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Reasons Why You Should Build Your Website With Joomla

2009-03-16T05:04:00.000-07:00

Joomla is a content management system (CMS) that is a popular choice with both web design professionals and amateurs alike. This system gives the design and establish of effective and sophisticated websites in little time at all with no need for specific technical qualifications.

1. Joomla is free. The Joomla solution is an Open Source system. This means that there are no costs associated with using the software to set up your site

2. Joomla is flexible. The fact that this software is Open Source means that everybody can work on the core technology behind the system with a view to create improvements and adding features.

3. Joomla promotes sophisticated designs.

4. Joomla is easy to use. The whole point of using a content management system to build a website is that it will manage content.

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What is BlogEngine?

2009-03-16T04:59:00.000-07:00

BlogEngine.NET may be the simplest and most light weight ASP.NET blog at the moment, but still full featured.

It is a fine blog software. There are a few features that are extremely nice and I wanted to take a moment to list down them and make sure you are taking the benefits of them if you are a BlogEngine.NET user.

Features

Here's a short list of all the features of BlogEngine.NET

Plug ’n play

BlogEngine.NET is very easy to setup and customize. To make it work, just upload the files to an ASP.NET 2.0 webserver and you’re ready to start writing. No database configuration, just plug ‘n play.

Full featured

BlogEngine.NET comes with all the features you would expect from a modern blog engine as well as new unique features such as AJAX comments and screenshot trackbacks.

Web 2.0

BlogEngine.NET features social bookmarks, OpenSearch support, XFN tags, AJAX, FOAF, SIOC, APML, Gravatars, coComments, tag cloud, Google sitemap and other so called Web 2.0 features.

Referrer stats

The referrer statistics enables you to see which websites link to you, so you can follow up with comments or just to have fun. This feature is a real time killer that you cannot live without.

Cool widgets

There is a variety of cool widgets that such as an AJAX post calendar or a blogroll that automatically retrieves the latest posts from each blog and displays the title beneath the blog. Most of the controls are configurable from the admin section.

Advanced comment system

Comments are a very important part of a blog, so BlogEngine.NET features a very advanced commenting system in AJAX that supports country flags, live preview, Gravatars, coComments – all of which can easily be modified in the admin section.

Full syndication suite

BlogEngine.NET supports syndication feeds in any possible location. You can find feeds on comments, categories, authors and a main feed. Both RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0 are fully supported.

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XOOPS KEY FEATURES

2009-03-16T04:55:00.000-07:00

XOOPS is a free content management system, written in PHP for websites. It uses a modular architecture providing users to customize, update and theme their websites.

1.Database: XOOPS uses a relational database to store data required for running a web-based content management system.

2.Advanced access control layer: Administrators have the ability to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to content and features such as edit, delete, upload, add attachments, publish content, and so on.

3.Modularized: Modul can be installed, uninstalled, activated, and deactivated using the module administration system.

4.Core features usable by modules: XOOPS possess a number of core features that can be used by modules like permissions, comments, notifications and blocks features.

5.Personalization: Administrators have the ability to set specific permissions for user access and control of individual elements of their websites.

6.User Management: The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a template-based messaging system.

7.International language support: The XOOPS community has official support sites around the world for non-English-speaking users. Additionally XOOPS itself supports multi-byte character sets for languages that use characters not in the Latin alphabet for example Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc.

8.Theme-based skinnable interface: XOOPS uses themes for page presentation. Both administrators and users can change the look of the entire web site by selecting from available themes.

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BBClone - A PHP based Web Counter on Steroids

2009-03-16T04:43:00.000-07:00

BBclone is a web counter written in PHP and gives a detailed view of the visitors of your web site by displaying the nth last users (and the data they provided, like their IP, browser,etc.) that visited the web site, not just showing a number of visitors. This is very handy for webmasters that want to see who is visiting their sites, what browser people use, where they came from etc.

For each visitor, BBClone can display

IP address,
hostname,
operating system,
robots,
browser,
referring URL (where do they come from),
visit date,
number of time the visitor has loaded the page,
number of visitor
the visited pages in the order someone viewed them
the last visited page
the search engine query that lead to your site (if applicable)
ranking of the most frequent countries, referrers, OS, browsers, robots, page views and hostnames

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What Is CubeCart

2009-03-16T04:28:00.000-07:00

CubeCart is an "out of the box" ecommerce shopping cart software solution that has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart, you can quickly setup a powerful online store that can be use to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.

Features :

1. Professionally security audited

2. Search engine optimization

3. Alternate checkouts

4. 100% template driven - Valid XHTML & CSS

5. Coupon & gift certificates

6. Import new shipping/gateway/affiliate modules

7. Bulk upload product inventory

8. Multi currency & language support

9. Email marketing

10. Inventory Stock Control

11.Digital and tangible goods support

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Top 10 Reasons To Try Microsoft Access 2007!

2009-03-16T04:00:00.000-07:00

Why should we use Microsoft Access 2007? What are the benefits of Microsoft Access 2007? Here are the top 10 ways Microsoft Access 2007 can help you!

1. Get better results faster with the Office Fluent user interface

2. Get started quickly using prebuilt solutions

3. Create multiple reports with different views of the same information

4. Create tables quickly without worrying about database complexity

5. Enjoy new field types for even scenarios

6. Collect and update your information directly from the source

7. Share your information with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

8. Track Windows SharePoints Services lists with the rich client capabilities of Office Access 2007

9. Move data to Windows SharePoint Services for better manageability

10. Access and use information from multiple sources

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Why using Mambo?

2009-03-03T21:15:00.000-08:00

Mambo is an open source project that allows you to build your own customized website without the help of any additional programs and without the need to use FTP or upload files. Mambo a self-publishing solution for websites from couple of pages to several thousand ones. It is a tool for building both small personal websites and corporate portals.

The opportunities that Mambo offers are way beyond managing pictures and news items: if you decide to spend more time working on you mambo site, you will be able to customize it beyond recognition by inserting third party modules and even creating your own. You can integrate bulletin boards, add news feeds from your favorite Internet resource or your own forum, create polls, configure mail service, manage users, etc.

The advantage of Mambo is the users don't need to have any knowledge of web programming. Just click the Save and Publish buttons when it is done and then the page will appear online!

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What is Avactis Shopping Cart?

2009-03-03T19:37:00.000-08:00

Avactis Shopping Cart is a software package that enable the users to open an online store on the Internet. Avactis offers a unique advantages of very simple integration of the online store into your existing site comparing to other similar software. For many similar systems, integration of an online store is a big problem that requires a lot of time and efforts. Avactis eliminated this labor-intensive task by using special tags. Avactis offers our users a very convenient tool for the quick launch of an online business as a results.

Avactis Features :

Easy integration with existing website
Unique design for product and category
Multiple designs in same store
WYSIWYG HTML editor

Avactis Services :

Avactis custom template design
Avactis shopping cart setup, template integration, and customization
Avactis module development
Avactis mod_rewrite, SEO
Payment gateway

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Zen Cart - putting the dream of business ownership within reach of anyone!

2009-03-03T18:33:00.000-08:00

Zen Cart truly is the art of electronic commerce. It is free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The electronic commerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think electronic commerce web design could be and should be done differently.

Zen Cart has some features :

multiple language support
multiple customer modes
unlimited category depth
multiple sales and discounts
multiple display modes
XHTML 1.0 compliant template system
extra pages
multiple ad banner controller
multiple shipping options
multiple payment options
newsletter manager
discount coupons
gift certificates
featured products
quantity discounts
phpBB integration through external module

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what is MS SQL 2008?

2009-02-27T06:07:00.000-08:00

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 enables developers to build powerful database applications for virtually any business requirement, improve developer productivity by providing seamless integration between frameworks, data connectivity technologies, programming languages, Web services, development tools and data. Highly scalable, MS SQL Server 2008 is the perfect choice for handling your e-commerce site or enterprise application. MS SQL Server 2008 is capable of hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. All Premium and Professional hosting plans includes a free* SQL database which can be activated through the Control Panel once your web hosting account has been activated.

MS SQL 2008 has some features :

v Auditing of Data Changes

v Entity Data Services

v LINQ Support

v Data Synchronization Features

v No Size restriction on User Defined Types

v Improved Date and Time Data Types and New Spatial Data Types

v XML Enhancements

v Table Valued Parameters

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2009-02-27T05:01:00.000-08:00

Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. It’s got all the functionality and “features” you need, and nothing you don’t. We hope you agree with our philosophy: simpler is better.
Zenphoto really does have everything you need for your online gallery, and you’ll even stare in fear at some of the innovative innovations.

Features

Internationalization/localization
Multi-lingual titles and descriptions
Plugin system
Slideshow
Automatically generated thumbnails, custom crops possible!, and sized-down images
Upload via FTP or via the admin interface
Move/copy/rename images and albums without loosing any data
Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives
Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters
AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse
Sub albums; interface for moving/renaming images and albums.
Video support for Flash Video (.flv), MPEG4 (.mp4), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp)
Audio support for MP3 and MP4
Password protection for gallery and albums
EXIF and IPTC support
Watermarks for images
Powerful search with boolean expressions
Tags: Categorize you images with tags
Image and album rating
Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!
Highly customizable theme engine
rss for gallery, albums and comments
Multiple administrative users with varying rights
Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite

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Features & Benefits of OpenX!

2009-02-27T04:09:00.000-08:00

OpenX is an open source advertising community dedicated to helping publishers make more money. Tens of thousands of people around the world have turned to their free ad serving software. With OpenX you’re free to choose banners, campaigns and terms that suit your sites.
OpenX also has some features and benefits, such as :

Delivery and targeting - Make more money by controlling who sees what. OpenX lets you to deliver ads from multiple advertisers and ad networks.

Inventory Management – save time to manage your ad spaces. One of the major advantages of OpenX is the ability to manage your total ad space from one natural interface.

Statistics – make better trafficking decisions. With OpenX you are able to track and compare the performance of your ad campaigns.

Reporting – improve customer relations. You may have a website that has vendors purchase ad space through a subscription.

Camaign Management – take on professional advertising contracts and deliver. Serve ads from direct advertisers alongside ads from ad networks.

Conversion tracking – track what really matters. With OpenX you can track clicks through to conversions so you know the true value of your advertising.

Efficient and Scalable – no need to learn new tools as you grow. OpenX allows you to deliver hundreds of millions of ads each month from a single ad server!

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Sitefinity CMS 3.6 Enamors Developers With a Slew of New Features

2009-02-27T03:07:00.000-08:00

The Evolution of Sitefinity CMS

Unveiled back in 2005, Sitefinity and Telerik strive to find a unique balance with developer friendliness in the ASP.NET environment. In the revamped Sitefinity 3.0, we saw a number of powerful ASP.NET 2.0 platform features such as master pages, membership services and the data provider model. It also supports an array of database systems.

The Slew of New Features in v3.6

• New Backend and Modules
• Still More Features to Aid Developers
• New Sitefinity API
• Simplified Upgrades
• Integrating Video Libraries
• Better Content Categorization
• Dynamic Link Management

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What Is Drupal?

