Re: After reboot, certificate corrupted and iis settings fall back to old settings?
From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k@excite.com)
Date: 03/14/03
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From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@excite.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:46:49 -0500
Cool, pentagon.af.mil
AFAIK, IIS doesn't make backup copies of the metabase unless you tell it to
do so. Otherwise, you've got one metabase and that's it. Sounds like
perhaps your one metabase is corrupt. With no backup, I would try to
uninstall IIS, get rid of the current metabase, and start over by setting up
a new IIS to the best of your memory and knowledge. Metabase backups from
other servers don't help you on this server, AFAIK.
You really should have also backed up your certificates for purposes of
disaster recovery; this is always a vital operation to do no matter what
encryption or certificate technology you're using. You could try exporting
the certificates if it's not too late. AFAIK these are not kept in the
metabase and should not have been corrupted. Instructions on how to use
Certificate Manager or what have you to back up and restore certs are at
www.iisfaq.com and www.microsoft.com/support If your certs are corrupted
and are not backed up somewhere, you're probably going to have to generate
entirely new ones.
AFAIK the relevant IIS files such as metabase files and backups are kept in
windowsroot\system32\inetsrv\ You could inspect those files, or probably
more fruitful, uninstall IIS and then rename the folder before reinstalling
IIS.
Please tell me that your IIS hard drive partition is formatted in NTFS, per
most military and government security guidelines for web servers. Whenever
I encounter file corruption due to power failure, it's always been on FAT
partitions. FAT as you may know has no permissions and is more fragile, so
don't use it here.
If you found this advice helpful, any job offers from pentagon.af.mil would
be cheerfully considered.
"Khoa Le" <khoa.le@pentagon.af.mil> wrote in message
news:eepjimZ6CHA.1540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> My IIS5 server (in WIN2K SP3) hosts many web sites on it. Over the time,
> Access Control List and certifcates were implement for many web sites. We
> restrict client access by IP addresses and Domain names.
>
> Suddenly the server was hung up and I have to hit the power off and turned
> it back on. After the power came back on. Some of the certificates on
some
> web sites were corrupted and also most of the web sites settings were set
> back to odd settings (couple months old).
>
> Where does the IIS get the old settings from? It seem like the current
> Metabase was corrupted and IIS load a save backup copy from some where? I
> don't have any IIS backup at all.
>
> Please help.
> Thanks,
> Khoa.
>
>
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