One of my favorites features in the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit is what we called Report Comparison. Report Comparison basically allows you to compare two different versions of the results of crawling the same site to see what changed in between. This is a really convenient way to track not only changes in terms of SEO violations but also to be able to compare any attributes on the pages such as Title, Heading, Description, Links, Violations, etc. How to access the feature There...( read more ) Read More...
PHP.NET web site is known for its well written and very detailed documentation. The excellent content together with tons of user contributed notes has made the PHP.NET the primary place for getting the help on all PHP related questions. However there was one thing in the PHP docs that was still not up-to-date. The Windows and IIS-specific installation and configuration sections did not cover the latest changes in Windows, such as IIS 7 and FastCGI. Now I am glad to let everyone know that this part...( read more ) Read More...
Now that Application Request Router v2 is out and I have a bit more time for other stuff, I thought I would write about the config extensibility offered by ARR. The below example applies for both v1 and v2. Note that using AHAdmin via JScript is the config interface I am most familiar with, but you can easily convert this sample to either PowerShell or MWA. The below first issues a graceful stop to the server using a dynamic method and then monitors the number of outstanding requests, waiting until it falls to 0 and deletes the server from configuration at that point. If the number of active sessions rather than requests is what you look at (for apps with persistent sessions) for removing your servers from rotation, you can change state to “Drain” and then using performance counters to obtain outstanding session information from the remote server and using that to decide when to remove the server from rotation. For other dynamic methods/properties provided by ARR, look at the schema at...
I am very pleased to announce the final release of Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 , which provides a powerful load balancer and caching solution for free download onto Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. As with all the IIS Web server extensions, ARR is built by the same engineering team that brings you the IIS Web server, fully supported by Microsoft Customer Support, and will soon be localized in French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, German, and Japanese. ARR only installs on IIS 7.x, which means Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. ARR can be used to load balance requests to Windows Server 2003 and even other types of servers like Java in a Web farm but ARR itself has to be installed on a Windows Server 2008 or later server. Once you download ARR (use Web Platform Installer for an easy install), you will see a new node called “Server Farms” appear in the left tree-view of our IIS Manager administration console...
The URL Rewrite Module 2.0 – Release Candidate is available for download . The release contains functionality and stability improvements and it is believed to have a quality level suitable for production deployments. Overview Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1 , and adds support for outbound response headers and content rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to: Replace the URLs generated by a web application...( read more ) Read More...
Today we did the official release for ARR Version 2 for IIS7 and it is now fully supported by Microsoft Support . Overview: Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS 7.0 is a proxy-based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to application servers based on HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms. ARR Version 2 is an incremental release that includes all of the features from Version 1, and adds support for disk-based cache. More specifically, ARR Version 2 can be used to: Enhance ARR Version 1 scenarios with disk cache. Use ARR as a cache proxy as a cache node in a CDN/ECN environment . Use ARR as an edge/child cache node. Use ARR as a parent cache node. Download ARRv2 RTW from: • Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 RTW for IIS 7.0 (x86) here . • Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 RTW for IIS 7.0 (x64) here . What’s new in RTW: RSCA runtime statistics as performance counters . Users of Application...
Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 RTW . Customers - such as hosting providers, Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers, and IT Professionals are changing the way they do business as a result of ARR 2.0. ARR 2.0 delivers cost savings, elastic scalability, and flexible deployment options. With IIS 7.5 and ARR 2.0, customers can create a native Silverlight infrastructure and configure their CDN so that it provides superior live and on-demand media...( read more ) Read More...
With WINCACHE 1.0 RC one can configure parts of WINCACHE solution on a per site basis. As you know WINCACHE has two kinds of cache namely output code cache and file cache. With RC release, you have the ability to turn output code cache on a per site basis. We have got a new WINCACHE directive named WINCACHE.OCENABLEDFILTER which can be used to enable/disable output code cache on a per site basis. This INI directive can take a string which is list of comma separated numbers. Each number in the string represents a valid site id which is a unique identity IIS gives to each Web Site when the site gets created. All the site id included as part of this string will actually toggle the value of WINCACHE.ocenabled while running WINCACHE functionality. Example, if you have below in your PHP INI file: wincache.ocenabled=1 wincache.ocenabledfilter="2,3" This means for site having id 2 or 3, WINCACHE output code cache will be disabled and for all other site id, it will be enabled. So...
Next week I will be presenting at the ASP.NET Connections event in Las Vegas the following topics: AMS04: Boost Your Site’s Search Ranking with the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit : Search engines are just robots, and you have to play by their rules if you want to see your site in the top search results. In this session, you will learn how to leverage the IIS Search Engine Optimizer and other tools to improve your Web site for search engine and user traffic. You will leave this session with...( read more ) Read More...
FTP 7.5 comes with new features like supporting Host headers (Virtual host) and SSL. For compatibility purposes, FTP clients can check whether the FTP server supports host headers by sending a FEAT command to check for supported features. An FTP server would respond with HOST being one of the extended features supported by it and from here on client can use this feature. There are two ways of using this feature currently by the FTP clients: 1. They can send the virtual host name along with the Username...( read more ) Read More...
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