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IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.

IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.

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Advantages/Disadvantages for using a single volume / drive letter for Windows Server installs

Our virtual environment is cut up as a VM for each job role (DNS, DC, System Center CM, File Server, Log Aggregation, IIS, etc). If disk performance isn't critical is it really necessary to still logically separate the Windows OS files from your…
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IIS website http ok but https cannot find resource (status code 404)

Afternoon, I publish an API on domainA.com and have done for several months. *http:/domainA.com/service.svc takes me to the resource (c:\inetput\wwwroot\api) *https://domainA.com/service.svc overnight now cannot connect the same resource. Web site…
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IIS 7 Reverse Proxy based on domain name host?

How would I configure IIS 7.0's ARR and URL Rewrite to reverse proxy based on a host. For example: http://website1.mydomain.com gets routed internally to internalserver\website1 http://website2.mydomain.com gets routed internally to…
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How to stop IIS7 from listening on a specific IP address and port?

I am trying to install Apache on Windows Server 2008. The installation ends with a warning that the IP address I configured Apache to listen on cannot be bound. When I use netstat -a -p tcp to see if any processes are listening on the IP address and…
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Attempted hack on VPS, how to protect in future, what were they trying to do?

UPDATE: They're still here. Help me stop or trap them! Hi SF'ers, I've just had someone hack one of my clients sites. They managed to get to change a file so that the checkout page on the site writes payment information to a text file. Fortunately…
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Wordpress: Problem installing on dedicated windows server 2008/IIS7

I'm having trouble with installing Wordpress on a dedicated Microsoft Windows Web Server 2008 R2. I've installed Wordpress Version 2.9.2 from Web platform installer 3.0. After installation when I try to access wordpress, either from ~/index.php or…
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Can an IIS worker process's Virtual Memory use exceed the Private Memory limit?

For example, if I configure the following limits for an Application Pool in the "Recycling" settings: Virtual Memory: 512Mb Private Memory: 128Mb - or "used memory" in IIS 6 parlance Can the process use, say, 90Mb of physical memory but have…
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PsExec and Windows 2008 R2: 'Access is Denied'

Here's my scenario: I'm attempting to remotely start & stop IIS 7.0 sites on my server from my local machine, using PsExec. Some important points: Local machine runs Windows Vista. Server runs Windows 2008 R2. Each machine runs on different…
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How do you create a single robots.txt file for all sites on an IIS instance

I want to create a single robots.txt file and have it served for all sites on my IIS (7 in this case) instance. I do not want to have to configure anything on any individual site. How can I do this?
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Fast swapping of production and staging in IIS

I'm using IIS 7 on my own dedicated server. Let's say I have two web applications. One points to folder A, and one points to folder B. The first is used for production and the second is for staging. If I want to set up a scenario whereby I upload my…
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Accessing localhost on IIS7 from another computer on the network

I recently upgraded computers to Windows 7 Professional and am running IIS7. When I'm on my computer I can easily access localhost through my web browser but when I try from another computer on my network (replacing localhost with my computer name)…
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IIS7 web farm - local or shared content?

We're setting up an IIS7 web farm with two servers. Should each server have its own local copy of the content, or should they pull content directly from a UNC share? What are the pros and cons of each approach? We currently have a single live…
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Why does any .php page give me a 404 error on Server 2008 with IIS 7.0?

I am using FastCGI to setup PHP. I've followed the instructions on the iis.net website. I added the handler mapping, edited the php.ini file as specified. None of it works, I just get a 404.0 error saying "The page you are looking for has been…
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What are the benefits of a self signed certificate on a live site?

Are there any benefits of a self signed certificate on a live site? I know in IIS 7 you have the ability to self sign a certificate and I was wondering if using that as a precurser to buying one from a CA would be a good idea. Do you get the same…
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How can I renew SSL on IIS7 with No Downtime?

Our Windows 2008 IIS7 web server has a wildcard SSL that is about to expire. The CSR that is automatically generated is too long and not accepted by my CA - nothing I can do about that. My main concern is avoiding any downtime. My secondary concern…
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