Search results matching tags 'configuration', 'AppCmd', and 'IIS7'

Finding your way around IIS 7 configuration sections with AppCmd

mvolo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:33:00 GMT

The IIS 7 configuration system contains 50+ configuration sections (100+ if you count .NET Framework configuration), 477 attributes, and 57 collections. This can make it pretty challenging to figure out exactly what IIS 7 configuration section needs to be used to turn on some particular behavior, and then exactly syntax the configuration in that section should follow.

This is not typically an issue for me, because I can write most IIS configuration from memory. But, what if you didn't spend the past 4 years developing IIS7?

Learn some tricks for demystifying the IIS7 config at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/11/01/IIS7-configuration-sections-exposed.aspx.

Fastest way to create IIS7 websites, applications, and application pools

mvolo — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:10:00 GMT

IIS7 provides quite a few ways to create websites, applications, and application pools. You can use the GUI, but what if you need to create 10, 100, or even 10,000 websites?

Read about the fastest way to create IIS7 websites in bulk at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/10/06/Create-IIS7-websites-and-application-pools-fast-with-AppCmd.aspx.

Learn about creating IIS7 sites, applications and virtual directories

mvolo — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:27:39 GMT

If you are having trouble getting a simple website going in IIS7, or want to learn what the new site / application / virtual directory structure in IIS7 is all about, check out creating IIS7 sites, applications, and virtual directories.

This article covers:
   - the minimal steps needed to serve requests on an IIS7 server
   - what sites, applications, and virtual directories are and how they differ from the IIS6 concepts
   - creating sites, applications, and virtual directories using command line tools

Thanks,

Mike Volodarsky

Program Manager
IIS Core Server
Visit mvolo.com for more inside information on IIS7, IIS and ASP.NET

Anatomy of an IIS7 configuration path

mvolo — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:53:00 GMT

If you have worked with IIS6 and previous versions of IIS, you are most likely familiar with the IIS metabase paths. You know, the ones that look like LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT. These metabase paths serve as a mechanism to identify a part of the IIS website hierarchy, or a url therein, for the purposes of read/writing their configuration settings.

As you know, IIS7 repaces the metabase with a whole new configuration system, based on a distributed hierarchy of XML configuration files also used by the .NET Framework/ASP.NET. This confguration system is fundamentally different from the metabase, and so it should come as no suprise that the way configuration paths work is also different.

The concept of configuration paths is fundamental to managing and operating an IIS server, so I wanted to spend some time explaining it in hope that this can help everyone enjoy their IIS7 server just a little bit more :) If you have come here wondering exactly what the hell is MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST, you have come to the right place.

Read all about IIS7 configuration paths at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/07/21/Anatomy-of-an-IIS7-configuration-path.aspx.