Solving technology problems, one at a time
There are always a few gotchas when migrating between Windows Server versions. In older Windows Server versions, shares I created by right clicking a folder and selecting Properties > Sharing would also be editable within
Continue readingOn attempting to bind a new SSL certificate to a website in IIS7, if you get the error A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated …there are several workarounds
Continue readingWhen binding a new certificate to a site in IIS Manager, if you get an errror like: filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetserv\config\applicationHost.config Error: cannot write configuration file …try restarting the server before trying anything else! This error looks
Continue reading
I recently had to move a .NET application directory to a new location on an IIS 6 server. When I did, of course everything broke. Among the errors that had to be fixed was this one:
Unrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'.
This is usually because the application pool is not set to use the framework assigned to the application in IIS Manager.
There are several ways to fix this. I chose the easiest one: setting the application extension path to the correct executable.
Continue readingIn a .NET application used to deliver quizzes, attempting to import a large quiz from another server resulted in this error:
“The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that exceeds the request content length.” A second message stated:
“Request filtering is configured on the Web server to deny the request because the content length exceeds the configured value.”
If you try to connect to an Oracle Database using the Test Connection button in the Data Sources (ODBC) Control Panel, and get the error [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver’s SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed, try the following suggestions:
Continue readingWhen installing PHP on IIS, I ran into this: in general, php files worked, but phpinfo.php files were not. They were blank when browsed.
Continue readingIf you install phpMyAdmin on IIS and get the error:
PROBLEM: cannot load mcrypt extension. please check your php configuration
This could be due to the extension being missing or that it is not listed correctly in php.ini file. Listed below are the instructions from around the web that I followed to get this working:
Continue readingIf you have change the IP address that an IIS website is pointing to, then find that when you try to restart IIS services you get the error:
The network location cannot be reached.
…you may need to use a utility called httpcfg to tell IIS to listen specifically to the new IP.
Continue readingIn most Windows applications, the version number is listed under Help > About. For some reason, IIS Manager is an exception. There are significant differnces between versions of IIS, so it’s crucial to know which
Continue reading