Nov 10, 2008
Today IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Install the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW today! Microsoft...
Filed under: IIS News Item, URLRewrite
Oct 31, 2008
Since the time we have published the article about installing FastCGI and PHP on IIS 7.0 it has become one of the most popular articles on http://learn.iis.net . Also it has received a lot of comments from site visitors. Today, we are publishing the updated...
Filed under: PHP, FastCGI
Oct 30, 2008
One of the very cool features of URL Rewrite Module is its integration with IIS Failed Request Tracing . When you have rewrite rules that do not work the way you expect them to work - enable Failed Request Tracing and you will get the entire history of...
Filed under: URLRewrite, Tracing
Oct 23, 2008
ASP.NET Web Forms extensively use postback mechanism in order to maintain the state of the server-side controls on the web page. This makes it somewhat tricky to perform URL rewriting for ASP.NET pages. When a server side form control is added to the...
Filed under: Other, ASPNET
Sep 30, 2008
The big benefit of IIS 7 integrated request processing pipeline is the fact that all the nice and useful ASP.NET features can be used for any type of content on your web site; not just for ASP.NET-specific content. For example, ASP.NET SQL-based membership...
Filed under: Other, ASPNET
Sep 19, 2008
Last week I have recorded a video screencast that shows how to use URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 to perform some common URL manipulations tasks. Today this video has been published on IIS.NET - check it out at this location . The video demonstrates how...
Filed under: Uncategorized
Sep 11, 2008
Today IIS team has made the Go Live release of URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 available for download. This release contains significant functionality and performance improvements and it is believed to have a quality level suitable for production deployments...
Filed under: IIS News Item, URLRewrite
Sep 04, 2008
Today I have published two new articles on http://learn.iis.net . The articles are intended to explain the differences between various URL manipulation technologies available in IIS 7.0 and to provide help with choosing of the technology best suited for...
Filed under: URLRewrite
Aug 27, 2008
IIS team has recently released an update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI module that fixes compatibility problems with several popular PHP applications. In particular, the update changes the behavior of FastCGI module in the following ways: REQUEST_URI server variable...
Filed under: PHP, FastCGI, Wordpress, Drupal, IIS News Item
Aug 07, 2008
If you ever tried to set up Ruby on Rails (RoR) on IIS 7.0 with FastCGI you have probably noticed that the process is not very straightforward. There are a few workarounds that need to be applied in order for RoR to function correctly. In particular,...
Filed under: FastCGI, URLRewrite, RubyOnRails
Jul 28, 2008
URL rewrite module fully utilizes extensibility of IIS 7.0 configuration system. The rewrite rules are stored in applicationHost.config and web.config files in XML format. This provides a huge benefit of being able to use rich set of IIS 7.0 management...
Filed under: URLRewrite
Jul 18, 2008
IIS.NET team has been very proactive in helping us out with testing of URL rewrite module . In fact, they even agreed to deploy the latest build of the module on the production server that hosts http://www.iis.net . This kind of real-life deployments...
Filed under: URLRewrite
Jul 12, 2008
There have been a few questions on IIS.NET PHP forum regarding enabling per-site PHP configuration. This is a common requirement when running PHP applications in shared hosting environment, because each PHP application may require a different set of PHP...
Filed under: PHP, FastCGI
Jul 11, 2008
My name is Ruslan Yakushev. I am a program manager on IIS team, working on some of the very interesting projects that are being developed in the team right now. I have joined the team about a year ago, and was thinking about starting a blog for a while...
Filed under: Other