The "MS IIS Manager" tab is missing.

I am trying to disable basic authentication (I seem to be having the same ADO.net other people have had) However, when I navigate to:

Tools & Utilities > IIS Tools

there is no MS IIS Manager tab, although I can clearly see it in the video: http://iis7test.com/iis7_modules/Default.aspx. I've attached a screen shot. I don't know what else to say.

I saw that another user had the problem back in January, is there something I need to know?

If you can change the authentication on your end that will be fine with me. The address is for www.wagnerlab.com

Thanks,
RDL

 

Do you have Javacript and cookies enabled on your browser? If you are using IE, try using Firefox to log into your hosting control panel.

 

Its not the browser

I've tried three browsers (IE, Chrome, and Firefox) and even tried Safari on my iPhone. Cookies and Javascript are enabled. I even set permissions to "Make my computer a zombie" and this still had no effect.

I am looking at the HTML and I see I have the following tabs available:

<TSNS:TabStrip>....

<TSNS:Tab>ASP.NET Version</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator />
<TSNS:Tab>Stop/Start</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator />
<TSNS:Tab>Recycle App Pool</TSNS:Tab>

</TSNS:TabStrip>


And then in the second tabstrip:

<TSNS:Tab>Custom Errors</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator />
<TSNS:Tab>Directory Browsing</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator />
<TSNS:Tab>Default Documents</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator />
<TSNS:Tab>MIME Types</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator />
<TSNS:Tab>FrontPage Extensions</TSNS:Tab>
<TSNS:TabSeparator defaultStyle="width:100%;" />


But no MS IIS Manager.


The tabstrip for the top row of tabs which should have the MS IIS Manager tab is:

<TSNS:TabStrip id="ctl00_cMain_tsIISManager1" selectedIndex="0" tabDefaultStyle="background-color:#F5F5F5;font-weight:bold;border-left:solid 1px #C0C0C0;border-right:solid 1px #C0C0C0;border-top:solid 1px #C0C0C0;color:#000000;text-align:center;padding:3px;" tabHoverStyle="background-color:#C0C0C0;" tabSelectedStyle="background-color:#C0C0C0;" onSelectedIndexChange="JScript:document.aspnetForm.__ctl00_cMain_tsIISManager1_State__.value=event.index;if (getAttribute('_submitting') != 'true'){setAttribute('_submitting','true');try{__doPostBack('ctl00$cMain$tsIISManager1','');}catch(e){setAttribute('_submitting','false');}}" onwcready="JScript:try{document.aspnetForm.__ctl00_cMain_tsIISManager1_State__.value=selectedIndex}catch(e){}" style="font-size:1em;">


Again, if you can change this on your end, this will do for now.

 

This tells me why I am not seeing the tab, but it doesn't help me solve my problem. The reason I need to access the MS IIS control panel is because I run the ADO.net database service without getting the following error from the response content:

IIS specified authentication schemes 'Basic, Anonymous', but the binding only supports specification of exactly one authentication scheme. Valid authentication schemes are Digest, Negotiate, NTLM, Basic, or Anonymous. Change the IIS settings so that only a single authentication scheme is used.

....if I can't access the IIS settings because I am not hosted on IIS 6.0, then what are my options? And is there any particular reason that I am not hosted on IIS 7.0? I would imagine a Silverlight + ADO.net + SQL 2008 hosting wouldn't be that exotic that this would be a much more straightforward process.

Thanks,
RDL

 

When you opened the account you had a choice between IIS 6 and IIS 7. The default option is IIS 6, so if you didn't choose, you would have ended up on IIS 6.

You can migrate to IIS 7 if you'd like, but we always recommend that you test your existing site in an IIS 7 development environment before you do that so you have a chance to iron out any problems before the move.

 

Thanks. That did the trick. Unfotunetly, disabling either Annonymous Authentication or Basic Authentication gives me a "Request Error":


The server encountered an error processing the request. See server logs for more details.

when trying to access www.wagerlab.com/RepositoryDataService.svc

Time to start forging through the forums again. If anyone knows were (todays) error logs are, or even better, how to get over the next hurdle in setting up the ADO.net service, please let me know!

Thanks
RDL