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IIS 7 Reliability and Performance monitor.

I am trying to figure out some of the categories I can monitor. One of them, under the category of .NET CLR Remoting is Context Proxies. Is Context Proxies literally how many proxies that are being used to connect to something such as a WCF service? ...

My Apache setup alongside IIS

Hi everyone, I am trying to learn PHP. I am having trouble getting Apache working correctly on my Vista Home Premium machine. I have IIS7 running and I would like to have Apache running along with it. I was looking around on the web and some say that it would be fine having the two together as long as they are looking at different por...

IIS virtual directory, root path deployment ASP.NET

I need a few pointers about how to make a project structure in order to migrate from VSS to SVN, as it stands now it has: Dev trunk-------------------------------->http://localhost/myapp Test environment branch ---------->http://test.myapp.com Production environment branch-->http://www.myapp.com The deal here are th...

401.1 Error when accessing virtual directory pointing to network share

IIS5 is running on SERVER1. One of the virtual directories in IIS, myfiles, is pointing to "A shared location on another computer", //SERVER2/myfilesshare When I try to access the page: http://SERVER1/myfiles ... I get the error: You are not authorized to view this page HTTP 401.1 - Unauthorized: Logon Failed Internet Information S...

Integrating a non-ASP.NET application with IIS?

Basically I want to integrate an application written in C# with IIS, and this application is not created with ASP.NET but has the ability to output HTML - so what I'm after is hooking into IIS somehow and catching all requests to a "Web Site" (IIS-concept) and allowing my custom application to handle them. I honestly have no idea where ...

Logging SMTP traffic on Windows Server 2008

I am trying to log outbound email traffic on an IIS server. I installed a tool called "IIS SMTP Monitor" that seems to have received favorable reviews, and the tool is also recommended on the Microsoft site. It essentially monitors the SMTP pickup folder. We never get anything to show up in the log except for the first email. Maybe the ...

Speed up your IIS

Hi! Is there any way to improve the performance of your IIS by changing some configuration parameters? Or do you have any tips in general on how to improve the performance of a ASP.NET app? Thanks! ...

ASP.NET - redirect 301

How do I redirect permanently in ASP DOT NET? I'd like to do a 301 redirect from one page on my site to another page. ...

Can't browse a website hosted at home on local machine

I have an ASP.NET website hosted at home on IIS. Outside my home network i can see the website, but inside the network it gives me a 404 error. I can browse the site as localhost. It seems like a DNS problem, just not sure how to fix it. ...

Creating what is equivalent to an ISAPI extension for IIS7

I've searched the IIS7 MSDN database but can't find any concrete material on how to create custom C#.NET extensions for IIS7, I know that previously in IIS6 you had to write an ISAPI extension in C++ if you wanted to say plug in your own scripting language for websites (this is sort of what I want to do) but in IIS7 you're supposed to be...

Password Protect IIS directory

Hi, I'm looking for a way to password protect a directory in IIS. I'm aware that the standard answer to this is to create a windows user account for this directory, then give that user read permissions on the directory... but my concern is that by creating a windows user, won't that give them permissions to do stuff like login to the com...

can i Run KiGG on XP Pro?

I have XP pro edition with .Net 3.5 installed and IIS 5.0 and MVC RC 2 Can i run KiGG on this machine? Also i have on my hosting server IIS 6 and .Net 3.5 , can it run there or no also? If no, there is no work around to make it work? Thanks, ...

Permissions problem when uploading images using PHP in IIS

We have just moved a website to a new server, both servers are Windows Server 2003 running IIS as the web server. When uploading images we require that the uploaded files have certain permissions for the NETWORK SERVICE account. Images are uploaded using PHP, they are then filtered by ImageMagick using the mogrify.exe binary for resizin...

Setup IIS in localhost as web development server

How can I setup IIS 5.1 in Visual Studio 2008 as my web development server? I'm using Win XP, and I was using Cassini, but I want to give a tray to IIS instead of. ...

.htaccess files when hosting Drupal 6 sites on IIS 7?

I want to run Drupal 6 on our Windows 2008 server using the included IIS 7 web server. There are a few blogs giving various instructions on doing so, but when I try to create Drupal sites and/or active some modules using IIS 7, I get error messages about creating folders and/or missing .htaccess files. It looks like Drupal relies on .h...

Risks of hosting public web site right on my network?

I want to set up IIS on an old XP box that I have on our our LAN at work so that I can host some Silverlight stuff on it that I am plying with so I show it to others on the internet. I have a public IP set up already that shoots straight through my firewall and straight to that machine, and I sometimes use Remote Desktop to log into that...

Using WiX to create an IIS virtual directory

I'd ask this on the WiX mailing list, but it seems to be down. I have an application which is both a desktop app and a web app which runs locally. I've created a couple of basic WiX installers, but haven't yet used the IIS extension to create a virtual directory under IIS. I haven't been able to find a simple example of how to do this. ...

Is there a way to configure the Application Pool's "Idle timeout" in web.config?

I know one can set the session timeout. But, if the application itself has received no requests for a given period of time, IIS shuts down the application. This behavior is configurable in the IIS management console, and I know how to do this. Still, I wonder if it is possible to configure this in web.config. ...

Meaningful interaction with IIS SMTP Server in .Net

Our business sends a newsletter to a vast number of subscribers every week. When the business was very young, before I joined, they used a "free" version of some mass mailer that took six hours to send 5K mails and fell foul of every reverse DNS check on the internet. I upgraded this to a bespoke .Net widget that ran on the correct serv...

IIS Service Unavailable when changing ASP.Net version

Hi, When I change the ASP.Net version of a web application in IIS 6 from ASP.Net 1.1 to 2.0. ALL sites in IIS are becoming "unavailable" (Service Unavailable) for a brief moment (the time it takes to apply the changes in the IIS dialog). I checked with Application Pools, but the sites are all in different application pools... How can ...