Error 5060 - MIME - Godaddy IIS hosting

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I have a website on IIS with godaddy.

To fix the MIME problem related to webupdate downloads it says I need to
create a WEB.CONFIG file.

I'm running in circles. That's all godaddy help says and it refers to
MS links. Searching MS I cannot find how to specifiy MIME in a
WEB.CONFIG file.

It also talks about placing the webconfig somewhere other than where
I've got access....

- Anyone done this (IIS/Godaddy)
- Anyone have an example Web.Config ?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul,

Welcome to the club! <g>

Is very easy - take your favorite text editor and create one. The upload it
to the root folder of your site.

That's it. <g>

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The problem is I have not found ANY info on how to create the MIME
settings in a Web.Config file. Searched Microsoft & MSDN.

I have been hosting my webupdates on my own servers for years. Just
trying to trim back my bandwidth as I have alot of stuff going through
the pipe - downloads can be moved off....

Paul

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Paul,

> The problem is I have not found ANY info on how to create the MIME
> settings in a Web.Config file. Searched Microsoft & MSDN.

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/03/25/how-to-add-mime-types-with-iis7-web-config.aspx

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Thanks Lee. Never used that site before...

So, my web.config file looks like this:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

and I uploaded it to the root folder and the folder where the files
are.... didn't work.... "overthinking"

removed it from the folder so it's just in the root. Shaazaammmm !

Thanks for the help....

Now on to my next question...<g>

Paul

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Paul,

> Thanks for the help....

Glad it helped.

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Hi all.

I've got the same problem. I built the web.config (like the one below) and
uploaded it to my 'root' directory but still no joy. Getting the 5060
error.

I am hosting multiple sites on my godaddy account. Does the web.config go
in that particular site's directory, or one up, the 'html' directory?
Neither seems to work for me. Anything else needed to be done to iis?

Thanks

Skip

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Getting the 5060 error. I created a web.config file and put it in the
'root' dir. No joy, I even changed the

<mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="application/octet-stream" />\
to
<mimeMap fileExtension=".00001" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />

to see if I could get at least to the second file before the error...no joy.

Reset iis each time (Recycle App Pool)... still no joy.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks

Skip

....it works fine on my web server at home :-(

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Skip,

Unfortunately, I do not have any Godaddy server so I can't help :-(

If you try to download that file from your browser then you'll get a "HTTP
Error 404 - File or directory not found" (or something similar) error. So I
think "something" in your MIME config is not correct.

Friedrich

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Gday Skip

Loving Hawaii.... :-) Candace want to sit around playing AngryBirds.

MY recommendation would be to get a VPS Windows server with someone other than GD.

Otherwise, contact GD support and have them open the ports ( for TCP and UML) you need
to get the stuff workin'.

John

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Skip,

> <mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="application/octet-stream" />\

I'd try "*" or ".*" and see what happens. I no longer have an IIS
server running here or I'd see what was used there.<g>

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Thanks all!

Still no luck with getting it to work, so I just moved the web update back
to my server here.

I am having other problems with Godaddy's windows server as well, so I am
seriously considering moving off of them to somewhere else.

Skip