I'm using Web Platform Installer to install Umbraco 4.11 and I'm wanting to use IIS 8.0 with windows 8. I did the basic install and everything went smoothly, but when I open the website it redirects me in a loop until I get a 404.15 error. Query string too long. Not quite for sure what is happening?
Have you checked the permissions in IIS?
I'd always recommend manually installing Umbraco rather than using the WPI - it's easier and quicker in my opinion
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Does anyone have any experience with creating URL rewrites in Webmatrix? Because it uses IIS Express instead of IIS 7, there's nowhere for me to create these rules.
I am deploying to IIS 7 on my production server, so if I need to do any rewrites, I need to make them directly in production to test.
Is there any way I can switch to using IIS instead of IIS Express on my local machine?
I have tried a few things to get local IIS working, but to no avail.
You can install IIS on a Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine by going to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off. Make sure to install enough of the components to get a WebMatrix site working - ASP.NET & the management console for certain.
You can then create a virtual server for the directory your project is in and use the IIS management console to play around with URL rewriting. You may need to install the UrlRewrite module using the MS Web Platform Installer, available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
If you need more help getting your local IIS working, give me some more information on how far you've got and I'll try and extend my answer.
I am trying to learn ColdFusion and have installed the developer edition (CF10) on my Win7 computer and this brings up the localhost administrator page correctly but I have a test helloworld.cfm file in inetpub/wwwroot and when I try & access this with localhost/helloworld.cfm windows opens a dialogue box saying what program should open this .cfm file?
(in IIS Mime type there is none for .cfm & when I tried to add one it didn't work...).
Several posts on the internet say ensure IIS has CGI enabled and ISAPI Extensions
IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility which I have.
I'm not sure what is wrong here-can anyone advise me clearly & simply if I can view and use .cfm in IIS & how?
We know IIS is the problem because your administrator works, so CF is running correctly.
What I do is the following
create a site in IIS, just basic. no setting changes
install coldfusion 10
During install coldfusion will ask me if it has to configure all current IIS sites
if you let it do that, it should all work like a charm.
Did you do it like this?
I would uninstall and re-install as something must have gone wrong connecting IIS to COldFusion
CF10 does not require the IIS 6 compatibility. If you don't need that for any other web technology connections, then remove that. You do need CGI, .Net Extensibility, ASP.NET, ISAPI Extensions and ISAPI Filters. I believe the connector configurator for ColdFusion especially uses the .Net Extensibilty to "wire things up".
I downloaded the Search Engine Optimization Tookit using the Web Platform Installer.
Most of the plugins I've installed (i.e. IIS Rewrite 2.0) have installed, no problem -- I love that tool!
But the Search Engine Optimization Toolkit for IIS -- which I REALLY want -- doesn't show up in my IIS Manager. I downloaded from the Web Platform Installer, I've rebooted, etc,. but still, nothing.
I'm running on Windows 7 (I heard this could be an issue, but that was from a post back in 2009), and everything on my computer runs well.
Does anyone know if I can get this on my IIS on Windows 7? Thank you for your time in reading this, and any guidance would be sincerely appreciated!
I was just looking in the wrong area of my IIS. I was looking in my website, and not the Owner-PC section of the IIS, where it gets installed.
I'm attempting to install Orchard 1.0 on a Windows 7 box. It has only just been released. I downloaded and installed the Windows Platform Installer and attempted to install Orchard. The error message is that the application has stopped working and asks if I want to debug or close the application.
The event log contains a single error:
The event logging service encountered an error while processing an incoming event published from Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing.
I tried installing MVC3 and it worked without any issues.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem?
I have exactly the same problem on a Windows 7 and a Windows Vista SP2 system.
MVC3 installs without problems and works just fine. Orchard CMS crashes WPI.
Get the Orchard ZIP file from their site, extract it and open the solution in Visual Studio 2010 or WebMatrix or VS Express and try to run it. You can also run it directly from the folder you extracted it to by using IIS Express.
The installation through Web Platform Installer is broken and it won't work.
I believe I have located the answer on the Orchard CMS Discussion tab on Codeplex.
http://orchard.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=241684
The installation script was missing a reference to a library. They have now rectified this and have advised that you need to delete the AppData folder.
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer
Once I did this the WPI orchard cms installation worked.
I am considering currently to get a VPS for some of my development test. I found some VPS at a cheap price, which suits me as it's only going to be used as a sandbox.
So far I know it is possible to install .Net 3.5 on the windows 2003 without problems, if I am correct it will be also possible to use IIS6 for all my development including asp.net mvc.
I am looking here if there is anything that would prevent me from using IIS6. I looked on google and apparently the main thing about IIS 7 is the modular design for plugins. This shouldn't be too much of a problem as most of my devs will be for personnal use.
(PHP on IIS will run fine with IIS6)
Our devs are doing all their development against Win2k3 / IIS6 servers with .NET 3.5 and have not encountered any issues that would have been fixed with IIS7. Which is probably good since I've yet to stand up a 2k8 server.
For devs, I think the main thing IIS7 adds is the integrated managed pipeline that allows you to write .NET code for IIS instead of an ISAPI filter.
Shared configs, FastCGI, caching improvements, etc. I think of more as admin features. Useful, but won't really affect your dev time.
IIS7 will provide faster services, but IIS6 should be able to do everything you need (unless you need to run PHP or something of the sort on IIS).