April 2009 Archive on real world web

Deploying and Configuring Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 with Remotely Stored Content on UNC Servers and NAS Devices

There is a great whitepaper available that explains the "ins and outs" of using file servers/UNC paths for hosting content. The document's original link had been missing from the MS web site for quite a while and I has happy to discover that apparently...

Troubleshooting a 404

Since IIS 6, Microsoft has made it very easy to troubleshoot the cause of a 404 "not found" error from the web server. Most admins don't realize that the IIS log file can now include the substatus code along with the 404. The first step is to make sure...

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