2009-02-27T02:56:00.000-08:00

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

Community web portals
Discussion sites
Corporate web sites
Intranet applications
Personal web sites or blogs
Aficionado sites
E-commerce applications
Resource directories
Social Networking sites

Drupal can be use directly after you download it. Drupal also has an easy-to-use web installer. The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

Content Management Systems
Blogs
Collaborative authoring environments
Forums
Peer-to-peer networking
Newsletters
Podcasting
Picture galleries
File uploads and downloads

and many more.

Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Work with us to outspread and clarify Drupal to suit your specific needs!

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MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2008

2009-02-27T00:19:00.000-08:00

Overview of Visual Studio 2008

MICROSOFT® VISUAL STUDIO® 2008 is the development system for
designing, developing, and testing next-generation Microsoft Windows®-based
solutions, Web applications, and services. By improving the user experience for
Windows Vista®, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, mobile devices, and the Web,
Visual Studio 2008 helps individuals and organizations rapidly create and deliver
complete, connected, comprehensive, and compelling software solutions with
breakthrough user experiences.

Professional Edition highlights

Build applications for Windows Client, Web, Microsoft Office system, .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Windows Mobile with integrated drag-and-drop designers.
Ensure application correctness easily with integrated unit testing.
Design complex Office Ribbons with the Ribbon Designer and the provided Ribbon controls.
Build applications to target SQL Server by using Microsoft Visual Basic^® or Microsoft Visual C#^® code directly within the database.
Developers can leverage rich design-time support for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 in device projects.
Add an MSDN Premium Subscription or MSDN Professional Subscription to Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition for access to a wide variety of resources and technical support options.

And of course, Professional has all the features of Visual Studio Standard including:

Build applications using the latest Web technologies with improved support for AJAX and Web controls with the Microsoft AJAX Library.
Build Web applications easily with support for cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript, IntelliSense^®, and a split code/design view.
Build data-driven applications smoothly with LINQ, a set of language extensions to Visual Basic and Visual C#.
Manage and build applications that target multiple versions of the .NET Framework with a single tool.
Build stunning user experiences with integrated designers for Windows Presentation Foundation.
Create connected applications using new visual designers for Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.
Simplify the design, development and debugging process with handy editor features, such as Edit and Continue and IntelliSense.
Deploy client applications easily with ClickOnce, which deploys an application and its prerequisites, and ensures that your client applications remain up-to-date.

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Joomla! on IIS

2008-12-31T00:48:00.000-08:00

Joomla is an open-source content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
-Corporate Web sites or portals
-Corporate intranets and extranets
-Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
-E-commerce and online reservations
-Government applications
-Small business Web sites
-Non-profit and organizational Web sites
-Community-based portals
-School and church Web sites
-Personal or family homepages

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Secure Content Publishing in IIS 7

2008-12-31T00:04:00.000-08:00

The FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 allows Web content creators to publish content more easily and securely to IIS 7.0 Web servers using modern Internet publishing standards. FTP7 enables secure publishing of content using FTP over SSL (FTPS), with support for Internet standards such as UTF8 and IPv6. New management tools, built-in to IIS Manager, allows users to enable FTP for an existing Web site, instead of creating separate FTP and Web sites to host the same content. FTP for IIS 7.0 also allows hosting multiple FTP sites on the same IP address through virtual host name support. FTP for IIS 7.0 removes the need to create Windows user accounts on the server to enable FTP publishing by allowing authentication using IIS Manager User accounts and .NET Membership. It also provides enhanced logging that records all FTP traffic to help track FTP activity and diagnose potential issues.
New features like membership-based authentication and enhanced logging give administrators a rich management and diagnostic experience for FTP sites. Built as an Extension for IIS 7.0, the new FTP service offers Web administrators and hosters an integrated management and configuration experience for FTP and Web sites through IIS Manager. The deep integration allows administrators to use IIS configuration management scripting tools such as AppCmd and the IIS PowerShell Provider to manage FTP configuration.

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Tools of the Trade: Deciding on Your Development Environment

2008-12-29T07:49:00.000-08:00

To build IIS 7.0 modules and handlers, use any environment that allows you to develop and compile .NET assemblies. Some of the common options are:

Visual Studio 2005. Alternatively, you can also download the latest beta release of Visual Studio 2008.
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, a free download (or other Express tools, including Visual Basic 2005 Express).
The C# command line compiler (csc.exe) included in the .NET framework runtime (for other languages, you will need to download the SDK), plus your favorite source editor.
The samples in this article use C#, although you can develop IIS 7.0 components in any other supported .NET language (except managed C++). The article illustrates how to develop IIS 7.0 extensibility components with all three of the above environments.

Note: Because IIS 7.0 leverages the existing ASP.NET APIs for its .NET extensibility, you can develop IIS 7.0 .NET modules and handlers with .NET Framework 2.0 on Windows XP® and Windows Server® 2003. However, if you plan to use one of the several new ASP.NET APIs that have been added to support new IIS 7.0 features, you must either develop on Windows Vista®, or obtain the version of System.Web.dll from in Windows Vista or the latest release of .Net Framework 3.5 in order to compile your code.

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Developing IIS 7.0 features with ASP.NET

2008-12-29T07:10:00.000-08:00

IIS releases prior to IIS 7.0 featured a C API, called ISAPI, as a primary extensibility API for building web server features. IIS 7.0 has been re-engineered from the ground up to provide a brand new C++ API, on which all of the in-the-box features are based, to allow complete runtime extensibility of the web server.

In addition to this, IIS 7.0 for the first time also provides a full-fidelity .NET API for extending the web server, by leveraging tight integration with ASP.NET 2.0. To you, this means that you are now able to extend IIS 7.0 with new web server features built with the familiar ASP.NET 2.0 APIs. Likewise, you can use existing ASP.NET 2.0 modules and handlers on IIS 7.0, leveraging ASP.NET integration to enhance the power of your application without writing any new code.

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Achieving High Availability and Scalability - ARR and NLB

2008-12-25T01:29:00.000-08:00

This document provides prescriptive guidance about how Application Request Routing (ARR) can be used with Network Load Balancing (NLB) to achieve high availability and scalability.

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS 7.0 is a proxy-based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms.

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Achieving High Availability and Scalability - ARR and Hardware Load Balancer

2008-12-25T01:23:00.000-08:00

This document provides prescriptive guidance about how Application Request Routing (ARR) can be used with a hardware load balancer to achieve high availability and scalability. F5 BIG-IP load balancer is used in this document to illustrate the working relationship between ARR and the hardware load balancers.

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) for IIS 7.0 is a proxy-based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms.

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Web Playlists for IIS 7.0 - Configuration

2008-12-25T01:11:00.000-08:00

Playing the Playlist

2008-12-25T01:05:00.000-08:00

The smil playlist referred above is read by the server and send the client in the form of a client-side playlist (a file with a .asx file name extension). The Playlist handler does the following to create client-side playlist file (.asx).
1.The title meta tag is mapped to title element under the ASX element
2.A LastModified PARAM is added as a param element under the ASX. This indicates the last modified time for the playlist on the server
3.Playlist extraParam meta tag is mapped as-is without any processing as sub-elements to the playlist in the ASX syntax.(e.g., Author element in playlist below)
4.Entry Name is mapped to Entry Name in the ASX syntax.
5.Ref Element in smil is translated by the server into a obfuscated URL and then passed on as ref element for an ASX entry.
6.The attribute “canSkipForward” if False, maps to the PARAM tag CANSKIPFORWARD in ASX.
7.The attribute “canSkipBack” if False, maps to PARAM tag CANSKIPBACK in ASX.
8.The attribute “canSeek” if False, maps to PARAM tag CANSEEK in ASX.
9.If all three “canSkipFwd”, “canSkipBack” and “canSeek” are set to False, they map to ASX ENTRY attribute CLIENTSKIP.
10.The session ID is added to output format to obfuscate the URLs and associate them to a server session that keeps track of what has been downloaded by the client. This is used by the server to enforce seek/skip options.

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Web Playlists for IIS 7.0 - Creating a Simple Playlist

2008-12-25T01:00:00.000-08:00

Web Playlists for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 provides the ability to control media delivery to clients and limit a client’s ability to seek or skip individual entries in the playlist. Server administrators can enable or disable seek/skip behavior through fields in the playlist entry.
This feature exists as a handler in the IIS 7.0 request-processing pipeline. The Web Playlist database is stored in a file per playlist.

A playlist is a list of media entries. Each entry has a list of possible client playback controls that can be enforced from the server side: Seek, Skip Forward (Next), Skip Backward (Previous). These controls are useful in situations where you want to limit playback of a media entry on the client, including RIAA compliance, monetization (advertisements), or other needs such as training, etc.
Creating a Playlist in IIS Manager
1.The first step is to create a list of media entries and optionally apply properties to media entries that limit a clients ability to seek, skip forward or skip backward. The steps involved are:
2.Create an empty playlist.
3.Add media entries to the playlist.
4.Select media entries (either one at a time or in bulk) for the playlist.
5.Set the properties for the element(s) and add them to the playlist.
6.Ensure that the order of media entries in the playlist is correct.
7.Set properties for the playlist.

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8.Click Apply.

Web Playlists for IIS 7.0 - Serving Media Content From User Folders

2008-12-25T00:52:00.000-08:00

You can serve media assets referenced in Web playlist files (files with .isx file name extensions), provided that the files are stored in folders on the Web server computer that can be accessed by the Web Playlists feature. By default, these folders include the Web site root (\inetpub\wwwroot). If you want to serve media assets stored in your user account folders (for example, music files stored in \Users\\Music>, you can create impersonation credentials in the Web Playlists feature to enable Web Playlists to connect to the media assets under the context of an authenticated Windows client. This allows you to maintain one set of media files that you can serve to customers, rather than creating copies of the files in the Web site root.
This article describes how to provide folder access to Web Playlists so that you can reference media files that reside outside of the Web site root in Web playlists (.isx) files. The procedure in this article uses the Music folder on the local Web server as an example; however, you can use the procedure for any folder on the local Web server computer that stores media assets. For more information about adding media assets to Web playlist files, see IIS Media Pack Help.

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Rich Diagnostic Tools for IIS 7

2008-12-24T03:41:00.000-08:00

IIS 7.0 simplifies troubleshooting by providing detailed and actionable error messages to server administrators. The new custom errors module in IIS 7.0 allows detailed error information to be sent back to the browser running on the local host server. Instead of seeing an error code, administrators can now see detailed information about the request, which potential issues may have caused the error, and suggestions about how to fix the error. The custom error information is only displayed to the server administrator; users of the Web site see the standard Web application error pages without the detailed information for server administrators.

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Package, Archive, Migrate and Synchronize

2008-12-24T03:24:00.001-08:00

IIS7 also supports the new Microsoft Web Deployment Tool, which provides support for synchronizing not only configuration and content, but all types of Web application dependencies including GAC assemblies, COM dlls, SQL databases, SSL certificates, and much more.
The Microsoft Web Deployment Tool is a tool for simplifying the deployment, management and migration of Web applications, sites and even entire servers. Developers can package a Web site, automatically including content, configuration, certificates and databases. These packages can be directly deployed to a server or packaged and shared with others. IT Professionals can enable developers to deploy these packages to a server and delegate access to non-admins. IT Professionals can also use the tool in their infrastructure to synchronize servers easily on both IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0, or even to accomplish a migration from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0.
Here are just a few of the features that the tool enables:
Create a package that contains content, configuration and SQL databases for deployment or sharing with others.
Use the package as a way to version your application or create backups.
Enable non-administrators to deploy packages and granularly control their access.
Synchronize or migrate both sites and servers running IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0.

