I'm setting up VS2010 SP1 with IIS 7.5 Express so I can use SSL in my Dev environment.
Following Scott Hanselman's excellent post here is working for me. The only problem is he's running on Windows 7 (I assume), where I'm on XP.
The bit that trips me up is where he makes a URL reservation:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://hanselman-w500:80/ user=everyone
This isn't working on XP. After some googling, I found this and worked out that I need to use the 'httpcfg' utility instead, general syntax:
httpcfg set urlacl /u {http://URL:Port/ | https://URL:Port/} /a ACL
However there doesn't seem to be an equivalent of the 'user=' switch and I'm not expert enough with the ACL descriptor language to be able to work out the equivalent.
Can anyone give me the equivalent command using httpcfg, or is the equivalent not possible under XP ?
Edit: at the bottom of the Hanselman post there is a command line helper method which does the job
IisExpressAdminCmd.exe setupFriendlyHostnameUrl -url:http://hanselman-w500:80/
However I was hoping to use the full step by step process, so the question stands.
This link looks like what the Hanselman post was based on. It has both netsh and httpcfg forms of the commands.
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1005/handling-url-binding-failures-in-iis-express/
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I originally installed ColdFusion 11 in a local environment (windows 7) and selected "Use built in web server". Everything was working pretty good. Now months later, I realize I need to use a real web server for URL rewrites (Apache, IIS, etc) but there is no documentation I can find on how to do so.
I have attempted looking through the administrator's panel for any information, but couldn't even get a jumping off point. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
First, it sounds like you need to decide which web server you want/need to use and that could be determined by where you'll end up hosting your site. CF code is quite portable but if you're doing URL rewrites, file system access, etc... then you need to code those to match the production environment, otherwise you might find yourself having to rewrite and retest all that again.
As commented above, a lot of information about configuring CF for web servers is available by searching. You'll first need to install & configure your web server, so search around that first. Then you'll need to configure the web server to understand which requests to pass to ColdFusion's engine.
If it's IIS then you need to make sure IIS is installed and the following components are installed: ISAPI Extensions, ISAPI Filters, CGI, ASP .NET
Then configure an IIS site to point to your CF code and after that use the "Web Server Configuration Tool" application (installed with CF) that will associate the relevant file types with ColdFusion.
Most of the time it's as simple as that.
My coworker installed Linux Mint 14 Nadia onto a VM (using VirtualBox) and followed the following tutorial to install Apache, MySQL and PHP: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/486. He then used the readme from http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/docs/4.0/ to install Request Tracker 4.0. Both of those went pretty well with very few hiccups along the way from what he told me. Now he's forwarded over the task to me and I'm attempting to get Request Tracker 4.0 configured correctly with the Apache server. Currently I can visit localhost and get the following message:
It works! This is the default web page for this server. The web server
software is running but no content has been added, yet.
I also configured it so when you visit localhost/rt you SHOULD see the Request Tracker interface, but I'm instead receiving the following page, and this is where I've spent most of my time stumped:
You're almost there! You haven't yet configured your webserver to run
RT. You appear to have installed RT's web interface correctly, but
haven't yet configured your web server to "run" the RT server which
powers the web interface. The next step is to edit your webserver's
configuration file to instruct it to use RT's mod_perl or FastCGI
handler. If you need commercial support, please contact us at
sales#bestpractical.com.
After a few moments it redirects me to bestpractical.com/rt/rt-broken-install.html. (only allowed 2 links apparently?)
I assume I have something misconfigured but am unsure what. I've been googling and fiddling around with this most of yesterday and today with no luck. It doesn't help that I'm fairly inexperienced with the linux environment, I'm sure.
