iis7

Will a child application inherit from its parent web.config?

Hi I setup a IIS application from within an existing application. Will the parents web.config be inherited or is that something I have to set explicitly? ...

How do I set up my IIS to keep my application alive?

I think my Webapplication gets shut down after a while. It returns a new session if I haven't used the application in maybe 5 minutes. The session timeout is set to 720 minutes so that can't be the issue. Is it maybe a setting in the Application Pool or something like that? I figure it is some sort of resource management. I use IIS 7.0...

Avoid web.config inheritance in child web application using inheritInChildApplications

I am trying to add <location inheritInChildApplications="false"> to my parent web application's web.config but it doesn't seem to be working. My parent's web.config has: <configuration> <configSections> </configSections> // 10 or so custom config sections like log4net, hibernate, <connectionStrings> </connectio...

IIS5, 6, and 7 Speed Issues After Upgrade

I will apologize in advance as this post is born out of severe frustration. I have a classic asp website that has been running on Windows 2000/IIS5 for years, and another ASP.NET 2.0 site that we've recently started running on the same servers. So far, everything is running well. Last year, I tried upgrading (fresh install) to Windows ...

Code to add a host header to an IIS Website

I have a single site that has many names. I want to be able to programatically add a new host header record to IIS to allow it to recognize another name. Specifically, what is the code (preferably in C#) to add a new host header to a given site? ...

Problem with debug="false"

I have a program and it works well with debug="true" in web.config. When i want to get the good version i put debug="false". When i open 2 (or 3 or 4, it's aleatory) selection window (pop windows) i have a timeout error. I have read if debug is true property is not taken into account. But i have set this value to "900" and the error pe...

Running integrated mode and classic mode on same iis7 server

Is it possible? And if yes; how? ...

Transfer download processing to IIS7?

I have a system that allows the users to download some files, the user needs to login first and then he is autorized or not to download. The download page is Download.aspx?FileId=42 and the code within this page opens the file and keeps sending small chunks to the user. We made this because we needed to guarantee that only authorized use...

How can I get gzip compression in IIS7 working?

I have installed Static and dynamic compression for IIS7, as well as setting the two web.config values at my application ( Virtual Folder ) level. As I understand it, I don't need to enable compression at the server, or site level anymore, and I can manage it on a per folder basis using my web.config file. I have two settinsg in my .co...

IIS7 Programatically Get Location Nodes

I need to set an IIS site's authentication. I see that you can do .GetLocationPaths() and return a string array of the locations. But I need to get into their child elements. The elements are not nested within either the system.applicationHost or system.webServer elements and therefore cant be extracted using config.getSection. Any ...

iis 7 deploying a new build of an existing site

I would like to automate the process of deploying a new build of an existing site and allow for me to go back to the previous version of the site easily. Up until this point I have been copying my new build to the production server and placing it into a folder with a build number associated with it. Through the IIS user interface I wo...

Getting site running in IIS 7 Issues

This is driving me nuts. I am trying to setup a webiste on our dev server with a specific url name www.mystpidsite.com as an example. mystupidsite is not the same name as the dev server. 1) specify a specific url to use for the website I create in IIS 2) run it and use that url to access it I have: 1) created a new site in IIS 7 in...

Publishing from IDE removes wildcard mapping in IIS7 in classic mode.

I have an ASP.Net app that I deploy to a IIS 7.0 server in classic mode. I use the publish feature from the Visual Studio IDE. Every time I perform a publish, the wild card mapping is removed. Anyone know how to prevent this? Thanks! ...

Can i live without IIS 7 integrated mode ?

hi, i wonder what are the pitfalls of not adapting it, as i am facing many problems with integrated mode. for example URLRewritng.net is not parsing Arabic query string with integrated mode, plus many other problems. better yet question that is their ability to combine both from web.config, i mean let some HTTP handlers and modules fu...

How do you debug ASP.NET applications under IIS7 on Vista?

There is a post on IIS.net titled "Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0", but I don't quite believe that's what people do. (Among other gems, it suggests publishing your web app after every change.) If you debug your ASP.NET applications in IIS7 instead of Cassini, I would love to hear your methods, tips, and tricks. Edit: I'm referr...

Using images on Web Applications and Visual Studio for ASP.NET MVC

Hi all, I am developing an ASP.NET MVC applications with MS Visual Studio 2008 SP1. My project structure is the default one: Project |-Content |-css |-img |-Models |-Views |-Controllers The thing is, I am able to access all the content placed under Content directory provided the file is included in the project. On the o...

IIS7 Creating Virtual Directory to files on another server

I am migrating some ASP.Net applications from IIS6 to IIS7 and all has gone well until now. I am trying to create several virtual directories on 1 server that will point to files on another server. In IIS6, all I had to do was make anonymous authentication use a user that had access to the files. In IIS7, I can't get it to work. I setup ...

Rename virtual directory on Windows Server 2008 (IIS7 )

How can I rename a virtual directory (i.e. change the Virtual Path name) in IIS7 on Windows Server 2008? In Server Manager I click on the application, select Basic Settings, but the box showing the current Alias is greyed out and I can't edit it. Thanks. ...

How to force IIS7 to return Tomcat error response

I have a following setup: App - Magnolia site running under Tomcat 6.0.16 ISAPI - Tomcat connector isapi_redirect-1.2.28 web server - IIS 7 host OS - Windows 2008 Everything works fine until i try to access Magnolia admin part which is protected. Tomcat returns HTTP 401 status code with the authentication form as response body and t...

IIS 7.0 with pipeline mode = Integrated doesn´t load any image/css in ASP .NET

Hello guys.... I have a full system working in IIS 5.1 ... I migrated to IIS 7.0 with pipeline mode classic all works fine, but with pipeline Integrated my images/css are not loaded... I´m using ASP.NET 3.5 with a Web Application... Any help? ...