Archive for the ‘IIS’ Category

Internet Explorer version 8 has got some annoying loopbackcheck. Whenever you want to browse a local hosted site (IIS), it will pop up a security dialog in which you have to fill in your username and password. Whatever combination you fill in, eventually you will get a 401.1. error. You can resolve it by editing [...]

Now available for download: IIS Application Warm Up. IIS Application Warm-Up for IIS 7.5 enables IT Professionals to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, [...]

Today we had an issue with one of our Amazon hosted servers. This server was hosting a local SMTP Server (IIS), and was sending out mail on behalf of a domain (let’s say domain: abracadabra.com). The mail was dropped into the IIS bad mail directory, because our server was prohibited from relaying mail by spamhaus.org. [...]

IIS Error 404 2 1260

In: IIS

14 Jul 2009

Whenever you receive a 404 2 1260 error in your Internet Information Server Log File, check if ASP.NET is allowed to execute. Open IIS Manager Open [Web Server Extensions] Check if ASP.NET v1.1.4322 or ASP.NET v2.0.5727 is prohibited to run