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How can I duplicate a website's settings in IIS7?

I'm going mad trying to get an ASP.NET application running on IIS7 (Server2008). I have one web site set up in IIS7 which works fine. I'm trying to create another one now but I only get 404s for all .aspx files. The Handling Mappers are all different from the working site's. Is there any way I can duplicate the working site's settings s...

IIS authentication challenge even with Anony turned on.. why?

I have a windows 2003 server (WEb edition) which has .net 3.5 sp1 installed on it. I've got a half dozen websites, all of which are challenging me for a username and password. If I supply a domain username, I get in fine... However, I have the websites set to Allow anony access. The website files/folders all have the appropriate IUSR s...

IIS5 not serving index.html on local machine even though it's listed in the Default Documents

I'm developing a site in VS2008 on a machine running XP SP3 with IIS5. I've named the main page in each directory index.html to avoid the www.domain.tld/directory/pagename.ext scenario of specifying a full path, and also because these pages literally contain an index of the other pages in their directory. When I debug on my local machi...

Can't access localhost/iis after installing Oracle and loopback adaptor

Recently I installed Oracle and the required Microsoft Loopback Adaptor, which worked fine. However, this seems to have screwed up IIS (or at least its interaction with Visual Studio) somehow. I can't connect to localhost or 127.0.0.1 anymore, and I can't even open a web project in Visual Studio 2008 (which used to work fine), getting th...

How important is it for C# developer to know IIS ?

To what extent does a C# developer have to know about IIS ? Minimum areas / knowledge required ? ...

What is recommended for monitoring traffic to my asp.net application

I have a asp.net 3.5 application hosted on IIS 7.0. I'm looking for a comprehensive system to monitor traffic, down to page level minimum. Does .net have any specific tools or is it better to write my own, or what systems/software is freely available to use Thanks ...

%2B decoding to a space instead of a plus

We have a problem in a specific server. All plus signs posted to the application are replaced with spaces - that's in POST and GET, and on all pages on that site. As a test case I have this little page (it's an ASP server): <html> <body> <form method="post"> <input type="text" name="Plus" id="Plus" /> <input type="submit" />...

What is the URL_CHANGED Event on IIS7 Request Tracing Log?

Hi, I just enabled Failed Request Tracing for a site and I get a URL_CHANGED event as the third item on the log. 1. GENERAL_REQUEST_START SiteId="1", AppPoolId="DefaultAppPool", ConnId="1610613013", RawConnId="0", RequestURL="http://example.com:80/test/wp-admin/", RequestVerb="GET" 15:35:54.176 2. GENERAL_SET_REQUEST_HEADER HeaderName...

IIS randomly displaying "No Logon servers" error

I have been developing a webpage locally with IIS and recently I have been getting a random screen when connecting to http://localhost/website that states: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. I have stopped and started IIS repeatedly and tried to delete all history and refresh everything a...

WCF 403 Errors

I'm getting different errors with a WCF service. This service has worked fine in all of our test environments so far, until now. We normally having it running under IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003. I had it running under a Windows XP Pro VM that was connected to our company's domain. Our IT guy removed the VM from the company domain just...

using system.web.authorization settings in web.config to protect classic asp files?

I've got a virtual directory with a vast subfolder hierarchy and thousands of classic ASP files, all of which have varying permissions set at the NT folder level (don't ask.. shakes head). Is there any way to setup all these virtual directories with their own web.config so i can control access via configuring system.web.authorization p...

How to set breakpoint in deployed ASPX file

I have some ASPX files deployed in test machine which has IIS7 and Visual Studio 2008. Now I attached to the w3wp process with VS2008 and open one ASPX file. The ASP file has some inline code like <% DoSomthing() %> I move the cursor to that line and press F9, but the status bar shows "This is not a valid location for a breakpoint". ...

Problem with IIS7 and integrated pipeline

Hi, I have a problem with IIS7 and integrated pipeline. Previously I had win xp with IIS 5 and everything worked correctly. I have migrated my application to IIS 7 in Vista I have decided to put the pipeline mode of my application pool to integrated mode (which in theory is better). All things are working properly except one… The prob...

AUTH_USER and REMOTE_USER cgi variables

The docs aren't entirely clear on this - is there a difference between these variables? On IIS at least they appear to be identical, but I don't want to rely on that if it might be different under other servers. ...

Asp.Net 3.5 virtual directory under asp.net 2.0 site

I currently have an ASP.net 2.0 site with multiple ASP.Net 1.1 sites running as Virtual Directories under the main 2.0 site. While this creates some problems with web.config entries inheritance from the 2.0 site to the 1.1 sites, we have been able to configure all the sites so they work. However, we are now getting ready to migrate the...

IIS throws 404 errors outside from my ASP.NET MVC application

I've replaced an old PHP web site with a new ASP.NET MVC web site. The old page addresses no longer work. I want each to 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect to specific new addresses. But, IIS 7 seems to intercept many such requests before they get to my application. I want to handle the error logging and redirections in the Applicatio...

How to overwrite Response.Redirect to prevent port coming with it

Hi, I have a scenario that my load balancer translates port 80 from outside into port 801 which is local. And When it comes to server, server obviously sees port 801 and in Response.Redirect it tries to inject port 801 into the URL it redirects to but this is not the desired solution for me. What I am thinking is to: 1. Overwrite Respo...

IIS Server Name Change

I have a certificate for that is valid for *.MyCompany.com. That is fine for my dev and test servers because the first part of the URLs for those computers ends like that. I want to test this on my computer and the certificate is incorrect because my computer defaults to the url MyComputer.MyCompany.net. Is there a way to fake out IIS...

Help: How to enable Windows Authentication on ASP.NET Development Server?

I hope any of you guys knows how to fix this issue we are having. We are trying to host a WCF service via the web. We set the web.config to have the service require windows authentication. The problem we are having is the following: When we host our service in a regular IIS, the service runs fine and there is no issues with the "Windo...

Windows SMTP Server with Server 2008 and PHP

For some reason the iis smtp server and php are not communicating properly. I have verified that the smtp is working by telneting to it and doing the mail commands and I'm able to receive an email. In addition, I followed this link http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297700 and was able to receive an email. But whenever I try to send ema...