I am using IIS 7.5 on Windows 2008 Server R2 and have installed the IIS Rewrite Module v2.0. I am trying to enable logging to see exactly what rewrite rule is being used. Based on research I have learned that I need to modify (update) C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config. In order to do so I have created a NEW XML schema file called "RewriteLogging.xml" and have placed it in C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\schema directory. The file contains the following code:
<!--
IIS Rewrite Logging
-->
<configSchema>
<sectionSchema name="system.applicationHost/RewriteLogging">
<attribute name="RewriteLog" type="string" defaultValue="C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\rewrite.txt" />
<attribute name="RewriteLogLevel" type="int" defaultValue="9" />
</sectionSchema>
</configSchema>
After restarting the web server I notice that the applicationHost.config file's date and time stamp get updated but my new directives are not getting added.
So here are my questions:
Am I approaching this the correct way?
Am I correct in creating a separate XML file and placing it in the schema directory?
Should I be creating a NEW section Schema name or should I be using an existing one? If so which one?
Am I using the correct syntax in the XML file? When I open it up in a browser I am not seeing any errors which is encouraging.
Am I missing something altogether or forgetting an important step?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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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 installed ColdFusion 11 Developer version (downloaded from Adobe site 3 months trial) on Windows 8.1 and IIS7. I got this error when trying to open the ColdFusion administrator (see below). Is there a step by step example on how to fix this?
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
Detailed Error Information:
Module CustomErrorModule
Notification SendResponse
Handler cfmHandler
Error Code 0x800700b7
Config Error Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type 'mimeMap' with unique key attribute 'fileExtension' set to '.air'
Config File \localhost\?\C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config
Requested URL localhost:80/administrator/CFIDE/index.cfm
Physical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\administrator\CFIDE\index.cfm
Logon Method Anonymous
Logon User Anonymous
Config Source:
4: <staticContent>
5: <mimeMap fileExtension=".air" mimeType="application/vnd.adobe.air-
application-installer-package+zip" />
6: </staticContent>
Remove the MIME type from web.config
<mimeMap fileExtension=".air" mimeType="application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip" /> and save the file. Restart IIS and that should fix the issue.
This happened to me as well after updating Coldfusion 11 to the upgrade 2 (patch),
somehow it reads web.config file under C:\Coldfusion11\cfusion\wwwroot
What I did was simply rename the web.config to something like web - error.config
IIS will skip this file and run just fine.
When the file exists, I couldn't even access MIME configuration from the IIS Manager, so removal or rename of that file was the solution for me.
It's also discussed in : http://blog.immanuelnoel.com/2014/09/22/busting-the-http-error-500-19-on-coldfusion-11-iis/ and probably a bug under initial coldfusion configuration.
Removing the mime type from the web.config was enough and its remaining content was all right in our case; please note that this was related to the ColdFusion sites in general and not with the ColdFusion Administrator. The problem started after upgrading from ColdFusion 10 (update level 11) to 11 (update level 0) (on IIS 7.5, Windows Server 2008 R2), having changed the connectors from old version to ColdFusion 11 (as the installation document indicates at "Verify your IIS configuration" section). It had two positive effects:
the cascading styles started being delivered correctly
the 500 Internal Error on the IIS "Windows Authentication" directories stopped appearing (we regarded also https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1031711)
Was it an upgrade? I had a similar problem. I had to manually disable my Coldfusion 9 handlers.
If your previous Coldfusion handlers are still active, and you don't want to remove them until you are confident 11 is stable you can deactivate them in the web.config file.
<handler>
<remove name="AboMapperCustom-somenumber" />
<remove name="AboMapperCustom-anothernumber" />
</handler>
The web.config file should be found in the root directory of each website.
has anyone successfully added IIS script maps to their Wix installation. I have been using this:
<CustomAction Id="AddHandlers_Cmd" Property="AddHandlers" Value=""[SystemFolder]inetsrv\appcmd" set config -section:system.webServer/handlers /+"[\[]name='GSOAP',path='*.dll', verb='*',modules='IsapiModule',scriptProcessor='[BIN]mod_gsoap.dll',resourceType='File', requireAccess='Execute'[\]]"" Execute="immediate"/>
<CustomAction Id="AddHandlers" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no"/>
However I get the 404 errors from my web application and when I add the script map manually after installing the application it works perfectly. I would appreciate if anyone could share how they done this.
It sounds like you need to add handler mapping to your web application. If that's the case, then you don't need a custom action to accomplish this.
Take a look at WebApplicationExtension element.
We are writing a separate Custom action in C# and Schedule it in after install Finalize to add handlers.
Try this, you can do anything with your own custom action.
