Contents tagged with IIS News Item
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Most common deployment slot swap failures and how to fix them
Azure Web App Deployment Slots are used to deploy new versions of an application code into production with no interruption to the production traffic. In order to achieve this the swap process involves multiple steps that are performed to prepare the new version of the code to successfully handle the load once it is in [...]
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How to buy a certificate for an Azure Web App
If you have tried to enable SSL for your Azure Web App you know that the steps to do that are: Purchase certificate and export it into a PFX file Upload PFX file to a resource group that contains your web app Bind the web app’s hostnames to the certificate Out of those steps the [...]
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Azure Web App Deployment Slot Swap with Preview
Some time ago I had a blog post describing how to warm up an Azure Web App during deployment slots swap. In that post I explained the sequence of actions that happens during the swap. One important point in that explanation is that if a site has any app settings or connection strings that are [...]
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PHP on IIS: get the latest security updates now
This morning Microsoft has released a security update that addresses the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability. The PHP applications running on IIS are subject to this vulnerability if ASP.NET is enabled in IIS.
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ASP.NET vulnerability affecting PHP sites on IIS
Microsoft has recently released a Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET. This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET. The PHP applications running on IIS are also subject to this vulnerability if ASP.NET is enabled in IIS.
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WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP – Release to Web
Today IIS team has published the final release of WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP. This is the latest stable and production ready version of the extension. The v1.1 has all the features available in version 1.0 plus the following features.
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WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP – Beta 2
Today IIS team has published a second beta of WinCache 1.1, which has the following new features and improvements :
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IIS URL Rewrite 2.0 – Release to Web
The IIS URL Rewrite Module 2.0 – RTW is available for download. IIS URL Rewrite v2.0 is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds extensibility support and outbound response rewriting. More specifically, v2.0 can be used to:
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Important update for IIS 7.0 FastCGI module
FastCGI module in IIS 7.0 has been lacking some of the features and bug fixes that are available in IIS 7.5 FastCGI module and in FastCGI Extension 1.5 on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0. The reason why this happened are explained in the post about FastCGI Module: Differences across IIS versions. This week IIS team has released an update for FastCGI module in IIS 7.0 that closes this remaining feature gap and ensures that FastCGI functionality is consistent across all versions of IIS.
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More Performance Improvements in WinCache 1.1-Beta
Since the WinCache Extension for PHP has been released last year it has been widely deployed by customers who run PHP on Windows OS and it has proven to provide a substantial performance boost for PHP applications hosted on Windows-based web servers.