Mike Volodarsky's Blog
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Redirect clients in your application with HttpRedirection module
In a web application, it’s often necessary to redirect clients requesting one url to another url. A while ago, I wrote a module to do basic http redirection for an ASP.NET application. The HttpRedirection module allows you to configure regular expression-based rules that redirect clients from url A to url B, with a number of other features.
Learn more about rewriting and redirection, and download the HttpRedirection module / source code here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/24/Redirect-clients-in-your-application-with-HttpRedirection-module.aspx. -
Troubleshoot 503 Service Unavailable errors with start-up debugging
In a previous post titled Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors, I covered the basic steps for dealing with 503 Service Unavailable errors on IIS7.
This post dives deeper into debugging the IIS worker process to get to the bottom of particularly difficult crashes occurring during IIS worker process initialization, where the process goes away before you can debug it with normal means.
Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/19/Troubleshooting-IIS7-503-_2200_Service-unavailable_2200_-errors-with-startup-debugging.aspx. -
WCAT 6.3 web performance and scalability test tool released
The NT Performance team just publically released the latest version of WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool), the web performance test tool that the IIS team and NT Performance team use to conduct internal performance and scalability testing of IIS and ASP.NET.
Read more about it and download it at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/17/WCAT-6.3-web-performance-and-scalability-test-tool-released.aspx.
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Longhorn Server Beta 3 with much improved IIS7 is out!
Read more here: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/04/26/Longhorn-Server-Beta-3-is-out-of-the-door_2100_.aspx. -
Most Important AppCmd Commands: Backing up and restoring IIS7 configuration
Welcome to the first post of the "Most Important AppCmd Commands" series. Have you ever made some changes to a system's state, and then after everything suddenly stopped working, wondered how the hell you are going to get back to a working state?
Well, this post is all about doing just that when you are working with IIS7's configuration.
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Most Important AppCmd Commands
Usually, a day doesnt go by that I dont get a collegue or a partner team in Microsoft asking how to do something or other about AppCmd.exe, the unified command line management tool for the IIS7 server.
For a while, I've been thinking about blogging about the most commonly used commands to assist people get going with managing IIS7 from the command line - and so the "Most Important AppCmd Commands" post series was born.
Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/03/18/Most-Important-AppCmd-Commands.aspx.
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10 steps to get Ruby on Rails running on Windows with IIS FastCGI
Without further ado, these are the 10 steps get RoR working with FastCGI TP2 - read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/02/18/10-steps-to-get-Ruby-on-Rails-running-on-Windows-with-IIS-FastCGI.aspx. -
A look at the IIS7 web server in MSDN magazine
Read more on http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/02/14/A-look-at-the-IIS7-web-server-in-MSDN-magazine.aspx. -
At last, Windows-optimized PHP 5.2.1 has been released!
Read more about it on http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/02/10/At-last_2C00_-Windows_2D00_optimized-PHP-5.2.1-has-been-released_2100_.aspx. -
IIS FastCGI Tech Preview 2 has been released!
The FastCGI Technical Preview 2 release is an update for the first ever release of Microsoft IIS FastCGI feature in October 2006, providing a platform for high-performance and reliable way to run application frameworks like PHP on IIS.
Get the scoup at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/01/31/Turbo_2D00_charge-your-PHP-applications-with-IIS-FastCGI-Technical-Preview-2.aspx.
Also, check out the instructions for setting up Ruby on Rails with TP2 at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/02/18/10-steps-to-get-Ruby-on-Rails-running-on-Windows-with-IIS-FastCGI.aspx.