Downloading BAT files

[Taggs]

I have an internal web site which has a link to a batch file. But when you click the link, you get the message "Page can not be found". If I change the extension to a .BOT from .BAT the file is displayed the web browser.

There is also other links to an .EXE and .REG and they work fine.

My problem is I want people to be able to download the batch file to there PC.

I've renamed the file to several different formats, recreated the file but still nothing.

I suspect it is a setting in IIS on the server.

Any ideas?

Taggs

[Aegis]

Tell the user to right click and use save as.

[nmX.Memnoch]

That won't work either because IIS6 is blocking access to the file. It does this for any files that haven't been configured.

A quick Google search says that you need to setup a MIME type for .bat files to be served by IIS6.

http://www.webservertalk.com/message263612.html

[Taggs]

Added .bat as a MIME type but still will not download.

Tried several different types but still nothing!

Checked/tried IIS settings for the main site and the web site.

[nmX.Memnoch]

Did you add it at the web server or web site level?

[InTheWayBoy]

Are you running this on 2003? Could be that annoying IE hardening component getting in the way...to remove it go to Add/Remove, then Windows Components...it's on the first list. I think that only applies to SP1 and above.

Some more system info would be nice too...OS, AV, Firewall, etc...

[Taggs]

@nmx.Memnoch

I've tried adding the MIME type at both levels.

@InTheWayBoy

I'm running W2K server SP4, Server Protect (TREND), No firewall, IIS is version 5

[Taggs]

can anybody else throw any light on this plz?

[nmX.Memnoch]

I was under the impression you were using II6 with my original reply. I now know you're using IIS5. Do you have the IIS Lockdown Tool installed? If so, do the following:

Go to %SystemRot%\system32\inetsrv\URLScan\ and open URLScan.ini. Look for the following section:

; Deny executables that could run on the server
.bat
.cmd
.com

Comment out the .bat line so that it looks like this:

; Deny executables that could run on the server
; .bat
.cmd
.com

If you have UseAllowExtensions set to 1 then you may also have to add the extension to theee [AllowExtensions] section of the file.

Edited January 4, 2006 by nmX.Memnoch

[Siginet]

Why not zip up the file and then the user can extract the files after they download them.

[Taggs]

@nmX.Memnoch

Sorry I didn't pick up on the fact about the IIS versions earlier. It now works.

Thanks

[cyberpyr8]

On my server that I load batch files from I don't have any .bat setting. However, there is a .* setup for MIME type application/octet-stream. Our server prompts the user to save or run when they click on a .bat file.

[nmX.Memnoch]

The MIME types are independent of the URLScan function of the IIS Lockdown Tool. If URLScan is configured to block a file type it won't work even if you setup a MIME type for it.

This is where I was getting confused with his setup. You can't install the IIS Lockdown Tool on Server 2003 / IIS6...and I originally thought he was running IIS6.