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Centralized Web Farm Management

2008-12-24T03:20:00.000-08:00

Deploy and manage Web sites and applications across large farms of Web servers from a central place.

IIS7 makes it simple to centrally deploy and manage configuration and content across a farm of Web servers.
Share Configuration and Content
An innovative new feature called Shared Configuration enables Administrators to place IIS configuration on a shared volume (network file share or shared disk) and point multiple Web servers at that single configuration file. Web content can also be shared on a network volume across multiple servers, enabling updates of both configuration and content to automatically apply to all Web connected to the share. All of the IIS configuration and management tools, from the command line tool AppCmd.exe to the admin tool IIS Manager, work seamlessly against IIS configuration whether local or shared.

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Secure, Remote Administration in IIS 7

2008-12-24T03:10:00.000-08:00

IIS7 remote administration is done over HTTP/SSL, so it can traverse easily through firewalls, while protecting sensitive information by encrypted all data that passes between the management tool and the server. Using IIS Manager, it is easy to configure which port the remote administration service runs on, and which certificate should be used to enable SSL encryption. Whether managing a server locally or remote, IIS Manager provides the same rich administration experience in a secure, easy to use way.
IIS 7.0 Manager for Remote Administration provides Web developers and administrators with a firewall-friendly way to remotely manage IIS 7.0 Web servers over a secure Internet connection, by using Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003. IIS 7.0 Manager for Remote Administration offers the same improved interface available on Windows Server 2008 to manage and configure the Web server. Server administrators can perform almost any task remotely as if they were sitting in front of the server. Server administrators can use the remote administration feature of IIS 7.0 Manager to add user accounts and to allow site owners and Web application developers to connect to, modify, and view settings of any sites or applications for which they have been delegated permission. Users of shared hosting services allow their changes to affect only their site, not other sites or the entire server.

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Delegated Remote Management in IIS 7

2008-12-24T02:10:00.000-08:00

IIS7 provides built-in support for delegating administration tasks to Web site owners, allowing basic configuration and management tasks to be performed securely and without Administrative intervention.

Distributed Configuration
IIS7's configuration is clean, well-structured XML that is easy to read and edit. Configuration values are stored as easy to understand strings; for example, bitmasks or integer values are now persisted as easy to understand enumerations. IIS7 configuration shares a similar grammar and syntax with ASP.NET configuration, and it can also be stored alongside ASP.NET configuration in web.config files!
Administrators have full control over where configuration lives. By default, IIS7 stores global configuration and Web site defaults centrally in a new file named ApplicationHost.config. This file contains locking information which dictates whether configuration overrides can be stored alongside ASP.NET configuration in web.config files. Web site and application configuration often needs to move along with the code and content that makes up the site, as the site is published from development to test or production servers. IIS7 enables configuration to be stored in a web.config file in the same directory as the site or application content, which can easily be copied from machine to machine. Web.config files can also be stored on back-end file server and referenced from multiple front-end Web servers, thus avoiding costly and error-prone replication and manual synchronization issues.

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WebDAV Extension for IIS 7

2008-12-24T00:41:00.000-08:00

The WebDAV Extension for IIS 7.0 is a new module written specifically for Windows Server 2008 that enables Web authors to publish content more easily and securely than before, and offers Web administrators and hosters better integration, configuration and authorization features.
WebDAV for IIS 7.0 integrates seamlessly with the new IIS 7.0 Manager console and allows more secure publishing of content using HTTP over SSL. WebDAV for IIS 7.0 can be enabled at the site level, unlike in IIS 6.0, which enabled WebDAV at the server-level through a Web Service Extension. WebDAV for IIS 7.0 supports per-URL authoring rules, allowing administrators to specify custom WebDAV security settings on a per-URL basis with one set of security settings for normal HTTP requests and a separate set of security settings for WebDAV authoring. WebDAV conforms to the HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring standard.

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Preventing SQL Injections in ASP

2008-12-23T18:40:00.000-08:00

SQL Injection attacks have drawn a lot of attention in the last few months [1]. While there has been a lot of information on best practices to prevent SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP.NET and TSQL, there is comparatively very little information on preventing them in ASP code. This paper discusses the common coding mistakes in ASP code that can lead to SQL Injections, the best practices to prevent them and ways to detect these vulnerabilities.

SQL injection issues in ASP code

When you combine untrusted user input and code, you need to be careful about injection issues. If you embed user supplied data within SQL statements then you can run into SQL Injection issues and similarly if you embed user supplied data with HTML script, then you can run into HTML scripting issues, commonly referred to as XSS, Cross Site Scripting issues.

There are two common kinds of SQL injection issues:

First-order SQL Injection and
Second-order SQL Injection
If the user-supplied data comes from ASP’s Request.Form or Request.Querystring and that data is used to construct dynamic SQL statements without any data validation, then attackers can inject SQL commands into the SQL statement and misuse it. These are generally referred to as a First Order SQL Injection vulnerability.

If user input is stored in a database via one ASP page and then retrieved from the database and used to construct dynamic SQL statements in a different ASP page, this is referred to as a Second Order SQL Injection vulnerability.

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Injection Protection

2008-12-23T18:29:00.000-08:00

1. Principle of Least Privilege

The account an application uses to connect to the database should have only the privileges that application requires. The security permissions that an intruder gains from a compromised application define the harm that the intruder can inflict. Applications shouldn't connect as sa or with the Administrator account. Instead, the account should have permissions to access only the database objects it needs.

2. Validate All Input

If an input field should contain numeric data, then verify that users enter only numbers. If character data is acceptable, check for unexpected characters. Make sure your application looks for characters such as semicolons, equals signs, double dashes, brackets, and SQL keywords. The .NET Framework provides regular expressions that enable complex pattern matching, a good way to test user input. Limiting the length of accepted user input is also a good idea. Validating your input might seem obvious, but many applications are vulnerable to SQL-injection attacks because intruders can use the openings that Web applications offer.

3. Avoid Dynamic SQL

Dynamic SQL is a great tool for performing ad hoc queries, but combining dynamic SQL with user input creates exposure that makes SQL-injection attacks possible. Replacing dynamic SQL with prepared SQL or stored procedures is feasible in most applications. Prepared SQL and stored procedures accept user input as parameter data rather than as SQL commands, thus limiting what an intruder can do. Of course, replacing dynamic SQL with a stored procedure won't help you if you use the user input to build dynamic SQL statements in your stored procedures. In that case, the dynamic SQL that the user input creates will still be corrupted, and your database will still be in danger of SQL-injection attack.

4.Use Double Quotes

Replace all the single quotes that your users' input contains with double quotes. This simple precaution will go a long way toward warding off SQL-injection attacks. Single quotes often terminate SQL expressions and give the input more power than is necessary. Replacing the single quotes with double quotes will cause many SQL-injection attacks to fail.

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How to Add Tracing to IIS 7.0 Managed Modules

2008-12-23T08:44:00.000-08:00

IIS 7.0 now features the ability to plug-in and use custom developed managed modules to accomplish many different tasks and use those modules for all sorts of content. However, the question arises: what happens if the module has problems or difficulties? Previously, you used System.Diagnostics to trace the event when problems occurred. Unfortunately, those traces are completely separate from IIS traces.

Not so with IIS 7.0. Now you can add traces to the module code using System.Diagnostics.TraceSource (new to .Net 2.0). You have the ability to route those traces into the IIS 7.0 tracing infrastructure so that they are available to modules that consume traces--for example, Failed Request Tracing.

The IIS Team encourages instrumenting code using basic patterns such as:

START & STOP events around key activities within your code
WARNING & ERROR events for unexpected occurrences that might cause the request to fail (such as failed authentication)
INFORMATIONAL & VERBOSE events for help with diagnostics, such as module configuration being used

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Develop a Native C\C++ Module for IIS 7.0

2008-12-23T08:21:00.000-08:00

IIS 7.0 allows for extending the server by modules which are developed in two ways:

Using managed code, and the ASP.NET server extensibility APIs
Using native code, and the IIS 7.0 native server extensibility APIs
Unlike the previous versions of IIS, the majority of server extensibility scenarios does not require native (C++) code development, and can be accommodated using managed code and the ASP.NET APIs. Using ASP.NET to extend the server allows you to reduce dramatically development time, and to take advantage of the rich functionality of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. To learn more about extending IIS 7.0 with ASP.NET, see Developing an IIS 7.0 Module with .NET.

IIS 7.0 also provides a new (C++) native core server API, which replaces ISAPI filter and extension API from previous IIS releases. If you have specific requirements that demand native code development, or would like to convert your existing native ISAPI components, take advantage of this API to build server components. The new native server API features object-oriented development with an intuitive object model, provides more control over request processing, and uses simpler design patterns to help you write robust code.

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Set Up the Database for IIS 7

2008-12-23T07:48:00.000-08:00

Advanced Poll supports both text files and mySQL as the backend data repository. Here, we use the MySQL database option. These instructions assume that you already have MySQL installed and running.

Before starting the installation procedure for AdvancedPoll, you must create a database on your server. Also create a user and grant this user db ownership permission to the database. Follow the instructions in the Setting Up a Database for a PHP Application on IIS article for a MySQL database. This walkthrough uses the following database information:

* Database Name: 'advancedpoll'
* Database User: 'advancedpoll'
* Account Password: 'advancedpoll'

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Two Ways to Extend IIS 7.0: Module vs. Handler

2008-12-23T07:27:00.000-08:00

All IIS 7.0 web server features fit into two categories: modules, and handlers.

A module, similar to the ISAPI filter in previous IIS versions, participates in the request processing of every request in order to change or add to it in some way. Examples of some in-the-box modules in IIS 7.0 include authentication modules, which manipulate the authentication status of the request, compression modules that compress the outgoing response, and logging modules that log information about the request to the request logs.

The module is a .NET class that implements the ASP.NET System.Web.IHttpModule interface, and uses the APIs in the System.Web namespace to participate in one or more of ASP.NET’s request processing stages.

A handler, similar to the ISAPI extension in previous IIS versions, is responsible for handling the request and producing the response for specific content types. The main difference between the module and the handler is that the handler is typically mapped to a particular request path or extension, and supports the processing of a specific server resource to which that path or extension corresponds. Examples of handlers provided with IIS 7.0 include ASP, which processes ASP scripts, the static file handler, which serves static files, and ASP.NET’s PageHandler which processes ASPX pages.

The handler is a .NET class that implements the ASP.NET System.Web.IHttpHandler or System.Web.IAsyncHttpHandler interface, and uses the APIs in the System.Web namespace to produce an http response for specific content it supports.

When planning to develop an IIS 7.0 feature, the first question you should ask is whether this feature is responsible for serving requests to a specific url/extension, or applies to all/some requests based on arbitrary rules. In the former case, your should be a handler, and in the latter, a module.

This article demonstrates building both a simple module, and a simple handler, the common steps in creating the project, and compiling it, and the specific steps to deploying them to the server.

Note: You are not required to develop a handler if you are developing a module, and visa-versa.

