i have a .zip file sitting on an IIS 6 webserver. i have an html file with a link to that zip file like this: <a href="file.zip">Download File</a> When you open the page and click the link in firefox or chrome, you get the Open or Save dialog box as expected. When you do the same in Internet Explorer 8, you navigate to a new page th...
I am using AAR to reverse proxy requests to a Confluence install. This works fine when the URL contains no spaces. As soon as a space is added to the URL the request returns a 404, the 404 seems to originate from IIS not the Confluence instance. I have enable Failed Request Tracing as detailed here: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/488/u...
I wounder if is possible to add a virtual SMTP server a local server? I have created a SMTP server on a server, I wonder if it's possible to create a virtual smtp on another server that is local? ...
I am experiencing a request timeout from IIS when I run a long operation. Behind the scene my ASP.NET application is processing data, but the number of records being processed is great, and thus the operation is taking a long time. However, I think IIS times out the session. Is this a problem with IIS or ASP.NET session? Thanks in adv...
I would like to have some urls redirect to another server using url rewrite and here is part of the sample web.config I created: <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rewriteMaps> <rewriteMap name="Redirect"> <add key="logon\.aspx" value="http://machineB/logon.aspx" /> </rewriteMap> </...
Does IIS / ASP.NET make use of TCP keepalive option? What are the config parameters that affect it's use? Please note that this question is not about the HTTP Keep-Alive option. ...
I am having issues debugging locally within Visual Studio 2010 on Server 2008 R2 (x64) for a new ASP.Net MVC application. I am able to debug using the VS Development Server (Cassini) but when I change to use the Local IIS Web Server and Create Virtual Directory, I am unable to debug. I get the standard VS message: "Unable to start de...
A deployment package that is generated by our CI build correctly: (a) prompts for our two connection strings during interactive deployment using IIS Manager. (b) includes the two connection strings in the generated parameter file to be used with command-line deployment. (c) creates the proper placeholder strings in the Web.config. Whe...
I have an ASP.NET MVC2 application in development and I am having problems rendering a .pdf file from our production server. On my Visual Studio 2010 integrated development server everything works fine, but after I publish the application to the production server, it breaks. It does not throw any exceptions or errors of any kind, it si...
I have installer that will create virtual directory. It works fine on IIS 6. But if I try on IIS 7.5 it crashes. Then i tried using Microsoft.Web.Administration class But now it will work only on IIS 7 and IIS 7.5 Can anyone help me out so that my code works for both IIS 6 and IIS 7.5? ...
Note: This is a solved problem, but I just spend 4 hours at this issue, so I wanted to share the solution. When I attempt to access a WCF service, the service never responds, and the event log shows the following: An unhandled exception occurred and the process was terminated. Application ID: DefaultDomain Process ID: ...
Hi, I am having general hangs on our IIS application pool. Sometimes, when I get a Crash Dump, I get one thread which is blocking all the others and that has no call stack: ESP EIP 4735e1dc 7c82860c [NDirectMethodFrameStandalone: 4735e1dc] Unknown MethodDesc (Module 1f3363e8, mdToken 0600016c) I looked over the Internet bu...
Here's what I want to do. I have a program that many client devices communicate with (hundreds). Unfortunately, sometimes when I add new features, it requires me to make breaking changes that affect these clients. So typically we have to update the clients and the server at the same time. So I had an idea in which I will just run eve...
We have an VB.net application that is being moved from one box to another. It runs great on the old box. The new box is configured the same as the old one but is on newer hardware. When I run the application on the new server it complains that the adobe toolkit that we use can not be found. The error message is. Compiler Error Message...
Hi there, I have recently started to received this message. Unable to start debugging on the web server. The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running Does anyone know what this means? I created my virtual directory via Properties on the project, and clicking Create Virtual Directory. ANd in IIS I can see it...
Hi guys, I've been trying to upload a video file on my local harddrive and it seems it cannot process the upload. The .flv MIME type is already registered on my IIS but still it cannot process upload. Any inputs would be a very big help. Here's the screenshots. here's some additional screenshots this is what happen after pressin...
What is the equivalent of these rewrite rules: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L] RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [NC,L] In IIS7? These are rewrite rules for Zend Framework and they work under Apache. I tried importi...
I have a public facing web site living at www.somedomain.com. This web site renders pages with links to images that live at photos.somedomain.com. All users that view images on www.somedomain.com must be authenticated with forms authentication and they are authenticated by the asp.net membership provider running in the context of the w...
I'm using Windows 2008 x64 R2 with IIS 7.5 and ASP.NET 2.0. I want to use HTTP_REFERER but for some reason but it's not available so I decided to iterate all the server vars using this code : foreach (string vars in Request.ServerVariables) { Response.Write (vars.ToString() + "\r\n <br/>"); } Here is the result : ALL_HTTP ALL...
What would be simplest way to get this functionality in my website. A small example code will be appreciated. ...