Maximum value of maxRequestLength?
Maximum is 2097151, If you try set more error occurred.
iis-7
What does ‘IISReset’ do?
IISReset stops and restarts the entire web server (including non-ASP.NET apps) Recycling an app pool will only affect applications running in that app pool. Editing the web.config in a web application only affects that web application (recycles just that app). Editing the machine.config on the machine will recycle all app pools running. IIS will monitor … Read more
Server cannot set status after HTTP headers have been sent IIS7.5
I’ll broadly agree with Vagrant on the cause: your action was executing, writing markup to response stream the stream was unbuffered forcing the response headers to get written before the markup writing could begin. Your view encountered a runtime error Exception handler kicks in trying to set the status code to something else non-200 Fails … Read more
How to set up subdomains on IIS 7
This one drove me crazy… basically you need two things: 1) Make sure your DNS is setup to point to your subdomain. This means to make sure you have an A Record in the DNS for your subdomain and point to the same IP. 2) You must add an additional website in IIS 7 named … Read more
Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) encountered a failure when it started a worker process to serve the application pool
If your application pool is running under a specific identity, an expired password could be the cause for your problem. I had similar problems, see http://blog.janjonas.net/2012-07-14/iis_75-fix-application-pool-disabled-windows-process-activation-service-failure-worker-process-event-id-5059
Unable to start debugging on the web server. The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running
This is a very intermittent behavior. I usually get this issue once or twice a month. Following steps would resolve the problem easily. Before trying anything else, try iisreset Step 1: >> Open Run (Ctrl +R) >> type iisreset If this doesn’t work, then try step 2. Step 2: Open task manager >> Processes >> … Read more
What is w3wp.exe?
An Internet Information Services (IIS) worker process is a windows process (w3wp.exe) which runs Web applications, and is responsible for handling requests sent to a Web Server for a specific application pool. It is the worker process for IIS. Each application pool creates at least one instance of w3wp.exe and that is what actually processes … Read more
How do I remove eTag headers from IIS7?
Under IIS7 the Etag change number (the part of the Etag following : ) is always set to 0. Hence the Etag from the server no longer varies from server to server for the same file and therefore the Yahoo best practice no longer really applies. Since you can’t actually suppress the ETag header on … Read more
Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Unable to relay for abc@xyz.com [closed]
Aahh got it… I got it working 🙂 Thanks Christopher, your suggesion is correct. But, finding “Default SMTP Virtual Server” was tricky 😉 Even if you use IIS7 to deploy your web site, you have to open IIS6 Manager to configure SMTP server (why?). I configured SMTP server as follows to make things work: Open … Read more
500.21 Bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list
Please follow these steps: 1) Run the command prompt as administrator. 2) Type either of the two lines below in the command prompt: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i or %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i