iis7

Application_Start() gets called more than once o_O

I have an application made on asp.net mvc 2 and it is on IIS 7.5 on my pc I tried profiling it and I noticed that Application_Start gets called more than once, anybody knows why is this happening ? ...

Is it actually possible to programmatically manage the state of an FTP server in IIS7?

I'm able to manage FTP sites via the IIS manager, however, all attempts so far to manage the state of FTP sites using other means have failed, including: Using the IIS7 API (Microsoft.Web.Administration) Using WMI (with IIS6 compatibility enabled) Using the AppCmd tool in System32\inetsrv Related questions: Why am I unable to get S...

How to see live stats of website performance (IIS7)?

In task manager, I am only able to see the resources w3wp.exe is using, but this is too vague. Can I see the resources each website and app pool is using? Would also be nice if I can see what pages are taking up the most resources (all in real-time). Does anything exist like this? ...

Pushing notifications to a JavaScript?

I'm just wondering if there is a way to have a server push information to a JavaScript function. Essentially I have a Dashboard-type page that has a javaScript function to get updates from the server and update the dashboard. I would like my server to be able to "ping" the JS. I don't even know how that could be possible (I'm guessing ...

asp.net 3.5 app - can not load asemblies, "Strong name signature could not be verified", only when deploying to client

Have developed an asp.net 3.5 application which consists of a we-site, some developed assemblies and some 3rd party assembles such as Telerik, Jayrock etc, all very much standard 3rd party apps. Created and built this app, tested on Win 2008 Eval running on a VM, all fine. Imagine my frustration when after installing on clients producti...

How to let browsers know files have been updated? ASP.NET MVC

I have a ASP.NET MVC website hosted in IIS. Sometimes I push changes and user's browser may still using the previous files, causing functionality problems. It is because the browser is caching those files right? What can I do to ensure the user browser loading the updated files?? Thanks! ...

URL rewriting to a common end point

I want to create an asp.net white-label site http://whitelabel.com, that could be styled for each of our clients according to their specific needs. So for example, client abc would see the site in their corporate colours and be accessed through their specific url http://abc.com. Likewise client xyz would see the site in their own styling...

Restrict access to a specific URL, running on IIS7 / ASP.NET

I am deploying a public ASP.NET website on an IIS7 web farm. The application runs on 3 web servers and is behind a firewall. We want to create a single page on the website that is accessible only to internal users. It is primarily used for diagnostics, trigger cache expiry, etc. /admin/somepage.aspx What is the best way to contro...

How do I host a WordPress site in a virtual directory on IIS 7?

I have an ASP.NET website running on IIS 7. I would like to host a WordPress site in a folder on this site (/blog). I know that I can run WordPress on IIS through the Web Platform Installer, I just don't know if anyone has tried this scenario? ...

How can I exceed the 60% Memory Limit of IIS7 in ASP.NET Caching application

Pardon if this is more serverfault vs. stackoverflow. It seems to be on the border. We have an application that caches a large amount of product data for an e-commerce application using ASP.NET caching. This is a dictionary object with 65K elements, and our calculations put the object's size at ~10GB. Problem: The amount of memory t...

Asp.net mvc application deployment / security issues

I'll start with appologies; I wasn't sure if this was best posted here of Server Fault so if its in the wrong place then please move :-) Basic information I have written the first module of a new application at work. This is written using Visual Studio 2010, targetting .net 3.5 (at the moment) and asp.net mvc 2. This has been working f...

Database cache that I'm not aware of?

I'm using asp.net mvc, linq2sql, iis7 and sqlserver express 2008. I get these intermittent server errors, primary key conflicts on insertion. I'm using a different setup on my development computer so I can't debug. After a while they go away. Restarting iis helps. I'm getting the feeling there is cache somewhere that I'm not aware of. C...

How to Start/Stop Default Web Site and Apllication Pools in IIS7 programmatically

Hello together I want to Start/Stop the Default Web Site and any Application Pool of the IIS7 programmatically in C# Knows anyone how to do this, is there any library?? Thank you very much ...

ASPNET, IIS 7 Server.TransferRequest loses Context.Error

We're migrating our aspnet app from IIS 6, aspnet 2.0 tp IIS 7.0 3.5 framework. We're having an issue with our error handling. In our Globax.asax.cs Application_Error event, we capture errors and log them and then use Server.TransferRequest (formerly Server.Transfer) to our ErrorPage.aspx. In the ErrorPage.aspx, we have some code in...

ASP.NET Authentication Cookie timout and IIS 7 setting

Hello, I have an ASP.NET website for which i've set the authetication timeout to 60 days so that my users don't have to log in each time they come back if they checked the "remember me" option. Basic ASP.NET login mechanism... It's working fine on my developpement server as well as on the visual studio built-in web server. I can clo...

How to publish an ASP.NET MVC website

Hello -- I've a site that I'd like to publish to a co-located live server. I'm finding this simple task quite hard. My problems begin with the Web Deploy tool (1.1) giving me a 401 Unauthorized as the adminstrator because port :8172 comes up in the errors and this port is blocked - but the documentation says "The default ListenURL is h...

asp.net mvc, IIS 6 vs IIS7.5, and integrated windows authentication causing javascript errors?

This is a very strange one. I have an asp.net MVC 1 app. Under IIS6, with no anon access - only integrated windows auth - every thing works fine. I have the following on most of my Foo pages: <% using (Html.BeginForm()) { %> Show All: <%= Html.CheckBox("showAll", new { onClick = "$(this).parent('form:first').submit();" })%...

String Functions in IIS Url Rewrite Module

The IIS URL Rewrite Module ships with 3 built-in functions: * ToLower - returns the input string converted to lower case. * UrlEncode - returns the input string converted to URL-encoded format. This function can be used if the substitution URL in rewrite rule contains special characters (for example non-ASCII or URI-unsafe characters). ...

How to get the physical location of an ASP.NET web application without using HttpContext.Current?

I've found myself having a requirement to configure log4net based on a file relative to the physical location of the running ASP.NET web application. We like to start the logger as early as possible, so Application_Start seems a proper place. In IIS6, this works fine and has been running for ages, but now we moved to IIS7 and this won't ...

How to use Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll to get the site information the page is running on?

I have a half dozen sites on my server and I would like to get some info from IIS7 to display in the footer of each page (as long as you are an admin of course). I am going through the ServerObject and found Sites but am not finding anything obvious for "this site". What should I do to get at the information for the exact site in IIS7 ...