Web Server IIS how to download EXE file

[gmc8757]

I just set up a Windows 2003 webserver running IIS 6. I set up all my websites without a problem. Just one thing, I have an exe file that will not allow me to download it. Say the exe file is here: www.test.com/vpn/vpn.exe. I just can't download it. I can browse to www.test.com/vpn and see the vpn.exe file there. I checked permissions on the folder on the server and gave everyone acccess to the vpn folder and vpn.exe. Is there some special setting I'm missing to allow downloading of exe files? Thanks.

 

[MrChad]

You need to make sure the MIME type is registered for EXE files. IIS won't serve up files with unknown MIME types.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326965

 

[gmc8757]

Originally posted by: MrChad
You need to make sure the MIME type is registered for EXE files. IIS won't serve up files with unknown MIME types.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326965

Hey. Thanks for the quick response. I tried that. The .exe extenstion was already there from the beginning. Any other idea?

 

[MrChad]

Try the steps listed here.

 

[gmc8757]

That didn't do it either. I get "The page cannot be found"

No Idea what is going.

 

[Thor86]

If you go on the webserver and open a browser and in the url type http://localhost/, does that serve up a page? Does any of your pages get served up?

Try an IISRESET in a command prompt.

 

[gmc8757]

Http://localhost doesn't bring up a page because I don't have a default website. All my websites get served up no problem, asp.net applications and cold fusion both have no problem. Just .exe files.

Resetting IIS services didn't do it either.