Questions tagged [arr]

Acronym of Application Request Routing - an extension for IIS7.0+ to load balance HTTP requests to multiple web servers.

Application Request Routing (ARR) is free extension for IIS7.0+ to provide load-balancer and functionality. The purpose is increase Web application scalability and reliability through rule-based routing, client and host name affinity, load balancing of HTTP server requests, and distributed disk caching.

ARR has several features:

  • Reverse proxy/web publishing
  • Support multiple load balancing algorithms
  • Health checking
  • Caching
  • Content delivery network (CDN)
  • SSL Offloading
  • Layer 4 and 7 routing decisions
  • Usage reporting
  • Cookie based affinity
  • Application affinity opt-out
  • Rich API
  • Websocket support

ARR manual can be found in official IIS homepage.

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IIS server farm with multiple websites

I'm trying to set up an iis server farm with multiple websites. I have a ControlServer that should redirect requests and manage load balancing for two similar iis web servers. These web servers contain different websites and subdomains. Web…
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Application Request Routing on a hyper-v guest intermittently stops

Short description: I'm having a weird problem configuring ARR on a hyper-v guest. I can load my DotNetNuke/ASPx sites normally, but after some time of inactivity, the pages are not loaded anymore. It only comes back to work after I visit a default…
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Application Request Routing server requirements

I'm exploring the possibility of implementing ARR for a basic webfarm. For the foreseeable future there will be at most 500-1000 users during peak usage. The site is for OLTP -- no content streaming. Can anyone provide some guidance as to what…
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How Application Request Routing(ARR) will work with IIS Web Services

I currently have 2 servers on Which nlb and application pools are running .Since the nlb doesn't recognize, that if an application pool has failed, it sends the request even when an application pool has stopped. So, I was thinking of Application…
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IIS 7+ Application Request routing balance between two different sites on the same box

I am looking to setup request routing on a single server. 1 incoming hostname (www.mysite.com) 2 websites (www1.mysite.com and www2.mysite.com) load spread evenly between them. This is purely so that I can setup a Continuous Delivery solution, so…
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Benefits of ARR in a load balanced environment (Azure)?

I've built a simple IIS 8 web farm on Azure VMs. The web farm has 3 instances (Windows Server 2012) using shared configuration. The load balancing is handled by the Azure's built-in load balancer. There's much discussion about IIS Application…
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Microsoft Application Request Routing with Windows Authentication

I'm running into a problem trying to get Windows Authentication working in an environment that uses Microsoft Application Request Routing and was hoping someone might be able to help. The problem I'm running into is that only some requests are…
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Outbound URL rewrite IIS 7 ARR crashing application

I'm having trouble with setting up a reverse proxy outbound URL redirect in IIS 7 with ARR. The domain has 2 inbound URL rewrites and 1 outbound URL rewrite. The inbound ones work fine and I haven't seen any problems with them. However the outbound…
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How to configure ARR - Application Request Routing - to run both as web server and as as a gateway or proxy?

I have this IIS7.5 with ARR installed on and configured as a reverse proxy to another server which is running IIS7. On this IIS7.5 I have ASP.NET 4 applications and simple websites installed. Since configuring a farm on this IIS7.5 running it as a…
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IIS 7.5 and ARR - Server.MapPath showing path on ARR Server not Content Server

I am currently building a Web Farm using ARR and the Web Farm Framework. We have two ARR servers that are part of their own NLB cluster with the Web Farm containing two identical content servers. I've deployed an application to the farm to do some…
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IIS 7 ARR Reverse Proxy Over https

I have a very simple reverse proxy setup in IIS7 using ARR and rewrite module that takes all traffic on an IP and routes it to a different IP running on a different server.
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Routing a url to fetch content from another site

Environment: IIS 7. I have a default site www.domain.com and its folder is C:Inetpub/wwwroot/domain There is subdomain www.subdomain.domain.com and its folder is C:Inetpub/wwwroot/domain/subdomain. Now I have setup a new website at an external…
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ARR route to servers

I'm trying to get ARR running in a test environment. I have 3 servers and setup a web farm. From there I enabled load balancing on each node except the primary. What it seems like its doing is the requests are getting handled by the primary server…
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Using ARR to expose TFS project portal to internet

I have a public facing web server at www.evju.biz serving several pages (it's behind a NAT'ed firewall) I also have another internal server "winttfs" hosting a TFS server. I have the URL tfs.evju.biz pointing to the www.evju.biz server. I would…
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Application request routing delete cache impossible when traffic on website

Here is my problem. My environment uses the ARR module (application request routing) in IIS because I have a server farm. On this farm house is a CMS that generates momentum on this same farm. The pages of my sites generated are cached by the ARR,…
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