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IIS 10 URL Rewrite giving 404 error

I am currently stuck with my rewrite rules, and I would need some hints about it. Here's the situation : We have two websites, one is website.com, the other one is website-staging.com (just examples ...
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IIS Server, sudden 404.4 on all sites The resource you are looking for does not have a handler associated with it

I have a long standing IIS 7.5 box that suddenly stopped working mid morning today. Something has obviously changed but I have been unable to determine what and would appreciate any suggestion. All of ...
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Constant bot probing on my website

Looking at my IIS logs from Godaddy, I can get hundreds of 404 errors a day, where either some script kiddies or bots are constantly looking for vulnerabilities or pages/directories to exploit. ...
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IIS returning 404 on PDF File

I have a IIS 10.0 server that everything is working fine, with one issue. Any .pdf file returns 404. I know permissions are correct as all the image files in the same folder are working fine. The ...
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Wordpress/IIS/PHP cannot download files with non-ASCII characters

I have a Wordpress installation on a Windows IIS with PHP. It is not possible to download files from the website that have been uploaded with non-ASCII characters. Renaming the files with ASCII ...
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IIS Server Subdomain Redirection

I have a Windows Server 2012, with IIS 8 installed. I have multiple websites there. I also have the Default Website. When I create a new website like www.abc.com and abc.com, it works fine. However, ...
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IIS 404 redirect is ignored

So I have a very basic site that's hosted in IIS (for now just straight raw html with no .Net code) In my web.config I have the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <...
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IIS 8.5 Instant 404.0 error on MVC site

I have an MVC site which I have published to my server. It has two different roles for internal and external users. Externally (using www.oursite.com) the site works fine. when we try to access it ...
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Windows IIS displaying SSL certificate, but generating 404 error

I've got a bit of a strange situation. I've got an Amazon EC2 with Windows Server 2012 running Coldfusion with IIS. The strange issue is my server is appearing to match the domain to the server with ...
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IIS returns 404 when trying to access static files on certain file types

I have a specific file type of .notebook that IIS is blocking. I tried going into request filtering and adding .notebook with allow set to true, but I still get the 404. Anything else in this folder ...
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IIS 7.5 images not showing - 404

I have IIS 7.5 running my local dev site. My problem is the images are not displaying and in the browser console i receive a 404 error for them. I have checked the Handler Mappings and have '...
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IIS 8.5 - getting error when returning static 404 file

IIS8.5 > Sites > mysite > Error Pages > 404 Select "Insert content from static file into the error response". Uncheck "Try to return the error file in the client language". Enter path to "notfound....
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Why IIS is still blocking Web.config even after setting denyUrlSequences and fileExtensions?

One of the IIS sites I manage forwards all the requests to Apache. This means that any request, including requests to files such as .config, should be forwarded. <security> <...
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Plesk 11 - Custom Error Documents, URL fails with "Wrong URL format" [closed]

I am setting up a new Plesk account and want to add a custom error document, 404, specifying a URL to a PHP file. In another account, which uses an earlier version of Plesk (v10, if not mistaken), ...
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After moving eKtron Site from iis6 to iis7 site is running but some of the links do not work and

Background I moved this site from IIS6 WIN2K3 to WIN2K8R2 IIS7 and the site launches but I'm getting errors on lots of the links/main menu items. Things I have already checked application pool ...
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IIS 404 error where file exists

I have a fresh VPS installation from my provider (Windows 2008 R2, IIS 7.5). The default web site works fine: http://5.9.251.167/ I created a new website, and binding for http://new.ianquigley.com ...
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Cannot serve epub files in IIS6

i am trying to serve epub files in IIS6 (Windows Server 2003), but instead the browser serves a 404 Not Found page. How do i serve EPUB in IIS6? Open the IIS Microsoft Management Console (MMC), ...
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Let IIS 7 return php files as simple html file

I have a virtual server (Windows 2008 R2) with IIS 7.5 and a xxx.php file in one of my websites. This php file contains no php-code and I don't want to install any php-module, I only want the server ...
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IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003: HTTP 404 error on Virtual directory; system cannot find the file specified (win32 status code 2)

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, ...
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IIS not allowing me to server files with .rdp extension

I am trying to host a .rdp file that will be publically available on the internet (without password, of course). IIS is not letting me use this file - I'm getting a 404 error saying it cannot find ...
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Why isn't IIS serving my static CSS / JS files?

