MIKE » IIS

Did You Know: “App_Offline.htm” Takes IIS Website Offline

Mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:36:10 +0000

Just drop an App_Offline.htm in the root of your website all requests will automatically be redirected to this file! This is neat!

Found it on ScottGu’s and Erik Porter’s blogs

Deploying ASP.NET MVC Application under IIS6

Mike — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:43:30 +0000

When deploying an ASP.NET MVC application under Windows Server 2003 and IIS6 (and Windows Server 2008 Classic Mode), you’ll get 404 page not found error on every page, except the index of the site. This is because IIS6 doesn’t not support routing.

There are many solutions to fix this, I’ll just explain my favorite, which is extension-less url.

So lets show IIS6 how to handle extension-less URL. For this, we’ll use the Wildcard Mapping feature.

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. (run inetmgr)
Right Click » Properties on your website.
Open the Home Directory tab.
Click on the Configuration button.
Open the Mappings tab of the Application Configuration window.
In the Wildcard application maps section, click on the Insert button.
Browse to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll.
uncheck “Verify that file exists”.
That’s it! Now try your ASP.NET MVC Application it should work nicely!

Phil Haack has a very good article about this matter and also explains other solution. You should definitly read it!

Registering .NET Framework

Mike — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:04:58 +0000

Sometimes IIS gives you an "Application Not Available" error. A lot of things can cause that, one of them is that ASP.NET is not registered properly with IIS. Follow these steps to register your .NET installation with IIS:

Open the Command Prompt
Go To: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 (Or whatever version you need to register)
aspnet_regiis –u
- The above commend uninstalls this version of ASP.NET. Existing scriptmaps to this version are remapped to highest remaining version of ASP.NET installed on the machine.
aspnet_regiis –i
- The above command installs this version of ASP.NET and updates scriptmaps at the Microsoft IIS metabase root and all scriptmaps below the root. Existing scriptmaps of lower version are upgraded to this version.
aspnet_regiis –c
- The above command installs the client side scripts for this version to the aspnet_client subdirectory of each Microsoft IIS site directory.

The error should go away now.