Do we need to have a System.Web section in our IIS web.config file, if we’re...
a typical web.config file has a <system.web/> section and a <system.webServer/> section. I’m under the impression that IIS7 / IIS7 express ignore the <system.web/> section .. so if...
View ArticlePHP not writing to error log with error_log iunder IIS 7.5
Morning All, I have a PHP application which writes some custom stuff to the PHP error log via the ‘error_log’ function. I have recently set up this application on a Windows 7 box running IIS 7.5 and...
View ArticleCan I configure IIS to use the same physical path for different sites but use...
First, let me provide you with the outcome I’d like to see. I unbundle my “application” (pages, code and assemblies) once into a directory. I use the same application (pages, code and assemblies) to...
View ArticleIs it possible to set these IIS7 settings in a web.config file?
with my IIS7 site, i manually set the bindings for my site. Here’s an example screenshot. Is it possible to set these bindings in the (local) web.config file? Not a machine or app config file … but...
View Articleshould the same machine key be used in development and production environments?
Our production servers all have the same machine key. However, our production and development systems do not have identical machine keys. We get heaps (about one per second) of exceptions of the form...
View ArticleIIS7 – 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: <httpModules> <clear />...
View ArticleJavascript Errors only on Production Server?
I am in the process of releasing a couple of asp.net websites from development to production. Everything seems to be working fine in development, but upon the release to production we get a number of...
View ArticleNeed help with some IIS7 web.config compression settings
I’m trying to configure my IIS7 compression settings in my web.config file. I’m trying to enable HTTP 1.0 requests to be gzip. MSDN has all the info about it here. Is it possible to have this config...
View ArticleConfiguration Error: ‘Logon failure: the specified account password has...
My boss just made several Windows updates to our server computer last night and in doing so we can no longer access the server from within the application. I went on the server to try and see what the...
View Articlemachine.config file update crashing the website asp.net
We are using load balancing and have three servers for that. On one of the servers the machine.config file had different machine key then the other two machines. Once we updated the machine key and...
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