help! IIS 5 forms not posting

IIS 5 forms not posting

[dave4dl]

I need help with configuring IIS 5. I had to rebuild the computer serving web content for me and so I backed up my Intetpub directory. The server had IIS 5 on it before I rebuilt it (it worked ok) and I installed the same version of IIS on it after rebuilding it. From the backup I restored only the .asp and image files. Now pages that use the POST method for sending for data (I haven't tried GET yet but I dont really want to go to that) dont post any data to the action page. Does anyone have any idea how to make IIS start recognizing the post data again? I tried reinstalling IIS but the problem persists.

[txbakers]

Try the GET method first before trying anything.

My guess is that you would need to reset the permissions on the directories to allow scripts to run. By default it doesn't allow those privileges.

Also, you might have to create a new "application" again if you reinstalled IIS.

[dave4dl]

Thanks for the reply on this. I tried reinstalling the entire box from an original win2k disc and applied service pack 3 (i used a service pack 3 slipstream on the last install that did not work). I discovered that the forms stop working entirely (for all pages on the server) only after i hit certain pages that use forms and if i restart my internet browser (IE 6) the problem goes away until i hit those certain pages again. Also i hit pages that kill the session after forms stop posting data and the problem is not fixed. The IIS and NT properties on the bad pages are exactly the same as they are on the ones that work. Let me say again that the code i am using worked without problems on the last installation of IIS i used (which was the same version as this installation). If you have any ideas of how to get this code working again i would appreciate it so much.

Thank you,
-David

[dave4dl]

The pages work great on internet explorer 5.5 and they dont work all the time on IE 6. Has anybody seen this before?

[Xoc]

Have you tried right clicking on the web site, selecting All Tasks, then selecting Permission Wizard in the IIS manager?

[dave4dl]

Thanks again for the replies. I did some more investigating and was able to more precisely define the problem(and it is quite a bit different from how i first understood the problem):
When using Internet Explorer 6 and 6 SP1 the following happens:
If I access a page that uses "Integrated Windows Authentication" (to get the username) even if it is a completely empty file or all code is commented out, forms on pages within the subdirectory of the "Integrated Windows Authentication" page will stop passing data to any other page (but the authentication happens just fine and i get the username which i store to a session variable)

Forms begin working again if i restart the browser (until i hit a page that uses "Integrated Windows Authentication" again)

This problem doesnt occur in Internet Explorer 5 and 5.5.

My Crappy Fix: I isolate all files that use "Integrated Windows Authentication" in their own subdirectory and redirect to the original directories after i have collected the username.