IIS tips

 Step-by-step IIS configuration guide

•  If the following error occurs, go to applicationHost.config file in C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config  and set overrideModeDefault properties to "Allow" for handlers section :

  <section name="handlers" overrideModeDefault="Allow" />

• If the following error occurs, 

proceed to ASP.Net component set up:

• Launch :  c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe –i to register the previous ASP.NET installation with IIS
• If authorization are not set yet, activate them :
  
  1. Open IIS Manager and navigate to the site to manage.
  2. In Features View, double-click Directory Browsing.

In the Actions pane, click Enable to enable the Directory Browsing feature .

•  If the following error occurs : 
  Error Message : Handler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list
  
  Installation of CGI and ISAPI extensions is required  :
  
• The following errors requires addition of the folder permission
  
  Error Message : The current identity does not have write access to ‘C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files’
  
  

 

1. Problem with HTTPPost request in IIS7

   1- ASP.NET MVC4 not handling POST requests in IIS7 integrated mode

   The default configuration inserts this in the web.config:

   

   The problem is the "*." path, If you change this to "*", then all requests will be handled by the ExtensionlessUrlHandler, including those to static files which will not be served anymore. So the solution is: Remove the POST verb from the handler entries and add new entries for the ExtensionlessUrlHandler with the path set to "*" and only for POST requests:

   

   Ideally remove the ones you don't need (x86 and x64 in classic vs. integrated pipeline).

   2- IIS 7  allow POST requests to html files

   

   Maybe 7  routing is different in respect to handing off a POST to an action that has no argument that can accept the post form data.

    ==> For this Reason I prefer working with Windows Azure
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