Contents tagged with IIS7 and IIS8
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IIS: Using Windows Authentication with Minimal Permissions Granted to Disk
I had a question asked me recently regarding Windows auth and NTFS permissions. Here’s the question:
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URL Rewrite vs. Redirect; What’s the difference?
IIS URL Rewrite has five different types of actions. They are: Rewrite, Redirect, Custom Response, Abort Request, and None. And if you have ARR (Application Request Routing) installed, then at the server level you’ll also see Route to Server Farm. The two most common actions are the Rewrite and the Redirect.
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Creating a Reverse Proxy with URL Rewrite for IIS
There are times when you need to reverse proxy through a server. The most common example is when you have an internal web server that isn’t exposed to the internet, and you have a public web server accessible to the internet. If you want to serve up traffic from the internal web server, you can do this through the public web server by creating a tunnel (aka reverse proxy).
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Prepending www to 2nd level domain names
A fairly common request for URL Rewrite is to prepend a www to all 2nd level domains, regardless of the domain name. Consider the following domain names:
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Why is the IIS default app pool recycle set to 1740 minutes?
Microsoft IIS Server has what appears to be an odd default for the application pool recycle time. It defaults to 1740 minutes, which is exactly 29 hours. I’ve always been a bit curious where that default came from. If you’re like me, you may have wondered too.
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Using WebDAV with ARR
Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great solution for load balancing and other proxying needs. I’m a big fan and have written often about it.
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Handing MVC paths with dots in the path
A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project. The path looked something like this:
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Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit
IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed.
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URL Rewrite – Protocol (http/https) in the Action
IIS URL Rewrite supports server variables for pretty much every part of the URL and http header. However, there is one commonly used server variable that isn’t readily available. That’s the protocol—HTTP or HTTPS.
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Introducing Testing Domain - localtest.me
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