IISinformation.com » IIS7 http://www.iisinformation.com All Things IIS Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 IIS Express http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/07/iis-express/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/07/iis-express/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:21:55 +0000 admin http://www.iisinformation.com/?p=1957 Scott Guthrie recently announced an upcoming beta of IIS Express.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx

It is a cross between the built in Developer web server (Casinni) and a full blown IIS install on your PC.  This is extremely helpful for those who are still using XP or Vista and need to have the features of IIS7.   In a corporate enviroment many developers are still on XP as an OS.  They are limited to the local IIS 5.1 features or they have to use the built in ASP.net developer web server that is included in Visual Studio.

Both of these options miss key elements that reside on the desitination servers that developers publish to.  What happens is that a deveroper cannot fully test features or their applications because of the limitations of their local machine.

Items like URL rewrite, SSL, host headers, and endpoints cannot be re-created on local machines.  It sounds like IIS Express will be a great tool to help eliminate these issues.  Of course if you have IIS7 available and are running Win 7 you don’t have these problems.  However,that is not the case for many Developers in a larger corporate environment.

We are looking forward to this new tool to test and see how well it works.  For anyone who has tried to write a WCF service on XP they will quickly understand the value of this tool.

]]> http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/07/iis-express/feed/ 0 Self Signing SSL for IIS7 (selfssl7) http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/05/self-signing-ssl-for-iis7-selfssl7/ http://www.iisinformation.com/2010/05/self-signing-ssl-for-iis7-selfssl7/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 02:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.iisinformation.com/?p=1949 In our previous post on self-signing ssl we walk you through setting up your own SSL certificate using selfssl.  This process still works well with IIS7 if you have iis6 compatibility mode enabled.  The team over at Microsoft realized the need to extend this great tool for IIS7 and added more features.

This great post over at iis.net by Thomas Deml that explains the new features of selfssl7 and has a link to download this tool:

Download selfSSL7

SelfSSL7 has the following features:

  • The site name SSL is to be configured on
  • The IP address
  • The port
  • Add as a trusted root certificate
  • Export to a pfx file
  • One or more configurable common name
  • Configurable expiration date
  • Configurable key size

You can see all the examples of use and features at Thomas Deml’s post ( http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2010/04/16/setting-up-ssl-made-easy.aspx)

What a great new tool.  We are excited to use this to secure our internal applications and use it for testing.  I hope the IIS team keeps up the great work and continues to push out tools like this.

Thomas Deml

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A great thanks to the dotnetpanel / websitepanel team for opening up this project.    After reading some of the forums it is unclear of why this was turned open source, but I’m sure we will hear more in the next few months.

This is a great tool that is now available for everyone.  Source can be downloaded from sourceforge.

http://www.websitepanel.net/

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There is a great article on IIS.net that talks about the methods to install PHP on IIS.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=&appid=PHP;PHP;PHP

In the recent months I have found that the Web Platform Installer is the best method to accomplish this.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=&appid=PHP;PHP;PHP

I would love to hear comments from others on their experiences.  PHP on IIS5 or IIS6.  I know that performance on IIS7 with cache has been great so far.

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  • Installing FTP
  • Host Header FTP sites
  • Securing FTP (SSL)
  • Logging and parsing logs

If you have any additional questions for FTP on IIS please send us a message or hit the forums.

For more information regarding FTP 7.5 and the new features please head over to iis.net to read up on what the new product will do.

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/310/what-is-new-for-microsoft-and-ftp-75/

We plan to have some real-world examples and conditions in our series.  Look for the upcoming posts.

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Alex Zambelli breaks down all the elements and some high-level changes from the 2008 Olympics.  Great work guys.

Article – http://blogs.iis.net/alexzam/archive/2010/02/16/streaming-the-olympics-how-we-got-here.aspx

Alex’s blog – http://alexzambelli.com

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With this new year we plan to keep IIS comments, topics, forums, and information flowing.  Please email us your questions.  Send us your issues, call out to us on problems. We will do as much as we can to focus on all things IIS.

Regrouping and hoping to make this a destination site for all things IIS.

In the next few months please check back to see our new features and additions. We have a series planned on IIS extensions and performance. Send us your ideas, comments, and suggestions.

Please leave as much feedback as possible.
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Here are a few good instructions for installing wordpress on IIS:

Instructions for using the Web Application Installer : http://blogs.iis.net/richma/archive/2009/12/30/installing-word-press-on-iis-using-the-web-platform-installer-webpi.aspx

Installing manually without the WAI: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/280/install-wordpress-on-iis/

Detailed install on IIS7: http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/installing-wordpress-on-iis7/2008-10-06/

Some of the key elements to watch for are correctly setting up web permissions and MySQL permissions.  Thankfully the team here has used MySQL and Wordpress in the past.

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I would appreciate any information on users and their thoughts.

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There is a new Microsoft program for startup companies called WebsiteSpark

http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/

It allows small shops (design firms, developers, etc..) to get big name software cheap, basically free after 100 bucks.  I won’t go into all the details, check out the site.  What I do see from this is an opportunity to further Microsoft Development and also get the right tools out to the right people.

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