IIS

Ignoring Elmah Exception Spam

By John Bubriski on February 13, 2012

Did you setup Elmah on your website or web application? Yes? Great. Are you getting 100′s or 1000′s of exception emails every day for bots probing your site for various applications and application frameworks? Yes? Not great. Did you filter all those emails into a folder in your inbox? Yes? Then you’re doing it wrong. [...]

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IIS6 Website Settings

In IIS6 HTTP 301 Redirect from non-www to www

By John Bubriski on January 4, 2012

This article applies to IIS6, but the concept applies to almost any public website.  You should probably setup a 301 redirect from http://example.com to http://www.example.com (or the other way around). If you don’t, bad things can happen.  Anyway, here is how you can do it in IIS6: Instructions Create a new website with the same [...]

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Can’t reinstall IIS issue

By John Bubriski on September 5, 2011

I ran into this fun issue the other day where I I couldn’t access one of my sites. I assumed it was a problem with ASP.NET so I uninstalled it. To my dismay, the reinstall failed! That has never happened before! The problem was actually a simple one. I had moved one of the many [...]

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First code snippet: How to uninstall and reinstall ASP.NET

By John Bubriski on May 27, 2009

So I decided to try and use this as a storage mechanism for my snippets of code.  Here is the first one!  How to uninstall and reinstall ASP.NET!  You might need to do this if you start having issues with ASP.NET. C:>cd windowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727 C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -u Start uninstalling ASP.NET (2.0.50727). ……………………………. Finished uninstalling ASP.NET (2.0.50727). C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis [...]

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