When I used to use IIS 6 (or so) I'd often make a virtual directory on my local dev machine that pointed to the production assets/content directory(s). That way I could see all the most up to date content off production, without having to FTP it down from the production server. Now I'm trying to do it in IIS 7 and can't see it. Does an...
Every time I have to go to attach to process, then scroll down and find w3wp.exe Is there a faster way to do this? ...
I have a ASP .NET 3.5 website running on IIS7 on a Windows 2008 server, that uses a HttpModule to rewrite paths, for example www.site.com/robby will get rewritten to www.site.com/item.aspx?id=123. I have a performance problem on sign in as FireBug reports a 15-25 second "waiting for response", however is does speed up to a couple of s...
I have just moved a site from a Windows 2003, IIS6 SQL 2005 server to a new one with Windows 2008, IIS7 and SQL 2008. I am having problems with the Report Viewer. I have installed the Report Viewer Re-distributable (I've tried 2005, 2005sp, 2008 and 2008sp) I've Mapped a handler in IIS for Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd to t...
Hi, We are creating a site provisioning application in IIS7.0 where as we are creating the sites programatically . We have created an app pool and assigned a user who has full previleges on the site directory to the app pool.But when we run the website the site is not using ASPNET impersonation by default. it is throwing privileges exce...
I've created a self-signed certificate in IIS7. Then I exported this certificate to a .pfx and then installed it on the client machine's IE browser. Then I set "Require Client Certificate" on the server's IIS configuration. When I try to visit the site with IE, a dialog box comes up for me to choose a certificate, however, there are no c...
I developed a ASP.NET application that needs to run in multiple instances on my machine (IIS7). I need to set up SSL for each instance, but I lose the option to do binding to a specific host name (that option is only available with regular HTTP). So how do I differentiate the instances? If I try to add more than 1 SSL binding I get the ...
Having moved our ASP.NET site from 32-bit Windows Server 2003/IIS6 to 64-bit Windows Server 2008/IIS7 (classic mode), certain active directory operations are intermittently experiencing huge delays. Specifically, DirectorySearcher.FindOne() and DirectoryEntries.Children.Add() sometimes take up to 40 minutes to complete. These problems s...
Hi, I am running an ASP.NET 3.5 web application on IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008. I received the following error earlier this afternoon: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I looked in the Event logs and discovered that: A process serving application pool 'Classic .NET AppPool' suffered a fatal communication error with the Wi...
Literally it is a blank page with just "Bad Request" in the upper left corner, nothing else. I'm trying to run an ASP.Net website locally for development purposes. The following is what I've done to get to this sorry state: IIS is installed and activated (obviously) and I've turned on all the windows features under Internet Informati...
Hi, I've a .net WCF service hosted on an application server with windows 2008/IIS 7.0. I see following error message in the event log: Faulting application w3wp.exe, version 7.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x47919413, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, timestamp 0x4791a7a6, exception code 0xc00000374, fault offset 0x000b015d...
I have an ASP.NET MVC application with a route that allows searching for stuff via /search/<searchterm>. When I supply "search/abc" it works well, but when I supply "/search/a+b+c" (correctly url encoded) then IIS7 rejects the request with HTTP Error 404.11 (The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that contains a d...
Hi Guys I need to add a trailing / to a url if it doesn't have one or isn't a file so http://www.ddd.com/dasdas becomes http://www.ddd.com/dasdas/ But I don't what to just add slash the URl as this will end up with filename like this style.css/ So I need a piece of Regex that I can put into the IIS 7 rewrite engeine to append when...
I have classic ASP running on IIS 7. Even though I configured the ASP "Debugging Properties" to "Send Errors to Browser = True", the web app REFUSES to send errors to the browser and continues to send a 500 internal server error. My browser has "Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages" unchecked. Failed Request Tracing is installed (not...
Hey all, I am trying to connect to IIS programmatically. I find there are a ton of examples online, but I can't seem to get any to work and have tried quite a few variations Every time I try the following code the object that is returned has this error for each property: ..."threw an exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.C...
Hi, I have recently moved my ASP.Net website to a new hosting provider. I am having a problem, however - the rewrite rules for the blog no longer work. I see that the developer has added the following to web.config: http://pastebin.com/m4f2f2dea The new server is running IIS7 with the URL Rewrite module installed. Is there anything el...
Hi, I have an ASP.Net website running on IIS7. The developers have created a CMS in the \admin folder, which allows the website admin to create/edit/delete pages. They have said: "The read/write permission should be given to the user that requires login access to the admin panel, not the anonymous user that has general public access t...
Environment: 2 IIS7 servers, 1 appears to be compressing images the other is not, i want to turn off the compression. I have a site running on two IIS7 server, when serving images from one server the GIFs look fine, when i serve them from the other instance, with the same files, the GIF color palette looks web safe or compressed or some...
I'm working on a ASP.NET 3.5 application running on IIS7 (Server '08) using the stock MS Forms Authentication and SqlRolesProvider. (I used the aspnet_regsql tool to generate the tables). We have three roles: SysAdmins, AppAdmins, and Users. All users are in Users, and a user can be in either SysAdmins, AppAdmins or both. I can't ...
We have a server application that has one module installed on a separate server, and want to use WCF for the two modules to communicate with each other. I've narrowed it down to hosting the WCF either in IIS7/WAS or in WAS without IIS. The main purpose of the primary application is actually to serve as a tcp/ip sockets based server tha...