Archives
-
Web Farm Framework and proxy servers: Part 3
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I talked about working around situations where the WFF controller and/or farm servers needed to access a proxy server to be able to pull the RSS feed used by the platform provisioning piece.
-
Web Farm Framework and proxy servers: Part 2
In part 1, I focused on how to work around situations where your WFF controller has to pass through a proxy server in order to successfully retrieve the products feed. The configuration sample I provided didn’t address another possible scenario: What if that proxy server requires authentication?
-
Web Farm Framework and proxy servers
While setting up a Web Farm Framework environment recently, I ran across an issue where the Platform Provisioning piece of the UI was failing to pull the products feed down. In my case, the error was:
-
Configuration Editor–An Admin’s Best Friend
Configuration Editor has to be one of my favorite pieces of the IIS7 UI, and probably one of the least publicized. For anyone who hasn’t used it, you should give it a whirl. In addition to allowing you to browse the config using a treeview style layout, it also provides samples showing how to configure IIS via appcmd or code. If you’ve struggled to figure out the proper syntax for different appcmd tasks, this feature is for you! Now, this post isn’t intended to be a walkthrough on how to use Config Editor to generate samples, as we already have blog posts on http://iis.net to demonstrate that: