IIS – formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows.
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IIS 7 Require SSL automatically redirect to https://
I've configured IIS 7 to require SSL. I'm wondering if I can automatically redirect non-ssl requests to be encrypted.
For example, if a user types in http://domain.com, can IIS redirect the request ...
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IIS7 Serving .mp4s, not playable on iOS devices
I've added the proper MIME type to the server, made sure it applies to not only the specific site but even the all of server's sites.
The file is accessible and playable in my browser (Chrome) but ...
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Huge difference in visits/hits between IIS logs and google analytics
I use google analytics to monitor visitors access, and I am very happy with it, easy to use blabla, you name it :)
Few days ago I copied IIS logs from website and used free/evaluation commercial log ...
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Migrate ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7
I have to migrate an ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7. I tried to copy the all files for a web site from IIS6 (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MySite) to another box with Windows Server 2008 R2 where IIS7 is ...
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What can you do to speed up IIS 7 web sites?
Turn on compression and you'll see immediate performance improvements, likewise if you enable caching for complex web apps.
What other configuration options you can change to improve performance? do ...
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How to move IIS7 site from one server to another
What is the process to copy an entire .NET website from one server to another server? Both sites are running Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and SQL 2008?
The base site is the live site
The new site is ...
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How to change the listening port on IIS 7 web application?
I have an apache running on port 80, I want to move my Web Applications to *:8080 But I don't remember how. I've seen this link but Edit Bindings isn't in my options list. Not even in Basic Settings ...
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Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin
I would like some cheap/free web analytic software to be used on my windows server (Server 2008). urchin seems to be way expensive. please provide me some good recommendations.
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How to redirect calls from http://svn.example.com to http://dev.example.com:8443?
How to redirect calls from http://svn.example.com to http://dev.example.com:8443?
Should I be asking our Cisco networking guy to set this up (and if so, what do I tell him to do?), or should I be ...
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Is it correct to have domains with more than 3 levels?
I've been arguing for some time about this topic, now I'd like the opinion of professionals.
My point is that a domain should be made of 2 or 3 levels at most, like:
mysite.com
blog.mysite.com
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Which event log file does IIS 7 app pool log to
Which event log files does the IIS 7.0 Application Pool Recycling log to?
I want to check out at what time the default app pool automatically recylces.
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SSL Certificate and IP Binding
I try to setup SSL on my server for only one web site (I have few there using IIS7).
I bought an SSL certificate, installed it but when I come to bind I don't have to option to specify the host ...
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How can I stop 404s from favicon.ico without a favicon.ico?
How can I stop requests for favicon.ico without having a favicon.ico? It wastes resources serving a 404 and fills up logs with 404s. Right now I put in a dummy favicon.ico file but I would prefer a ...
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Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS
I am using IIS7, I have already set up the following. But when I run Firefox it seems not to cache any of my images even with "remember history" set.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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How do I run a subdirectory on a separate server?
I have a site, www.domain.com. I want to set up a blog which runs on a separate server than the main site, and have it available a the domain www.domain.com/blog.
How would I go about doing this? If ...
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How do I use IIS7 rewrite to redirect requests for (HTTP or HTTPS):// (www or no-www) .domainaliases.ext to HTTPS://maindomain.ext
I have multiple domain names assigned to the same site and I want all possible access combinations redirected to one domain. In other words whether the visitor uses http://domainalias.ext or ...
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How to avoid DotNetNuke with another ASP.NET application conflicts
Web have the following scenario:
A generic web developed using
DotNetNuke
A b2b web application developed using
ASP.NET + Silverlight
What we want to do is the following:
When a client goes to
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IIS XML encoding seems to be wrong
We are moving our web application from Apache 2.0 to IIS 7.
Everyhing is fine with UTF-8 encoding, but just one thing.
There's a flash movie in the page that reads an xml content (dynamically ...
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Redirect a url to another url in IIS 7.5
I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewritng and redirecting the url. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only ...
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Masking a redirection in IIS7
My tools:
IIS7
1 x Windows 2008 Server
IIS URL Rewrite Module 2 (installed)
My requirement:
Mask the redirection of www.bob.com to www.abc.com/bob/index.html - the end user should not see the ...
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DOwnload file from IIS7 server with # in file name
I'm running IIS 7 web server and getting an error 404 when trying to download a file with a # symbol anywhere in the file name.
http://www.server.com/files/my#filename.doc <-- does not download ...
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Active Directory auto login to website for domain users
I am putting together an Intranet for a company - I have set up authentication to get into the Intranet from a login box linked to AD via LDAP/
However the client wants (if possible) to have users ...
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What are reasons some people can't access a website while most others can?
I have a .net MVC 3 Website hosted on a Server 2008 r2 VPS. The site only uses ssl 3.0 connections, so if you connect using http it will bump you up to https. The site is for a small company, just for ...
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In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?
In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module?
Using the URL Rewrite ...
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Host Change - What is a good method for testing SSL before pointing DNS at new host?
Version 1 of a web application is on an old Host.
Version 2 is on a new host, operating on a test domain.
At launch, we will point the official domain at the new host.
However, I would like to ...
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Building an intranet
I'm researching for a project I'm going to be doing at work on the side...
I work for a small hospital and we recently upgraded all the browsers inside our intranet to IE8 (Goodbye 6 :). We have a ...
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IIS 7.5 site is stopped, but it still responds to requests with 404 errors
What you'd expect when you select a site in the IIS console and choose the "stop" button is that all bound ports would stop responding, right? That's what it did in earlier versions of IIS, at least.
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Allow directory listing for subdirectories only
I am using webspace hosted on IIS 7.5 (according to phpinfo() ). Currently, I am enabling directory listings for a directory and all its subdirectories by placing a web.config like
<location ...
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How to redirect pages during the maintenance to home page?
I have IIS 7 website.
I need to redirect users during maintenance time to home page from other sub pages within site.
for example
if user request http://www.mysite.com/products/234
I need system ...
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Is there a SEO benefit of a 'reverse canonical redirect' back to the 'friendly' URL?
As far as I understand, you should have a single URL to access a given page on a website to prevent duplicate issues. With this in mind I have setup IIS7 Rewrite to point my friendly URLs to my .aspx ...
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Configuring IIS7 404 page when using IIS7 urlrewrite module
I've got custom errors to work for .aspx page like: www.domain.com/whateverdfdgdfg.aspx
But, when no .aspx url is requested, (like http://www.domain.com/hfdkfdh4545) it results in an error:
HTTP ...
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how to setup site for no www
the company im working at handle the hosting our self. we got www.domain.com up now and we want to make the domain.com to work as well. we use iis7. i seen some articles and found one with url rewrite ...
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Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)
Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part?
How link looks now:
http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff
How link would look after URL ...
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Problem on application with asp in IIS 7.5 with oracle 11g [closed]
We have an application developed with .Net on server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 wich is linked liked to oracle 11g on another server. Our problem is that we lose the service every two or three or more. The ...
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How to disable application pool timeout on IIS7? [closed]
On IIS6, there is a checkbox for this. On IIS7 there isn't. When the App Pool reaches its idle time, it stops. The restart is automatic, when the app is used again, however it takes 1-4 seconds to ...
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Tuning WebServer Response -
I have this sam e question on StackOverflow and I was advised to ask it here hoping for more information.
Here is the question:
I am in rather unfavorable situation. I have aspdotneststore front ...
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How to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com with DNS and IIS?
How can I redirect example.com to www.example.com using DNS / IIS? I wish to do this for an asp.net web site to prevent duplicate contents (Bad for SEO).
I had 2 a record in dns (Windows Server ...
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Download Link for Custom File Type
I have a client that wants to make their products firmware files available for download on their website. The firmware files have a custom extension: .bi2. The client wants the files to be downloaded ...
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Redirect multiple cctld's subdomains to tld subdomain
I have a site I use for development testing on one of our development servers, it is hosted at dev.domain.com.
I basically want to have www.domain.com, www.domain.ca, fr.domain.ca all point to ...
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How to restrict a incoming URL from Google Search link only for a certain File in a Folder of my application
Google Search displays a link to a file in my application, which is located in a certain folder structure.
I would appreciate if someone help me in knowing how google picked up this file in its ...
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prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory
I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory.
I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or ...
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IIS and content caching
I'm a web developer and administer of a Windows 2008R2 Cloud Instance with IIS 7. I recently made an update to our website, but when I revisited the website, the website was being viewed with old ...
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Temporary redirect to another website
I'm thinking during maintenance time at my website instead of showing "Maintenance Page" redirect to the same idea site. It takes some time up to 1 hour
And I'm thinking to use temporary redirect.
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Forward .html/.htm to .php with .config
I'm moving a site from my linux hosted server to a client's windows hosted server.
The .htaccess file no longer works and I'm told that windows servers use .config .
How can I forward all users ...
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IIS 7.5 Compression is not working when loading the page on a local computer
If I try to access our website inside our servers using the remote desktop connection. YSlow and PageSpeed is reporting that our website are compressed. But If I try to access our website in my local ...
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Adding an ASP website in IIS7.5 on Windows 7
I'm trying to add an ASP website under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 and am having no luck so far. This site is just for me to hit locally. I need to make some changes to some of the HTML in some of the ASP ...
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Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?
The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing ...
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Mail server for every website on IIS
I'm using Windows 7 x64 and IIS 7 to serve several websites.
What I want to do is set-up a mail server for every domain name (like in Linux hostings), and web-interface for example ...
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What is a free and easy to use IIS 7 log viewer?
I have raw IIS 7 logs I'd like to look at. An excel type view where I can sort by columns is fine for now.
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How to forward a domain on IIS on windows 7
Briefly my question is about combining my registered domain with the websites listening on port 80/8080 on my server.
I have a web server IIS on windows 7 and two web sites listening on port 80 and ...
