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WCF Rest Service Template 40 on IIS 7.5

Hey, I am attempting to get the WCF Rest Service Template 40 (CS) which is an online template in VS 2010 to deploy to IIS 7.5 on Win Server 2008 R2. We havn't changed the template at all and are trying to get this call to work: public class Service1 { // TODO: Implement the collection resource that will contain the SampleItem insta...

How do I send email to a dropfolder in asp.net?

I have two questions: 1) How do I send an email in C#, but have it end up in a drop folder to be sent from there rather than being sent straight out by SMTP? 2) For a production machine, do I use IIS to process the dropfolder, or should I purchase a 3rd party product for this? Thanks! ...

PHP and IIS Configuration

Hi, Recently i configured Wordpress blog in IIS... I works fine. and Now i try configure the another package(PHP)... it loads the Index page when click on any link it says ** unable to find includes/dbsettings.php ** But the file is there in the location and someone said there is problem in path mapping php.ini file....i not PHP ...

What are possible causes for App_Offline.htm not bringing the site down?

Normally, I use App_Offline.htm for taking the site offline. But occasionally, when I do that, the site just hangs (like in: browsers wait forever, server gives no response at all). This seems to happen on an updateable site when I change something, like a control and afterward, when it doesn't go quick enough (site hangs), I place App_O...

ASP.NET and HTTP 404 problem (IIS problem)

Hi i have a asp.net webforms application which is a new version of an old webshop. I have a lot of inbound links from the Internet, that point to a particular category page: http://www.example.com/category1.html, the path to this category in the new setup is similar to: http://www.example.com/category.aspx?id=42. I have setup the Categ...

Can you configure IIS7 to autostart a Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) application when the application pool starts/recycles?

IIS 7.5 introduces the notion of auto-start providers, that allow you to get WAS to auto-load an application or assemblies when an application pool starts up. Can a similar thing be acheived with IIS7? Basically, we have an application that runs under WAS, and has an in-memory cache of data. When an application pool recycle occurs, my ...

Installing joomla on Microsoft IIS

i tried to install joomla using the microsoft web platform installer. I was able to install joomla, php and mysql successfully. However when i browse the website from the IIS, it says page cannot be found.. What am i missing..please let me know Its been more than 2 days i am trying this... ...

Custom Service Account in Application pool not allowing access to app from outside server.

Hello everyone. The Problem: need to do a search over 3 databases from a webapp and return the collected results. These db's have pretty tight security and the people who will call the webapp will not have access to all three. I was told the security model I have to use is the trusted subsystem, i.e. the app takes windows authenticati...

IIS Proxy for a Windows Service hosted WCF Service

I have a Windows Service that is exposing a WCF service thru a net.tcp channel. Now I want this service to be exposed thru IIS, without being hosted in it. By doing that I will be able to maintain the state in the Windows Service, and I will benefit of the underlying IIS authentication and security. Is it possible to do that just by u...

classic asp sessions (time-out set in IIS) lasting longer than it should

Hi, I am finding that my classic asp sessions (time-out set in IIS) are lasting longer than they should. If you set the IIS session timeout to 1 minute, i'd expect them to last 1 minute between the last http request of a page and if a new http request comes in > 1 min after, as new session created. I have a page setup that has a JavaS...

Live Monitor IIS 6 taffic/# of connections

Does anyone know of any tools that will allow you to monitor all traffic for every website in IIS 6 in real time or close to real time? Have a way of getting the number of current connections to IIS would be helpful as well. ...

WCF REST with a clean URL

I'm considering to host WCF Rest Service that i've built on IIS 7. The URL to access my service will be something like api.mycompany.com/applicationName/Service.svc/users/1347 Recently, i've been looking to some REST API implementation with a clean URL like Yahoo API social.yahooapis.com/v1/user/{guid}/contacts I'm wondering what wi...

IIS/Plesk Not Serving Pages or Images

This site hosted on IIS 6, The only back end access I have to the server is via Plesk 7.6 both old :( the problem is, nothing on the site loads. Plain old .html is a blank page, .php tries to download and images do not load at all. There are other sites on this server that are loading images and pages both .html and .php perfectly just ...

Why does a worker thread my ASP.NET spawn experience a ThreadAbortException during a Sleep?

I spawn a worker thread in an ASP.NET application running on Windows Server 2008, IIS 7.5 The first thing this worker thread does is sleep for N seconds, and then it does its real work. During the sleep, a catch a ThreadAbortException. Can you explain this behavior, and bonus points of you point me to any IIS/ASP.NET settings that c...

From PHP (LAMP) to Classic ASP, how to setup a dev environment

I'm jumping into updating a Classic ASP web app coming from a PHP background and am trying to get my bearings. I'm used to just installing something like MAMP, messing the httpd.conf a bit and getting on my way. Ideally, I would like to be able to edit this app completely locally on my Macbook Pro running OS X Leopard so that I'm not me...

What IIS version does Windows Server 2008 Web Edition come with

Also, if an application works on IIS 7, would it be cool on the new version (if there is any)? ...

Using ASP.NET, setup a component to redirect response for any HTTP requests

The objective of this component is to be able to forward whatever HTTP requests it receives to forward to a different server based on the parameters but keeping the URL and POST data intact. For example: If the component receives http://sourceserver/XYZ.aspx?id=100 It will return the response from either http://targetserverONE/XY...

How do you get the default IIS Directory in a Wix install package?

I Would like to set my default install location in Wix to go the default IIS directory usually C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ in the XML i have <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder"> <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="myProduct"> I Assume i can change either the ProgramFi...

Changing the installation of webservice

Hi, I have a Biz talk web-service. This webservice is always installed under C:\Inetpub\WWWRoot. But in production enviornment i want this to be installed in E:\Inetpub\WWWRoot (May be even different one). How can i specify this in my service or some other way, so that it is always installed in required drive. Thanks, Jain ...

IIS Application pool crashes when i create temp files in my virtual directory

I have static content like html,css javascript stored in DB. when a user requests for these i create a temp file in virtual directory and return the url. My web app is hosted on a IIS server. On some systems on creation of a file my IIS Application pool crashes and restarts. If i disable file-monitoring though the problem is resolved, ...