Scott Forsyth's Blog
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New Configuration System in IIS 7.0/7.5-Week 17
IIS 7.0 introduced a completely new delegated and distributed configuration system. This offers a number of benefits, which are welcome changes for us web administrators, but there are some gotchas.
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IIS’s Overlapping App Pools-Week 16
Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) web platform is extremely robust, and one of the neat features is overlapping application pools.
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Virtual Directory vs. Applications–4 IIS Folders-Week 15
Virtual Directories and applications are useful special folder types in IIS. Yet it’s easy to be confused between them.
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URL Rewrite Outbound Rules–and ServerNameVariable-Part 14 of 52
As you may be guessing already, I’m a big fan of URL Rewrite for IIS. Today I cover Outbound rules, providing demos on changing the content in-flight and adding Server Variables (HTTP headers) for the browser.
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URLRewrite ServerNameVariable Provider
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SiteServerDetails–Obtaining information about a server node in a web farm—Part 13 of 52
This week I cover a couple ways to obtain information about a specific server in a web farm. How can you tell which node handled your page request? Often it’s valuable to know which node is currently being served for troubleshooting the load balancer or individual pages.
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SiteServerDetails–Details for Web Farm Nodes
Often times if you administer a web farm, or develop for a web farm, you want to know which node you’re currently on. This is useful is you want to know if your load balancers are balancing with the algorithm that you expect, or if you want to troubleshoot why a website fails just some of the time.
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ASP.NET AppDomain–What it is and why it’s important–Part 12 of 52 part series
AppDomains are a silent mysterious part of ASP.NET and IIS. It’s important for the web administrator to be aware of this building block of ASP.NET so that we can be aware of how changes to the system can affect production sites.
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Understanding Regular Expressions (focus on URL Rewrite)–Part 11 (Sub-Part 2 of 2)
This 2nd part (out of 2) on Regular Expressions covers the remaining tips necessary to get up to speed on a topic that at first seems daunting, but really isn’t that bad.
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Understanding Regular Expressions (focus on URL Rewrite)–Part 10 (Sub-Part 1 of 2)
Regular Expressions can seem difficult to understand. In today’s lesson I attempt to bring this down to earth and make it understandable and useful for the web administrator.