Tag: IIS

WordPress Pretty Permalinks on IIS without mod rewrite

Permalinks are the URLs to an individual post, category, page, etc. These links generally take the form of index.php?p=444 (or some number). Pretty Permalinks are the same URLs crafted to make sense to the user. Apache offers this ability, though generally not set by default. IIS through version 6 (Windows 2003) does not offer this. There are ISAPI filters both…

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IIS Logs – A script to decompress 1000’s easily.

I needed a way to decompress a folder of gzipped IIS logs so that I may run Microsoft Log Parser against them. Instead of using Windows Explorer to select all the files and put into memory to attempt to extract, it is more feasable to run a command line script to select each file one by one, extract it, and…

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IIS 5.1 OK button unavailable when you add application mappings

An administrator using Windows XP Professional wanted to add an Application Extension Mapping in IIS, by right clicking on the Default Web Site, go to Properties, Home Directory tab, Configuration button, Add button. However, once the executable and extension were selected, the OK button was still unavable or grayed out. The reason is that the executable path is a compacted…

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How to Setup IIS6 with the Tomcat 5 Connector – Step by Step Guide.

How to Setup IIS6 with the Tomcat 5 Connector – Step by Step Guide. A complete guide step by step with pictures on how to setup Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 and Tomcat 5 on a Microsoft Windows 2003 server to use the Tomcat ISAPI redirector. Prerequisites (installed on test machine) Procedure Step 1: Add the ISAPI redirect to Tomcat…

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