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An End-to-End Extensibility Example for IIS 7.0 Developers

2008-12-23T06:34:00.000-08:00

IIS7 is built with a completely modular architecture, on top of rich extensibility APIs. This enables developers to easily add, remove and even replace built-in IIS7 components with hand-crafted ones, specifically suited for any given Web site. It has never been so easy to plug code deep into the IIS core pipeline and extend IIS in ways that were impossible before.

To give some examples: a few lines of code allows developers to write modules or handlers that provide new authentication and authorization schemes, do run-time or security analysis of incoming request and inspect responses. But to provide a real value-add, these modules must be manageable via programming interfaces, command-line tools and a user interface.

This white paper is an end-to-end example of how to extend the IIS 7.0 web server with a custom request handler. It shows how to add API and command-line support for the configuration of this handler and how to write a user interface module plugs into the IIS Management interface.

The solution has been tested on Windows Vista and Windows Server® 2008 Beta 3. It will be updated once the final version of Windows Server 2008 is available.

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How to Use HTTP Detailed Errors in IIS 7.0

2008-12-23T04:04:00.000-08:00

Every Web-Site Administrator or Web Developer has seen "404 - File not found" , "401 - Unauthorized" or "500 - Server Error" messages in his browser. This article helps you understand how and why IIS 7.0 generates these errors and how they can be configured.
Many might think that generating error messages does not seem to justify a full article. But there is more to errors than meets the eye. Error messages are a sensitive topic, because every error reveals more about your web-site than you might want revealed. The more information someone can gather about your site, the likelier it is that you will be hacked. A search for "google hacking" or "cross-site scripting" reveals a wealth of information on this topic.
However, error messages are also a valuable tool to troubleshoot problems. Developers and Web-Site Administrators require as much detail as possible when an error occurs. Ideally the error message gives recommendations on how to fix the problem. Here is how IIS 7.0 addresses these fundamentally opposed goals.

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Windows PowerShell Provider

2008-12-23T03:49:00.000-08:00

The Windows PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0 allows Web administrators and hosting providers to easily automate routine and complex IIS 7.0 administration tasks such as creating Web sites, and managing configuration and run-time data using Windows PowerShell. Administrators can further increase productivity by leveraging the many cmdlets included with the Windows PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0.
Simplify the administration of your Web site by scripting administrative tasks.
Achieve greater control and productivity by using the included IIS 7.0 cmdlets to automate repetitive or complex tasks like creating websites, enabling request tracing or adding a handler.
Execute repetitive administrative tasks across servers with ease.
The seamless integration with Windows PowerShell means that you can use the familiar Windows PowerShell console to execute tasks across single or multiple Web sites and servers. Using the IIS7 PowerShell provider you can easily navigate the IIS7 configuration hierarchy just as easily as you would navigate the file system on your hard drive.
Improve your decision making by consolidating metrics from your servers in real-time.
The Windows PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0 gives you access to a rich set of attributes that lets you consolidate key metrics from your Web sites, such as attended requests per second, state of the Web sites or application pools. By aggregating various metrics, you are able to create score cards, business rules or other ad-hoc responses uniquely suited to your business needs.

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Automatic Failed Request Tracing

2008-12-23T03:45:00.000-08:00

IIS 7.0 makes it possible to troubleshoot failures without having to manually reproduce them. The Failed Request Tracing feature enables server administrators to define error conditions that they wish to monitor. This allows administrators to capture trace logs for a pre-configured failure condition automatically, all while avoiding the performance penalty of saving logs for all requests. With Failed Request Tracing, administrators can capture the valuable tracing information when errors occur, even if they are intermittent or hard to reproduce. If this feature is configured, and IIS 7.0 detects an error condition, it can automatically log detailed trace events for everything that led to the error.
In addition, developers can instrument their application code with ASP.NET trace events. Failed Request Tracing will include the trace event information with the Failed Request Trace reports for a centralized troubleshooting experience. Failed Request Tracing helps any Web administrator, including Web hosters who manage many sites. A Web hoster can use Failed Request tracing for a single site or multiple sites to monitor for errors.
The underlying tracing infrastructure is exposed to IIS modules using the server extensibility model, allowing all IIS Extensions, whether they ship with IIS or are developed by third parties, to relay detailed tracing information during request processing. This allows developers and system administrators to create custom managed modules to take advantage of the unified tracing model. Developers can now write tracing modules that provide new ways to process and output traces, like a module to save IIS tracing information to a Microsoft SQL Server® or to a text file.

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Delegated Administration in IIS 7

2008-12-23T02:14:00.000-08:00

With IIS7, Administrators have powerful and flexible control over configuration and management of the Web server. Using the built-in Feature Delegation function of IIS Manager, Administrators can delegate Web site and application administration to non-Administrators, and set feature-level policy to govern whether Web site owners have read-only, read-write, or restricted access to any given feature.
While optional, delegating access to non-Administrators has many important benefits. Enabling a developer basic constrained access to his/her Web site allows for self-service of basic administration tasks, reducing the need for Administrative intervention for basic configuration tasks. Feature delegation also allows Developers to do basic trouble-shooting and diagnostics, related to configuration, without requiring additional support. Enabling delegated administration also allows Web site owners to publish configuration settings along with the application, reducing the time to bring a new or updated application online. For example, Administrators may decide to delegate administrative control of the default document setting or other properties used for that Web site. This allows the Web site owner to configure which document is served by default, allowing them to change this setting over time without asking for Administrator help, and even provides them a way to deploy a new default document quickly and easily.
Administrators can also lock specific configuration settings so that they cannot be changed. Configuration locking ensures that security policy, like the ability to execute scripts, cannot be overridden by a content developer who has been delegated administrative access to the Web site.

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Powerful Administration Tools of IIS 7

2008-12-23T02:00:00.000-08:00

IIS7 includes a comprehensive set of administration tools, including new administration and command-line tools, new managed code and scripting APIs and Windows Powershell support to simplify day-to-day tasks for developers and administrators.

IIS Manager offers a new, more efficient tool for managing the web server. Built from scratch, the new administration tool provides streamlined access to IIS and ASP.NET configuration settings, membership and user data, and runtime diagnostic information. The new admin tool also enables those who host or administer Web sites to delegate administrative control to developers or content owners, thus reducing cost of ownership and administrative burden for the administrator. Other key features include:
Remote administration over HTTP/SSL
Support for both Windows and non-Windows credentials for delegated administration
A rich extensibility framework for plugging in new UI features using the .NET Framework
Automatic download and install of new UI modules to the client
.NET – Microsoft.Web.Administration
IIS7 includes the Microsoft.Web.Administration API for programmatically administering the web server. These managed code API makes it easy to programmatically provision, access important state and diagnostic information, or configure the server.

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Filtering for SQL Injection on IIS 7 and later

2008-12-22T17:27:00.000-08:00

Starting with version 7.0, IIS has a built-in feature that is able to filter HTTP requests. If a request is found to have contents deemed unacceptable to the administrator, it will be blocked before it is processed by a web application. This feature is useful as a mitigation tool in defense of SQL Injection vulnerabilities.
Note that any scheme that filters SQL Injection attempts is only a mitigation. The complete solution to the problem requires fixing vulnerable web applications.

efore getting started, you should verify the specific version of IIS that you are using. If you are using SP1 or earlier with IIS 7.0, you will need to install this update to the request filtering component before applying the following configuration. If you are using IIS 7.0 with SP2, or any later version of IIS, you do not need to install any updates.

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How to Create a Simple IIS Manager Module

2008-12-22T10:06:00.000-08:00

The new IIS 7.0 Web Management tool is an extensible developer platform. Third parties can develop and install their own management features that appear as first-class features in the tool. The tasks illustrated in this article include:

Creating the project in Microsoft Visual Studio or Microsoft Visual C# Express so that the library can be used inside InetMgr
Creating a simple module provider
Creating a simple module that displays a message box.

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What Are Microsoft.Web.Administration and Microsoft.Web.Management?

2008-12-22T09:56:00.000-08:00

Microsoft.Web.Administration
The Microsoft.Web.Administration (MWA) APIs are built as a managed code wrapper over the Application Host Administration API (AHADMIN) which is a native code interface library. It provides a programmatic way to access and update the web server configuration and administration information.

The Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll is an easy way for users to adjust settings on the server. It does not support adding any UI extensibility or functionality. In fact, several UI features in the IIS Manager use this API to manage configuration settings on the back end.

The MWA API is used when a developer wants to write a program in managed code (C#, VB etc) to configure the server in order in a particular manner order. This API is used from standalone console applications or from within a UI feature in the IIS Manager.

These APIs also have support to access configuration at runtime (for example, from a managed module in the IIS 7.0 pipeline).

Microsoft.Web.Management
The Microsoft.Web.Management.dll has the framework to add new UI features to the IIS Manager tool. The framework has the extensibility to develop new features and provides the base classes and other functionality. This allows user defined extensions to be first-class citizens in the UI, and they have a look and feel identical to the built-in IIS 7.0 and ASP.Net features.

The IIS Manager has a modular infrastructure where every UI feature is its own entity and has to be individually registered with the tool. The client-server architecture of IIS Manager separates the logic, which manipulates server settings from the code. This displays these settings in a user-friendly manner. Each feature in the tool follows this client-server paradigm. This is enforced by providing well-defined base classes for server-side and client UI code in the IIS manager.

This API also provides the extensibility mechanism to develop UI features represented as lists, property grids, custom designed Actions panes, modal wizards and dialogs (to name a few).

Many of the existing UI features which ship with the tool use the MWA APIs (in the server-side code) to access configuration.

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Developing IIS 7.0 Modules and Handlers with the .NET Framework

2008-12-22T06:56:00.000-08:00

This article focuses on getting started with developing IIS 7.0 Web server features based on the .NET Framework. This article demonstrates:

1.How to decide whether to develop an IIS 7.0 module or an IIS 7.0 handler
2.How to set up your development environment, with Visual Studio, Visual C# Express, or command-line tools provided with the .NET Framework
3.How to create your first project
4.How to develop a simple module and handler
5.How to deploy a simple module and handler to an IIS 7.0 server

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Modular Web Server

2008-12-22T06:25:00.000-08:00

Modular Web server architecture
IIS7 is built with a completely modular architecture, on top of rich extensibility APIs. This enables developers to easily add, remove and even replace built-in IIS7 components with hand-crafted ones, specifically suited for any given Web site. It also gives Web administrators complete control over the surface area of the server, enabling them to install and manage only the required components, thereby reducing the surface area of the Web server, and minimizing resource utilization.

Developers can rejoice at the many powerful extensibility options IIS7 provides. At the core, IIS7 is completely extensible using both native (C/C++) and managed (C#, VB.NET) extensibility APIs, offering developers complete flexibility over which language to develop extensions with.

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SQL Injection

2008-12-22T06:07:00.000-08:00

SQL injection is an attack in which malicious code is inserted into strings that are later passed to an instance of SQL Server for parsing and execution. Any procedure that constructs SQL statements should be reviewed for injection vulnerabilities because SQL Server will execute all syntactically valid queries that it receives. Even parameterized data can be manipulated by a skilled and determined attacker.

The primary form of SQL injection consists of direct insertion of code into user-input variables that are concatenated with SQL commands and executed. A less direct attack injects malicious code into strings that are destined for storage in a table or as metadata. When the stored strings are subsequently concatenated into a dynamic SQL command, the malicious code is executed.

