# Uncrippling Windows XP's IIS 5.1

**URL:** <https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071>\
**Category:** blog\
**Created:** [June 28, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071 "2005-06-28T00:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jon\_Choy](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@Jon\_Choy](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Jon_Choy)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071/22 "2010-02-06T00:00:00Z")

</div>

Why not run Cassini through runas and attach-to-process for the security-sensitive test cases?

Seems like more of a solution than IIS5.1@localhost for development.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jason12](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jason12](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/jason12)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071/23 "2010-02-06T00:00:00Z")

</div>

After entering adsutil set w3svc/MaxConnections 40 my iis install stops serving pages for anything other than Default Web Site. Has anyone else had this issue?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jason13](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@jason13](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/jason13)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071/24 "2010-02-06T00:00:00Z")

</div>

bizarre - it’s started working again… I tried the dispnode.vbs script to take a look at the site I was attempting to configure and the server magically started working again. sorry for the false alarm.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/codinghorror/32/36371_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071/25 "2025-01-07T06:39:53Z")

</div>



[Previous page](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/uncrippling-windows-xps-iis-5-1/1071.md?page=1)