iis-7.5

Will I have to rewrite any major pieces of code for iis7.5?

Does anybody know if there are any major changes in IIS7.5 that is coming with Windows 7 that will require rewriting all or a portion of a major website (CMS). Obviously not knowing my code, it is hard to judge this, but I haven't found any announcements of what is expected in IIS7.5 and would like to get a heads up. ...

Error Viewing ASP.NET applications After Installing IIS7.5

I get the following error when I try to access a asp.net application on my local machine. Anyone have any ideas? HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Module IIS Web Core Notification BeginRequest Handler Not yet...

IIS 7.5 with URL Rewrite Module Doubles QueryString Params on Postback

Hi I'm using IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 RC. I use the IIS Url Rewrite module to rewrite URLs. Everything seems to work fine, until I perform a postback by clicking a button. It then appends the querystring params to my rewritten URL, like this: Rewritten URL, as it appears in the browser: http://localhost/en/product/1239/Gary+Fisher+Hkek+Mo...

Error getting directory entry from IIS on Win 7 RC1

I have code that works on Win XP (IIS 5.1) and Win Server 2008 (IIS 7.0) but fails on the Windows 7 release candidate, which runs IIS 7.5. I construct a new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/w3svc"). The DirectoryEntry object returned by the constructor is no good. (Viewing members in debugger throws a COMException.) Has anybody been w...

IIS 7.5 and ASP .NET 2.0

Are there any known issues with IIS 7.5? I'm getting the following error when I try to browse/start/view any page on the site. HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Module IIS Web Core Notification BeginRequest Handler Not yet ...

IIS 7.5 MVC requires authentication to get static files

I've just installed windows 7 and i'm trying to get my mvc app that was working in IIS 7 working in IIS 7.5. The problem I have is that when it tries to load any static files (css, gif, jpg...) it requires authentication. So if i try to go to http://mydomain.com/Content/site.css It redirects to http://mydomain.com/Account/LogIn?Re...

Sharing data thru WCF services and aspx pages

My web app exposes a few services (WCF) and I need to load an XML file and 'store' it a static variable visible to the entire AppDomain. That variable needs to be queried and updated from either a service or a page. The thing is, I load that variable in the Application_Start (Global.asax.cs) but when a service request arrives the variab...

ASP.Net MVC and Windows 7 404 error

O.K. Stupid question..... I sepnt nearly a day getting an MVC site working, and then I published it. After that, the hell began. I'm using Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008 and MVC. I published it and first the Default.aspx wouldn't come up. I gave up on playing with that for a few and just did the easy thing a typed in default.aspx. ...

ISAPI Extensions on IIS 7.5/Windows 7 (professional)

I need to register a custom isapi extension on my web server, but I can't seem to find the option on my IIS 7.5/Win7 (pro) box. On IIS 6 it used to be under "Home Directory" -> Configuration -> Wildcard application maps. How can I achieve the same on IIS 7.5? ...

Running a web application 32/64 bit.

I have a windows web 2008 x64 installation running. Due to the requirement for the application having the ability to import Excel files, I have had to change the web application to run in 32bit mode. The MSAccess/Excel libraries are not available in x64. I have also had to elavate the application to run in trust=Full. Previously it w...

Setting up IIS7.5 for local ASP.Net Development

Are there any particular settings one should optimally enable/disable/tweak when doing ASP.Net MVC development on local test machine Windows 7 using IIS 7.5 and moving in and out the debugger & recompiling refrequnetly (integration/troubleshooting stage now before TDD fantactics throw stones - although admittedly I could have more under ...

ApplicationPoolIdentity in IIS7 401 errors

We have just started to use Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS7.5 and I'm trying to move some existing sites across from our Windows 2003 box. I can get the sites running ok but am getting 401 errors for all the CSS / Images in the sites. Granting Everyone read access will solve this - but I'm not very happy doing this. I've read that IIS7....

How do I manipulate Handler Mappings cleanly in IIS7 using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace?

When manipulating Handler Mappings using the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace, is there a way to remove the <remove name="handler name"> at the site level. For example, I have a site which inherits all the handler mappings from the global handler mappings configuration. In applicationHost.config the <location> tag initially looks ...

problems running x86 Asp.net application on 64-bit windows with IIS7.5

Hello, I'm currently in the process of preparing a new server to run our ASP.Net platform on. For the first time I'm doing the installation on a 64-bit Windows (2008 R2), and with IIS7.5 (before that always 7.0). Our website is built in x86, so I've enabled the application pools to use 32-bit applications. I'm stuck at the following er...

Is the default ASHX handler mapping missing from IIS 7.5 (Windows 7)?

I have an application that makes use of the default ASP.NET HTTP handler extension, .ashx. This no longer works in IIS 7.5. I get a 404.3 message with instructions to add a handler. I used the default handler extension specifically to keep things simple and not have to add a mapping within the setup program for my web application. ...

404 error in IIS 7.5 when redirecting in a frame.

I have IIS 7.5 on my Windows 7 x64 system. I have installed and properly configured IIS to allow me to run ASP.NET and Classic ASP. For some reason though, when i do a redirect from an ASP.NET page to a classic asp page I get a 404 error. I know the page is there. If I copy and paste the URL of the classic ASP page into the address b...

Why is my site trying to load the 32 bit aspnet_filter.dll even when 'enable32BitAppOnWin64' is set to False?

I was developing an ASP.NET MVC web app on Windows XP and Visual Studio 2008 (using the Visual Studio web server). I recently installed Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate edition, IIS 7.5 and migrated my app using appcmd. If I set the flag enable32BitAppOnWin64 == false on my application pool my application works fine. As soon as I set it to tr...

.net 3.5 IIS7.5 website can not be debugged - "Specified cast is not valid."

I'm trying to migrate an IIS6 site to 7.5, and in the IIS Manager's status section, I see "Unknown:Specified cast is not valid. (http). I've configured a base site that's just binding on port 80 to http. This doesn't stop the site from running. It does stop me from debugging though. When I hit F5 in VS, I get: "Unable to start debugg...

Where could I find PHP 5.3.1 x64 binaries (for IIS 7.5) ?

I'm installing a new server with Windows 2008 R2 and now I need to install PHP on it. I can find only x86 versions into http://windows.php.net/download/ I don't know how to compile the sources nor I have the VC compilers :( ...

Web Application Problems (web.config errors) HTTP 500.19 with IIS7.5 and ASP.NET v2

This is driving the whole team crazy. There must be some simple mis-configured part of IIS or our Web Server, but every time we try to run out ASP.NET Web Application on IIS 7.5 we get the following error... Here's the error in full: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related co...