The injection process works by prematurely terminating a text string and appending a new command. Because the inserted command may have additional strings appended to it before it is executed, the malefactor terminates the injected string with a comment mark "--". Subsequent text is ignored at execution time.

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How IIS can help with SQL Injection

2008-12-22T05:52:00.000-08:00

2008 has been a busy year for attackers exploiting SQL Injection vulnerabilities in web applications. Once again, I am finding questions about this subject in my inbox.

Earlier today, I found myself reviewing the material that's been published by Microsoft and others. I was searching for a single, concise link that I could send out to describe what IIS's various filtering tools can do and how to set them up for the job.

It turns out that there are so many articles out there, that the core "what can I do about it" message has been lost in the deluge. For someone new to the issue, who just wants to know what to do, there is no good starting place.

This post is my attempt to provide that starting place.

Before getting into the details, no discussion about SQL Injection filtering is complete without the following caveat: Filtering for SQL Injection is nothing more than a tool to help mitigate the issue. It is not the final solution and it is not foolproof. The only complete solution to prevent SQL Injection over the web is to fix vulnerable web applications on the server.

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How to Get Started Extending Module Properties for IIS 7.0 in IIS Manager

2008-12-21T10:20:00.000-08:00

The IIS 7.0 administration tool is an extensible platform which developers can use to plug in their own features and manage custom settings. Any added features are integrated into the tool and appear along with the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET features as first class citizens.

This document shows how to access configuration settings for a custom section and how to manipulate them by developing a page derived from the ModulePropertiesPage base class in the Microsoft.Web.Management.Client.Win32 namespace. This uses a property grid to view and change the settings. The following articles provide the background for this document: "Creating a simple UI module", "Adding Configuration Functionality to IIS 7.0 Admin Tool Extensions" and "Extending the IIS Schema and Accessing the Custom Sections Using Microsoft.Web.Administration APIs" .

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Overview of MWA and MWM for IIS 7.0

2008-12-21T09:37:00.000-08:00

Extending the IIS Manager tool to manage custom configuration (in the distributed configuration files) on the IIS 7.0 server involves use of APIs from two different assemblies, the Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and the Microsoft.Web.Management.dll. These APIs should be used for very different actions and have fundamentally different purposes. This document provides a quick overview of what functionality these APIs provide and the relationship between them.

If you are planning to add UI to the IIS Manager (InetMgr) to manage custom settings on the server configuration files, you will use APIs from Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and Microsoft.Web.Management.dll. The functionality provided by APIs from these assemblies is fundamentally different and could be confusing for a developer using it for the very first time.

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ASP.NET Routing in IIS 7

2008-12-21T07:16:00.000-08:00

ASP.NET routing is implemented as a managed-code module that plugs into the IIS request processing pipeline at the Resolve Cache stage (PostResolveRequestCache event) and at the Map Handler stage (PostMapRequestHandler). ASP.NET routing is configured to run for all requests made to the Web application.

During the PostResolveRequestCache event, the module looks through a routing table (a collection of route objects) for a route that matches the requested URL path. If a match is found, the module gets a reference to the handler that corresponds to that route and saves the reference as part of the current HTTP context. A handler may be any .NET Framework object that implements the System.Web.IHttpHandler interface. If no route is found, the module does not do anything and the URL falls through and is processed normally (typically by matching it to a file on disk).

During the PostMapRequestHandler event, the module checks if the HTTP context contains any information about a handler. If it does, ASP.NET routing uses the information to set the Handler property of the current HTTP context. This ensures that during the Execute Handler stage, IIS will execute the handler that was selected by the routing module. If that information is not set, then once again the module does not do anything and the URL falls through to let IIS make a handler selection.

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IIS URL Rewriting

2008-12-21T07:14:00.000-08:00

URL rewriting in general is not a new concept. It was introduced in the Apache Web server about a decade ago. Since then it has proven to be a very useful tool for web server administrators and web developers. Many popular applications hosted on Apache now rely on URL rewriting in order to enable support for "clean" URLs.

In a nutshell, the concept of URL rewriting is simple. When a client makes a request to the Web server for a particular URL, the URL-rewriting component analyzes the requested URL and changes it to a different other URL on the same server. The URL-rewriting component runs very early in the request processing pipeline, so is able to modify the requested URL before the Web server makes a decision about which handler to use for processing the request. The handler, which is then chosen based on the rewritten URL, processes the request and generates a response that is sent back to the Web browser. The requesting client never sees the rewritten URL; as far as the client is concerned, it has received a response from the original URL.

How to manage pilot or beta program for your site using Application Request Routing in IIS7.0

2008-12-21T07:11:00.000-08:00

Won't it be cool if you can target and route appropriate users of your site to your pilot/beta/new looking site based on user's profile. This may help you in managing select users who have previously signed for pilot program and redirect them to new looking web site and gather feedback. This is a very typical situation when your web site is evolving or going a major change. IIS7.0 Application Request Routing (ARR) module helps you achieve this. The other situation where this can help is to limit and manage the amount of traffic that is routed to pilot site. There can be numerous other scenarios like ones mentioned where ARR can assist but the focus of the tip will be to learn how to get this done through ARR. You can apply it to other related scenario too.

Let's say for example we would like to redirect all users who have .NET Framework 3.5 installed and are using the browser Internet Explorer to the pilot site. For achieving this using ARR, follow the below steps:

* Launch IIS Manager.
* Create a server farm named "pilotSiteServers" using this walkthrough. This server farm will represent the pilot/beta environment.
* Create another server farm named "productionSiteServers" as above. This server farm will represent the production environment.

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IIS URL Rewriting and ASP.NET routing

2008-12-21T07:05:00.000-08:00

With the release of URL-rewrite module for IIS 7.0 and the inclusion of ASP.NET routing into the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, there have been a lot of questions from ASP.NET developers about how these two features relate to each other and when to use each. The intention of this document is to describe the differences between these two technologies and to provide guidance for Web developers on when to use IIS URL rewriting and when to use ASP.NET routing.

From a high-level point of view, it may seem that these technologies provide very similar functionality--both allow your Web applications to have user-friendly and search-engine-friendly URLs. However, there are fundamental differences between these two technologies that are important to understand in order to make the right choice when deciding what to use for your Web application. In order to help you understand those, we will first explain how IIS URL rewriting and ASP.NET routing work.

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Disabling a Module in an Application

2008-12-21T06:54:00.000-08:00

Disable a module if that module is no longer in use in the application, or if you want to replace it with another module. To disable a module, remove the corresponding module entry from the configuration collection for a particular application where you do not want this module to execute. If the module is enabled at the server level, remove it there to disable it in all applications on the server by default. Use one of the following options to remove the module at the server level:

* Manually edit the / configuration section in your application.
* Use the IIS 7.0 Administration Tool.
* Use the IIS 7.0 APPCMD.EXE command line tool.

After the module is removed from the application, it will not be active in that application. However, if the module is native, it will still be loaded in the server worker process, and may be used by other applications that did not remove it.

Note: The configuration section is unlocked by default if ASP.NET is installed. This default unlocking allows applications to disable both native and managed modules enabled globally, and to add new managed modules. This configuration section can be locked at the server level to prevent modification entirely, or prevent removal of specific module entries if desired by the Administrator.

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Using IIS 7 with Windows Server Core

2008-12-21T06:51:00.000-08:00

Discover how IIS 7.0 and the Server Core installation option in Windows Server® 2008 can help reduce management and setup time. IIS 7.0 on Server Core combines a powerful new Web server with a minimal footprint server operating system, which has a smaller disk space requirement, lower memory utilization, a reduced attack surface, and lower servicing needs.

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IIS 7.0 on Server Core

2008-12-21T06:39:00.000-08:00

As you may know from TechEd 2007 announcements and a Bill Staples' blog post, IIS 7.0 is supported on the Server Core installation option of Windows Server® 2008. IIS 7.0 on Server Core combines a powerful new Web server with a minimal footprint server operating system, which has a smaller disk space requirement, lower memory utilization, a reduced attack surface, and lower servicing needs.

This article provides basic instructions for getting started with IIS 7.0 on Server Core, including installation instructions for running Classic ASP and PHP applications.

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How IIS 7.0 Determines the Authenticated Identity

2008-12-21T06:16:00.000-08:00

In IIS 7.0 the authentication rules are processed by the core engine in a similar manner as they were in previous versions of IIS with only some minor changes. To better understand the processing order, here are the rules based on the order IIS evaluates them:

* First, IIS determines if a username and password has been configured at the virtual directory. If a set of credentials have been defined, those credentials will be used. For pre-IIS 7.0 administrators, these credentials are the UNC credentials
* If no credentials are configured at the virtual directory then IIS will use the credentials provided during authentication. These credentials can belong to the identity that is configured for anonymous authentication or the credentials provided by the user during the authentication handshake when Basic, Digest, or Windows authentication is enabled
* If no authenticated user was established (for example, forms authentication is enabled) we will determine if the process identity should be used
* If we do not have an identity at this point, IIS will return an access denied

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Changes Between IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 Security

2008-12-21T05:04:00.000-08:00

For ASP.NET application developers there had been, before IIS 7.0, two authentication models you needed to program against. These models were the IIS and ASP.NET pipelines. First, IIS would examine the request and perform its authentication routines and then afterwards pass it to ASP.NET so it could do a similar task.

In IIS 7.0 we have unified these two models to produce a new robust pipeline that does the best that both older models did. IIS still supports all the old authentication protocols but also now supports forms authentication which can protect against all content types and does not rely on Windows accounts. In addition to supporting all the old features you have come to know and love we have also enhanced some of them such as the anonymous authentication feature.

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How IIS can help with SQL Injection

2008-12-20T08:28:00.000-08:00

PHPNuke on IIS

2008-12-20T08:15:00.000-08:00

PostNuke is a software application that creates an impressive, dynamic Web site and provides the webmaster with a site that they can administer through a Web browser with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge.

In addition, PostNuke's functionality can be increased by installing modules, blocks and themes. For example, you can add a forum, a gallery and a contact form. You can also change how the entire site looks by changing themes. All of this can be done with just a few clicks in the administration panel, saving hours of time, both in the initial creation of the website and in its day to day maintenance.

For more information about PostNuke, see http://www.postnuke.com/.

In this section, we go through the steps required to install PostNuke to work with the FastCGI extension on IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0. To find out more about FastCGI support in IIS, see http://www.iis.net/fastcgi.

The following steps assume that you have completed the setup and configuration of FastCGI extension and PHP libraries as described in http://www.iis.net/fastcgi/phpon60.

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ZenCart on IIS

2008-12-20T08:07:00.000-08:00

ZenCart is the art of e-commerce: a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants who think e-commerce could be, and should be, done differently.

For more information about ZenCart, see http://www.zen-cart.com/.

In this section, we go through the steps required to install ZenCart to work with the FastCGI extension on IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0.

To find out more about FastCGI support in IIS, see http://www.iis.net/fastcgi.

The following steps assume that you have completed the setup and configuration of FastCGI extension and PHP libraries as described in http://www.iis.net/fastcgi/phpon60.