I haven't worked with GSOAP handler, but used ASP.NET ISAPI extention. I suppose basically it has the same level of integration. I will post the code for ASP.NET and I hope you won't have problem with changing it to GSOAP. I have a huge risk of changing something incorrectly and make the examples unusable for you, so I let you do it better.
Here is my code to register extention itself if it isn't
<Component Id="Iis6ConfigExtentions" Guid="{GuidHash({ProductId}-1822E4F3-5850-47D5-9281-D1E0E20C77D4)}" KeyPath="yes" Permanent="yes">
<Condition><![CDATA[Installed OR (IISMAJORVERSION AND (IISMAJORVERSION = "#6"))]]></Condition>
<iis:WebServiceExtension Id="ExtensionASP4" Group="ASP.NET v4.0.30319" Allow="yes" File="[FRAMEWORKROOT]v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll" Description="ASP.NET v4.0.30319"/>
</Component>
and for adding those to the concrete site you need to use WebApplicationExtention, as #Yan already mentioned:
<iis:WebApplication Id="IIS6WebApp" Name="[SITE_APP_NAME]" WebAppPool="AppPool" >
<iis:WebApplicationExtension Verbs="GET,HEAD,POST" CheckPath="no" Script="yes" Executable="[FRAMEWORKROOT]v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll" />
</iis:WebApplication>
The CheckPath="no" is required on IIS 6 because we use ASP.NET MVC which doesn't map urls to files on disk. You might need it too since service address probably doesn't map to physical file.
UPDATE:
Looks like it is really not possible to do it directly in WIX (at least in 3.5 version). You are going in right direction - custom action using appcmd. But the provided custom actions aren't complete or what you need: the first one just sets property value to the command you need to execute and the second one calls some Dll custom action which wasn't provided.
What I'd try to execute is:
<CustomAction Id="AddGsoapHandler" Directory="TARGETDIR" Impersonate="no" Execute="deferred" Return="check" ExeCommand="[SystemFolder]inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/handlers /+"[\[]name='GSOAP',path='*.dll', verb='*',modules='IsapiModule',scriptProcessor='[BIN]mod_gsoap.dll',resourceType='File', requireAccess='Execute'[\]]" /commit:apphost" />
Please pay attention to the path attribute of your handler configuration. It will limit handler usage to only URL's which ends with ".dll" - I just copied it from your code but not sure if you've done it intentionally or just copied from example at Microsoft site. That might have led to 401 error even if handler is registered successfully.
Also I added the /commit:apphost argument. Not sure if you really need this, but I use it to explicitly specify that I need to configure my application's config.
UPDATE 2:
If you need to set configuration to only single application, you should specify application object as argument of appcmd instead of the 'config' which means global configuration. Please try this:
<CustomAction Id="AddGsoapHandler" Directory="TARGETDIR" Impersonate="no" Execute="deferred" Return="check" ExeCommand="[SystemFolder]inetsrv\appcmd.exe set app "MySite/app1" -section:system.webServer/handlers /+"[\[]name='GSOAP',path='*.dll', verb='*',modules='IsapiModule',scriptProcessor='[BIN]mod_gsoap.dll',resourceType='File', requireAccess='Execute'[\]]" /commit:apphost" />
For more details you can read this tutorial.
I have Sitecore as site root (which is running ok) and under it I need to have a bunch of asp.net applications running.
So far, created a virtual directory for the child application, turned it into an app. But as soon as I browse the child app it comes with this error message.
Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Sitecore' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Source Error:
Line 3264: </providers>
Line 3265: </roleManager>
Line 3266: <profile defaultProvider="sql" enabled="true" inherits="Sitecore.Security.UserProfile, Sitecore.Kernel">
Line 3267: <providers>
Line 3268: <clear/>
It seems that the child asp.net app is inheriting Sitecore settings which are coming from Sitecore web.config.
Any ideas?
This should be possible. You'll have to author a web.config for that non-Sitecore application in virtual directory, and overwrite the sections under <system.web> and <system.webserver> which reference Sitecore classes. This includes:
httpModules / httpHandlers (for these you should "remove all" and add those of that web app)
security section (put the default ASP.NET provider classes back)
in Sitecore main web.config add the path of this web app to IgnoreUrlPrefixes setting to let Sitecore know it should not handle requests to those
It might be something else, but you should get the general idea.
This answer is similar to Yan, but is different enough for a separate answer. Hope it helps.
Go into IIS and select the Child Application. Select Modules. Remove all the Sitecore related modules that are present. Don't worry, the parent Sitecore app will still retain these modules.
When you do this, you are actually changing the child app web.config, so you will see the elements removed in the web.config file like so.
<remove name="SitecoreConfigWatcher" />
<remove name="SitecoreHttpModule" />
You also may have to clear out some other inherited settings.
<profile enabled="false"><providers><clear/></providers></profile>
<roleManager enabled="false"><providers><clear /></providers></roleManager>