If I understand how he installed it, he wants to set it up using FastCGI so I visited this site requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/FastCGI and followed the guides there, but the documentation is quite awful and doesn't always line up with my environment, so I've had to put in a lot of guess and check work. I'll provide the code I've added to my config files so you see where I'm at for now
000-default in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled:
Alias /rt /opt/rt4/share/html
Alias /NoAuth/images /var/www/rt/share/html/NoAuth/images/
AddHandler fastcgi-script fcgi
ScriptAlias / /var/www/rt/sbin/rt-server.fcgi/
<Directory /opt/rt4/share/html/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
RT_SiteConfig.pm in /opt/rt4/etc:
Set($WebPath, '/rt');
Set($WebBaseURL, 'http://localhost');
If anymore information is needed, please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!
The RT docs for web deployment give more detailed info for setting up Apache with fastcgi and for running at '/rt'. I think you'll want to initially try using the suggested Apache configurations and see if that gets you past the setup page.
(Note that those docs are available in the RT install as well in the docs directory.)
I've been fiddeling around with ElmahR for the last two days and was planning to push it to our dev-playground for testing.
However, it doesnt load properly when running on IIS 7.5
I've fired up the deployed solution on 3 different machines with IIS Express without problems.
On IIS 7.5 it gets stuck at "Loading..." or "Sending Command", depending if it is set up as a sub application under default website or as a standalone webapplication.
The used system is Windows Server 2008 r2 sp1, IIS 7.5 .NET 4 application pool integrated mode. (all 3 machines)
I can't find the problem at hand; hope you can help.
Kind regards.
This is not an answer yet, it should be a comment but I cannot comment here :) I'm the author of ElmahR, I was not aware of the issue, last time I tested it on IIS 7.5 was a while ago and I did not have any problem, I'll have to recheck. Right now I'm not at home but I'll have a look at it when back, possibly before next weekend. And thanks for using it :)
UPDATE: I think I solved the problem, I blogged about it here. Basically, there were a couple of javascript bugs:
in one point I was not correctly setting the root of the application
under IE7/8 a better check about the plugins object was needed (the same code was running fine on IE9/Chrome/Firefox/Safari...)
The online repo is up to date, and the sample setup zipped file too.
I have a vbs file that runs fine and I want to run it under an IIS7 application name. Can this be done? If so, how?
thanks
You could look under "Handler Mappings" in IIS and add one similar to ASP which is how I used to run VBScript on the server side years ago. This does imply that the file is on a web server and you are OK with HTML output of the result.
Just for fun, I was wondering how to do this. I found an article on the Microsoft support site which told me this was possible at one time. As of IIS 7.5 this is even easier than the article suggests. You simply need to create the mapping in IIS:
Steps
Go to the IIS configuration and select the site you'd like to use
VBS files with.
Go to the Handler Mappings configuration for that site.
Click Add Script Map... on the right hand side.
Set the Request Path to *.vbs
Set the Executable to "C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe" //NOLOGO %s %s
Set the Name to something you'll remember if you need to.
Restart IIS (possibly optional but I did this)
Then, test it with a script such as the following:
WScript.Echo "Content-Type: text/html"
WScript.Echo
WScript.Echo "If you see this, it worked."
Save it as test.vbs in your site and go to the URL to see the results. Every script used this way must begin output with the first two lines of this script or IIS will not use it.
Note: I also have the CGI (from the Windows installation disk) and Fast-CGI (from the Windows download center) modules installed. I'm not sure whether either of these are actually needed though.
I just deployed a website into IIS 7 (about which I am woefully ignorant), and upon trying to build the site, I receive this error. I did a little googleing and I saw an article that said I should put system.web.extensions.dll into the /bin. But, I also saw an article saying not to do that. I tried it anyway, but I just received a different error ('Resource cannot be found').
I am totally clueless as to what else to try
Can you use the "Publish" command in Visual Studio to publish directly to the site? If not, then use that command to publish to a similar site on your machine, then copy it to the customer site.
You should also look into the IIS Web Deployment Tool. It can copy an entire site, including IIS settings and any databases. It will be built into VS2010.
Go to control panel, then programs, turn windows features on or off, scroll down to Microsoft.net framework 3.5.1 expand, make sure both sub options are selected, this might help your issue.