I recently tried to integrate WebMarkupMin, a run-time html minification library, into my site (C#, IIS 8, MVC 4). We have IIS compression enabled. I discovered that IIS actually compresses the action filter output stream, which means when I try to minify my html in an action filter, I am trying to minify already compressed content.
Question: At what point in the run-time process does IIS compress output? Is there any way to use mvc action filters to modify html ouptut without disabling IIS compression?
The IIS dynamic compression for ASP MVC output runs pretty late in the pipeline. In my test it was No. 315 out of 349 pipeline items and after all the asp.net modules ran.
To see the order of the executed modules in the IIS pipeline, set up Failed Request tracing (FREB) for your site and review the logs.
I would say there is no way in your MVC action filter to tell the compression module not to compress.
But you can turn compression off on a url basis:
In your web config use something like this:
<location path="my/long/route/">
<system.webServer>
<urlCompression doDynamicCompression="false" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
you are telling IIS to turn off dynamic compression for just that URL.
It is necessary assign to dynamicCompressionBeforeCache attribute a value equals to false:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
…
<system.webServer>
…
<httpCompression …>
…
</httpCompression>
<urlCompression … dynamicCompressionBeforeCache="false" />
…
</system.webServer>
…
</configuration>
I know this is an old issue but the error solved when I used UseResponseCompression before UseStaticFiles
app.UseResponseCompression();
app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions
{
ServeUnknownFileTypes = true,
OnPrepareResponse = context => context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Cache-Control", "public, max-age=2592000")
});
app.UseWebMarkupMin();
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This seems like a relatively simple question, but I didn't see it clearly indicated in the documentation I examined. Assuming a typical Elmah usage on a Windows Server 2012/IIS 7 webserver installation, if the Elmah web.config settings are pointed to an Elmah.config file, will altering that file trigger under the running application cause IIS to restart?
While the answer provided by Josh would normally be true, it is not in the case of ELMAH. ELMAH instantiates a new error log implementation every time it is needed, reading the configuration from either web.config or the configSource provided.
You can do a simple test to prove this. If you configure ELMAH to use an external config file for the errorLog element like this:
<elmah>
<errorLog configSource="elmah.config"/>
</elmah>
and your elmah.config looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<errorLog type="Elmah.XmlFileErrorLog, Elmah" logPath="~/App_Data" />
When you start the project and force an error, a new XML file is written to the App_Data folder. Change the logPath like this (without restarting the application):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<errorLog type="Elmah.XmlFileErrorLog, Elmah" logPath="~/App_Data2" />
(I changed to App_Data2).
Force a new error and you will now see ELMAH create the App_Data2 folder on the file system.
No: Straight from MSDN:
Saving a Web.config file restarts the application. You can alternatively use the configSource attribute of individual section elements to point to a secondary configuration file that does not cause an application restart when it is changed. For more information, see configSource in General Attributes Inherited by Section Elements.
MSDN
I'm fairly new to IIS so apologies if this is a basic question.
I have an IIS config serving an internal company website (php instead of asp.net). The prod version of the website is at the 'Default Web Site' level and I've got demo and test versions of the website mapped as virtual directories. The demo and test version are essentially copies of the prod directory. I've noticed the with the web.config copied to these VDs, I get an error 500 on the root url for the VD only. I.E. main website is https://mainwebsite.com and works fine but https://mainwebsite.com/demo/ doesn't work while https://mainwebsite.com/demo/index.php works fine.
The web.config file is pretty basic:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
</handlers>
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<add value="index.php" />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
<staticContent>
<clientCache cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlMaxAge="00:03:00" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Moving the web.config file out of the way in the VD resolves the issue. Even though the files are identical, I wouldn't think that the file should cause a conflict as my understanding is that IIS supports multiple web config files.
Although I have a workaround in place by renaming or deleting the file, I am wondering if there's a way to keep the file in place without it causing this error.
Thanks to Panama Jack in the comments, I was able to resolve my issue.
I got this response with detailed errors:
Error Summary
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
And further down:
Config Error
Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type 'add' with unique key attribute 'value' set to 'index.php'
To resolve, I simply commented out this line in the web.config XML:
<add value="index.php" />
I'm sure there's a better way to approach this but for now, this gets me my answer and also how to get more info from IIS when the logs are not useful.
if you create a virtual directory to another web root
web.config will cause this (personally I think the location of this file is totally insane.. mixed with htm and images etc. )
Replicate the directory somewhere else without the web.config file/excluding it..then point the virtual directory there.. & have a task set up to copy newer files over..
I made a projessing.js application. It works fine in localhost. However, when I deploy my project into my Azure website projessing.js is unable to find my sketch (.pde) file.This is the error message that I get from chrome's console ;
Uncaught Processing.js: Unable to load pjs sketch files: pde/Letter/Letter.pde ==> Invalid XHR status 404
I searched this problem and I found this post about it but I don't know how to make a configuration to my azure.This is the post that I found.I assume it is something related with permissions.
You will need to add the .pde MIME type to your IIS config (web.config file) in Azure. It will look something like the below XML block:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension=".pde" mimeType="application/x-processing" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I'm not sure what the exact mime type is for that file, but the issue is that the MIME type isn't configured, and IIS will block unknown MIME types by default.
In my exception handling file, I set a statuscode to 404 and then render n HTML page, for the error page (think fail-whale).
<cfheader statuscode="404" statustext="Application Exception">
<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body><h1>There was an error yo!</h1></body></html>
This is obviously over simplified, but just to make sure everything was demonstrated.
What I have found is that from a ASP.NET request, they can set a variable "Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors=true" to keep IIS from showing its own error page.
How can someone in Coldfusion do it / how can I just tell IIS to stop its thinks it knows better than me shenanigans.
This might help:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors existingResponse="PassThrough" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
For more information:
HTTP Errors (IIS.NET)
What to expect from IIS7 custom error module (IIS.NET)
If that doesn't work then you might try writing a .NET HttpModule to plug into the IIS request/response pipeline to set Response.TrySkipCustomErrors. Not ideal.
ASP.NET's worker request object calls an exported function called MgdSetStatusW. The problem here is that unless Coldfusion exposes this flag then you won't be able to set the value directly in CF.
Poking around with .NET Reflector I seen ASP.NET setting the response status using:
[DllImport("webengine4.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Unicode)]
internal static extern int MgdSetStatusW(IntPtr pRequestContext,
int dwStatusCode, int dwSubStatusCode, string pszReason,
string pszErrorDescription, bool fTrySkipCustomErrors);
Add expires headers in iis is very Easy,but this cache all the static files. now i want only
add expires headers to images,how can i do that? even i want cached specific file?
put all your images in one folder
enter the manager--> yoursite--> images folder (or specific file)
right click--> HTTP HEADERs--> Set expire header/date ! --> APPLY/OK
I've been searching for a simpler solution and I found this.
Keep your static content inside a folder (eg: css, js). Create a web.config file inside that folder. Add these following lines. Here 7 is the number of days, change it as you desire.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<clientCache cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlMaxAge="7.00:00:00" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
You are free to keep as many static content folder as you want, simply add this web.config file. Hope this helps.