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Linking to a .exe file on a Website
Hi
Our website is hosted on iis7, we have a link on the website that when clicked should run a Teamviewer.exe file,
The .exe file is in the root of the site and is present, however when clicking on the link we always get
404 Directory not found
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
I have found on the net about adding the following to the web.config file
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="Client exe" path="*.exe" verb="*" modules="StaticFileModule"
<handlers>
<system.webServer>
but on doing this my whole site stopped working!!
any help much appreciated
Our website is hosted on iis7, we have a link on the website that when clicked should run a Teamviewer.exe file,
The .exe file is in the root of the site and is present, however when clicking on the link we always get
404 Directory not found
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
I have found on the net about adding the following to the web.config file
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="Client exe" path="*.exe" verb="*" modules="StaticFileModule"
<handlers>
<system.webServer>
but on doing this my whole site stopped working!!
any help much appreciated
Carl Dula
If you look in the error log for the webserver it should provide more details, including the path that it is using when it gets the error.
ASKER
its a windows 2003 web server do you know the path to the log files?
Try inetpub/logging/....
ASKER
ok I found inetpub\logs in there I have 3 folders
FailedReqLogFiles --- Nothing in there with any recent Dates
Log Files has a bunch of folders called W£SVC1 - 18 I have looked in all of them but cannot see anything
wmsvc --- Empty
FailedReqLogFiles --- Nothing in there with any recent Dates
Log Files has a bunch of folders called W£SVC1 - 18 I have looked in all of them but cannot see anything
wmsvc --- Empty
Try either...
c:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles
C:\Windows\System32\LogFil
c:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles
C:\Windows\System32\LogFil
ASKER
C:\Windows\System32\LogFil
c:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles has all them folders that I mentioned above have looked in them but cannot see anything related
c:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles has all them folders that I mentioned above have looked in them but cannot see anything related
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You need to clarify - IIS on Windows server is NOT UPGRADABLE. You either have IIS 7 as your question states (which is Server 2008) Or you have IIS 6 which is Server 2003. Your answer can be different (I've forgotten more about 2003 than I remember since it is 12 years old and I haven't run it in 5 years... )
You should make sure that the mime type is configure correctly. By default, IIS will not make .exe files downloadable. First you must add a mime type rule.
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension=".exe" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Since IIS runs as a service and services don't have an interactive screen same goes for the apppool that that instance is running in, .. then attempting to run teamviewer will fail since it needs an interactive screen.
Could you explain what you are trying to accomplish and not the how's and this way we can advise you.. for instance teamviewer must have execution ntfs right for the apppool that is running.
Could you explain what you are trying to accomplish and not the how's and this way we can advise you.. for instance teamviewer must have execution ntfs right for the apppool that is running.
ASKER
Managed to resolve this myself