Hi I installed IIS 7.5 on my Windows 7 machine last night for development work. Basically, I want to run a few sites on different ports - I do not want to have to mess around with hosts files or DNS entries, I simply want to have a few sites active just on localhost and switch between them by port numbers...

I've posted the following question on StackOverflow : Here's the scenario: Win2003 Build Server (CCNET) IIS7 target deployment server The various MSBuild tasks (Sdc.Tasks, MSBuild Community, MSBuild Extension Pack) for doing this (creating VDirs, setting AppPool properties) are not suitable for...

Hi, I'm getting run time error, when I try to test our website for the security related issues. I typed, http://localhost/%20/ i.e., space and / in url. I could eliminate the space by denying all users with the <location path="'%20%"> of web.config. But when I try the combination...

Hello, On Windows 2008 server I need to allow download of *.exe.config files on one internal website but I cannot do because in applicationHost.config is prohibited at level .config (allowed="false"). How I can do this? Tried to add MIMEType .exe.config but it can not be done using GUI in IIS...

Hi, I am writing an intranet application (ASP.Net / C#) that accesses the current users' security identifier using the code UserPrincipal.Current.Sid . This works fine under the VS web development environment (Cassini) and in windows desktop applications. However, when I attempt to run the same code...

Hi there! Today I was publishing a webapp from my vs2008 workstation to a local IIS 7.0 Web Server, so In the C# Code, I supossed to use Forms Authentication, when I configured the new website in the server, I enabled Windows Authentication. Then I haved to login on the AD/DC DB Server 192.168.X.X in...

Hi, I'm trying to get my site in IIS 7 to use Windows Authentication, but all that I am getting is 'Basic' when reading $_SERVER["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"]. Does anyone know how to force it to use 'Negotiate'? The weird thing is is that I've disabled basic and enabled Windows...

Hello, I am about to have an instance of IIS7 running wide open to the public on my own server. I always like to do some security tests and use any tools to gain security before I do something like this. In the past there was IIS Lockdown and other tools like that to help me secure my web server. When...

i'm desperatly trying to find a solution to a seemingly simple problem: restrict access to certain directories to a group of students. basicly all i want is a simple authentication a la .htaccess/.htpasswd - i was hoping with the new server 2008/iis7 combination i'd find a nice authentication...