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Advanced Poll on IIS

2008-12-20T07:29:00.000-08:00

Advanced Poll is a polling system with a powerful administration tool. It features: multiple pools, templates, unlimited options, multi-language support, IP-Logging, IP-Locking, cookie support, comment feature, vote expire feature, random poll support and more. Advanced Poll supports data in text files and MySQL databases. For more information about Advanced Poll, see http://www.proxy2.de/scripts.php.

Advanced Poll does not need many modifications beyond the default configuration provided by PHP. From the base configuration file provided by PHP, you only need to modify the following lines in your php.ini configuration file to get Advanced Poll to work:

* Define 'extension_dir' as 'c:\php\ext' (i.e. the location of your php extensions directory)
* Uncomment 'extension=php_mysql.dll' in the extensions list to enable MySQL support

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Enabling Forms Authentication for the Entire Application

2008-12-20T07:22:00.000-08:00

In this task, we eliminate the limitation of ASP.NET on previous releases, and enable the ASP.NET Forms Authentication and Url Authorization functionality for the entire application.

In order to take advantage of ASP.NET integration, our application must be configured to run in Integrated mode. The ASP.NET integration mode is configurable per application pool, enabling ASP.NET applications in different modes to be hosted side by side on the same server. The default application pool in which our application lives already uses Integrated mode by default, so we do not need to do anything here.

So, why did we fail to experience the benefits of Integrated mode when we tried to access the static page earlier? The answer lies in the default settings for all ASP.NET modules shipped with IIS 7.0.
Taking Advantage of the Integrated Pipeline

The default configuration for all managed modules shipped with IIS 7.0, including the Forms Authentication and URL Authorization modules, uses a precondition so that these modules only apply to content that an (ASP.NET) handler manages. This is done for backwards compatibility reasons.

By removing the precondition, we make the desired managed module execute for all requests to the application, regardless of content. This is necessary in order to protect our static files, and any other application content with Forms-based authentication.

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Known Differences Between Integrated Mode and Classic Mode

2008-12-20T07:16:00.000-08:00

In Integrated mode, Application_OnError is not called for exceptions that occur in HttpApplication::Init

In Integrated mode, exceptions that occur during the initialization of an application or module cannot be intercepted using the Application.Error event.

Also, applications that use Server.ClearError to recover from errors cannot clear errors during application initialization. This is to prevent an application from ignoring an error during initialization. Applications that log error information for each exception that occurs will not be able to log the errors that occur during application initialization, although these errors are reported using Web events and HTTP responses.

If an application requires implementation of such exception handling during initialization, it must be run in Classic mode rather than in Integrated mode.
Server.ClearError in EndRequest does not clear exception message in Integrated mode

In Integrated mode, calling Server.ClearError in EndRequest does not clear the exception response if an exception has occurred earlier in request processing. Applications that clear the exception message in EndRequest cannot remove the exception output from the response.

If an application requires implementation of such exception handling during EndRequest, it must be run in Classic mode rather than in Integrated mode.
Integrated mode applications may write to a response in EndRequest after an exception has been formatted and written to the response

In Integrated mode, it is possible to write to and display an additional response written after an exception has occurred.

This does not occur in Classic mode. If an error occurs during the request, and the application writes to the response in EndRequest after the exception has occurred, the response information written in EndRequest displays. This only affects requests that include unhandled exceptions.

To avoid writing to the response after an exception, an application must check HttpContext.Error or HttpResponse.StatusCode before writing to the response.
In Integrated mode, ASP.NET no longer suppresses the content type when the response is empty

In Integrated mode, ASP.NET handlers generate Content Type headers when explicitly set by a module, even if the response is empty. Some applications generate a content type for empty responses. If desired, modify applications to explicitly remove the Content Type header by setting it to NULL.

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Configuring the Pipeline Mode Used by an Application

2008-12-20T07:12:00.000-08:00

IIS 7.0 is configured to use the new Integrated mode for new applications. This is the default behavior. The pipeline mode is configured using the application pool settings. Change these settings using one of the following:

*
The IIS 7.0 Administration Tool
*
The APPCMD.EXE command line tool
*
By editing the application configuration file with a text editor

If you are upgrading an existing computer to IIS 7.0, the applications are configured to run in Classic mode by default. Classic mode provides compatibility for applications that have specific dependencies on the implementation of the HTTP pipeline in earlier versions of IIS.

However, if you are importing an existing application to a computer running IIS 7.0 and you are copying the Web site, the pipeline mode used is determined by the settings of the application pool that the application is configured to run in.

For example, if you copy the application to your computer and configure it to run in the Default Application Pool, it runs using that application pool's settings which, by default, are configured to Integrated mode. To change the pipeline mode for your application, either change the Default Application Pool settings or create a new application pool with the settings that you want.

Read more about how to configure an existing application to use Integrated mode in the article ASP.NET Integration with IIS 7.0, in the section entitled, "Migrating ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7.0 Integrated mode". This provides instructions for changing the application configuration settings.

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Upgrading from Earlier Versions of IIS to Windows Vista

2008-12-20T03:59:00.000-08:00

ASP.NET Upgrade Scenarios on Windows Vista

The following table provides a brief outline of the supported upgrade paths for ASP.NET on earlier versions of Windows operating systems to ASP.NET on Windows Vista. Where issues are noted, see the sections that follow for more information about upgrade restrictions and limitations.

The table also shows that upgrades from server OS versions to client OS versions are not available. Instead, you must perform a clean installation of Vista on a computer with a server OS currently installed.

Post-Installation Application Configuration

Immediately following an installation or upgrade to Windows Vista, users must perform additional configuration steps to enable applications to work. The post-installation configuration depends on the ASP.NET version that each application uses.
Configuring ASP.NET 1.1 Applications

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Upgrading ASP.NET 1.1 to IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

2008-12-19T03:47:00.000-08:00

For ASP.NET application developers who move to the Windows Vista™ operating system, IIS 7.0 represents a significant advance over earlier IIS versions. IIS 7.0 Integrated mode offers increased security and new application possibilities, among other improvements.

Most developers who move to Windows Vista upgrade from the Microsoft Windows® XP operating system to Windows Vista and upgrade their ASP.NET applications in the process. Or they install on Windows Vista the ASP.NET applications developed on other Windows operating systems.

This paper details important post-installation and post-upgrade configuration steps that must be performed for applications to work on the new operating system. It describes changes between Classic mode and IIS 7.0 Integrated mode that affect ASP.NET applications, and how to work around these known problems.

One of the significant improvements in IIS 7.0 is an integrated pipeline feature that enables Web applications to use a single request-processing pipeline from either managed or non-managed code applications. In addition, the new pipeline model reduces redundant behavior that results from two separate implementations of the same feature.

For example, in previous releases, IIS and ASP.NET implemented separate request pipelines that did not share access to events and handler modules. Authentication was performed independently within each pipeline. In the new model, authentication can be done one time for IIS and ASP.NET.

Other benefits of this integration include:

* ASP.NET services such as Forms Authentication and Roles working with IIS 7.0 content types–for example, static and classic ASP pages.
* IIS 7.0 functionality extending with managed code and with ASP.NET pipeline modules, instead of only with ISAPI extensions or CGI.
* Simplified troubleshooting resulting from the integration of event tracing and error logging.
* Sharing application configuration between ASP.NET and IIS 7.0.

This article examines compatibility issues for ASP.NET applications migrating from earlier versions of IIS to IIS 7.0 and specifically focuses on differences that relate to transitioning from Classic mode to using the integrated pipeline in Integrated mode.

For a complete overview of the features and benefits of ASP.NET and IIS 7.0 integration, see the article ASP.NET Integration with IIS 7.0.

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Best Practices for Configuring FastCGI and PHP

2008-12-19T03:38:00.000-08:00

Security Isolation for PHP Web Sites

The recommendation for isolating PHP web sites in a shared hosting environment is consistent with all general security isolation recommendations for IIS 7.0. In particular, it is recommended to:

* Use one application pool per web site
* Use a dedicated user account as an identity for the application pool
* Configure anonymous user identity to use the application pool identity
* Ensure that FastCGI impersonation is enabled in the php.ini file (fastcgi.impersonate=1)

For more details about security isolation in a shared hosting environment, refer to Isolating Sites with Application Pools.
PHP Process Recycling Behavior

Make sure that FastCGI always recycles the php-cgi.exe processes before the native PHP recycling kicks in. The FastCGI process recycling behavior is controlled by the configuration property instanceMaxRequests. This property specifies how many requests the FastCGI process will process before recycling. PHP also has a similar process recycling functionality that is controlled by an environment variable PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS. By setting instanceMaxRequests to be smaller or equal to PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS, you can ensure that the native PHP process recycling logic will never kick in.

The FastCGI settings can be configured either by using IIS Manager or by using the command line tool appcmd.

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Install and Configure PHP with IIS 7

2008-12-19T03:36:00.000-08:00

It is recommended to use a non-thread safe build of PHP with IIS 7.0 FastCGI. A non-thread safe build of PHP provides significant performance gains over the standard build by not doing any thread-safety checks, which are not necessary, since FastCGI ensures a single threaded execution environment.

1. Download the latest non-thread safe zip package with binaries of PHP from http://www.php.net/downloads.php.
2. Unpack the files to a directory of your choice (e.g. C:\PHP). Rename the php.ini-recommended to php.ini.
3. Open the php.ini file, then uncomment and modify settings as follows:
* Set fastcgi.impersonate = 1. FastCGI under IIS supports the ability to impersonate security tokens of the calling client. This allows IIS to define the security context that the request runs under.
* Set cgi.fix_pathinfo=1. cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI. PHP's previous behavior was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not care what PATH_INFO is. For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs. Setting this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix it's paths to conform to the spec
* Set cgi.force_redirect = 0.
* Set open_basedir to point to a folder or network path where the content of the web site(s) is located.
* Set extension_dir to point to a location where PHP extensions reside. Typically, for PHP 5.2.X that would be set as extension_dir = "./ext"
* Enable the required PHP extension by un-commenting corresponding lines, for example:

extension=php_mssql.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll

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Overview of FastCGI for IIS 7

2008-12-19T01:34:00.000-08:00

The FastCGI module in IIS enables popular application frameworks that support the FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release.

CGI programs are executables launched by the web server for each request in order to process the request and generate dynamic responses that are sent back to the client. Because many of these frameworks do not support multi-threaded execution, CGI enables them to execute reliably on IIS by executing exactly one request per process. Unfortunately, it provides poor performance due to the high cost of starting and shutting down a process for each request.

FastCGI addresses the performance issues inherent in CGI by providing a mechanism to reuse a single process over and over again for many requests. Additionally, FastCGI maintains compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries by providing a pool of reusable processes and ensuring that each process will only handle one request at a time.

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Using FastCGI to Host PHP Applications on IIS 7.0

2008-12-19T01:28:00.000-08:00

On October 30th, 2006, Microsoft and Zend announced a joint technical preview aimed at providing the best support for running PHP applications on IIS in a reliable, and high-performance way. Today, the IIS team announces the Go Live release of the FastCGI extension for IIS 6.0, which addresses issues reported by the community for previous technical preview releases.

This article explains how to use the Microsoft IIS FastCGI extension to set up and run PHP applications on Windows XP and Windows Server® 2003 operating systems.

