iis7

Configure IIS7 to server static content through ASP.NET Runtime

I searched high an low and still cannot find a definite answer. How do I configure IIS 7.0 or a Web Application in IIS so that ASP.NET Runtime will handle all requests -- including ones to static files like *.js, *.gif, etc? What I'm trying to do is as follows. We have kind of SaaSy site, which we can "brand" for every customer. "Bran...

File Security (IP address access restrictions) in IIS7

I have a web service that contains 2 asmx files (public.asmx and private.asmx). On IIS6 I could go to the properties of private.asmx then, from the 'File Security' tab, deny all computers access except the IP address for localhost. In IIS7 I only seem to be able to do this for an entire folder. What am I missing? ...

Routing problem, handling differently online versus local - MVC.net 1.0

I have there lines in my RegisterToutes : routes.MapRoute("Pages3", "{url1}/{url2}/{url3}", MVC.Page.RedirectTo(), new { url1 = "", url2 = "", url3 = "" }); routes.MapRoute("Pages2", "{url1}/{url2}", MVC.Page.RedirectTo(), new { url1 = "", url2 = "", url3 = "" }); routes.MapRoute("Pages1", "{url1}", MVC.Page.RedirectTo(), new { url1 = "...

Why does my Windows Form app timeout when repeatedly hitting IIS 7 externally?

hey guys, I've got a very simple Windows Form app that hits an IIS 7 site about 2000 times in the space of a few seconds (using threads). When I run that app on the server itself, using either localhost or the ip address, everything is totally fine. However, when I run the app on my dev box, using the ip address, I get an error from t...

Determine what account IIS 7 is using to access folders (and other resources)

Often, out of sheer desperation I will end up enabling "Everyone" access on a folder that a web app is accessing (perhaps for file creation, reading, etc) because I can't figure which user account to enable access on. Obviously, this is a very bad thing to do. Is there a way to determine what account IIS is using at that exact moment t...

IIS 7 problem which does not occur under apache

I'm hosting a little site using a JavaScript to draw a simple graph. It involves one html index file, some css and some js files. It has all been working perfectly on two different apache servers, but when I set up IIS 7 the ajax calls fail. I get no java debug errors in firefox that I can work with, or any kind of error message at all....

Dojo load time extremely slow on iis

I am currently working on a project that is using Dojo as the js framework. Its a rather rich ui and as such is using (and thus loading) a lot of different .js files for the dojo plug-ins When run on an apache server running on a mac, the files (all around 1k) are served very quickly (1 or 2 ms) and the page loads pretty fast (<5 second...

MSDeploy migrate only configuration from IIS 6 to 7

We have 19 websites, many of which have many "virtual" directories, on a IIS 6 server. I am trying to migrate the whole thing over to IIS 7 on a different server. Following the instructions on http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/427/migrate-a-web-site-from-iis-60-to-iis-70/ I attempted the following command line execution: msdeploy -verb:s...

IIS7 GrantByDefault

I have an application (written in c#) that allow me to set IIS to allow or deny access to a website from all ip addresses. The application works fine for IIS6 however it does not work with IIS 7 (even with IIS 6 WMI Compatibility installed). heres the code (basically) Type typ = this.Entry.Properties[IIsWebDirectoryProperty.IPSecurity]...

Dot Net Nuke - Sub Domains

Hi Guys, I've got a DNN portal set up for me and my brother, which works, and i'd like to make it so that sub domains point to our respective sub section of the sites. I.e. brothers.co.uk = brothers.co.uk/home.aspx me.brothers.co.uk = brothers.co.uk/me.aspx him.brothers.co.uk = brothers.co.uk/him.aspx I've got the sub sections set ...

IIS7 URL Rewriting: How not to drop HTTPS protocol from rewritten URL?

I'm working on a website that's using IIS 7's URL rewriting feature to do a permanent redirect from example.com to www.example.com, as well as rewrites from similar domain names to the "main" one, such as from www.examples.com to www.example.com. This rewrite rule - shown below - has worked well for sometime now. However, we recently a...

Workaround for HttpContext.HideRequestResponse being internal? Detect if HttpContext.Request is really available?

We're migrating an application to use IIS7 integrated mode. In library code that is designed to work either within the context of an HTTP request or not, we commonly have code like this: if (HttpContext.Current != null && HttpContext.Current.Request != null) { // do something with HttpContext.Current.Request } else { // ...

How do I correctly set up Application Request Routing in IIS7 to route SSL requests?

I have a 3-node web farm being managed by IIS7 and Application Request Routing. I have a folder hierarchy in my web app that needs to be secured via SSL. What is the best practice for getting ARR to correctly route these SSL requests? I have installed the same certificate on all web farm servers and the server running ARR. I have tri...

Error Running MVC2 application in IIS on .NET 4.0

I recently installed the RTM version of 4.0. I now receive an error when running MVC2 websites in a .net 4 app pool. The error is "User is not available in this context." All works fine on .net 2.0 app pools or if I run the app within the VS10 web server. The error only occurs in IIS on .net 4.0. To verify that it was not something speci...

Is possible to get notification by e-mail when a site or app pool is down (using IIS7)

I am trying to find out if I can get notified when a site is down, or when a service running under WAS is no longer running. I don't want to code a monitoring tool, I am sure there must be something out there... ...

ASP.NET Performance, 100 "Memory Hard Faults" indiciate a memory swapping problem?

With a customer web site we currently experiences performance problems. While analyzing the problem we found an unexpected amount of of 112 "Memory Hard Faults" per minute. Does anybody can interpret the meaning of this value? Does this happen, when memory swapping is necessary - so the root cause is not sufficient memory? Even if the...

How to add custom Authentication Type in IIS7(.5)

I am busy developing a IHttpModule, which will do our custom authentication using our own credential store. I would like to know how to add a new custom Authentication Type to the list (Anonymous, Basic, Forms etc.) in InetMgr under Authentication and how I would know which Authenticaiton Type has been enabled in the IHttpModule class...

WCF service - HTTP500

Hi guys, I need help with wcf service. i have a ajax-enabled wcf service: public class AddFavorites : Page { // Add [WebGet] attribute to use HTTP GET [WebGet(RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)] [OperationContract] public void AddFavorite() { this.AddMyFavorite(10, "sometext"...

Connect to https:// webservice in asp.net app

Hi All, I have an ASP.NET website that is contacting a webservice. Everything works fine connecting via http but when I try https:// it can't connect. I don't seem to get any error from the website and the webservice logs show nothing, meaning nothing has connected to it. I can connect to my https:// webservice from a site like soapcl...

Visual Studio / Visual Source Safe / Integrated Security / IIS 7

Using Visual Source Safe with IIS integration (the working dir is the IIS site) Visual Studio, pointed to the IIS site would load up the Web project. It would be under VSS control (have to check out files, etc). Recently, we had to switch to Integrated Security for our database connections from the web app. This means changing the i...