Questions tagged [iis-7]

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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How do I block specific IPs and IP ranges in IIS7?

I'm trying to block various IP addresses from every site that I have hosted from an server running Windows 2008 and IIS7. I've found various information about how to do this using Deny rules from "IPv4 Address and Domain Name Deny Rules (IIS 7)" in…
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Change TeamCity IP address and port number on multi-homed Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7

After two full days of "research" (read: banging my head against my keyboard) and cursing at TeamCity/MSDN/Tomcat documentation as well as phantom IIS bindings, I've come up with an answer to a very perplexing issue: How can I change TeamCity's IP…
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IIS FTP Server works locally, but cannot connect from remote

I'm trying to setup an FTP server on Windows 2008 Server. I can connect locally: C:\>ftp localhost Connected to WebHead1 220 Microsoft FTP Service However, when I try to connect from remote, it doesn't work: ~>ftp x.x.x.x ftp: Can't connect to…
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yslow says etags are misconfigured. how to configure etags properly on IIS7?

running ySlow on a website I support, I noticed it reported that the etags are misconfigured for the site images (e.g. *.jpg, *.png, *.gif). Can anyone help explain what I have to do to get IIS7 issuing these etags correctly ?
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IIS 7.5 optimizations for a site serving only static content

I'm looking to setup a cookie-free domain intended to serve static content for a web application, similar to the http://sstatic.net/ site that the stack exchange sites use. My question is, what optimizations can I make to my IIS 7.5 setup for such a…
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How can I control which IP address IIS7 uses?

In Win2k3, I used httpcfg to tell IIS to listen to specific IP addresses on the server. I want to run Apache with VisualSVN Server on port 80 on another IP address but IIS7 binds to all IP addresses by default. What utility for IIS7 controls the…
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Difference between application and virtual directory

I am asp.net developer , I am always confused between application and virtual directory in IIS.It seems that in iis 6.0 ,you can only create virtual directory.
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IIS7 - Lock Violation error, HTTP handlers, modules, and the element

I have an ASP.NET site that uses its own set of HTTP handlers and does not need any modules. So, in IIS6, all I had to do was this in my web.config: However, if I try to do the same in the system.webServer…
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Could not connect to remote computer web deploy ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE

I am trying to configure Web Deploy 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1 installed on it. When I try to validate connection using Visual Studio 2013 to publish a website it throws the following error. Could not connect to remote computer…
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Prevent URL Rewrite rules from being inherited by subdirectories in IIS7

I have a URL Rewrite setup for clean URLs in a CMS and my web.config looks like this:
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IIS7 ban IP range

Possible Duplicate: How does IPv4 Subnetting Work? I have a list of IP ranges I would like to ban, an example being: 119.30.47.xx Where xx is anything. I've added the domain and IP restrictions into IIS. When I click add deny entry, I see: For…
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IIS7 - Basic Authentication Module missing?

I'd like to use basic HTTP authentication to keep people out of our dev site instance since it is unfortantly exposed to the wild internet. However, in IIS7, the only authentication modes listed are Forms, Anonymous and Impersonation. Where did the…
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When is the right time to introduce high availability for web site?

When is the right time to introduce high availability for web site? There are many articles on High Availability options. It’s not that obvious however WHEN is the right time to switch from single server to high availability configuration. Please…
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IIS7: How to block access with a web.config file?

I know that IIS7 allows me to have a per directory configuration with the web.config xml file. I have a directory with some configuration files that don't want to be web accessible. A local web.config file forbidding read access to it would be a…
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IIS7 returns blank when static content requested

I am trying to configure a demo machine which is EEEPC with Windows 7 Home Premium edition all the drivers properly loaded (don't ask me why it's Home edition) with IIS7 installed. I've deploy the application to be demo-ed on the machine which is an…
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