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Using UNC path as paths location in Mecurial IIS6 Server2003

I'm running the latest Mercurial and Python 2.6; IIS6 is using the wildcard ISAPI method to attach the site to the Mecurial hgwebdir_wsgi [paths] \ = \\COMP3254\TestRepo\* [web] baseurl = / allow_push = * push_ssl = false style = monoblue The setup works perfectly if I reference the local drive E:\repo* but doesnt work if I specify t...

Which w3wp.exe process belongs to which App Pool in IIS6 (with powershell)

to date, I use this tool to tell which w3wp belongs to which App Pool c:\windows\system32\cscript iisapp.vbs How can I extract the same information with Powershell? Or maybe, with more informative results. Thanks :) ...

ASP.NET and Application Isolation

Using IIS 6, is Application Isolation happen based on the Application Pool? If so, what happens when there is more than one Virtual Directory in one Application Pool? Do they all share the same memory and if one Virtual Directory crashes, all the other apps crash as well? ...

With IIS, how do I turn off authentication on WebResource.axd and other httpHandler "files"?

I have an IIS 6 server hosting a website that is authenticated with NTLM. I would like to turn on anonymous access to most resources, such as css, icons, and javascript. I noticed, using Fiddler, that an NTLM handshake is occuring for all resources pulled from WebResource.axd and other HTTP handlers I am using. How do I turn authentic...

ASP.NET SQLMembership Provider not logging in

My web app uses the sql memebership provider. Running it locally all is well, deploying to a dev server it works fine too in firefox, but in IE8 something unexpected is happening. Once a user logs in they're supposed to be redirected to home.aspx. What's happening when I attempt to login is it appears to accept the login credentials bu...

Easiest way to securely transfer data from one web to the next

I have 2 web sites running on the same server. Web1 needs to transfer data to web2 (same web server, different webs), passing sensitive data from one to the next. The browser will be using https. Are cookies possible/advisable here? My initial thoughts where to encrypt the data and pass through the querystring, both sites using a shared ...

More memory usage for IIS 6 asp.net 2.0 on webserver 2003

Running a webserver 2003 SP2 (x86) with IIS 6 and asp.net 2. The box is running mostly dynamic asp pages connecting to a sql 2008 server. At any given time there is over 1 gig of memory available out of the 2 gig in the box. It seems like there would be a way for it to make better use of the free memory. It is using a default machine...

ASPNETDB and ASPSTATE database. How to change the connectionstrings?

I have two ASP-specific SQL Server databases 1) ASPState - To store session state 2) ASPNETDB - To store Security/Role stuff. In my web.config, I am specifying the connection string used to identify the location of the APState database: <sessionState mode="SQLServer" sqlConnectionString="server=(local)\sql2008b;uid=sa;pwd=iainttellin...

Deploying ASP.NET MVC to IIS6: pages are just blank

I have an MVC app that is actually on a couple other servers but I didn't do the deploy. For this deploy I have added the wildcard to aspnet_isapi.dll which has gotten rid of the 404 error. But the pages are not pulling up, rather everything is just blank. I can't seem to find any IIS configuration differences. The Global asax.cs fil...

deploying aspnet mvc application to localserver iis6 in XP-sp3

This is Where i found the article for deploying aspnet mvc to localserver hello friends this is the process i found to deploy aspnet mvc application on iis6 but i am not getting insert option under wildcard application. suppose if i edit bydefault entry for "Executable" i.e C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll ...

Creating an HTTP-Redirected Virtual Directopry in IIS 6.0 without specifying physical path & WMI/ADSI?

My question is : Is it possible to create a working IIS 6.0 Virtual Directory with providing Physical Path of the Virtual Directory.? I know that manually, it is not possible via IIS but programmatically such a virtual directory can be created. If an HTTPRedirect is set on that virtual directory but the site physical path is not specifi...

Setting a under construction page for IIS6.

Hi, I have an .NET 1.1 web app and I am upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 1.0 app in IIS6. How do I put up a under construction page so uses see it? And secondly how can I install the new site and test under this scenario of having an under construction page?? Malcolm ...

How do I set a single virtual directory of my web app to not inherit web.config?

I have a virtual directory setup in one of my web apps that needs to not inherit the web.config of the main app so it can run on it's own. I am wondering how I can do this because right now when I hit it (mainwebapp.domain.com/virdir) it throws an error saying it can't find some dependencies that are listed in the main apps web.config (s...

How can I load a Perl module from a relative path in IIS6?

I am using a Perl module called from a CGI scipt in IIS 6 that is bombing. The identical folder structure on an XP machine (IIS 5.1) works fantastic. If I remove the module loading command at line 9, it will print "about to load" and "ok", but When I try to run use Language::Guess; I receive The specified CGI application mis...

log traffic (including posted data) IIS 6.0 - windows server 2003

Hi, I understand that IIS logs parts of http request which I can access. I would like to log the whole http request for a short period of time. This means I would like to store the data being posted in its raw form. Is this possible using ISS’s logging facility or do I have to install another tool? I have the following problem. I expos...

IIS 6 on Server 2003 R2: Virtual Directory problem

On a development server on our network, we have a sourcesafe-controlled ASP.Net (framework 3.5) web application we're developing. We would like to make it available to the client across the Internet for an orientation period before they deploy it on their LAN. It currently exists on our network as a canonically-addressed name. E.g., ...

Redirecting to a page using IIS6

Hi, I have a site .net 2.0 and I redirected users to a login page when the hit the site. (I think the default.aspx page) But i cant remember how i did it. I am now wanting upgrade to asp.net mvc app but the redirect is still there to a nonexistent page. Any ideas how to find the redirect? Malcolm ...

Can I Move a MediaWiki site to a new virtual folder?

I had MediaWiki installed in as the default site on my server using IIS 6 and I created a virtual directory and pointed it to the Wiki folder. The page loads, but all the links are pointing to the original location that is no longer pointing to the Wiki Folder. Info Server Name: tech Path to Wiki: http://tech/wiki/ Example Links Wrong ...

Xml files stop being served by IIS6 after allowing .net to process the .xml extension

I added a route into my site to allow for a sitemap and everything worked fine in IIS7 but once I deployed the route stopped working. Since the live server is running IIS6 I needed to put a new mapping in for .xml to be processed by .net and then it started to work. My issue though is on every other xml file on the site now. I keep gett...

Problem sending email with IIS6 and PickupDirectoryFromIis

I'm looking after a legacy .NET console application that sends out email on a Windows Server 2003 box; we've just migrated it to a new server, and now attempts to send emails are erroring. The code in question is: SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient(this.SmtpServer); smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = true; smtpClient.DeliveryMeth...