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IIS Failed Request Tracing is a powerful way to troubleshoot Web Requests, it provides an easy way to track each execution step for one specific request. URL Rewrite Module provides several events that can be tracked using Failed Request Tracing, here Read More......( read more ) Read More...
IIS7.0 Failed Request Tracing (FRT) is a powerful troubleshooting tool for request-processing failures. More details regarding FRT and how to enable it can be be found here . Once the failed request tracing is enabled for your site, do the following to trace rewrite rules: Double click on "Failed Request Tracing Rules" icon to get to the list of FRT rules. Click on "Add ..." action to bring up the FRT rule creation wizard. On first page of the wizard choose “All content...( read more ) Read More...
Won't it be cool if you can target and route appropriate users of your site to your pilot/beta/new looking site based on user's profile. This may help you in managing select users who have previously signed for pilot program and redirect them to new looking web site and gather feedback. This is a very typical situation when your web site is evolving or going a major change. IIS7.0 Application Request Routing (ARR) module helps you achieve this. The other situation where this can help is to limit...( read more ) Read More...
It's always good to have friendly URL so that people visiting your site find it easier to remember. Asking your user to remember http://www.contoso.com/article.aspx?id=342&title=URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough for URL Rewrite walkthrough is not the nicest thing to do. Won't it be cool if user can be provided with URL like http://www.contoso.com/article/342/URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough . This indeed resonates better and is much easier to remember. With URL Rewrite module in IIS 7.0 you can easily build this...( read more ) Read More...
Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.live.com is same as http://live.com . But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate entries. This will split the rankings among them and lower the overall relevance of the site. In IIS7.0 you can use URL Rewrite to solve this problem. The following rule when added in the "Web.config" file in the root of your web site will automatically...( read more ) Read More...
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions/ Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this , I realized we didn’t have a single place to learn about all of them, so I kicked off an effort within the team to create this. Now that the pages are up, it is amazing to see how many new capabilities are already available on top of IIS7…which all by itself had more new features than any other IIS release in the history of the product. It is a testament to not only the ingenuity and hard work of the IIS team, but a real validation that IIS7 is not just a Web server, it is a server platform. All of these new features are built on top of public extensibility points that any developer can use, and provide a seamless runtime, configuration and administration experience that looks and feels like they were built...
I’m excited to announce that the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is finished and available for download. For more information on some last minute features we added, and how to download it, see Ruslan’s blog post here: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/11/10/url-rewrite-module-release-to-web.aspx Many, many, many customers have asked me for URL Rewrite capabilities over the years, and I’m happy to finally provide a high performance, reliable, and fully supported solution from Microsoft. URL Rewrite has many very cool features for Web applications and makes managing URL Rewrite rules easier to create and manage than any other solution out there. If you have IIS7, and you care about having clean URLs that search engines love to index, you need URL Rewrite. Download it today! Read More...
Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading: URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release. Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 features around. Use it to clean up URLs, provide extension-less URLs, fix canonicalization issues with your site to improve search ranking, redirect incoming users and much, much more. This latest URL Rewrite release includes all new IIS Manager support for creating rewrite rules using templates, rule testing and more. Speaking of the URL Rewrite extension, check out these community links: CarlosAg wrote a really awesome post on how to make your IIS7 site search engine friendly (SEO) with IIS7 URL Rewriter . Barry Wise, who has written a lot about SEO, did a follow-up post on the topic for IIS Scott Hanselman writes about URL Rewriter as well on how he uses it to improve canonicalization...
If you ever tried to set up Ruby on Rails (RoR) on IIS 7.0 with FastCGI you have probably noticed that the process is not very straightforward. There are a few workarounds that need to be applied in order for RoR to function correctly. In particular, Read More......( read more ) Read More...
URL rewrite module fully utilizes extensibility of IIS 7.0 configuration system. The rewrite rules are stored in applicationHost.config and web.config files in XML format. This provides a huge benefit of being able to use rich set of IIS 7.0 management Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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