I'm trying to get the current IIS application name in my ColdFusion scripts but I have no idea where to get this information. I want to use the app name to communicate with IIS using cfexecute by running appcmd.exe.
<cfexecute name="c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD" arguments="add site /name:#arguments.sitename# /bindings:""http/*:80:#arguments.binding#"" /physicalPath:""#arguments.physicalPath#""" timeout="60"></cfexecute>
The problem is that I can't be sure what the app name is. I could save it somewhere in a db but i'd really like to get it dynamically so the script can run without configuring the appname. If I could be able to fetch it from somewhere (or maybe based on the current hostheader) I could dynamically fill
/name:#arguments.sitename#
I've tried to search how to do this by using PHP and JSP examples, but so far, i haven't been able to find any method on getting the app name.
Following on from #Miguel-F's link (http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/planning-your-iis-architecture/iis-7-and-iis-8-configuration-reference) in the comments above, there's a file in %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\ called applicationHost.config that you could read in - this file contains the collection of sites that's configured in IIS. Is that the sort of thing you're after?
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I am having trouble with script link custom actions. I am building a SharePoint app, and I successfully added a site-scope custom action pointing to a script file in the Style Library, as I want this particular script to be injected to all the pages of my SharePoint site.
While it works in certain situations, the script link injection breaks without apparent reason under certain conditions. For example, when I arrive on my root web, the script will be injected. But, if I go to a certain link within this web (for example Home or Site Contents), the file that is supposed to be injected will simply not be fetched from the Style Library and therefore never be injected, resulting in an uncaught ReferenceError when I try to call one of the script's function. The weirdest part is that a page refresh through Ctrl+F5 will fetch the script file without any problem, regardless of the page's ability to originally fetch the script file when first accessed. It will keep the script until it is accessed through a link again.
I've read up on Sharepoint caching, thinking it may be the cause of my problem, but the trouble is that these articles mostly talk about cache-induced errors when updating a file, while I am only trying to access it.
One thing to note is that, due to limitations, I am adding the script link custom action through code. Here's an example of what this kind of call currently looks like in my app:
context.Load(context.Site.UserCustomActions);
context.ExecuteQuery();
customAction.Name = "MyScriptLink";
customAction.Location = "ScriptLink";
customAction.Sequence = 100;
customAction.ScriptSrc = "~SiteCollection/Style Library/MySite/MyScript.js";
customAction.Update();
context.ExecuteQuery();
So, what's going on here ? Why is my script no injected on certain pages ? Why does a refresh on these exact same pages manage to fetch the file without any problem ?
Found it ! Three words: Minimum Download Strategy. Disable it, it messes with you page redirect behavior within a SharePoint site (either through code or through site settings)
Edit: If you still want MDS enabled on your site, there is a solution
We've got a new server, and I am trying to set it up for our website.
I got a new application for the engineers set up in the Application Pools called eng_app, then added our applications to it.
Now, we have been given an external drive that these applications need to be on, but I can't seem to edit or delete the existing applications.
I tried following the Microsoft Technet Article • Remove an Application (IIS 7) but, as you can see in the screenshot, those are incorrect.
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd delete app "eng_app/drawing"
ERROR ( message:Cannot find APP object with identifier "eng_app/drawing". )
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd delete app "/eng_app/drawing"
ERROR ( message:Must specify the APP object with identifier or "APP.NAME" parameter. )
Could someone tell me what I missed here?
Using Powershell
Go to folder
cd C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv
List all applications to get the correct APP.NAME
.\appcmd list app
Delete the application using fullname for <APP.NAME>.Ex.: "Default Web Site/The.Application".I mean, you must put it with web site name including the double-quotes.
.\appcmd delete app <APP.NAME>
OK, it looks like you can't do it either through the command line or using the Application Pool interface.
After stopping the webservice, what I did was:
go down to the list of Sites and select my application from the list,
click Basic Settings...
change the Application pool with the Select... button and edit the Physical path
Afterwards, you can restart the webservice.
There might be a better way, but this is how I did it.
appcmd delete app eng_app/drawing
I have backed up the Kentico Database and website from one of our Live servers and placed it within our Dev server and configured the website in IIS.
When I navigate to the website, it currently asks for New installation.. Whereas it should just show me the current website.
How do I get it to show the website?
EDIT
The following error occurs when going ahead and creating a new instance with the restored Database:
Restore the backed up database and add database connection string to the web.config of the application. Simple as that :)
Who or what is set as the DB objects owner/schema in the DB? Does this match the setting in Site Manager (or, CMS_SettingsKey table)? I would make sure these two match.
