the default values being used by the new websites. Since
you manually changed the per-website changes, they will no longer inherit
from this global change -- This may cause problems for you in the future if
you have SW that rely on property inheritance that no longer happens. You
can fix it, but the choice is all up to you.

Windows Server 2003 installations come with the right values configured (for
example, my clean installation looks completely correct), I can only assume
that the ServerBeach.com image for your server had some bugs in it that
causes this -- either their tool uses the environment variable from the
wrong machine, or they have a hard-coded value in their metabase update or
OS install directory -- all of which are bugs in ServerBeach.com
provisioning.

If you see more problems like this, I suggest you contact ServerBeach.com to
get a working image -- because if they have a few bugs in key locations, it
can totally screw your system up down the road... like it is already doing
right now.


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//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
//
"Chris" <Chris.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ADFF3525-0324-4F93-9258-1CA03FD8958D@microsoft.com...
I ordered a server from ServerBeach.com which comes with an installation of
Windows 2003 Standard.

Everything was configured properly except for one thing: the default paths
for ISAPI extensions, such as the preconfigured ASP/ASP.NET

The server automatically assigns the path to
C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\ASP.DLL

The problem is that this isn't where the file is. C:\Windows doesn't exist
at all, Windows is located at C:\WINNT

Every time I make a new domain on IIS, it gets the Windows directory. I have
to manually correct it each time I create a new domain.

How can I globally fix this problem to insure it doesn't happen again
without reinstalling the OS?

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chris15

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Since: Jul 20, 2004
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:23 am
Post subject: Re: Correcting invalid default-ISAPI file paths in IIS [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

Apologies, when I had made the post, it said there was an error and the post
was not submitted. I waited a bit and checked to see if the post was made,
and when I didn't see it, I tried it again, pasting in the info.

It gave me the error once more before I waited a bit longer and it finally
worked.

--

I'll try the suggestions you gave me. Thanks for your help Smile





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"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:

 > FYI: Please do not multi-post in newsgroups
 >
 > This sounds like a misconfiguration of the server by ServerBeach.com.
 > Default Windows Server 2003 installations come with all the setting correct
 > and working.
 >
 > In any case, the default values are probably inherited from the global
 > ScriptMaps node, which you need to change.
 >
 > In the IIS Manager UI, right click properties on the "Web Sites" node.
 > Select the "Home Directory" tab and click on the "Configuration" button. In
 > the "Application Configuration" dialog, you need to fix all the paths in
 > there. This is the default values being used by the new websites. Since
 > you manually changed the per-website changes, they will no longer inherit
 > from this global change -- This may cause problems for you in the future if
 > you have SW that rely on property inheritance that no longer happens. You
 > can fix it, but the choice is all up to you.
 >
 > Windows Server 2003 installations come with the right values configured (for
 > example, my clean installation looks completely correct), I can only assume
 > that the ServerBeach.com image for your server had some bugs in it that
 > causes this -- either their tool uses the environment variable from the
 > wrong machine, or they have a hard-coded value in their metabase update or
 > OS install directory -- all of which are bugs in ServerBeach.com
 > provisioning.
 >
 > If you see more problems like this, I suggest you contact ServerBeach.com to
 > get a working image -- because if they have a few bugs in key locations, it
 > can totally screw your system up down the road... like it is already doing
 > right now.
 >
 >
 > --
 > //David
 > IIS
 > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 > //
 > "Chris" <Chris.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
 > news:ADFF3525-0324-4F93-9258-1CA03FD8958D@microsoft.com...
 > I ordered a server from ServerBeach.com which comes with an installation of
 > Windows 2003 Standard.
 >
 > Everything was configured properly except for one thing: the default paths
 > for ISAPI extensions, such as the preconfigured ASP/ASP.NET
 >
 > The server automatically assigns the path to
 > C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\ASP.DLL
 >
 > The problem is that this isn't where the file is. C:\Windows doesn't exist
 > at all, Windows is located at C:\WINNT
 >
 > Every time I make a new domain on IIS, it gets the Windows directory. I have
 > to manually correct it each time I create a new domain.
 >
 > How can I globally fix this problem to insure it doesn't happen again
 > without reinstalling the OS?
 >
 >
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