It took me a bit, but I figured out how to make the extensions work with IIS 6. First, you need to rework the base routing to include .aspx so that they will be routed through the ASP.NET ISAPI filter. routes.MapRoute( “Default”, // Route name “{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}”, // URL with parameters new { controller = “Home”, … Read more
Some tips on warm up scripts: https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/SharePoint-developer-tips-and-tricks More info on the IIS site: http://blogs.iis.net/steveschofield/archive/2009/05/30/application-pool-warm-up.aspx Check out the latest news under “Auto-Start Web Applications” section here: http://www.asp.net/LEARN/whitepapers/aspnet4/default.aspx
In summary: IIS 5.1 (Windows XP) – it’s a local ASPNET account IIS 6 – by default, application pools run under the Network Service account which is a member of IIS_WPG group IIS 7.0 – still Network Service IIS 7 SP2 / 7.5 – runs under an ephemeral thing called ApplicationPoolIdentity which maps to an … Read more
By adding a reference to Microsoft.Web.Administration (which can be found inX:\Windows\System32\inetsrv, or your systems equivalent) you can achieve nice managed control of the situation with IIS7, as sampled below: namespace StackOverflow { using System; using System.Linq; using Microsoft.Web.Administration; class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var server = new ServerManager(); var site = server.Sites.FirstOrDefault(s … Read more
IISReset stops and restarts the entire web server (including non-ASP.NET apps) Recycling an app pool will only affect applications running in that app pool. Editing the web.config in a web application only affects that web application (recycles just that app). Editing the machine.config on the machine will recycle all app pools running. IIS will monitor … Read more
It possible that you haven’t got Classic ASP support installed in IIS. To do this in Windows 7 follow the steps below; How to enable Classic ASP support on IIS for Windows 7 Installing Classic ASP support Goto Control Panel -> Programs and Features Select from the left navigation bar From the Windows Features dialog … Read more
It sounds like you’re running into what’s called a “double-hop” issue, which is where the server is not being trusted to pass the client’s credentials on to another box (hop 1 is the credentials to the IIS box, hop 2 is from the IIS box to the SQL Server). When you’re logged directly into the … Read more
The application pool will restart and session state will be lost. Imagine each ASP.NET application (as defined in IIS) is a program on the desktop. Saving web.config will do something similar to closing the program and reopening it.
If you’re using IIS 7, there is a new managed API called Microsoft.Web.Administration An example from the above blog post: ServerManager iisManager = new ServerManager(); iisManager.Sites.Add(“NewSite”, “http”, “*:8080:”, “d:\\MySite”); iisManager.CommitChanges(); If you’re using IIS 6 and want to do this, it’s more complex unfortunately. You will have to create a web service on every server, … Read more
By default, IIS in W2K3 and above won’t serve files that aren’t of a MIME type that it knows about (instead returning 404 errors). You need to add a MIME type to IIS to allow it to serve that type of file. You can set it at the site level or at the server level. … Read more