Another option is that the connection string was not initialized by .Net - I would do a dummy change in the web.config file to force the app restart and/or also clearing the .Net cache.
I have a ASP.NET MVC web application project that I want to deploy to my IIS webserver. The site tree is set up thusly:
SERVERNAME(myDomain\Username)
Application Pools
Sites
Default Web Site
MyProjectSite
bin
Content
...
Views
I am trying to deploy to the MyProject site. See below settings that I am using versus the errors I am returning. I am apparently not specifying my site path correctly, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what it should be.
The following settings stay the same between iterations:
/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=False /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSvc /p:AuthType=Basic /p:Username="myUserName" /p:Password="MyPassword" /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True
Specify SiteName/ as IISAppPath:
Parameters:
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl="https://serverName:8172/MsDeploy.axd?Site=MyProjectSite" /p:DeployIisAppPath="MyProjectSite/"
Error:
Could not complete an operation with the specified provider ("createApp") when connecting using the Web Management Service - I don't want to create a new site. I want to sync the content that is already there.
Specify IISAppPath as Root (supposing that the sitename in the URL is used)
Parameters:
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl="https://serverName:8172/MsDeploy.axd?Site=MyProjectSite" /p:DeployIisAppPath="/"
Error:
Could not complete an operation with the specified provider ("iisApp") when connecting using the Web Management Service - Looks like it is trying to access the Default WebSite or something (to which I have purposefully NOT given myself rights).
Specify IISAppPath as empty string(supposing that the sitename in the URL is used)
Parameters:
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl="https://serverName:8172/MsDeploy.axd?Site=MyProjectSite" /p:DeployIisAppPath=""
Error:
The "ConcatFullServiceUrlWithSiteName" task was not given a value for the required parameter "SiteAppName" - So it interprets "" as actually a null value thus breaking an attempt to concatenate it.
Specify no site attribute in the URL but SiteName/ as IISAppPath
Parameters:
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl="https://serverName:8172/MsDeploy.axd" /p:DeployIisAppPath="MyProjectSite/"
Error:
Could not complete an operation with the specified provider ("createApp") when connecting using the Web Management Service
Specify no site attribute in URL but SiteName as IISAppPath
Parameters:
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl="https://serverName:8172/MsDeploy.axd" /p:DeployIisAppPath="MyProjectSite"
Error:
Could not complete an operation with the specified provider ("createApp") when connecting using the Web Management Service
Now given that it is running a concatenate on the SiteAppName, it must be combining it with the Site name, yes? What are you supposed to put there to get the site to sync to the root of a site?
Update
In an attempt to figure out the proper path scheme, I have tried to publish using the Visual Studio 2012 Publish dialog. In this case, I am returned an error saying that The request timed out (testing the connection works almost instantly and previewing the changes works but takes a few seconds). I checked the event log, and the tracelog for wmsvc to no avail. Even with trace set to verbose, nothing shows up in the tracelog. I have tried disabling the firewalls on both computers, and nothing seems to work on that front either.
Figured this one out.
The problem stemmed from two settings in the Web Deploy page of the project properties. I had previously set this project up (in the Debug configuration) to copy only the files necessary to run the application, and NOT build a zip package. I neglected however to do anything to those settings for the release configuration.
The reason (confidence level 75%) it was trying to use createApp was because it was deploying from the Zip package it had created. So my IISAppPath settings in those cases were fine, I was just deploying the wrong thing.
I set the Create deployment package as a zip file setting to false, and the Items to deploy dropdown to Only files needed to run this application and everything went off without a hitch.
Incidentally I found out (as referred above) that you can use the Publish Profiles outputted by the Web Publish dialog in Visual Studio (2012 only unfortunately; 2010 you have to do some massaging that I am unsure of). I named mine with no spaces, and supplied the password as an argument as well as the Untrusted Certificate setting. Now MSBuild Arguments in the build definition for TFS look like this:
/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=NameOfPublishProfile /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:Password=PleaseVerifyMe
I am working on a cherrpy web service to work with my web app. In this service it needs to be able to access the file system. For example, I want to be able to list all files under a certain directory. I am using os.walk('/public/') but don't seem to get it to work, even though the same code works outside of cherrpy.
Is there a way to make it work so I can use cherrypy to manage files?
What user is the webapp running as, and does it have access to read the folder?
According to the documentation os.walk() will ignore errors from the underlying calls to os.listdirs()
http://docs.python.org/release/2.4.4/lib/os-file-dir.html
You could try setting the onerror argument like
def print_error(error):
print error
os.walk('/public/', print_error)
which might give you a hint as to what's going on.
Also, you could try going directly to os.listdirs() and see if you get any errors from it.