Hey Guys, I have a few questions about the architecture of a subscription service I am about to embark on and I am looking for some feedback on how best to set it up. I won’t have a large amount of customers as Basecamp, maybe a few hundred and was wondering what would be a solid architecture for setting up the customer sites. I’m runn...
I'm going to deploy an ASP.NET MVC project on IIS (6.0 & 7.5) but don't now is it necessary to install anything on IIS? ...
Hi, I'm looking at starting a new web app which needs to be secure (if for no other reason than that we'll need PCI (Payment Card Industry) accreditation at some point). From previous experience working with PCI (on a domain), the preferred method is to use integrated windows authentication which is then passed all the way through the ...
Good day! I've found interesting behaviour for both LAMP stack and ASP.NET. The scenario: There is page performing task in 2-3 minutes (making HttpWebRequest for ASP.NET and curl for PHP). While this page is processed all other requests to this virtual host from the same browser are not processed (even if I use different browsers from...
I recently installed PHP on IIS/Windows 7, but it isn't working. I am getting the entire source file in the browser window. FastCGI Settings shows c:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-cgi.exe Handler Mappings has Request Path: *.php Modue: FastCgiModule Executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-cgi.exe Request Restrictions: File or Folder,...
I have a curious problem with IE, IIS 6.0 dynamic PNG files and I am baffled as to how to fix.. Snippet from Helper (this returns the URL to the view for requesting the images from my Controller. string url = LinkBuilder.BuildUrlFromExpression(helper.ViewContext.RequestContext, helper.RouteCollection, c => c.FixHeight(ir.Filename, ir.A...
We have a plugin system on a WCF service that checks libraries placed in the bin folder for certain assembly level attributes and loads them. This allows customization of certain service calls based on which client is making the call. This works great most of the time. However, sometimes it seems to lose the dll, which causes the service...
FTPS in IIS 7.5 is cool. Do you know how to configure it? ...
Hello guys, i have a problem where my ASP.NET web application files (.js, .css, .aspx) doesn't get compress when i access it from https. However the files get compressed when i accessed it from http. Any idea what causing this problem?. It over a week and i cannot find any solution from the net. I have ask my network administrator to che...
If we use an aspx page with a Caching Profile, the server caches images that are loaded with the aspx page. So if ten clients load the same image through the aspx page (same url), for one client the image is gotten out of the db, for the nine others it is cached. When we use a HttpHandler, this doesn't happen. The image is always fetche...
As per this MSDN article: W3C Extended Log File Format (IIS 6.0) It says cs(Referrer) contains the REFERER information that can be read from the IIS log files. I am trying to display the log information using an ASP.NET Repeater control: <asp:Repeater ID="rptlIISLogEntries" runat="server"> ... ... <ItemTemplate> <tr> ...
I have a website that uses SSL to allow users to enter sensitive data, but there is a large amount of static content that I do not want to be served up with each page request - several Javascript libraries combine to make up almost 1MB for example, which is a serious overhead with each request! Everything I've read suggests that there i...
I am trying to upload an ASP.NET MVC application in a shared server running on IIS 6 and Windows 2003. I don't have access to IIS. I've changed the global.asax.cs file as follows: routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); routes.MapRoute( "Default", "{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}", ...
I have an admin site set up as a virtual applcation inside of another website. I would like visitors to the sub directory (the virtual application) to be promtped for credentials using the same Forms authentication set up on the main parent site Have tried all sorts of things but can't get it to work, including Removing all <authentic...
From the answers to this question it appears there's a file somewhere on our server that's been saved with the wrong encoding. I've seen this happen before - most often when pasting from Word into Visual Studio, when "smart quotes" can interfere with Visual Studio's encoding settings when saving the file. Thing is - the problem I'm hav...
I have following rewrite rule to append .aspx extension if url has no extension. <rule name="SimpleRewrite" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="^(.*(?<=/)([^/.]*))$" /> <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.aspx" /> </rule> However the rule is not working: Error HTTP 500.52 - URL Rewrite Module Error. The ex...
Hello, I'm looking for a way to (hopefully) create a text file which lists all the settings in IIS for.. Virtual Directories Web sites Which framework is used on a certain website/directory directory of hosted files etc. Basically I want to do some investigation on some of our servers to figure out where certain projects are loca...
When you publish a web SITE in Visual Studio, in the dialog box that follows, you are given an option to "Allow this precompiled site to be updatable". According to MSDN, checking this option "specifies that all program code is compiled into assemblies, but that .aspx files (including single-file ASP.NET Web pages) are copied as-is to th...
Hi, I need to move all my sites on a server with IIS 6 to another one, that has same OS (Windows Server 20003) and same IIS version. I'm trying to understand which is the best way to do it. Searching on Google I've found that there are at least 2 methods, one uses IIS Migration Tool, and another Web Deployment Tool. I don't know which ...
I am editing a certain website which before used the port 80 (default) that was not required at the url (because it's default..) But the port had (for technical reasons) to be changed, and now it has to be informed. I can access the main page through ip:port\page like this: 1.2.3.4:81\page.aspx Every link in the website is composed ...