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Gallery2 on IIS

2008-12-19T01:23:00.000-08:00

Gallery is a web application that lets you manage your photos on your own website. With Gallery, you can easily create and maintain photo albums via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have view, edit, delete and other permissions per an individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.

For more information about Gallery, refer to http://gallery.menalto.com/.

The following sections describe how to install and configure Gallery for use with FastCGI on IIS 6.0. This document assumes that you have completed the setup and configuration of the FastCGI extension and PHP libraries as described here in http://www.iis.net/fastcgi/phpon60.

The instructions have been tested and work in the following configurations:

* Windows Server® 2003 operating system
* IIS 6.0
* PHP 5.2.4
* MySQL 5.0.45
* Gallery 2.2.3 – typical install

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Great compatibility story of IIS 7

2008-12-19T01:18:00.000-08:00

* Integrated Pipeline is the new unified request processing pipeline. Benefits include:
o Allowing services provided by both native and managed modules to apply to all requests, regardless of handler. For example, managed Forms Authentication can be used for all content, including ASP pages, CGIs, and static files.
o Empowering ASP.NET components to provide functionality that was previously unavailable to them due to their placement in the server pipeline. For example, a managed module providing request rewriting functionality can rewrite the request prior to any server processing, including authentication, takes place.
o A single place to implement, configure, monitor and support server features. For example, single module and handler mapping configuration, single custom errors configuration, single URL authorization configuration.
* Classic ASP mode allows for easy app migration
o ASP.NET Setup provides a "Classic .NET AppPool"
o For more information, see the article ASP.Net Integration With IIS 7.0
* Use AppCmd to migrate apps to Integrated mode
o %windir%\system32\inetsrv\APPCMD.EXE migrate config
o For more information about AppCmd.exe, see Getting Started With AppCmd.exe
* IIS 6.0 Metabase compatibility layer
o Allows you the run old ADSI scripts
o IIS 6.0 Metabase Compatibility module must be installed

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Top 10 Changes in IIS 7.0

2008-12-19T01:09:00.000-08:00

1. Simple, configurable command line setup
2. Great compatibility story
3. No more metabase!
4. Centralized configuration
5. Delegated configuration
6. AppCmd and other new management options
7. Failed request tracing
8. Request filtering
9. UNC content
10. Output caching of dynamic content

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Wildcard script mapping and IIS 7 integrated pipeline

2008-12-19T01:00:00.000-08:00

The big benefit of IIS 7 integrated request processing pipeline is the fact that all the nice and useful ASP.NET features can be used for any type of content on your web site; not just for ASP.NET-specific content. For example, ASP.NET SQL-based membership can be used to protect static files and folders. Also, ASP.NET extensibility API's, such as IHttpHandler and IHttpModule can be used to add custom modules and handlers that would be executed even for non-ASP.NET content.

IIS 6 did not have this level of integration. ASP.NET was plugged into IIS 6 as an ISAPI extension and by default was configured to handle ONLY requests mapped to that extension - for example any request that ended with ".aspx" would be be processed by ASP.NET extension. This obviously was a big limitation for customers who wanted to be able to use ASP.NET features for all other contend on web site. The most common way to workaround that was to use "Wildcard script mapping". This post explains how an application that used wildcard script mapping in IIS 6 can be migrated over to IIS 7.

Assume you had configured ASP.NET in IIS 6 to handle all requests by using wildcard script mapping. For example you had an ASP.NET module for URL rewriting and you wanted this module to handle extension-less URLs.

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Using Classic ASP.NET mode

2008-12-19T00:49:00.000-08:00

IIS 7.0 also offers the ability to run ASP.NET applications using the legacy Classic ASP.NET Integration mode, which works the same way as ASP.NET has worked on previous versions of IIS. However, we strongly recommend that you use a workaround where available to change your application to work in Integrated mode instead. Moving to Classic mode will make your application unable to take advantage of ASP.NET improvements made possible in Integrated mode, leveraging future features from both Microsoft and third parties that may require the Integrated mode. Use Classic mode as a last resort if you cannot apply the specified workaround. For more information about moving to Classic mode, see: Changing the ASP.NET integration mode.

Below, I discuss some of the breaking changes in detail. Where available, I include links to blog posts that contain additional details and workaround information. If you require more information on a particular problem, please post a question on the IIS.net forums.

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ASP.NET 2.0 Breaking Changes on IIS 7.0

2008-12-19T00:41:00.000-08:00

ASP.NET 2.0 applications on IIS 7.0 are hosted using the ASP.NET Integrated mode by default. This new mode enables a myriad of exciting scenarios, including using valuable ASP.NET features such as Forms Authentication for your entire Web site, and developing new ASP.NET modules to do things such as URL rewriting, authorization, logging, and more at the IIS level. For more information about the ASP.NET Integration in IIS 7.0, see: ASP.NET Integration with IIS7.

While making ASP.NET applications more powerful in IIS 7.0, we also worked diligently to ensure that existing ASP.NET applications continue to work when migrated to this new platform. This was a major challenge for us as we re-architected the entire core engine of ASP.NET, and in the end we were highly successful in meeting it. As a result, most ASP.NET applications should work without change.

This article lists the changes in behavior that you may encounter when deploying your ASP.NET applications on IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.

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Prerequisites to IIS 7

2008-12-19T00:33:00.000-08:00

The following steps include the prerequisites necessary for completing the tasks in this article.
Step 1 : Installing IIS 7.0

IIS 7.0 must first be installed. To check if IIS 7.0 is installed, browse to http://localhost. If you see the "under construction" page, then IIS 7.0 is installed. If IIS 7.0 is not installed, refer to the "Installing IIS 7.0" guide for installation instructions.

Make sure to install the following IIS 7.0 Components:

* ASP (under World Wide Web Services => Application Development Features => ASP)
* Tracing (under World Wide Web Services => Health & Diagnostics => Tracing)

Step 2 : Log In as Administrator

Make sure to login to the administrator account or in the Administrators group.

Note: Being in the Administrators group does not grant you complete administrator privileges by default. You must run many applications as Administrator. Right-click the application icon and choose "Run as Administrator".
Step 3 : Make a Backup

You must make a backup of the configuration before executing tasks.

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How to Capture ASP.NET Page Trace Events in IIS 7.0 Tracing

2008-12-19T00:32:00.000-08:00

In ASP.Net today, developers can add trace events to ASPX pages using Trace.Write() & Trace.Warn() calls in the script sections of their page. Typically, you use these traces to debug an application that does not work as expected.

These events appear when you enable tracing for the page (set <%@ Page Trace="True" %>). You can only view these events by default when browsing the application from the server (i.e. Localhost), or when you enable Application Tracing to keep the last given number of sessions.

However, the problems with this process are:

* These traces are not persisted, so if the process goes away, so do your traces
* These traces are collected regardless of the status code for the request – i.e. if it succeeds or fails, you get traces
* These traces are viewed completely separately from any other infrastructure traces provided by IIS 7.0 or ASP.net

In IIS 7.0, you can now collect these traces in Failed Request Tracing or ETW tracing in addition to viewing them normally. And, you can view these traces in conjunction with IIS and ASP.net infrastructure traces.

Tasks illustrated in this walkthrough include:

* Configuring failed-request tracing to capture ASP.net Page Trace.Write and Warn calls
* Generating the failure condition and viewing the resulting trace capture, finding the Trace.Write and Trace.Warn calls

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Migrating ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7.0 Integrated mode

2008-12-18T12:18:00.000-08:00

On IIS 7.0, ASP.NET is configured to operate in the new Integrated mode by default. This enables your application to take advantage of Integrated mode enhancements with minimal modifications.

Because of the configuration unification, some applications may require migration in order to operate property in Integrated mode. By default, the server provides assistance with migration. It detects applications that require migration, and returns an error message requesting the application be migrated.

The following configuration causes the migration error:

1. The application web.config file defines configuration.
The application loads new ASP.NET modules, or removes existing ones.
In Integrated mode, ASP.NET modules are specified together with native modules in the unified / configuration section.
The ASP.NET modules specified in the / configuration section must be moved to the new configuration section in order to take effect. Subsequently, new ASP.NET modules must be added directly to the unified section.
2. The application web.config file defines configuration.
The application uses custom handler mappings for some content types.
In Integrated mode, the ASP.NET handler mappings must be specified in the unified / configuration section in order to take effect. Subsequently, new ASP.NET handler mappings must be added directly to the unified section.
The section replaces both the ASP.NET configuration AND the IIS 7.0 scriptmaps configuration, both of which previously had to be configured in order to set up an ASP.NET handler mapping.
3. The application web.config file defines configuration.
The application impersonates client credentials (most common with intranet applications). In Integrated mode, client impersonation is not available in some early request processing stages. In the majority of cases, this is not a problem and you can turn off the error – otherwise, you must configure this application to run using the Classic ASP.NET mode.

When this error is generated, it can generally either migrate the application configuration (recommended in cases 1 and 2, above), or move the application to use Classic ASP.NET mode (in case 3).

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Compatibility of ASP.NET and IIS 7

2008-12-18T12:06:00.000-08:00

Most notably, the integrated architecture maintains the existing ASP.NET runtime architecture and APIs, allowing existing ASP.NET applications and services to work out of the box. With just a few modifications, they can be changed to take advantage of the new ASP.NET capabilities.

Likewise, developers can continue to write new applications to familiar ASP.NET APIs while harnessing the benefits of the runtime integration.

IIS 7.0 continues to provide the "Classic" ASP.NET mode for ASP.NET applications that have specific compatibility requirements not met by the Integrated mode. Administrators can select the desired integration mode per application pool, which enables applications using both the new and the Classic ASP.NET modes to function side by side on the same server.

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ASP.NET Integration Architecture

2008-12-18T12:01:00.000-08:00

In IIS 6.0 and previous releases, ASP.NET was implemented as an IIS ISAPI extension.

A request to an ASP.NET content type would be first processed by IIS, and then forwarded to the ASP.NET ISAPI DLL, which hosted the ASP.NET request pipeline and page framework. Requests to non-ASP.NET content, such as ASP pages, or static files, would be processed by IIS or other ISAPI extensions and were not visible to ASP.NET.

The major limitation of this model is the fact that services provided by ASP.NET modules, and custom ASP.NET application code, was not available to non-ASP.NET requests. In addition, ASP.NET modules were unable to affect certain parts of IIS request processing that occurred before and after the ASP.NET execution path.

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ASP.NET Enhancements on IIS 7.0

2008-12-18T11:54:00.000-08:00

Better ASP.NET integration in IIS 7.0 both enhances existing applications, and allows new applications to take advantage of ASP.NET features in new ways:

* ASP.NET services can be used for all content types. In the past, ASP.NET functionality such as Forms Authentication, Roles, URL Authorization, and Output Caching were only available to ASP.NET content types (ASPX pages, for example). Static files, ASP pages, and other content types could not benefit from these services.

In IIS 7.0, all ASP.NET services are provided uniformly to all content. For example, you can protect all of your web content, including images and ASP pages with your existing ASP.NET 2.0 access control solution built on ASP.NET Forms Authentication, Membership and Login controls.

* Fully extend IIS with ASP.NET. Previous versions of IIS frequently required server extensibility to be developed using the native ISAPI filter or extension extensibility mode, due to the runtime limitations of ASP.NET.

