This is probably a fundamental question concerning IIS 7. I currently have a website running on IIS 7 on my local machine. I’ve noticed that when I type in a URL of the form http://localhost/styles/default.css, my web browser will open up the css file in notepad. However, if I use an imaginary nonexistant file extension, IIS tries to hand off the request to my website, which happens to be an asp.net mvc application. Because the [...]

When installing the Management service for IIS7+ a self-signed SSL certificate is created and assigned, it has the name ‘WMSvc-ComputerName’. In the GUI version I can change this to a different ‘proper’ certificate installed on the server, so it is trusted by remote clients. The GUI module for the Management Service is not available when connecting to the server remotely. So I need to change it using the command line on the server itself. How [...]

I am using Windows 7 Professional. When I am trying to start DefaultAppPool in IIS 7.0, I am getting error – Service WAS was not found on computer ‘.’. Is there any changes in setting need to be done? Asked by nitendra Well, start off by checking if it is installed. Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Windows Process Activation Service Answered by Bart De Vos Check more discussion of this question. [...]

I’ve just installed a SSL certificate on my web site, but when I view it in my browser (Chrome), the browser warns me that it’s not totally secure: What am I doing wrong, and how do I correct it? Asked by Shaul Anything with a reference to non-https links will invalidate the site. This includes all css, images, js etc. For Google Analytics see – http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55483 for secure tracking Also see similar post – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5028785/what-can-invalidate-ssl-php-jquery [...]

We recently had to move some of my websites from Apache to IIS 7 (on Windows Server 2008). Now I have to put my hands on it, and I found this application pools configuration (I obscured websites names for privacy): I don’t need ASP.NET since ColdFusion is our application server. My question is: what are exactly application pools? how do I configure them for a multi-site environment such as mine? What’s the “Applications” number meaning [...]

Will a wildcard certificate work with a domain and a subdomain? http://example.com http://sub.example.com Can I setup a wildcard certificate to be used by these two? In the tutorials I have followed, they always use two or more subdomains without the main domain (tutorials here and here) Asked by Robert Dondo Simple answer is yes. If you configure *.helpme.com, you can secure www.helpme.com photos.helpme.com blog.helpme.com etc The wildcard certificate will only secures the level of subdomain [...]

I have an IIS server hosting several websites, like: example.com subdomain1.example.com subdomain2.example.com I want those websites to be able to use SSL. If I install the certificate *.example.com, subdomain1.example.com and subdomain2.example.com work well, but when accessing example.com, Chrome shows a “This is probably not the site you are looking for!” message, as expected. If I install the certificate example.com, then the first website work, but two other fail with the same message, as expected too. [...]

My w3wp’s are recycling every 60 seconds after using too much virtual memory. I ran the IIS Debug Diagnostic Tool to capture a memory dump before the worker process recycled; the most interesting part seems to be this: Virtual Allocation SummaryReserved memory 4.88 GBytes Committed memory 328.27 MBytes Mapped memory 17.36 MBytes Reserved block count 524 blocks Committed block count 1082 blocks Mapped block count 43 blocks So that 4.88 GBytes of reserved memory seems [...]

Our main site www.example.com has a regular VeriSign SSL certificate. However, we need ssl for our dev environment for accurate testing. Is it possible to use another ssl from a different (cheaper) provider for our dev.example.com and stage.example.com domains? We have a load balancer with different ip’s so having unique IP’s should not be an issue. Asked by SirrDon Yes It is most certainly possible. I’ve worked with a few companies who buy expensive certificates [...]

My portal is currently work as multiple domain point to same application. abc.com, bce.com, cde.com etc all coming to same server and content created based on host. is there any solution for to use SSL. as I know ssl is domain dependent, so any ideas? Asked by gandil If displayed content is always the same, anyway used url, you could do a little trick: -Redirect everybody to one URL -Redirect to https. The good: One [...]