Richard Marr's Blog Posts

Overview of Application Request Routing’s Health Check features

I had a recent question about the ARR health check features which resulted in this overview. Hopefully this is helpful to those of you setting up new ARR deployments. URL TEST Feature The URL Test feature tests against a specified URL for the following...

502.3 Bad Gateway “The operation timed out” with IIS Application Request Routing(ARR)

  When working with ARR deployments one of the errors you might see is  502.3  Bad Gateway. The 502.3 means while acting as a proxy ARR was unable to complete the request to the upstream server and subsequently send a response back to the...

Deleting IIS Web Sites, Applications and their Content with Web Deploy

  While supporting customers on the Web Platform Installer forums , a frequent question is “How do  I uninstall or remove Web App Gallery applications?”. Since there is no MSI or installer package these are not added to the Windows Programs...

Missing Failed Request Tracing (FREB) trace Areas ?

I was recently working with a colleague to troubleshoot an issue using Application Request Routing (ARR) and wanted to use the trace areas provided by ARR to see the events this logged. However,  when we checked the FREB trace nothing for ARR was...

Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 Express installations with WebPI

One of the challenges of troubleshooting SQL installations with WebPI is that sometimes the details passed back to Webpi do not provide enough information to tell you how to resolve the issue. This is not the fault of WebPi or the SQL installer, but due...

Installing Acquia Drupal on IIS using the Web Platform Installer

Introduction In the following walkthrough we will step through the installation of Acquia Drupal using the Web Platform Installer.   Installation 1. Launch the Web Platform Installer either from IIS Manager or Start > All Programs > Microsoft...

Installing WordPress on IIS using the Web Platform Installer

Introduction In the following walkthrough we will step through the installation of WordPress using the Web Platform Installer (WebPi).   Installation 1. Launch the Web Platform Installer either from IIS Manager or Start > All Programs > Microsoft...