I added an ASP.NET MVC3 site to ISS (which was working fine in the debugger). When viewing the site in a browser, everything appeared to be working fine except that all of the CSS and JS files were ...
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Long file path returning 404 for "hello.htm"

I have a long file path that works on my server, but a simliar path returns a 404 error when it is on my clients (IIS6) server (http://ddmat.com/). Here's the functioning file path on my server: http:...
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How can I enable IIS to run Perl scripts?

we're trying to get awstats up and running on our IIS6 server. awstats is running fine and generating output and all that jazz... no problem there. When trying to change the selected month/year in ...
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Should a 404 ever be used in conjunction with a 301-redirect?

I'm working with a hosting company. I need them to setup a 301 redirect for one of my pages. I really care about the ranking on the search engines for this particular page. They claim that in order ...
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IIS Not Finding Page When Network IP is Used

I've got a web page setup in IIS 5. When I navigate to the page using http://localhost/myPageName.html, everything works fine. However when I try to navigate using http://127.0.0.1/myPageName.html or ...
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IIS6 MVC2 Server starts sending out 404 after a while

I have a W2k3 server running IIS6 and MVC2 (.net 4). Right after the iis starts, everything works ok, the site runs fine. Extensionless urls work ok. After a certain period of time (maybe of ...
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IIS won't let you download EXE files, reports 404

In my quest to get WSUS updates working I've gotten stuck at this stage. WSUS reports that it cannot download the updates and upon trying via Internet Explorer it reports a 404 error. A txt file in ...
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HTTPS version of page throws 404, regular HTTP appears fine?

I'm having a strange issue with a website in IIS on Windows Server 2003. It has a valid wild card certificate on it, however when I use HTTPS on the page I get a 404 not found. Without HTTPS it shows ...
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IIS6 Sending a 404 for ".exe" files

Recently a bunch of files I had setup for download via IIS6's web server stopped working. They are a number of setup files ending in ".exe" and were working prior to a few months ago. I have the ...
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Why are php files coming up 404 from IIS6 when they work OK the default site?

Usually php on iis will thow 404 errors if the install doesn't go right. However, danielcooper.dyndns.org/u.php works OK, but u.danielcooper.dyndns.org/u.php (different site in IIS, different folder) ...
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ASPX throws "404 The resource cannot be found"

I'm deploying a website under a virtual directory using IIS. For some strange reason, Default.html works, but Default.aspx throws a 404. I have tried these: There's another virtual directory that ...
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robots.txt and other .txt returning 404 on IIS?

We have an IIS site running Dotnetnuke that we took over from another group. We have added a robots.txt file to the root but it returns a 404. Actually any txt file in the root seems to return 404. ...
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IIS Can't Serve Certain File Extension

I'm serving .JSON files, but even though the file exist, IIS keeps throwing 404 error when any of the file is accessed. I tried renaming one of the file to .JS, and it works. Any pointer what setting ...
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Why won't IIS execute my custom 404 page? It tries to serve up the raw source code instead

I'm trying to configure Custom Errors in IIS6. I select the 404 error, set the dropdown to "URL," then enter this as the URL "/404.aspx" When go to: http://mysite.com/no-page-here It finds 404....
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404 when page exists - IIS 5, ASP.NET 4.0

I have a webserver running Server 2003 Datacenter and IIS 5 which is hosting a variety of ASP.NET 2.0 websites. I'm attempting to add an ASP.NET 4.0 website which I wrote via the VS2010 Beta, and I ...
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Is it possible to configure IIS6 to use a custom 404 without the mmc snapin

I have FTP access to a server and I'd like to have custom 404 pages. I don't have access to the management console or any admin rights on the server whatsoever. I understand that apache can use ....
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