03
FEB
Microsoft MVP for Azure
IIS
02
NOV
How to Enable Application Request Routing on Azure App Service
We typically use Application Request Routing (ARR) module to host a reverse proxy on IIS. Azure App Service is also using IIS as it's gateway, which should work for reverse proxy, but it won't work by default. Let's see how can we enable ARR on Azure App Service. The Experiment I have https://dropdatabase.run/ domain, and I want to reverse proxy https://996.icu/ under https://dropdatabase.run/996. …
17
JUL
Run Classic ASP on Windows 10 and Azure App Service
ASP is an old technology of Microsoft that even before .NET was born. I have used ASP 3.0 to create my first personal blog in 2003. Nowadays, it is hard to find ASP web applications still active on the internet. But we can still bring the 1996's classic ASP back to life on today's Windows 10 and even in Azure. Some history ASP and its successor, ASP.NET are completely different. ASP uses the …
27
DEC
Path Caveat with ASP.NET Core 2.2 IIS Hosting
ASP.NET Core 2.2 has been in place for some time, with a new feature that can use the new AspNetCoreModuleV2 and deploy with InProcess mode on IIS to dramatically improve performance. These days Azure App Service finally completed the deployment of this new version of the module, I configured my blog to the new module, and it exploded in production. Let's see why and how to solve it. If you don't …
18
SEP
Prevent Image Hotlinking in ASP.NET/Core Applications
Introduction As a website developer, we sometimes don't want the images on our own website to be directly referenced and showed on other's website. It can cause a lot network bandwidth for our datacenters in some cases, which means costing money for us to pay for the one who use our images. For example, your website is A.com, you have an image on http://a.com/facepalm.jpg and B.com used your …
09
OCT
How to Redirect Old Domain URL to New Domain in IIS
When you change the domain name for your website, you are definitely going to solve the migration problem. You cannot just stop DNS on your old domain, because this will cause your indexed pages to be deleted by search engines. The correct way is to tell the search engine that you have a new domain name now, which is when the user accesses an old URL, redirect it to the new URL. Take my blog …
23
JUL
How to Manage Azure App Service in IIS Manager (inetmgr)
The website we created on Azure seems can be only managed in the web portal or in the Server Explorer of Visual Studio. If we would like to use IIS to manage more powerful scenarios, seems VM is the only way. But that's not true. First, the IIS comes with Windows 8.1 can't connect to Azure by default. We need to install an extension http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/iis-manager After install. …
19
MAY
Azure Website Showing 404 for .woff Fonts in IE
If you are using Website on Microsoft Azure (Currently renamed to Web Apps), you will find the .woff web font is not working in IE, it returns 404. Based on my experience, this is because IIS is not configured to use the correct MimeType. However, we can not operate the IIS on Azure, there's no RDP into an Azure Web Apps backend machine. How can we do that? In fact, after IIS7, the MineType is …
10
FEB
Get Clear Password from IIS App Pool
Sometimes, in order to get necessary permissions, we will assign domian accounts or local accounts for IIS app pool. For example, it usually happens for SharePoint deployment. However, this is not a secure way, because the password for these accounts are saved in clear text. For local accounts, the password is not readable. But if you are using domain accounts. The IIS Admin can read your …
07
MAY