Stronico - Steroids for Networking » IIS http://blog.stronico.com We help the world’s best salesmen build better networks Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:16:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How to fix binding problems with Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager http://blog.stronico.com/2010/01/how-to-fix-binding-problems-with-microsoft-web-administration-servermanager/ http://blog.stronico.com/2010/01/how-to-fix-binding-problems-with-microsoft-web-administration-servermanager/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:52:59 +0000 Steve French http://blog.stronico.com/?p=178 The Problem: You are trying to create a new website programatically via the Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager and having no luck.  In fact, you are getting invalid binding errors at every turn.

The Cause: The binding command you’re using is in the wrong format.  While you might think that the proper syntax would be something like “test.stronico.com:80″ because after all,  that’s how it looks in the browser, you keep getting the error.

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]]> The Problem: You are trying to create a new website programatically via the Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager and having no luck.  In fact, you are getting invalid binding errors at every turn.

The Cause: The binding command you’re using is in the wrong format.  While you might think that the proper syntax would be something like “test.stronico.com:80″ because after all,  that’s how it looks in the browser, you keep getting the error.

The Solution: Phrase the binding as “*:80:”test.stronico.com”, “http”.  For some reason Microsoft did the order as the opposite of how one would use it in the browser.

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]]> The Problem: While coding away on the Stronico signup process I came across a problem with creating a reference to the Microsoft.Web.Administration dll, namely it was not present as a reference.  No problem, I added the dll manually via Visual Studio (it is in the %WinDir%\System32\InetSrv directory), yet once that was done I could not reference the dll.

The Cause: The dll must be marked as “Copy Local – True” and “Specific Version – True”.

The Solution: Mark the two options as true in the properties and the problem will go away.  It’s always the stupid errors that cause the most problems.  One of the purposes of blogging these errors is to  reduce their frequency.

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]]> The Problem: You attempt to install (or renew) an SSL certificate in Plesk (web hosting management software) but when you follow the instructions (meaning add the certificate in Plesk, and then going to the “Setup” screen for the domain, you do not have the option of selecting the renewed certificate.

The Cause: This is the first domain that was created and an SSL cert was immediately added, then other domains were added via Plesk. Plesk no longer sees this domain as having a valid IP address it can use. There is no way to change this in Plesk.

The Solution: Bypass Plesk and install directly in IIS – go to this link on installing an SSL cert and follow the directions very carefully.

]]> http://blog.stronico.com/2009/12/how-to-fix-problems-with-ssl-certs-in-plesk/feed/ 0 How to solve Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2104 http://blog.stronico.com/2009/10/how-to-solve-unhandled-error-in-silverlight-application-code-2104/ http://blog.stronico.com/2009/10/how-to-solve-unhandled-error-in-silverlight-application-code-2104/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:00 +0000 Steve French http://d841862.test42.slangdatabase.com/2009/10/how-to-solve-unhandled-error-in-silverlight-application-code-2104/ I’ve found that I get this error every time I upload a Silverlight application to a new webserver. IIS does not have the correct settings by default.

The Problem: You ftp a Silverlight App to an IIS website, go to the website in a browser, and get the following error:

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]]> I’ve found that I get this error every time I upload a Silverlight application to a new webserver. IIS does not have the correct settings by default.

The Problem: You ftp a Silverlight App to an IIS website, go to the website in a browser, and get the following error:

Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application
Code: 2104
Category: InitializeError
Message: Could not download the Silverlight application. Check web server settings

The Cause: The Silverlight Mime types (.xaml, .xap and .xbap) are not listed in that websites registered mime types, therefore IIS will not send those files to the browser.

The Solution: Open IIS on the server, go to HTTP headers, click on Mime Types, click “Add New” and add the following:

Extension – Mime Type
.xaml – application/xaml+xml
.xap – application/x-silverlight-app
.xbap – application/x-ms-xbap

Hit Apply and your application will load!

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