Another IIS Blog

Let's suppose you are German, you developed an extremely cool web-site and now you want to make it available to your German Bier buddies. The only really fetzig site name you could come up with contains one of these nasty German umlauts: übersite.de (not registered at the time I'm writing this blog).

I ran across an interesting issue while writing a sample .NET module for IIS7 the other day. The sample module was supposed to restrict requests to localhost only (you could of course do this by setting the site bindings to 127.0.0.1:80:localhost). Here is the code:

reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\inetstp /v PathWWWRoot /t REG_SZ /d f:\inetpub\wwwroot
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\inetstp /v PathFTPRoot /t REG_SZ /d f:\inetpub\ftproot

Today I got the following question:

If your application has a custom handler you might run into the following error message:

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As a preparation for a Mt. Rainier climb we took a group up Mt. St Helens last weekend. We were lucky to make the summit. It was snowing at camp all Saturday and even Sunday morning. Pure sunshine however once we broke through the clouds. had my IIS7 CD with me. Here is a picture from the rim looking down into the crater. Mount Rainier in the background.

I had to write some good old classic ASP code today and my classic ASP coding skills are so rusty that I put tons of errors in the code. I'm used to having basic ASP error messages on IIS5 and 6 which usually help me to track down problems. On IIS7 I only got the following though: