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OK so I lied. Everything wasn’t working after I set up my WordPress blog on IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003. Two things were broke: SMTP (email from the blog) and URL Rewrites/Permalinks.
SMTP worked through IIS just fine, I could telnet and send email out, but from WordPress, it was getting a 501 error. From what [...]

Well, I have been on HostMySite for a few years now, and I just wasn’t liking it. I didn’t have control, and couldn’t do everything I wanted to. Last week I signed up with ServerBeach and I have my own dedicated server. I am running Windows 2003, IIS, SQL, MySQL, PHP, etc.
I changed for [...]

Ran into this error tonight trying to uninstall SQL Server Reporting Services. Not sure if it is just Vista, or XP and other OS’s as well, but the fix is to stop IIS and then re-run the Uninstall.
Technorati Tags: SSRS,SQL Server Reporting Services,Uninstall,IIsMimeMap,IIS

Tonight, just for the heck of it, I decided to get PHP running on my machine. I am running Vista (not SP1 beta). I already have IIS installed, so that pre-req was taken care of.
First thing, I made sure I had everything turned on..
Start->Run->Programs and Features->Turn Windows Features on or off…

I made sure [...]

First, make sure ASP Classic Is Installed on Vista, good instructions here
Make sure your app is set up as a virtual directory, etc, etc.
Then, you need to set permissions and run commands and change around settings just to get anywhere. Just for kicks I made the IUSR for the directory have modify rights, but [...]

Ahhh, IIS, gotta love it. Nothing can ever be easy.
So, as I am trying to install IIS on my Dell that I just reformatted, I get this:
Cannot find the file STAXMEM.DL_ in my C:\i386 dir. hmm….
well, after a little looking, if you run this command
esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb
If you then retry the install, it should work

If you setup a intranet or internal site, and setup the security as Integrated Windows Authentication - and you still have Anonymous Access on as well, but are still getting a prompt, it is most likely you are using a domain name for your site (like intranet.myinternaldomain.com) - The way to avoid getting a windows [...]

debacle with a capital D - IIS Admin service just doesnt work haphazardly.
if you get this error, you will find many solutions, and maybe one that works - here is what worked for me:
- stop and put in manual start mode all non-Microsoft services (using msconfig)
- Downloaded the AUthdiag tool, ran it and fixed all [...]