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The version of Microsoft's web server that comes with Server 2012 and Windows 8. It adds support for multiple SSL-certs for a single IP (SNI), web sockets, Application Initialization.

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Is there a cmd tool to check a web.config file for validity?

When you have a malformed web.config and try and edit part of it in the GUI it will popup a box saying so and telling you the line it broke on. Is there a way to access this functionality thought the cmd/powershell?
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401.1 errors with Windows Authentication IIS 8.5 Win 2012 R2, lots of detail no answers

Completely stumped at this one. We've got an internal web server accessed by users for a variety of sites. One of those requires Windows Authentication the site is http://caf. ("caf" is an A record in DNS in our domain) The server itself is set…
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IIS URL Rewrite Outbound rule server variable explanation

I have the following code-snippet for IIS.
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WordPress showing proxy IP address using mod_remoteip

I've set this up before and it works on other servers but I can't for the life of me figure out why it's not working in this instance, though I have a possible theory. All of this is in Amazon Web Services. So in this case we are hosting the main…
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IIS 8 Server Too Busy

I've been working on it for a few weeks. I've an IIS 8.0 Server hosting, ASP .NET 4.0 application in Classic mode. Two of the files are GET which do file system reads for every request and one is post which writes to file system. Now, I sometimes…
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Trigger Email Alert on KillW3wp Event

There's an option to have an IIS Application Pool automatically kill w3wp if the process runs at over some threshold for some period. Ref: Kill w3wp.exe if it is working on 100% cpu over a period of time When such an event occurs, I'd like to…
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IIS Reverse Proxy to Tomcat uppercase path

We have an application being served by Tomcat 7 on port 8080. We want users to use SSL. So we are using IIS 8 as a Reverse Proxy to proxy connection from port 443 to port 8080. This is what we are trying to achieve: https://app.example.com ==>…
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Need redundant IIS server

So I've been tasked with coming up with a solution in case our front end Web server goes down. Its running on a VM, Windows Server 2012. On the backend we're running a Cassandra cluster, which already gives us failover capabilities there. Just…
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IIS Website access by both hostname and IP address?

If I set up a website in IIS with a hostname (local.somewebsite.com) (having added it to HOSTS file) and also specify an IP address (127.0.0.1), the website is accessible by the hostname, but hitting it by the IP seems to load the default website…
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Delayed requests when using ARR with IIS 8.0 on Windows 2012

I've got a setup on Windows Server 2012 R2, using IIS8.0 which passes certain requests through to a custom backend using Application Request Rerouting. The backend is only listening on IPv4 on port 20000, and my rewrite rule for ARR is as…
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IIS 8: Setting the application pool username is ignored

I do this on IIS 7.5: Create an application pool, "testpool", and set the username and password to match one that exists in the AD. Then in powershell as administrator: Import-Module webadministration cd IIS:\AppPools Get-ItemProperty "testpool"…
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IIS 8 - Site not found with localhost or IP address but works with host name?

I have a single IIS 8 website bound to an IP address. I can access the site by using the host name (e.g. www.________.com) but not by IP address or localhost. I checked the bindings and made sure that I had a binding without any host name filled…
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Write access denied on FTP server (550) with IIS 8

I'm trying to setup a ftp server for one of my websites hosted with IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012. So I set up my website, everything worked fine and the website is reachable. Then I rightclicked the website entry -> Add FTP publishing -> no assigned…
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IIS 8.5 long compilation and high memory peak on first access

I have MVC 5 ASP.NET application which is precompiled on built server. There is no compilable elements in deployment package. This web application when deployed on IIS 7/7.5 is starting within 5 seconds on slow server with small memory. There is no…
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What is the difference between IIS and non-IIS Client Certificate Mapping Authentication

I want to enable certificate based authentication on my Windows 2012 Server. I see two different types of authentication possible: Client Certificate Mapping Authentication IIS Client Certificate Mapping Authentication What are the differences…
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