Hello,

I am building a new Windows 2008 webserver to host my websites, and having

some trouble getting things setup and working good. I am not very familiar

with 2008 server setup ...

I have a website lets say www.mainsite.com and everything is working fine.

My problem is that I have a link to download an EXE install file but the

link fails with a 404 error.

So the link is like www.mainsite.com/mainfiles/maininstall.exe

The file is definatly in the folder but the browser reports 404 error.

Any ideas on why I am getting a 404 error ?

Thanks,

Kent

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Kent Belan <kbelan@mchsi.com> wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I am building a new Windows 2008 webserver to host my websites, and

>having

>some trouble getting things setup and working good. I am not very

>familiar

>with 2008 server setup ...

>

>I have a website lets say www.mainsite.com and everything is working

>fine.

>

>My problem is that I have a link to download an EXE install file but

>the

>link fails with a 404 error.

>

>So the link is like www.mainsite.com/mainfiles/maininstall.exe

>

>The file is definatly in the folder but the browser reports 404 error.

>

>Any ideas on why I am getting a 404 error ?

>

>Thanks,

>Kent

>

>

Does the NTFS rights of the exe file inherit from parent?

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Often the error message returned by the web server isn't very helpful.

See if you can find the IIS log file to get a better idea of the error.

Check to see if the directory where you placed the .exe file is setup in

IIS as a virtual directory that allows .exe files to be downloaded, (eg

check IIS permissions for the directory). If so, use the virtual

directory path in your code, rather than a fully qualified path. If the

.exe file is called using the fully qualified path, IIS may try to run

the .exe rather than allowing it to be download.

Most browser have a mime section that is configured to start a download

session when a file with an .exe extension is called and found on the

Web Server. After making changes to IIS, its a good idea to restart IIS.

Hope this helps.

The below link may also help

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/248033

Regards,

LelandJ

On 01/08/2012 08:32 AM, Kent Belan wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I am building a new Windows 2008 webserver to host my websites, and having

> some trouble getting things setup and working good. I am not very familiar

> with 2008 server setup ...

>

> I have a website lets say www.mainsite.com and everything is working fine.

>

> My problem is that I have a link to download an EXE install file but the

> link fails with a 404 error.

>

> So the link is like www.mainsite.com/mainfiles/maininstall.exe

>

> The file is definatly in the folder but the browser reports 404 error.

>

> Any ideas on why I am getting a 404 error ?

>

> Thanks,

> Kent

>

>

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Hello,

I have solved this problem.

The solution was to add a "Handler Mapping" in IIS7 for the website.

Here is the link that helped:

http://www.esourcedevelopment.com/post/2010/07/23/Setting-up-IIS-to-allow-do

wnload-of-EXE-and-ZIP-files.aspx

Thanks,

Kent

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Subject: [NF] - Windows server 2008 - 404 error - File not found

Hello,

I am building a new Windows 2008 webserver to host my websites, and having

some trouble getting things setup and working good. I am not very familiar

with 2008 server setup ...

I have a website lets say www.mainsite.com and everything is working fine.

My problem is that I have a link to download an EXE install file but the

link fails with a 404 error.

So the link is like www.mainsite.com/mainfiles/maininstall.exe

The file is definatly in the folder but the browser reports 404 error.

Any ideas on why I am getting a 404 error ?

Thanks,

Kent

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