Connecting to Virtual Server 2005 R2
Posted on April 6th, 2006
When news of the free release of Virtual Server appeared on virtualization.info earlier this week, I made haste to the download. The installer did its thing and then was all like, "Here, go start using the web-based management interface, life's a party" and I was like, Well ok then. But it turns out that IIS didn't realize there was in fact a party.
Problem 1 was that accessing the management URL from IE would just hang. Using variations on the hostname like localhost or 127.0.0.1 didn't help. Going in through Firefox didn't help. Disabling Integrated Windows Authentication didn't help either-- the management interface came up but Virtual Server claimed it couldn't connect to... itself. What did help was checking the "HTTP Keep-Alives Enabled" checkbox on the "Default Web Site Properties" window. How had it gotten unchecked (this is on Windows XP Pro, incidentally). Unknown. Why does Integrated Authentication aka NTML Authentication demand this at all? Unknown.
Problem 2 was the entirely unhelpful message "The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers." A restart made short work of that.