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Christina

2005-12-01, 8:55 pm

I hope I'm posting to the right group since I'm not a very experienced
Win2003 Server user...

We're currently running this server to host a SQL server to track
internal printing costs. I've been instructed now to run a website off
of it to track our project time. Most of the setup and config has worked
fine and all users can connect to the site internally and externally by
using the following example URL:

http://webtimesheets.mydomain.com/test/cgi/rt.exe

What I want my users to be able to do is to login with the more simple
URL:

http://webtimesheets.mydomain.com

When I attempt to login with "http://webtimesheets.mydomain.com" I get a
username/password authentication pop-up which I'd like to avoid since
the webimesheets website provides it's own authentication at login. I've
added redirects for the full path but it still pops-up that initial
authentication window.

Can anyone shed some light on this for this veritable noob?

Thanks tons!

Chris
Christina

2005-12-01, 8:55 pm

After a bit more searching I found the following info at support.
microsoft.com:

Verify the Web Sharing Permissions

1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. In Internet Information Services Manager, expand Server_Name, and
then expand Web Sites.
3. Right-click the default Web site, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Home Directory tab, and then under Local Path, verify that
the appropriate client access permissions are set, as follows:
? Read
? Write
? Directory browsing

In the Execute Permissions box, select one of the following:
? None
? Scripts Only
? Scripts and Executables


Write and Directory browsing needed to be turned on, as did Scripts and
Executables. After turning these on I was able to get to "http://
webtimesheets.mydomain.com/test/cgi/rt.exe" by using the URL "http://
webtimesheets.mydomain.com" and then being redirected by my html. I
tried it in FireFox and it worked, then I tested it in IE and it failed.
Went back to FireFox and it also failed.

Argh!

It now seems to be no loger working and all browsers are giving me a:

HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to an ACL set on
the requested resource.

This is driving me batty!

Christina



In <20051201120436098-0500@nntp.uunet.ca> Christina wrote:
> I hope I'm posting to the right group since I'm not a very experienced
> Win2003 Server user...
>
> We're currently running this server to host a SQL server to track
> internal printing costs. I've been instructed now to run a website off
> of it to track our project time. Most of the setup and config has
> worked fine and all users can connect to the site internally and
> externally by using the following example URL:
>
> http://webtimesheets.mydomain.com/test/cgi/rt.exe
>
> What I want my users to be able to do is to login with the more simple
> URL:
>
> http://webtimesheets.mydomain.com
>
> When I attempt to login with "http://webtimesheets.mydomain.com" I get
> a username/password authentication pop-up which I'd like to avoid
> since the webimesheets website provides it's own authentication at
> login. I've added redirects for the full path but it still pops-up
> that initial authentication window.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this for this veritable noob?
>
> Thanks tons!
>
> Chris
>

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