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Can IIS supporting ASP.NET and LAMP supporting PHP coexist on the same server?

Can IIS supporting ASP.NET and WAMP supporting PHP coexist on the same server? We already have a WAMP stack setup on a Windows Server 2003 box to support some internal PHP applications, and I want to also setup CI Factory on that box which will try to configure IIS to support it's ASP.NET based dashboard. I want to make sure that there...

Obtain the password of ASPNET account

Is there any way to obtain (not change) the password of the ASPNET account on a Windows Server 2003 server? I need to snyc my workstation's ASPNET account password with the one on the server I am trying to connect to. I am trying to trouble shoot the following issue with my ASP.NET application. ...

Safari problems accessing Windows Integrated Authentication (aka NTLM) protected web site

Hi all, Our web application uses Windows Integrated Authentication (aka NTLM Auth) for security. It's working fine for both IE and Firefox users, but Safari users are seeing intermittent problems. Browsing the site will work fine, but every once in a while there will be problems loading elements of a page (e.g. CSS or JS files). Relo...

Best reverse proxy for IIS 6?

I want to set up a reverse proxy from one of our intranet IIS sites to point to another tomcat server. Eg, i want the user to browse to 'http://our-iis-server/friendly-url' and for it to reverse proxy to 'http://our-tomcat-server/ugly-url'. What would be the best solution for this? I've narrowed it down to three options: http://www.ma...

Writing to an event log in ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008 IIS7

I'm trying to use log4net to write to a customer event log under IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 SP1. However, account doesn't seem to have access to write to the event log. Does anyone have any suggestions? ...

How do you create folders and specify access permissions on them at the same time?

I have a windows forms application which serves as a sort of administrative module for an ASP.NET web application. The web application serves multiple countries, and folders are created when new countries are added to the application data. Unfortunately on the newly added countries I run into an exception with the web application when I...

PHP @exec is failing silently

This is driving me crazy. I'm trying to execute a command line statement on a windows box for my PHP web app. It's running on windows XP, IIS5.1. The web app is running fine, but I cannot get @exec() to work with a specific contactenated variable. My command construction looks like this: $cmd = ($config->svn." cat ".$this->repConfig...

Can IIS serve Most Frequently Used static files from RAM?

Can I set up an IIS server so that it will cache the most frequently used static files (binary) from disk into RAM, and serve from RAM on request? Update: mod_mem_cache in Apache Caching Guide seems to be what I'm looking for. Any equivalent thing in IIS? Thanks. ...

.htaccess for IIS?

Is there a way to get URI based access control directly in IIS that works with static content, ASP, WCF services and anything else that comes in looking something like an HTTP request? Particularly I want the access control to be a bullet proof as possible preferably making the decision before IIS even tries to figure out what to servi...

What is the difference between classic and integrated in IIS7?

I was deploying an ASP.NET MVC application last night, and found out that it is less work to deploy with IIS7 set to integrated mode. My question is what is the difference? And what are the implications or using one or the other? ...

Attach DLL to ASP.NET Site

Hello, How do you attach a dll to a asp.net site? I want to be able to debug and edit the dll without having to keep replacing the reference in my asp.net site. I checked attach to process but didn't see the worker process. I am using asp.net, iis 7. ...

Annoying IIS 7 Url Rewriting Problem

I was writing up this question and in the process, it forced me to think a little harder and I answered it myself, though I still don't completely understand why it solved it. I have an account on a shared host with 2 domains registered. I'm using the Asp.Net stack to run a few things like a blog and another site I am planning to kick ...

IIS token based security, ssl certificate and https, proxy

I have developed a new web service. Now, I need to deal with security issue as we are intending to make it a secure service. In order to set up SSL and https, I need to obtain and install an SSL certificate. Who is the certificate authority? Do you know how to go about with this? Are there concise articles on this? Regards. D...

Simulate domains locally in ASP.NET /IIS7

I would like to simulate that my ASP.NET application is hist by say simdomain.com. How can i do that easily? Ideally I would like some kind of filter, so requests to certain domains are routed to localhost, and it should be easy to turn it on and off. ...

WCF, Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found.

I'm trying to host my service with IIS 6 but I keep get this exception. Server Error in '/WebServices' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The type 'QS.DialogManager.Communication.IISHost.RecipientService', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive...

IIS as reverse proxy

Hi, I'm looking into to having IIS doing authentication in an application being executed on a J2EE server (JBoss). Is there any ways to have IIS work as reverse proxy and propagating the username and/or roles of the user the proxied application (JBoss). And also what IIS version would I need, if it's possible? I have license for IIS, so...

How do you change the allowDefinition section attribute using appcmd in IIS 7?

Is it possible to use appcmd to change the value of allowDefinition? Specifically I'm try to enable changes to the httpCompression module at the application level. Modifying the applicationHost.config by manually changing the following line: <section name="httpCompression" allowDefinition="AppHostOnly" overrideModeDefault="Deny" /> T...

PHP and OpenID = 500 error

Having a really strange problem. Scenario: PHP5.2.9, IIS7, PHP running as FastCGI. I have a site at test.concentratedtech.com. Click login, enter OpenID credentials, hit "Verify," and immediate 500 error. Click Back, resubmit the page, works fine. An IIS failed request trace reveals two messages, below. These messages seems to general...

Does IIS or ASP.NET do any sort of connection throttling?

Hello, I am trying to create an ASP.NET Web Service which I can use to show the difference between implementing a Web Method asynchronously vs. synchronously. It is sort of a proof-of-concept that I can use to show how writing things asynchronously can make an app more scalable. To make the comparison, I implemented two methods, RunSq...

Bulletproof Sessions for IIS Web Farm

Good afternoon, all. We're currently making the jump from one web server to two and in order to provide seamless failover to our users we need to do something about the session. Currently, we're investigating three different methods. Make use of a state server Make use of SQL server Chuck everything into hidden fields I, personally...