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» IIS: Two questions from the newsgroups - Week 41

Each week I take two questions from the IIS newsgroups (or IIS forums) that I think is of public interest, and I answer them here as well. Questions and answers may be modified to be more general and more useful for everyone. The two questions this week are:

ISAPI filter does not load
I have installed an ISAPI filter (URLScan), but it does not seem to be installed correctly. From the properties of the web site, I clicked on the ISAPI Filters tab, clicked Add and entered all necessary information. But once I have done that, the status does not change, which it used to do in IIS 5.0

Added MIME type, but still gets 404
I have added .java to the list of MIME types because I want people to be able to download these files. Despite this, IIS will not serve the .java-file, and I get a 404 status code returned. Why?

| Read full article | Permalink | 2007-10-10, 19:30 GMT +0100 |

» IIS: Two questions from the newsgroups - Week 40

Each week I take two questions from the IIS newsgroups (or IIS forums) that I think is of public interest, and I answer them here as well. Questions and answers may be modified to be more general and more useful for everyone. The two questions this week are:

Exclude certain IP addresses from log file
I have a website monitor application that requests certain pages to ensure that the website is up and running. This does however affect the statistics, and I do not want the requests from this application to be logged. Can I setup logging so that requests from a specified IP address are not logged?

The difference between IIsWebDirectory and IIsWebVirtualDir
I am writing an installation package for an ASP.NET web application. Should I be creating the application root as a IIsWebDirectory or IIsWebVirtualDir? What is the difference between them?

| Read full article | Permalink | 2007-10-05, 19:00 GMT +0100 |