Contents tagged with IIS 7
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IIS Security – Past and Present
This topic has been covered many times both by Microsoft and non-Microsoft employees. However, I’ve recently been asked what the main features of IIS 7 are and have seen a great deal of misinformation about IIS security on twitter, blog posts and forums.
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Installing CakePHP on IIS 7
Recently I spoke with someone on Twitter who was having issues running CakePHP on IIS. With all the talk about ASP.NET MVC on IIS, folks forget that the MVC pattern works in other languages as well. CakePHP provides MVC development on PHP. That said, I wanted to dive in and see what the issues were involved in getting this project up and running on IIS 7. I managed to get it installed pretty quickly, but it does take a little tweaking to get you up and running. I've chronicled my adventures with CakePHP below in case anyone else is having issues. That said, I must first say that I am not an expert working with CakePHP. This was my first experience with the project, so this information is provided "as-is" and should be taken with a grain of salt. With this demo, I’ll be walking through the "Cake Blog Tutorial” offered on cakephp.org, and modifying it as needed to work with IIS 7. That said, let's get started.
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IIS logging UI module sample added to CodePlex
For those of you that remember that far back, I released a sample that also filled a need for Windows Vista. Since the original version of Windows Vista did not ship with a user interface for managing logging, and we needed samples of how to build UI modules available to the public, I released the Logging UI module. For some time, I've been hosting that downloadable release on my private web site (Tobin Titus' blog). As I plan to make some major changes to my personal site over the next few months, I wanted to make sure the release was still reliably available. That said, I've now added the source code to CodePlex.
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Enabling VS.NET 2008 to work with IIS 7.0
This is likely old ground for some, but I thought I’d cover it again just in case. As you may know Visual Studio allows you to create a new web site on IIS. However, there are some minor steps that you need to complete before it will work appropriately.
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IIS 7.0 Error Support
I know that most of you reading the blogs on this site have already seen how handy the errors are in IIS 7.0 as compared to previous error conditions. This weekend, I was playing with BlogEngine.NET and thought I'd put it on my personal site (tobint.com) to try it out. I downloaded the software and tried setting it up on my server. After following the brief instructions, I hit an error:
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Accessing Custom Configuration at Runtime with Microsoft.Web.Administration
I've been working on a series of posts and Webcasts in my "spare time" directed at some of the areas in which I am most frequently asked questions. I am currently working on developing topics dealing with IIS configuration. It seems logical that this would bring me a great deal of questions considering that IIS 7.0 is using a completely different configuration system than it did in previous versions. That said, I wanted to follow up to my Webcast ("Extending IIS Configuration") with an article, and another webcast dealing with accessing custom configuration data at runtime.
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Silverlight and Expression and Bears, oh my!
I just watched some of the coolest demos I've seen in a while. Ray Ozzie gave the opening keynote address for Mix 07. I hate to say it but he stated nothing more than the obvious direction of technology, IMHO. Ray's address was quickly followed by Scott Guthrie who received a very warm greeting -- and rightly so! Scott was there to deliver the goodies which were also received very warmly. There were plenty of announcements about Silverlight and the driection we are headed there. The big impressive thing we announced was our cross-platform CLR support and the integration of .NET into Silverlight as a programming model. I loved watching the demo's of using Expression to create the user experience and Visual Studio to provide the remote debugging support -- on a Mac none-the-less!
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Logging UI for Vista v1.1 Released
I have completed the final pieces of the Logging UI for Vista and posted them on the DownloadCENTER. I've completed functionality to allow you to configure central binary logging, central W3C logging, and site defaults. I've modified the look and feel of some of the pages and I've even added tool tips that show what configuration is being changed with each control.
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Logging UI for IIS 7.0 on Vista: Available for download
As many of you already know, the management console for IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista does not have a UI for logging. Since this was a pain point for several customers, I decided to test out the extensibility APIs by creating a logging UI module.
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Extending Microsoft.Web.Administration through PowerShell (Part II)
In my previous post, I showed you how easy it was to leverage your knowledge of the IIS 7 managed SDK in Windows PowerShell. We loaded the IIS 7 managed assemblies and then traversed the object model to display site information and stop application pools. While this in itself was pretty cool, I don't think I quite got my point across about how powerful IIS 7 and PowerShell are together. As such, I wanted to show you some more fun things to do with PowerShell in the name of easy IIS 7 administration.