IIS 7.0 allows ASP.NET modules to plug in directly into the server pipeline, with the same runtime fidelity as modules developed with the native (C++) server API. ASP.NET modules can execute in all runtime stages of the request processing pipeline, and be executed in any order with respect to native modules. The ASP.NET API is also expanded to allow more control over request processing then was previously possible.

* Unified server runtime. Tighter ASP.NET integration also allows many of the features between IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET to be unified.

IIS 7.0 features unified configuration for IIS and ASP.NET modules and handlers. Many other features, including custom errors, and tracing, have been unified to allow better management and cohesive application design.

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IIS Media Pack

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The IIS Media Pack is a set of free add-on modules for delivering digital audio and video files from an Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server. Download delivery from a Web server to media player software is often as a progressive download, which allows the end user's media player to quickly start rendering the media file even as the download is still in progress. Examples of media player software that will work with the IIS Media Pack include Adobe Flash Player, Apple QuickTime Player, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Silverlight. The IIS Media Pack provides some of the cost savings and content control benefits of streaming media servers to Web server delivery of media files.

The first module, Bit Rate Throttling, was released to the general public on March 14, 2008. For media files, Bit Rate Throttling downloads the first few seconds of the file as fast as possible, allowing playback to begin very quickly, and then automatically detects the encoded bit rate of the file and meters out the rest of the download at that bit rate. If an end user stops playback before the end of the file, the server has only downloaded a few more seconds of file than were actually consumed, reducing bandwidth costs when compared to traditional send-and-forget HTTP downloads. Metering the delivery of media files also reduces overall bandwidth and CPU usage on the IIS server, freeing resources to serve a higher number of concurrent users. The following eleven media file formats are supported by default in the Bit Rate Throttling module: ASF, AVI, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP3, MP4, RM, RMVB, WMA, WMV. Additional media file formats can be added using the IIS configuration system. Non-media files may also be throttled at a server-administrator-specified delivery rate.

The second module is called Web Playlists, and is now in its second Customer Technology Preview (CTP) release. This feature allows an IIS server administrator to specify a sequenced playback order for a set of media files without exposing the source URLs. Playback order and the ability to limit whether an end user can seek within or skip a file are controlled on the IIS server. The Web Playlists feature can also be used to dynamically generate personalized playlists for users.

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Changes in IIS 7 from previous IIS

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A significant change from previous versions of IIS is that all Web server configuration information is stored solely in XML configuration files, instead of in the metabase. The server has a global configuration file that provides defaults, and each virtual web's document root (and any subdirectory thereof) may contain a web.config containing settings that augment or override the defaults. Changes to these files take effect immediately. This marks a significant departure from previous versions whereby web interfaces, or machine administrator access, were required to change simple settings such as default document, active modules and security/authentication. It also eliminates the need to perform metabase synchronization between multiple servers in a farm of web servers.

IIS 7 also features a completely rewritten administration interface that takes advantage of modern MMC features such as task panes and asynchronous operation. Configuration of ASP.NET is more fully integrated into the administrative interface.

Other changes:

* PICS content ratings, support for Microsoft Passport, and server-side image maps are no longer included.
* Executing commands via server-side includes is no longer permitted.
* IISRESET -reboot has been removed.
* The CONVLOG tool, which converts IIS log files into NCSA format, has been removed.
* Support for enabling a folder for "Web Sharing" via the Windows Explorer interface has been removed.
* IIS Media Pack (see below), which allows IIS to be used as a bare-bones media server, without using Windows Media Services.
* New FTP module, that integrates with the new configuration store, as well as the new management environment.

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World Wide Web Publishing Service of IIS 7

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In IIS 7.0, functionality that was previously handled by the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) alone is now split between two services: WWW Service and a new service, Windows Process Activation Service (WAS). These two services run as LocalSystem in the same Svchost.exe process, and share the same binaries.

How WWW Service works in IIS 6.0

In IIS 6.0, WWW Service manages the following main areas in IIS:

* HTTP administration and configuration
* Process management
* Performance monitoring

HTTP Administration and Configuration

WWW Service reads configuration information from the IIS metabase and uses that information to configure and update the HTTP listener, HTTP.sys. In addition, WWW service starts, stops monitors, and manages worker processes that process HTTP requests.
Performance Monitoring

WWW Service monitors performance and provides performance counters for Web sites and for the IIS cache.
Process Management

WWW Service manages application pools and worker processes, such as starting, stopping, and recycling worker processes. Additionally, WWW Service monitors health of the worker processes, and invokes rapid fail detection to stop new processes from starting when several worker processes fail in a configurable amount of time.
How WWW Service works in IIS 7.0

In IIS 7.0, WWW service no longer manages worker processes. Instead, WWW Service is the listener adapter for the HTTP listener, HTTP.sys. As the listener adapter, WWW Service is primarily responsible for configuring HTTP.sys, updating HTTP.sys when configuration changes, and notifying WAS when a request enters the request queue.

Additionally, WWW Service continues to collect the counters for Web sites. Because performance counters remain part of the WWW Service, they are HTTP specific and do not apply to WAS.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol Stack of IIS 7

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The HTTP listener is part of the networking subsystem of Windows operating systems, and it is implemented as a kernel-mode device driver called the HTTP protocol stack (HTTP.sys). HTTP.sys listens for HTTP requests from the network, passes the requests onto IIS for processing, and then returns processed responses to client browsers.

In IIS 6.0, HTTP.sys replaced Windows Sockets API (Winsock), which was a user-mode component used by previous versions of IIS to receive HTTP requests and send HTTP responses. IIS 7.0 continues to rely on HTTP.sys for HTTP requests.

HTTP.sys provides the following benefits:

* Kernel-mode caching. Requests for cached responses are served without switching to user mode.
* Kernel-mode request queuing. Requests cause less overhead in context switching because the kernel forwards requests directly to the correct worker process. If no worker process is available to accept a request, the kernel-mode request queue holds the request until a worker process picks it up.
* Request pre-processing and security filterin
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Protocol Listeners of IIS 7

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Protocol listeners receive protocol-specific requests, send them to IIS for processing, and then return responses to requestors. For example, when a client browser requests a Web page from the Internet, the HTTP listener, HTTP.sys, picks up the request and sends it to IIS for processing. Once IIS processes the request, HTTP.sys returns a response to the client browser.

By default, IIS 7.0 provides HTTP.sys as the protocol listener that listens for HTTP and HTTPS requests. HTTP.sys was introduced in IIS 6.0 as an HTTP-specific protocol listener for HTTP requests. HTTP.sys remains the HTTP listener in IIS 7.0, but includes support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

To support services and applications that use protocols other than HTTP and HTTPS, you can use technologies such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF has listener adapters that provide the functionality of both a protocol listener and a listener adapter. Listener adapters are covered later in this document. For more information about WCF, see Windows Communication Foundation on MSDN.

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Introduction to IIS 7.0 Architecture

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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 provides a new request-processing architecture that includes:

* A new service, Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), which enables sites to use protocols other than HTTP and HTTPS
* A Web server engine that can be customized by adding or removing modules
* A new approach to processing requests, integrating the request-processing pipelines from IIS and ASP.NET

IIS 7.0 contains several components that perform important functions for the application and Web server roles in Windows Server® 2008. Each component has responsibilities, such as listening for requests made to the server, managing processes, and reading configuration files. These components include protocol listeners, such as HTTP.sys, and services, such as World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW service) and Windows Process Activation Service (WAS).

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ASP.NET Integration With IIS 7.0

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Since its release, ASP.NET has been the platform of choice for developing web applications on the Windows / IIS platform. ASP.NET 2.0 took web application development to a new level, allowing developers to build more powerful applications faster than ever before.

IIS 7.0 takes ASP.NET further by integrating the ASP.NET runtime extensibility model with the core server. This allows developers to fully extend the IIS 7.0 server with the richness of ASP.NET 2.0 and the .NET Framework, instead of using the lower level IIS C++ APIs. Existing ASP.NET applications also immediately benefit from tighter integration using existing ASP.NET features like Forms Authentication, Roles, and Output Caching for all content.

While IIS 7.0 provides the improved ASP.NET integration by default, there is a choice: IIS 7.0 supports both the new and the old ASP.NET integration modes that can be used side by side on the same server.

This article discusses the improvements introduced by the new ASP.NET integration mode, the architecture of the two modes, and describes how to select and configure the integration modes for ASP.NET applications.

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Enhanced ASP.NET Integration and Extensibility on IIS 7

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ASP.NET gets more powerful than ever before on IIS7, with an integrated processing pipeline, integrated configuration files, and integration administration tools.

IIS7 integrates the ASP.NET runtime within the core Web server, providing a unified request processing pipeline that is exposed to both native and managed modules. This allows developers to build modules and handlers using the same extensibility APIs that exist today for ASP.NET (HttpModule and IHttpHandler), but use them for all types of applications. Imagine being able to use the powerful ASP.NET forms authentication module and membership system for that existing classic ASP application!

IIS7 provides a unified configuration system, allowing IIS configuration to be stored in the same web.config file developers use today for ASP.NET. Now web.config can contain both IIS and ASP.NET settings and can be deployed with application code and content simply by copying the file from server to server. The configuration system is fully extensible, allowing developers building custom modules to store configuration seamlessly within the same configuration system. IIS7’s new IIS Manager Tool provides a single tool for managing IIS, ASP.NET and PHP applications all in the same place. IIS Manager is also complete extensible, enabling developers to provide a completely seamless experience for custom extensions.

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ASP.NET and PHP Support of IIS 7

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IIS 7 provides a single Web server platform for developing, deploying, hosting and managing the most popular languages used on the Web, from ASP.NET to PHP.
Advanced Process Architecture

IIS7’s advanced process architecture provides high performance, secure and reliable hosting for all kinds Web applications.

Multi-threaded application frameworks like Classic ASP and ASP.NET run efficiently inside processes called Application Pools, enabling blazing fast performance and complete process isolation between Applications. With IIS7, new Web sites and applications are automatically created within their own Application Pool, ensuring they are securely isolated by default. Application Pools are monitored for health and availability, and can be gracefully recycled in the event of memory leaks, deadlocks, and other health-related parameters.

In order to maintain a high performance, reliable, single-threaded environment for application frameworks like PHP, IIS7 includes the all-new FastCGI module, which allows Application Pools to spawn durable, single-threaded child processes for PHP requests. FastCGI processes not only maintain the single threaded environment many PHP extensions expect, but persist between requests, thereby increasing performance and providing excellent reliability.

The result: ASP.NET and PHP applications run inside IIS7 with greater performance and reliability than ever before.

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IIS 7 Hosting Requirements

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IIS 7 Web Hosting Comparable Features

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What are the features of IIS 6?

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* IIS 7 Unified Configuration Features
IIS 7.0 provides developers and administrators a configuration system for storing all IIS and ASP.NET settings in a single XML format and includes a set of managed code and scripting APIs for configuration for the entire Web platform.
* IIS 7 Modular Architecture
IIS 7.0 is built in with more than 40 feature modules that can be independently installed.
* IIS 7 Security Features
IIS7 enhance the security of the web server with built-in request filtering, rules-based URL authorization support, powerful form-based authentication, and absolute attack surface control.
* IIS 7 FastCGI Support Features
FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers.

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