Category Archives: IIS

ASP.Net: App_Offline.htm as a Maintenance Page

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Greg

While Googling about, I came upon an oldy-but-goody, that apparently has been available since the release of ASP.Net 2.0: App_Offline.htm. An undocumented feature, you can copy a file called app_offline.htm into the root of your .Net website and the application … Continue reading →

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WordPress on Windows with IIS7 and FastCGI PHP Upgrade Error

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Greg

One way to fix an error like “PHP Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /tmp/wordpress-3.tmp because No such file or directory in…” in your WordPress installation on Windows 2008 with IIS7. Continue reading →

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Binding Apache and IIS both to Port 80 on Different IPs / Same NIC

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Greg

If you need to run IIS 6.0 and Apache 2.2.* side-by-side on the same Windows server machine, you most likely are trying to bind apache to one IP address and IIS to another.  If you have multiple IPs bound to … Continue reading →

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Recycle an Application Pool from the Command Line

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Greg

Sometimes it is a whole lot nicer to recycle the specific Application Pool of concern rather than recycling IIS with “iisreset”. There is a handy script in %windir%\system32 called iisapp.vbs and you can just run : D:\>C:\WINDOWS\System32\iisapp.vbs /a “My Pool” … Continue reading →

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