Install tool to create virtual directory on IIS
What install tool can I use to create Virtual Directory on IIS? OpenSource, free or to do in C#. ...
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Can you host multiple tenants on a single ASP.NET application instance over SSL?
I have an ASP.NET application that will host multiple tenants (Software-as-a-Service style). Each tenant will have their own domain name (www.mydomain.com, www.yourdomain.com) and their own SSL certificate. Is there a way to host the application such that all of the tenants are on the same application instance? I know you can have mul...
How can I publish a subversion repository to a local IIS?
At work, we have a windows server 2003 with IIS and Subversion installed. We use it to publish and test locally our ASP.NET websites. Every programmer has Tortoise installed on his PC and can update/commit content to the server. Hosting the repositories is working fine. But the files kept in those repositories needs then to be copied to...
Is there any IIS equivalent to Tomcat?
I want to test ASP.NET applications to get the feel for the MVC extension and compare that to what I can do today with Grails or Rails. The trouble is that being in a corporate environment, I can't install IIS on my workstation, neither on my DEV server. And - you guessed it - Visual Studio is not to be considered at that moment (I guess...
Schema reference for IIS programmatic administration
Where can I find the IIS object schema? All I found from MSDN was a picture of the class hierarchy. To be clear, I want to configure IIS through either WMI or ADSI and I'm looking for something like the Active Directory schema, only for IIS. I want a list of all the objects I can configure, which objects they can be contained in and wha...
What non-web-based tools exist to view IIS logs?
I'm looking for non-web-based tools to view IIS logs. I've been using LogParser but I was hoping for something with an interface. It doesn't need to do any fancy reports or charts -- just a list with some search filters is plenty. I need something lightweight that I can run directly on the web server, preferably without a complex inst...
Free (affordable) remote web based administration for Windows/IIS?
I've been using: Webmin Free, Apache only Cpanel Paid, Apache only I believe Plesk Paid, supports IIS Recently managing sites on our Windows/IIS machines have been becoming a chore. Installations, Configurations, Monitoring; have all been mostly done by hand and with a mess of scripts we've put together over time. Does anyone know o...
How can I redirect and modify extension-less URLs via ASP.NET?
We have redesigned the structure to a website which has several business units. Now I want to redirect (301) to the new page. IE: was www.example.com/abc now www.example.com/default.aspx?article=abc I have tried to use Global.asax to do this, and it works properly when I debug through it. if (Request.RawUrl.Contains("abc"))...
Working with client certificates for an ASP.NET MVC site on IIS 6
Wanting to implement authentication by client certificates I am experiencing some issues. First some facts The whole site is using SSL. I am using IIS 6 (on Windows Server 2003) and have configured the site to accept client certificates, not requiring them. Most browsers are however implemented in a way so that they will only ask the u...
Restart IIS if new dll dropped in bin?
Do I have to restart IIS if I drop a new DLL in the bin of my virtual directory? ...
IIS performance problem trying to implement an XMPP-like protocol
Hi, we're have a client that needs to get interactive messages from a server, from clients that are distributed around the world behind all kinds of firewalls with all kinds of ports closed. The only thing we can rely on is HTTP port 80 (and HTTPS 443). The design is basically modeled after XMPP (the Jabber protocol), using our client a...
IIS site on UNC share: is it problematic?
I am working with a legacy ASP Classic solution which is load balanced (via external hardware and has an IIS site the home directory of which is an UNC path. I've been told that the following issues with this setup currently exist: When using an UNC path as home directory, there is an "index" somewhere in IIS which "caches" up to a ce...
What's the best way to develop against WordPress on Windows when you already have IIS/SQL Server installed?
If you want to develop against WordPress (i.e., have a local instance running on your machine so you can develop themes, get blogs and sites laid out, etc.) and you're running Windows on your development machine with IIS and SQL Server already installed, what's the best way to do it? I found a method online which sets up a little "mini"...
Cannot Access http://<tfs-server>:8080
I've installed TFS 2008, but I can't seem to access the server. When I try to connect to it in Visual Studio, I can't. If I try by browser on a remote PC, I get a generic page cannot be displayed. On the server, I get a 403. Nothing was touched in IIS and the service is running as a Network Service. Any ideas? ...
How to Limit Download Speeds from my Website on my IIS Windows Server?
When people download files from my website, I don't want them to be able to download faster than 300KB/sec per file. Is there anyway to do this? I'm running IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003. ...
How to gain SSL load balancing!!!
I have to deploy my ASP.NET application into two seperated IIS servers. My application works over HTTPS/TLS. My ASP code has to handle client SSL certificate and it means I can't use simple forward load balancers, because I will never get such certificate from nginx or Apache Load Balancer. As I understand there is no common (open-sourc...
ASP.NET/IIS: 404 for all file types
I set up 404 handler page in web.config, but it works ONLY when extension of URL is .aspx (or other which is handled by ASP.NET). I know I can setup static HTML page in website options, but I want to have a page. Is there any options to assign ASPX handler page for all request extensions in IIS? ...
Secure only Login.aspx for a site
Hi, Is it possible to secure only the Login.aspx page (and the postback) and not the whole site in IIS? We are looking to do this specifically with a SharePoint site running Forms Based Authentication against our Active Directory. Links to this will be helpful. This is what we have done so far: 1. Setup SharePoint to use FBA against ...
What does AllowLocation="true" do in System.Web section of Web.Config?
We have a .NET 2.0 application which we normally run on IIS6, and used to run fine on IIS7, but recently after installing SP1 for Vista IIS7 seems to be choking on a line in the Web.Config file: <system.web AllowLocation="true"> Is it safe to remove the AllowLocation attribute? What does this attribute do? ...
Where does Console.WriteLine go in ASP.NET?
In a J2EE application (like one running in WebSphere), when I use System.out.println(), my text goes to standard out, which is mapped to a file by the WebSphere admin console. In an ASP.NET application (like one running in IIS), where does the output of Console.WriteLine() go? The IIS process must have a stdin, stdout and stderr; but i...