We had a new hosting server that was displaying a 404 File not found error when trying to upload a 32MB .mp3 file to the server. The problem is that by default, IIS 7 limits upload files to 30MB. To change this setting, you can directly edit the web.config file, or install the IIS 7 [...]
Apr
8
2009
8
2009
Mar
31
2009
31
2009
You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6
This article apparently applies to IIS 7 as well. I was having problems with the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions when trying to administer a site from the server itself. The main admin page would open, but when I tried to open a particular site’s admin page I would get a 401 error. The first method [...]
Mar
10
2009
10
2009
Plugin upgrade Failed in WordPress Using IIS 7
Since I have been running WordPress on IIS 7, I have been unable to use the WordPress integrated Plugin update features. When I am in plugin manager, and click on the link that says Upgrade Automatically, I get the following error:
Upgrade Plugin
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/download-monitor.2.2.3.zip
Unpacking the update
Removing the old version of the plugin
Could not remove [...]
Mar
8
2009
8
2009
IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider Documentation
The IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider is a PowerShell Snap-In that allows you to manage IIS7 configuration and run-time data. It gives easy access to Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications, Virtual Directories, request in flight, Worker Processes and .NET Application Domains within Worker Processes.
Follow the subsequent walkthroughs. They cover the comprehensive functionality of the IIS 7 [...]
Feb
19
2009
19
2009
Enabling Permalinks in WordPress
This walkthrough will guide you through how to enable “Pretty Permalinks” for blog posts in the WordPress blog engine installed on IIS 7.0. Typically, without URL rewriting functionality on a Web server, WordPress users have to use “Almost Pretty” URLs (for example, http://contoso.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/). This was the primary option for users who chose to host WordPress [...]