IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.
IIS7 is the version of Microsoft's web server software released with Windows Server 2008.
Questions tagged [iis-7]
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Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in IIS 7
What is the best way to turn on HTTP Strict Transport Security on an IIS 7 web server?
Can I just through the GUI and add the proper HTTP response header or should I be using appcmd and if so what switches?
Bob
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Configure IIS 7.0 to download APK
I would like to know how to configure IIS 7.0 to allow the download of APK files?
I found an article which tells me to add a new MIME type:
File Name Extension: .apk
MIME Type: application/vnd.android.package-archive
Because In IIS there needs to be…
John
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Difference between application and virtual directory
I am asp.net developer , I am always confused between application and virtual directory in IIS.It seems that in iis 6.0 ,you can only create virtual directory.
Ybbest
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IIS7 - Basic Authentication Module missing?
I'd like to use basic HTTP authentication to keep people out of our dev site instance since it is unfortantly exposed to the wild internet.
However, in IIS7, the only authentication modes listed are Forms, Anonymous and Impersonation.
Where did the…
FlySwat
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IIS Manager: What is the Time Elapsed UOM when examining an IIS Worker process?
OK, this has to be msec, but in some docs it is sometimes mentioned as seconds.
Thoughts?
(UOM is units of measure, e.g. "seconds" or "milliseconds" or whatever)
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Disable static content caching in IIS 7
I'm a developer having what should be a relatively simple problem in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2. The problem is that IIS 7 is overzealously caching all static content on the server. It's caching all .html and .js content and not noticing when…
Lee Richardson
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What are good load testing tools for IIS 7 web applications?
The title says it all. I'm looking for a good set of tools that I can use to load test a web application on IIS 7 before deployment.
Joseph
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What permissions do I need if IIS Manager is blank or empty?
Problem
Attempted Solutions
I added my account in AD to the groups Administrators, Domain Admins, Domain Users, IIS_Users.
IIS was missing the icons in red in the management section
so I ran the IIS Manager as administrator, entered the…
Tim Partridge
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IIS7 - How do I update the alias after site creation?
I have a web application directory (subsite of the main - default website). I want to update the Alias that I originally chose. How do I do it in IIS7?
In the file mentioned by Coding Gorilla I see
P.Brian.Mackey
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Why could a new IIS7 install be showing blank pages for all files?
I've tried to browse to .html, .png, .css, .txt files, but the page just comes up blank. I have tried browsing from other machines - same issue. Also (may be unrelated) there are no log files where I expect them to be: C:\inetpub\logs -- it only…
Nick Bolton
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Alternative to application pool startMode="AlwaysRunning"
If a web application called for itself to be setup with it's application pool to be configured in the applicationHost.config as:
Chris Marisic
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IIS returning error can't start W3SVC
First of all I want to request you all not to mark this query as duplicate, as I tried to find out the problem but was unable to do so.
I already has IIS installed and was working fine but suddenly it stopped working.
There was no installation of…
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IIS: missing configuration/properties
In IIS (Windows Server 2008) I open the IIS Manager, then expand the local server name, the expand "Sites" and right click on "Default Web Site" but no "Properties" show up.
According to this Microsoft article, that is where I would go to find the…
JBurace
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Fast swapping of production and staging in IIS
I'm using IIS 7 on my own dedicated server. Let's say I have two web applications. One points to folder A, and one points to folder B. The first is used for production and the second is for staging. If I want to set up a scenario whereby I upload my…
Nathan Ridley
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IIS7 Web Farm Framework 2.0 Basic Setup Questions On Load Balancing
Possible Duplicate:
IIS7 Web Farm Framework 2.0 Basic Setup Questions On Load Balancing
Pardon the basic questions but I can't seem to find any basic answers.
I'm in the process of standing up a standard server farm using Web Farm Framework 2.0.…
chris.baglieri
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