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re: Viewing all Server Variables for a Site

Suchita — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:24:38 GMT

i have used the same in Classic ASP

re: Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and Virtual Accounts

Julian Castiblanco — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:13:11 GMT

Great post!! thanks a lot

re: IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www

OWScott — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:18:00 GMT

Hi elmer,

You'll get too many redirects if there is a loop. This can occur if your condition includes the URL in the action. For example, let's say that in the action you're going to www.domain.com, but in the condition you're checking for (www\.)?domain\.com, that will cause a loop.

Another easy way to get a loop is if another component fights with you. For example, if you add the www with URL Rewrite, but your site (or CMS) removes the www. That can cause a redirect loop.

re: 1000MB is not 1GB

Aqeek — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:34:28 GMT

I think for the DVD drive and Disk sizing. Everyone is forgetting that there is a space utilized for either Master Boot Record or memory buffer size, in which works to move small chunks of data between disk space during the transfer process.

re: IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www

elmer — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:21:00 GMT

I'd follow you're instruction but after that my webpage has an error of Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

How can I resolved this?? I'm using codeigniter

re: Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?

OWScott — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:21:59 GMT

Hi Bill,

The 1740 is a time since the last recycle, so the daily recycle would occur before 1740 could occur, essentially causing the 1740 to not be used.

The time interval setting could be used with the daily recycle if it's less than 24 hours (e.g. 4hrs). I can't think of many reasons to do so, but it's possible.

re: Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?

Bill — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:45:50 GMT

How does the app pool behave if you have both the default app pool to recycle every 1740 minutes and a specific time of day daily?

re: URLRewrite ServerNameVariable Provider

OWScott — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:12:58 GMT

Hi Dave,

Good question. It really depends. There is software out there that does a good job of hiding the servername, and some regulatory specs require that you do so. If someone knows the machine name they may have a slightly better chance to attacking it. So there could be some value to to completely hiding the server name.

However, the risk is very minimal IMHO. There's not much you can do with a name in most situations that you can't do with an IP address, especially in a server farm where the server can't be directly accessed from the web. That's a call that you will need to make in your environment.

re: URLRewrite ServerNameVariable Provider

Dave — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:13:51 GMT

Thanks for the post Scott, I know I'm a little late, but found this very useful. I just wondered if there were any security considerations surrounding handing our your server names?

re: Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?

OWScott — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:19:22 GMT

@Kevin Rice, you have a good intuition then. I like the 29/17, or even 29+7 minutes which is 1447; the first prime number (from the minutes perspective) after 1440. There are a few fun options to choose from.