New Message: Frontier & IIS Problems

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Address: http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$9004

By: David Detlefsen (detlefsd at bms.com)

I've been working with someone [1] to get their manila sites up and running behind IIS and have been having some difficulty.

*Here's what I know:*

* Frontier is installed properly and the manila sites serve nicely on port 80 with IIS off
* The host is running NT 4.0 SP6 and IIS 4.0
* The host has multiple domain names
* Configuring IIS / Frontier to run on the host as described [2] produces the following results

* Some clients cannot access the site at all with an IIS error message that the site was not found (nothing gets through to frontier)
* Some clients have partial access the site... requestHeaders getting through are truncated with only three entries (things like host, content type, cookies etc are missing) whereas 'normal & successful' requestHeaders have 10 or more entires
* Some clients can access the site just fine (I haven't checked requestHeaders on successful clients but I suspect they are okay with 10 or more entries)

*Here's what I've checked:*

* I was concerned about IIS caching so I set the browsers that didn't work to load the page everytime
* Configured IIS default website properties as follows:

* Directory Security Tab / Edit Anonymous Access... /Anonymous access box checked
* Home Directory Tab / Cache ISAPI application unchecked

*Here's what I think my options are:*

* change the name of the machine to the old site name (remove multiple references to this machine from the DNS)...there may be a problem with DNS that is beyond my control and if I simplify the reference to this machine some, maybe all problems will go away
* get a new dll from userland that *poof* makes all my problems go away
* move the server to Win2000 Pro and IIS 5.0 and try my luck there

If you read this far and are interested in the background. This is a manila installation with about 200 sites (about 20 very active) that has been adopted by a large workgroup. There is an aggregator/affiliate running locally with a little bit of custom code and fix that are assembling a monthly updates page that is extremely useful. The company is hoping to move to a portal system soon and the users of this site are well positioned to integrate their information into the portal with RSS feeds. They have been using it for about a year and have been asked to move the system due to security concerns.

[1] http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$8990?mode=topic&y=2001&m=10&d=23
[2] http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$76

This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.