iis7

Separating handler configuration from web.config for IIS7 (configSource not supported?)

For the system.web/httpHandlers section of web.config I can use the "configSource" attribute to specify an external configuration file, like so: <system.web> <httpHandlers configSource="App_Config\httpHandlers_iis6.config" /> </system.web> This allows me to use the same set of handlers across all of my environments while only hav...

shtml pages are not working in iis7

shtml pages are not displayed in iis7. i get the following error when tried to access shtm file The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map. pls help -Vivek ...

Web application creation in IIS7 via MS.Web.Admin

I am attempting to create seperate workflow instances as applications in IIS7 using the Microsoft.Web.Administration dll. When it attempts to add the Application to the Site ApplicationsCollection I get a COM error: "Invalid application path\r\n" using (ServerManager manager = new ServerManager()) { var site ...

Internet Explorer 8 timeout too quick on page POSTs

We have an asp.net site running, which has been working fine for some time, but recently I have been experiencing some issues with IE8. On posting some pages - mainly on our development server, although on staging too - we get an occasional "Internet Explore cannot display the webpage" error along with the button asking to diagnose conn...

missing duration in iis 7.5 Failed Request Tracing on server core

We have Failed Request Tracing working on IIS7.5 (Windows 2008 Server Core) and our rule has ASP.NET checked off and verbose logging set. However, on many googled screenshots of what a typical failed request trace looks like, we see the actual duration of each subpart in milliseconds shown to the right of the word verbose on the "reques...

How can I make a server log file available via my ASP.NET MVC website?

I have an ASP.NET MVC website that works in tandem with a Windows Service that processes file uploads. For easy maintenance of the site, I'd like the log file for the Windows Service to be accessible (to me, only) via the website, so that I can hit http://myserver/logs/myservice to view the contents of the log file. How can I do that? A...

Powershell IIS7 Snap in Assign SSL certificate to https binding

As part of our automated build procedure we are trashing and reconstructing our IIS site with powershell scripts. Once i have created the AppPool and the website complete with binding information I want to set the SSL certificate for the https binding. I can't find any concrete examples onl;ine anywhere that demonstrate this. Any ideas...

How can I install asp.net mvc 2 on IIS7?

I have developed an ASP.NET MVC 2 website, and now need to deploy it to my web server. I've overcome some hurdles already, since ASP.NET was not installed etc. but I've now got to the point where I can serve up plain content files, and if I try to hit one of my MVC URLs I get this: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Mvc, Ver...

is it possible to install IIS 7 on windows XP ?

is it possible to install IIS 7 on windows XP ? ...

How do I stop IIS7 from putting out its own 404 before my MVC app gets a chance to handle it?

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 application, which has an Application_Error event handler in global.asax. In this, I'm detecting the case where the Exception type is HttpException and the HTTP code is 404, and redirecting to my own 404-handling page. This works fine on my Cassini development server, but now I'm trying to move it over to my prod...

HELP!!! Upgrading to windows 2008 R2 server has caused major issue with screen scraping remote server pages.

I have three servers. One is Windows 2003(A) and another is Windows 2008(B) and third one is also Windows 2008 (C). All of them are web servers. A and B contains classic asp pages and they are 32 bit servers and C contains asp.net pages and is 64 bit server. The asp pages of A and B use the screen scraping technology to render the asp.ne...

Rewrite URL in IIS7 .NET MVC

Hi, I'm trying to rewrite the url: https://mydomain/phone-append to https://mydomain/Service/PhoneAppend using the following rule: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="Phone Append"> <match url="phone-append" /> <action type="Rewrite" url="/Services/Index" appendQueryString="true" /> ...

ASP.NET Deployment under IIS7/VS2010 as Web Application

I transformed my VS2008 ASP.NET Website to a "Web Application" today using VS2010. So now it's possible to build a Deployment Package. A Zip Package which can be direclty imported into IIS7. Usually I added a website in IIS7 called mydomain.com and put everything in its root dir. That worked. However, since I converted to an Web Applic...

Will the URL /nosuchpage get routed via my ASP.NET MVC application?

[I'm trying to figure out the reason why I'm having another problem, and this question is part of the puzzle.] I have an MVC 2 website that has routing set up so that URLs such as /Customer/23/Order/47 get handled by various controllers. I do not have a rule that would match, for example, /nosuchpage and in my Cassini environment a requ...

Can I use an absolute url in an html img tag on a IIS7 ASP.NET application?

While migrating ASP.NET intranet applications from IIS6 to IIS7, I came across a problem with absolute urls in html tags: I can't get them to consider the application as the root of the url unless the application is published at the root of the web site. Here is a code snippet that demonstrates the problem. It is published in an appli...

MVC app not working on server but is fine on development machine

Hello, I am able to run my application just fine on my dev machine but as soon as I publish it to the web server some functionality is lost. Any type of .ajax POST does not work usually with a 401 unauthorized error. The server is Windows 2008 with IIS7. I also installed Visual Studio 2008 with MVC2 on the server and ran the applicat...

Problems with ASP.NET, machine-level web.config, and the location element

I've got a server running Windows Web Server 2008 R2. The machine-level web.config has the following entries: <location path="Preview"> <appSettings> <add key="Environment" value="Preview" /> </appSettings> </location> <location path="Staging"> <appSettings> <add key="Environment" value="Staging" /> </ap...

Gzip http compression problem on iis7

My web hosting provider is running IIS7 and I am having loads of trouble to get gzip compression to work properly. Host admins say compression is installed. I can confirm compression using some online checking services but not with others. PageSpeed Firefox add-on also says the site is uncompressed. I am personally sitting behind a Squid...

How come .net 4.0 and .net 2.0 CLR's can exist in a same machine

I have a basic doubt that, How can we have both CLR's on a same machine. If this is possible, When I refer few dll's of 4.0 and setting application pool to 2.0 why Cant I run the website(I am getting errors).When we refer the dll's from web.config it means it searches for GAC when that particular 4.0 dll is available in GAC Why dont it l...

Debug .NET app with IIS7 and Delphi.NET - Use aspnet_regiis.exe to configure the local IIS web server.

Hi All, I have been trying to set up local debugging for my ASP.NET app in Delphi and am getting the error above. I have used the aspnet_regiis.exe tool with the following: Aspnet_regiis.exe -s W3SVC/1/ROOT/DevTest but this hasn't helped. It added it to IIS as an application but I am still getting the error: The project cannot be de...