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How to do something like <location path="/"> in applicationHost.config to apply sslFlags to "/" but nothing within the virtual directory?

On an IIS 10.0 server hosting https://example.com, what do I put in my applicationHost.config so that all of the following is true: https://example.com/ does not request a client certificate. https://...
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Virtual Directory IIS 8.5 disabling web.config check

I'm setting up a new template for our web server farm that will host the web application locally instead of from a UNC path. There are a few folders in the application where data is written to that ...
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msdeploy syncing issues

I have 4 Windows 2008 R2 servers. 3 are IIS 7.5 web servers and 1 is a sql server / shared file server. I configured the first web server exactly as I wanted it, then used this msdeploy command to ...
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Why do all my IIS 7 virtual directories get modified when I modify one?

I recently upgraded a Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6 to Server 2008 and IIS 7. This server has over 200 virtual directories which are used to redirect to different pages on the site. The settings didn'...
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Using Virtual Directories with FTP

I've successfully installed and used FTP to transfer files to my server running Windows Server 2008. I've decided to create one FTP site in IIS 7.5 which leads to my \ftproot\ folder, and In an effort ...
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IIS7 - Virtual Directory UNC share without Domain - Access Denied

I am trying to setup a virtual directory in IIS7 to a network share folder, however I am getting access denied errors. I have created a user on both servers with identical names and passwords, and ...
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IIS 7.5: Virtual dirs with different default documents

We have a typical setup in IIS for our webapp with virtual dirs for different projects: www.webapp.com (Website) project1 (virtual dir) project2 (virtual dir) project3 (virtual dir) The webapp has ...
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Use localhost domain name FQDN for local web project. Did I need to config my Windows DNS?

My local Apache service is running perfectly fine. I am running WAMP. I am trying to configure my .httpd file so that I can access specific projects as fully qualified domain names like: mysite.com ( ...
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Is IIS caching DFS referrals under a different context to my local user account?

We're migrating the main media store for our website to a new server. I'm investigating using distributed file system (DFS) to do this, so that instead of replacing all the hard-coded references to \\...
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need assistance in regards to WAMP virtual hosts

Sorry for a question which has probably been brought up many times but I'm yet to find a example that can help me out. At home I have a WAMP server with two folders in the /wamp/www/, so /wamp/www/...
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Apache Headache: Virtual hosts configuration

I'm trying to achieve the following result: I have multiple domains pointing to the same documentroot, which contain files that are being used on all domains (index.php, css files, and such): C:/cms/...
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Apache Virtual Host with directory aliases

I'm trying to set up a dynamic virtual host in apache with a directory alias pointing to a difirent path for every domain. Here's what I'm trying to achive. Say I have 2 domains: * www.domain1.com *...
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How to assign multiple dedicated IP addresses and domains to the same directive in Apache?

I am setting up a Magento Multi-Site/Multi-Store structure and the way it works is it sets an environmental variable depending on which domain it is on (distinguishes store); so basically all the ...
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IIS7 - Virtual Directories' Parent Paths behaving differently than previous versions

I'm doing a migration of a web server running on IIS 5 to IIS 7. I'm noticing that the virtual directories are behaving differently between the two. I have a site located at c:\inetpub\SiteName. ...
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How do I host a WordPress site in a virtual directory on IIS 7?

I have an ASP.NET website running on IIS 7. I would like to host a WordPress site in a folder on this site (/blog). I know that I can run WordPress on IIS, I just don't know if anyone has tried this ...
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IIS 6 ASP.NET default handler-mappings and virtual directories

I'm having a problem with setting a default mapping in IIS 6. I want to secure *.HTML files with ASP.NET forms authentication. The problem seems to have something to do with using virtual ...
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How do you create a virtual directory in Mac Snow Leopard?

I am using the server admin tool for the web and see where I can create sites with the +. I thought that was creating virtual directory but it doesn't seem to be. I need a site that uses port 80 but ...
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Why do I get HTTP 500 errors trying to serve PHP content out of an IIS 6 virtual directory?

I know PHP is working, because when I browse directly to a file in wwwroot, it's served fine. And the virtual directory is working, because when I browse to html files in the virtual directory, they'...
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Is there an advantage to using a subdomain over a virtual directory?

Here is my situtation: I have domainname.com pointing to a server that currently has one static IP address. The server is running Win2008 Std and is currently hosting our only application. The ...
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Adding a virtual directory IIS 7.5 Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Trying to get my IIS 7.5 playing nice with VS 2008 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I'm getting this error: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Web....
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How do I change physical path of virtual directory in IIS6 through command line?

I'm looking for a way to change the physical path of a virtual directory in IIS6. Basically, the IIS6 version of this IIS7 call c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\appcmd set VDIR "Default Web Site/...
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Creating arbitrary urls that work like redirecting virtual directories

I'm a complete newbie to server administration, so I'm not even sure if I'm posting this in the right place. If this seems to be a bad question, please respond correctly. Thank you. I have been ...
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How do I create a virtual directory to redirect to another virtual directory in IIS

I'm still new to IIS, what I want to do is create multiple Virtual Directories for each version of our software by version number, so that we can do regression testing on each of the configurations. ...
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Can I create an "exception" to an IIS Virtual Directory?

I have a folder on my server like this one: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\blah In IIS, I also have a "/blah" virtual folder set up, pointing to C:\BLAH Naturally, when site visitors type in http://www....
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