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How to fake 404 in IIS7

I would like to set /directory/default.aspx to return 404 even though file and folder exist. How is this possible to do in IIS7 settings? Update: I would like to do this in IIS Manager, not on code. ...

CakePHP on IIS7 - no css/js/img

I can’t get the css, js and img loaded. I’ve been using the web.config out of this article: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1533/A-Note-on-mod_rewrite Please any suggestions… ...

Global.asax not firing for .aspx pages in IIS7

We run a link redirection service which can handle links thrown at it in various formats. One of these formats is to append the destination URL to the end of the link, for example http://url.fwd/abcd/http://www.mydomain.com/page.aspx This was working on a Windows Server 2003 / IIS6 box for the last two years, but now we're trying to mo...

IIS7: Wildcard Mapping and Default Document

Hello, I am migrating an IIS6 website to IIS7 and I am hitting the well known problem of mixing a global ASP.NET handler while using default documents. See here for details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david.wang/archive/2005/10/15/why-wildcard-application-mapping-can-disable-default-document-resolution.aspx Right now, in IIS7, I have the...

Why is Drupal writing to root and not sites/default/files?

I'm using Drupal 6.14 on Win7. Everything seems to work except files that should be written to sites/default/files are trying to be written to /. The site was moved from a linux installation, which is writing the files correctly. I have setup a web.config w/ the rewrite rules for drupal. Not sure what or where else I should check. Thanks...

Why does using ASP.NET OutputCache keep returning a 200 OK, not a 304 Not Modified?

Hi folks, i have a simple aspx page. Here's the top of it:- <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Foo.aspx.cs" Inherits="Foo" %> <%@ OutputCache Duration="3600" VaryByParam="none" Location="Any" %> Now, every time I hit the page in FireFox (either hit F5 or hit enter in the url bar) I keep gettin...

ASP.NET 4 - IIS 7 - Request timed out - Request timed out

My website is running on Asp.net v4 , IIS 7 , Windows server 2008. My cpu is running on 20-30% and the site is responding quickly. Every 2-5 mins i'm receiving the following error: Event code: 3001 Event message: The request has been aborted. Exception type: HttpException Exception message: Request timed out. , Request informatio...

ASP.NET MVC2, getJSON, Jquery Windows 7 64bit IIS

I have started learning MVC2. I developed a simple customer search screen with Jquery and Json calls. In debug mode everything works. When i deployed to my local iis server and after configuring the app pools i got the app to run. When i do the search nothing happens, it like the json call is not working and i dont get any errors eith...

Why does enabling 32-bit applications on IIS7 break classic ASP on .html files?

When I enable 32 bit applications on the application pool of a website running on Server 2008 web IIS7, a handler mapping for *.html -> asp.dll no longer works. Can anyone explain why? ...

Forcing loading of Asp.net development server with DEBUG for testing wcf service (nunit)?

can anyone help? I have a solution in vs 2010 which contains a WCF Service application and a class library which has a number of Nunit test. The nunit tests the service. Problem is that there is no Asp.net Development server running - is it possible to force it to run under debug mode.. I can press F5 but then i can't run my tests. M...

W3WP crashes when initializing a collection

I've created an ASP.NET MVC application that has an initializer attached to the PreApplicationStartMethodAttribute. When initializing, a collection is instantiated that implements an interface I've defined. When I instantiate this collection, w3wp.exe crashes with the following two incomprehensible entries in the event log: Faulting app...

Unable to debug ASP.NET Applicatation using VS 2008 on IIS 7 running on Windows 7 x64

Hi, I've been trying to debug an existing asp.net web application that requires me to debug against an IIS website. I've installed the app and can navigate to it on localhost. However, when I start VS 2008 as an Administrator and try to debug it, I get a message "Unable to start debugging on the web server. The IIS worker process for...

Is it possible to write an IIS URL Rewrite Rule that examines content of HTTP Post?

I need to split a portion of functionality away from a legacy ISAPI dll onto another solution (ASP.NET MVC most likely). IIS7's URL Rewrite sounded like a perfect candidate for the job, but it turns out I cannot find a way to configure the rules the way I need. I need to write a rule that examines the content of the HTTP post for a parti...

Windows Server 2008 R2 + IIS 7.5 + ASP.NET 4.0 = HTTP Error 500.0

I am having an impossible time getting asp.net 4.0 to work in any fashion at all. In fact, I completely wiped my server, reinstalled with Server 2008 R2 Standard (running on a VMWare ESXi box, not that it should matter), and cannot even get a test .aspx page to work. Here is exactly what I did: Installed 2008 R2 Standard Activate...

What is the difference between the IIS7 application pool types

In II7 you have the option the choose different application pool type. I have 4 types to choose from Default Application pool Classic .Net Application pool ASP.NET v4.0 ASP.NET v4.0 Classic What are the differences between these, and when to choose what? ...

WsHttpBinding with security mode TransportWithMessageCredential in IIS 7 not working

Hi everybody We are currently migrating a WCF service from IIS 6 to IIS 7. The service contains some non-SSL endpoints for internal streaming purposes and some exposed endpoints secured with SSL. The public, secure endpoints are implemented using wsHttpBinding and security mode="TransportWithMessageCredential". The binding reads as fol...

How to find size limits for POST on IIS with ASP.NET?

I have a web service on which the end users will be uploading ZIP archives that can be very large (one test file is over 200MB). I'd like to handle oversized files proactively and size-limited upload failures gracefully. Since the web app will be deployed on customers' machines, so I cannot easily ensure that the configuration matches...

migrate from iis6 x64 to iis7 x32 using msdeploy

I'll start this discussion by saying I've been successful when moving iis7 -> iis7. I tried to create a package on the source server. Seems like it should be pretty straightforward... msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/29963 -dest:package=c:\site.zip Info: Adding package (package). Info: Adding child metaKey (/lm/w3svc/29963)...

Is my System Administrator crazy :-) Does ASP.NET MVC break when the server's Physical Path is in UNC format?

Hey Everyone, I'm trying to get my company to move to ASP.NET MVC and away from classic ASP. I've written some sample applications as proof-of-concept but now I'm running into problems as I try to deploy these mvc applications to my company's IIS7 server. My System Administrator says that there is something in ASP.NET MVC that is prev...

Intermittent Could not load file or assembly / PolicyExceptions

Intermittently we'll get errors like these from our .NET 3.5 web applications: Exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not load file or assembly 'itextsharp, Version=4.1.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8354ae6d2174ddca' or one of its dependencies. Failed to grant permission to execute. (Exception from HR...