Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Web server fingerprinting

Bernard has done a cool post about Web server fingerprinting, based on a small utility.

Read his post at source: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0\r\n : Web server fingerprinting.

How to Easily Install AWStats on IIS 6

Need some good statistic software for reading the IIS logs. I can recommend AWStats, read the How to Install AWStats guide on IIS 6.0 by Chris Abraham.

Read it at source: How to Easily Install AWStats on IIS 6 by Chris Abraham – Because the Medium is the Message.

Get another great guide on how to Install Awstats on IIS in PDF format: http://www.ihsen.com/support/InstallingAWStatsOnIIS6.pdf

Isolating IIS FTP Users

Lazyadmin has publish an article about creating a FTP site using isolated users configuration, in this mode users are isolated based on the folder structure in the FTPRoot directory.

Read the full article at source: Isolating IIS FTP Users – The Lazyadmin.com.

Microsoft IIS 5.1 exploit

Inge Henriksen has posted an exploit on IIS 5.1 (WinXP IIS 5.1 only). The exploit is a new .dll exploit. There’s already alot of information on several blogs about this exploit and Microsoft should be informed about this.
A 0-day workaround would be to use URLScan to block for this exploit.

Read Inge Henriksens post: Inge Henriksen’s Technology Blog: Microsoft IIS Remote DoS .DLL Url exploit.
Read Bernard’s post about the exploit: Recent IIS 5.1 Remote Exploit.

Shared Web Hosting Deployment Guide

Microsoft has published an updated version of Shared Web Hosting guide in their Service Provider program.

Read the Guide at source: Shared Web Hosting Deployment Guide – Service Providers.

IIS 5.1 Authentication after Install

Chris Adams has done a post were he answers a question about IIS 5.1 (WinXP IIS) Authentication after Install.

This will be his first post about authentication, which is a subject he’ll cover the next few weeks.

Read the full post at source: ChrisAd’s blog : IIS 5.1 Authentication After Install.

ASP.NET & IIS 6.0: Application Pools

Chris Adams did a post about how application pools configuration ties into the ProcessModel section of the machine.config configuration file.
His post also includes links to some good resources for further information about IIS 6 worker processes and application pools.

Read his post at source: ChrisAd’s blog : ASP.NET & IIS 6.0: Application Pools, Machine.Config….oh my, someone shoot me!.

ASP.NET & IIS 6.0: Application Pools

Chris Adams did a post about how application pools configuration ties into the ProcessModel section of the machine.config configuration file.
His post also includes links to some good resources for further information about IIS 6 worker processes and application pools.

Read his post at source: ChrisAd’s blog : ASP.NET & IIS 6.0: Application Pools, Machine.Config….oh my, someone shoot me!.