Website prompting for username and password – Plesk 9.2 Windows 2008

Many times when you create a website from Plesk it works fine initially but suddenly one day you get a username and password prompt on your website which is very frustating and annoying.  We have been gone through such issues quite enough so here is what you need to do.

1.) Check permissions for the domain. Open Plesk panel – Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation panel. Select the check box corresponding to the domain name you want to perform permissions check on. Click Check permissions.

2.) Delete file .Security from the domain directory: ( Basically under yourdomain.com folder )

%plesk_vhosts%\domain.tld

3.) Reconfigure the domain settings:

“%plesk_bin%\websrvmng.exe” –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=yourdomain.com

4.) Reset the domains password from Plesk panel

Restart the website from the IIS , Well if the problem still persists you need to check the permissions from IIS , Make sure you have proper authentication setup for IUSR_Username and proper authentication for the domains application pool.

Disabling Customer Experience Improvement Program tasks in Windows Server 2008

The Windows Server 2008 task scheduler has a large number of new features and interface changes, but some administrators may want to reconfigure the default configuration. For instance, there are three scheduled tasks created with installations of Windows Server 2008 that, if permitted by an administrator, will collect and send usage data to Microsoft as part of the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).

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