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Active Directory authentication for Non-Domain users

I have a web application using windows authentication. I also want to authenticate non-domain users against AD. Can I have domain members can enter site directly, and non-members enter their domain username and password. How can I do this? ...

Retrieve ASP.Net AutoGenerated MachineKey

I have a .Net 1.1 app that must be upgraded to 2.0. The application encrypts passwords in the database using MD5CryptoServiceProvider. After I upgraded to 2.0, the MD5 value was different. In the machine.config, the machinekey was set to autogenerate. Is there a way to retrieve this key? ...

Login failed for user ''. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection

My web service app on my Windows XP box is trying to log in to my sql server 2005 database on the same box. The machine is part of a domain. I am logged in in the domain and I am an admin on my machine. I am using Windows Authentication in my connection string as in "Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Trusted_Connection=True". ...

Optimizing website - minification, sprites, etc...

I'm looking at the product Aptimize Website Accelerator, which is an ISAPI filter that will concatenate files, minify css/javascript, and more. Does anyone have experience with this product, or any other "all-in-one" solutions? I'm interesting in knowing whether something like this would be good long-term, or would manually setting up ...

Infinite loops from IIS6 log

Hi How to find out web request infinite loops from IIS6 log? Any help, greatly appreciated -Jyothish ...

how to set ASP.NET version for virtual directory using .net

how to set ASP.NET version for virtual directory using c#.net FROM CODE for all iis version? ...

Publishing to live website

Hey there, My friend and I are collaborating on a ASP.NET powered website. To develop it locally, we use Visual Web Developer Express (good enough for our needs). Subversion (using Tortoise SVN) is our source control of choice with the repository residing on Unfuddle.com. We run into problems when we need to update the live site - sinc...

Handlers returns 404 error on IIS7.5 integrated pipeline

<httpHandlers> <add path="ajaxpro/*.ashx" verb="POST,GET" type="AjaxPro.AjaxHandlerFactory, AjaxPro.2" /> <add path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" verb="*" type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" validate="false" /> <r...

.htpasswd under IIS - does it work?

I'm trying to password protect a directory on a server that's running IIS. I've put the following in the .htaccess file in that directory - AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user I've tried a whole bunch of different paths and although it's asking for a user...

Request-local storage in ASP.NET (accessible to the code from IHttpModule implementation)

I need to have some object hanging around between two events I'm interested in: PreRequestHandlerExecute (where I create an instance of my object and want to save it) and PostRequestHandlerExecute (where I want to get to the object). After the second event the object is not needed for my purposes and should be discarded either by storage...

Windows hosts file and IIS binding question

I'm building a few SharePoint sites, and I want to make use of zones so I may set security different in the various zones. My workstation has a local SharePoint, and I use it for development. My workstation has a static IP, and is connected to the internet. When I make a SharePoint site, I want to add a host header, for instance, devbox...

ASPX FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage function is not working anymore

Here is my issue. I have an ASPX web site and I have code in there to redirect from the login page with the call to "FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(username, false);" This sends the user from the root website folder to 'website/Admin/'. I have a 'default.aspx' page in 'website/Admin/' and the call to redirect works on a previo...

Is it possible to manipulate a request before IIS assigns that request to a specific site?

Is it possible to manipulate an inbound request at the IIS level, before it even gets assigned to site on the server? Essentially, I want to rewrite this -- www.somegenericdomain.com?site=someotherdomain To this -- www.someotherdomain.com And I need to do this before IIS picks which site the request belongs to, so I need to change...

ASP.Net Session data lost between pages

I came across a weird behavior today w/ my web application. When I navigate from a page to another, I lose one particular session variable data. I'm able to launch the app in firefox and able to see that the session data is not lost. I use Response.Redirect(page2, false) to redirect to another page. Below code was used to track sessi...

Change the Default Application Pool in IIS7 using .net?

I'm using the following function to create an IIS7 Application and/or Virtual Directory. How would I also set the Application to use a different Application Pool? Private Sub CreateVirtualDir(ByVal WebSite As String, ByVal AppName As String, ByVal Path As String, Optional ByVal IsApplication As Boolean = True, Optional ByVal RunScript...

Invalidating the HTTP Cache on read only front servers

We have a CMS system and in the production mode a number of servers only have read-only access to the content (with a few exceptions) and the editors for the site work on the content on servers behind it (which are not available to the public). We're caching the content quite a long time on the front servers, but sometimes we want the c...

Changing Password from IIS admin.

Can we change the password for Windows service account used for anonymous access from IIS 6.0? ...

Can IIS admin change password of Windows Service account

We have a service account defined for anonymous access which is used for several web sites hosted on the web server. This account has access to several network resources like report server, file servers and so on. While deploying a new web site, we used the same service account for anonymous access. IIS takes the username/password for ...

ASP.net error message when using REST starter kit

Hi all, I've written some code using the REST starter kit and it works fine on my development machine. However, when I upload it to our server the page gives me the following error message... CS1684: Warning as Error: Reference to type 'System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer' claims it is defined in 'c:\WINNT\a...

"Look" of page changes a bit after uploading it to IIS - looks good on computer same IE8

No it's not a path issue...or else the site won't have a design. The website looks fine if I open it with IE8 in my computer. But after I upload it to IIS 6.0 two things change on positioning. I see a rendering problem. But if I open it with IE 8.0 on my machine it looks good, but opening it when uploaded to IIS , it changes a bit. Same ...