So, in your experience, whats the best way? Is there a secure way that's also scriptable/triggerable in a build automation tool? Edit: I should mention this is windows/.net and I'll be deploying to iis6 ...
I have a folder in my web server used for the users to upload photos using an ASP page. Is it safe enough to give IUSR write permissions to the folder? Must I secure something else? I am afraid of hackers bypassing the ASP page and uploading content directly to the folder. I'm using ASP classic and IIS6 on Windows 2003 Server. The uplo...
We have a situation where users are allowed to upload content, and then separately make some changes, then submit a form based on those changes. This works fine in a single-server, non-failover environment, however we would like some sort of solution for sharing the files between servers that supports failover. Has anyone run into this...
On IIS 6, what does an IIS Reset do? Please compare to recycling an app pool and stopping and starting an ASP.NET web site. If you replace a DLL or edit/replace the web.config on an ASP.NET web site is that the same as stopping and starting that web site? ...
When using the app_offline.htm feature of ASP.NET, it only allows html, but no images. Is there a way to get images to display without having to point them to a different url on another site? ...
Where can I find some good pointers on best practices for running ASP.NET MVC on IIS6? I haven't seen any realistic options for web-hosts who provide IIS7-hosting yet. Mostly because I don't live in the U.S. So I was wondering on how you best build applications in ASP.NET MVC and make it easily available to deploy on both IIS6 and IIS7...
Our ASP.NET 3.5 website running on IIS 6 has two teams that are adding content: a development team adding code and a business team adding simple web pages. For sanity and organization, we would like for the business team to add their web pages to a sub-folder in the project. Root <-- development team pages go here .. Content <-- b...
We create new sites in IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003) using IIS Manager. When these sites are created in IIS 6, the ASP.NET version defaults to ASP.NET 1.1. We would like it to default to ASP.NET 2.0. The reason this is a problem for us is that when you take any site on the server and switch the ASP.NET version from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NE...
We have a number of web-apps running on IIS 6 in a cluster of machines. One of those machines is also a state server for the cluster. We do not use sticky IP's. When we need to take down the state server machine this requires the entire cluster to be offline for a few minutes while it's switched from one machine to another. Is there a ...
How would one configurably set http-headers to cache files in IIS >= 6? Example: *.cache.* => cache nearly forever *.nocache.* => never cache An example framework using this naming would be the GWT framework. ...
We have a 4 server cluster running ASP.NET web application using ASP.NET State Server Service for session. On one of the 4 servers ASP.NET State Server Service is running and other servers are configured to look at this. Very often we have to patch the servers, and applying patch on the State Server requires few minutes of downtime. Is...
This is a shared hosting environment. I control the server, but not necessarily the content. I've got a client with a Perl script that seems to run out of control every now and then and suck down 50% of the processor until the process is killed. With ASP scripts, I'm able to restrict the amount of time the script can run, and IIS will...
My production environment involves a pair of IIS 6 web servers, one running legacy .NET 1.1 applications and the other running .NET 2.0 applications. We cannot install .NET 2.0 alongside 1.1 on the same machine because it is a tightly-regulated 'Validated System' and would present a bureaucratic nightmare to revalidate. Websites on bot...
In our application we've run into an error numerous times where we get error CS0433, which complains about a name collison in two separate dlls. This is an ASP.NET app developed in C# using webforms. It always complained about A TimeLog page. Anyone have advice for resolving this error? ...
The IIS 6.0 is serving my Classical ASP pages in a serial fashion (one at a time) The #2 request will be handled by the web server only when the #1 request ends. If the #1 request takes a little longer, the #2 request will have to wait for the #1 ends to starts being handled by IIS. Is this a missconfiguration in IIS? The operation ...
I have a need to use extensionless URLs. I do not have access to IIS (6.0) so I cannot map requests to ASP.NET and handle with a HttpHandler/HttpModule. However, I can set a custom 404 page via web host control panel. My current plan is to perform necessary logic in the custom 404 page, but it "feels wrong". Are there any recommendat...
I have files with extensions like ".dae" , ".gtc" , etc. When I try to hit these files over http, the server returns a 404, but they are in the directories. However I can serve readily known file extensions; if i just rename them to say, xml, they are accessible. Any suggestions for what the problem may be? ...
I would like to configure asp.net process to run under an account with domain credentials. My requirement is to access some files on a network share. What are the steps for this? Is there any built-in account I can use? ...
I have an .asmx in a folder in my application and I keep getting a 401 trying to access it. I have double and triple checked the setting including the directory security settings. It allows anonymous. I turned off Windows Authentication. If I delete the application and the folder its in, then redeploy it under the same application na...
I've got a WordPress powered blog that I'm trying to get setup on our IIS6 server and everything works besides the permalink structure which I'm having a big headache with. After googling around/wordpress codex I learned that it's because IIS6 doesn't have the equivalent of Apache's mod_rewrite which is required for this feature to work...