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Intermittent problem with WCF service

Hi there, We have a website hosted with heart internet and are seeing some strange behaviour and have no idea what could be causing it at this stage. It seems at random intervals our WCF web services will cease to work. The server will return the message that the service failed to start (System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException)....

IIS server redirect locations...

hi, I got a asp site hosted in a iis server. In the server there is a virtual folder products and whenever a url like xyz.com/products/abc_11.asp is provided it is forwared to xyz.com/product.asp?id=11 page. I would like to know from where we can change that settings? These settings or tasks can be done from where? Thnx ...

Access network share using Windows authentication

I constantly trip on this when writing apps for our intranet. Let's say we have a network share called "\\server1\myfolder", and I'm writing an app that needs to read a text file from there. Access to the share is very limited, which is fine. If someone doesn't have access to the folder, the app catches the error and tells the user they...

TWebBrowser and NTLM-authencation

How can I connect with the TWebBrowser-component in Delphi from outside an ADS-Domain to a Sharepoint-Server. I've created an user-account in my domain and will connect with this information to the server. the following don't work: const USERNAME = '[email protected]'; PASSWORD = 'Password2009'; var Url, Headers: OleVariant;...

static methods and the call stack in IIS/asp.net

Theoretical question. If you have 100 separate requests coming to an aspx web page that calls the static method below. public static GeocodeResult GeocodeQuery(string query) { int train, tube, dlr = 0; // manipulate these ints if (train) { // do something important } } ...

How do I protect a directory in asp.net MVC?

Hi There, What would be the simplest way of protecting a directory in asp.net mvc? Currently I have a folder of misc files which belong to numerous users of the site. Ideally I do not want one user being able to type the URL to one of these documents in a browser and have access to it. These files should only be downloadable through a ...

"Enable HTTP Keep-Alive" in IIS cause disruption?

I have a production web site in IIS 6 where I need to change the value of the "Enable HTTP Keep-Alive" checkbox. Will that cause production disruptions? Recycles, app domain restarts, or similar? ...

IIS Session Timeout vs ASP.NET Session Timeout

In IIS 6 (and other versions too afaik), there is a Session Timeout setting in Properties -> Home Directory Tab -> Configuration button -> Options tab. Looks like this: And in the ASP.NET web.config there is a SessionState setting, looks like this: <system.web> <sessionState timeout="120" /> <!-- etc .. --> </system.web> Ar...

ISAPI Extensions on IIS 7.5/Windows 7 (professional)

I need to register a custom isapi extension on my web server, but I can't seem to find the option on my IIS 7.5/Win7 (pro) box. On IIS 6 it used to be under "Home Directory" -> Configuration -> Wildcard application maps. How can I achieve the same on IIS 7.5? ...

Referrer not forwarded

We have the following probe query that works for a while, but it’s broken after most recent deploy onto a new set of machines. I debugged into our ISAPI Extension code and found out that the REFERRER was not forwarded over as expected. I checked the IIS settings, there is no difference between the machines showed problem and the produ...

IE/IIS integrated authentication problem

In IIS I've got: http://myserver/myapplication http://myserver/reports The reports app is reporting services in fact which uses windows authentication. myapplication is an asp.net application that uses forms authentication. The server is outside the company domain. If I access the reports first and type in the user and passwo...

Best XML DB for a PHP website?

Hello, I'm planning on writing a RSS Feed Aggregator with a team, but I'm wondering what XML Database we should use. The server currently runs IIS 6.0 with PHP 5.3.0 x64, I understand already that I need both a server application and a PHP extension. What I've discovered already: Galax Have previously used this at university, but I ...

Using integrated authentication with EWS (exchange web services)

I'm in the process of setting up a company intranet. One of the requests is to do some intregration with Exchange Server 2007. In my tests I can authenticate to EWS just fine using NetworkCredential, as long as I'm passing in my username and password. In our intranet, I'd like to pass on the credientials of the logged in user. We'll be ...

Problem with getting custom errors to display on IIS7

We're running a site built in EPiServer (CMS5 R2, latest version) and ASP.NET 3.5 that's running on IIS7, we've built a custom error handler that utilizes the URLRewriter-functionality of EPiServer to handle 404 and 301 status codes, everything works locally (Windows 7 + IIS7.5) but we just can not get the 404 pages to work on the live s...

open a network file from an intranet web application

I am currently building an intranet applicaiton using asp.net mvc and I am wondering if there is a way to link to a file or folder available on the network. I tried simply <a href="G:/folder/">open folder</a> But obviously that won't work as it just gives the output: file:///G:/folder/ which doesn't actually open to anywhere. I unde...

MySQL-SSL Configuration on Windows Machine ( openSSl, Mysql 5.1, IIS 5.0)

how to setup openssl at the mysql? "have_ssl" disabled; how to enable it? " mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'have_ssl'; If the value is YES, the server supports SSL connections. If the value is DISABLED, the server supports SSL connections but was not started with the appropriate --ssl-xxx options" there is not very clear. how to enable i...

What causes a query string when requesting jQuery? e.g. /jquery-1.3.2.min.js?_=12553...

I'm troubleshooting a jQuery problem which happens when the HTTP requests for a page load include this query string: GET /Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js?_=1255309685187 Normally, the request has no query string and the response status code is 304: GET /Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js However, every so often a query string is appended. ...

What is the most efficient cross-process communication method for IIS web services

We have a set of (ASMX but could be WCF) 64-bit web services which need to execute some 32-bit managed code (the APIs have 32-bit COM dependencies and cannot be executed in 64-bit) for processing on the same physical machine. The 64-bit web services are hosted in IIS 7.0. Note: some of the messages contain large byte arrays. What is the...

Open IIS website in editor by right-click?

I was just wondering... is there any kind of extensibility whatsoever to the IIS management console? What i'm looking for, is some way to make it so i can right-click on a website in IIS, and say "Open in..." and then open it directly in an editor, such as Web Developer Express. It's not critical, but it would be very convenient and s...

Issue with IIS Worker Process User permission for new installation

Hi there, I mean issue with setting the Worker Process to read/write/modify. In what scenario/task do we need to use Worker Process for web script? Currently I only know of 1 scenario>> when a script want to resize image. What else? How can we easily set WP permission for a particular web folder automatically, so that we can carry ou...