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Targeting the .NET Framework Version and Bitness with AppCmd
Dec 14, 2010

AppCmd.exe and Configuration Editor are very useful tools for IIS 7.x administrators.  Today I had a situation come up where I wanted to script the install an httpModule that would work in IIS7.x Classic mode.  It wasn...

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What the “Failed Requests” counter in ARR really means
Oct 26, 2010

While troubleshooting an intermittent performance issue recently, the question came up: “What does the Failed Requests” counter in the Monitoring and Management feature in Application Request Routing (ARR) mean?” For example,...

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Troubleshoot ASP.NET Errors Remotely–while Appearing Local
Jul 29, 2010

For years I’ve wanted to be able to troubleshoot website remotely by seeing the detailed error report, while ensuring that other users on the web only see the friendly non-detailed error. This is now possible with URL Rewrite...

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Configuring IIS6 for WebMatrix
Jul 08, 2010

The news of WebMatrix was just released, causing a lot of interest in the tech community.  See Scott Guthrie’s blog post for details on WebMatrix, IIS Express, SQL Server Compact and the Razor syntax. The nice thing about...

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Visual Studio IntelliSense for URL Rewrite
Jun 04, 2010

Visual Studio doesn’t have IntelliSense support for URL Rewrite by default.  This isn’t a show stopper since it doesn’t result in stop errors. However, it’s nice to have full IntelliSense support and to get rid of the warnings...

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URL Rewrite – Multiple domains under one site. Part II
May 26, 2010

I believe I have it … I’ve been meaning to put together the ultimate outgoing rule for hosting multiple domains under one site.  I finally sat down this week and setup a few test cases, and created one rule to rule them all...

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URL Parts available to URL Rewrite Rules
Apr 20, 2010

URL Rewrite is a powerful URL rewriting tool available for IIS7 and newer.  Your rewriting options are almost unlimited, giving you the ability to optimize URLs for search engine optimization (SEO), support multiple domain...

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The Mysterious ARR Server Farm to URL Rewrite link
Mar 30, 2010

Application Request Routing (ARR) is a reverse proxy plug-in for IIS7+ that does many things, including functioning as a load balancer.  For this post, I’m assuming that you already have an understanding of ARR.  Today...

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Viewing all Server Variables for a Site
Mar 09, 2010

I often do development, testing or troubleshooting where I want to see all server variables available to a site.  For example, when using a reverse proxy for load balancing, SERVER_ADDR, HTTP_HOST and other variables can...

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IIS URL Rewrite – Hosting multiple domains under one site
Jan 26, 2010

In a shared hosting environment, it’s a common desire to have a single IIS website that handles multiple sites with different domain names.  This saves the cost of setting up additional sites with the hoster.  At ORCS...

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IIS URL Rewrite – Redirect multiple domain names to one
Nov 30, 2009

Consider this a 2nd part to IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www .  Reader Rubens asked about redirecting multiple domain names in a single rule.  That’s a good question and worth writing a part II blog post about...

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IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www
Nov 27, 2009

If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using. One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com.  Many people are doing this for search...

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