IIS express and IIS7 path - iis-7

I expert,
I need to update some dll on a web program running in IIS7. I prepare all the work on my PC in Visual Studio and IIS express, all change is working well. So I do a local file system deploy and copy the content to the production server running IIS7.
Some fonts, glyphs are not display correctly. In the network tab I can see that all the file that does not load have a 301 permanent redirect and then 404 not found. I double-check the server directory the files are present.
The only thing I can see is the path is not the same. for example, on IIS Express:
http://localhost:49193/Content/kendo/fonts/glyphs/WebComponentsIcons.ttf?gedxeo
Then on the production site
http://ProductionSite.com/Content/fonts/glyphs/WebComponentsIcons.ttf?gedxeo
the source for the file is in the css like this: src:url(fonts/glyphs/WebComponentsIcons.eot?gedxeo)
Any idea?
UPDATE1
Mime definition:
<dynamicTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress XML files -->
<add mimeType="application/xml" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress JavaScript files -->
<add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress JSON files -->
<add mimeType="application/json" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress SVG files -->
<add mimeType="image/svg+xml" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress RSS feeds -->
<add mimeType="application/rss+xml" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress Atom feeds -->
<add mimeType="application/atom+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
</dynamicTypes>
<staticTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/atom+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/xaml+xml" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress ICO icon files (Note that most .ico files are uncompressed but there are some that can contain PNG compressed images. If you are doing this, remove this line). -->
<add mimeType="image/x-icon" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress XML files -->
<add mimeType="application/xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/xml; charset=UTF-8" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress JavaScript files -->
<add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress JSON files -->
<add mimeType="application/json" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress SVG files -->
<add mimeType="image/svg+xml" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress EOT font files -->
<add mimeType="application/vnd.ms-fontobject" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress TTF font files - application/font-ttf will probably be the new correct MIME type. IIS still uses application/x-font-ttf. -->
<!--<add mimeType="application/font-ttf" enabled="true" />-->
<add mimeType="application/x-font-ttf" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress OTF font files - application/font-opentype will probably be the new correct MIME type. IIS still uses font/otf. -->
<!--<add mimeType="application/font-opentype" enabled="true" />-->
<add mimeType="font/otf" enabled="true" />
<!-- Compress RSS feeds -->
<add mimeType="application/rss+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
</staticTypes>
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Check for Mime Type. May mime type is not added for fonts on production server.

I don't understand why. My client use an very old IIS 7.5 server...
For now the only way to solve my problem is to add:
BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false
into the bundle.config file.

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IIS Compression setting for batch request mime type 'multipart/mixed'

I have a web api service that accepts batch requests from a web app. I have defined the mime type 'multipart/*' to be compressed in the web.config but the response is not compressed. I'm not sure why it is not working as normal single requests (not sent as a multipart/mixed are compressed fine).
<httpCompression>
<dynamicTypes>
<clear />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="text/*" />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="application/javascript" />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="application/json" />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="multipart/*" />
<add enabled="false" mimeType="*/*" />
</dynamicTypes>
<staticTypes>
<clear />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="text/*" />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="application/javascript" />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="application/json" />
<add enabled="true" mimeType="multipart/*" />
<add enabled="false" mimeType="*/*" />
</staticTypes>
</httpCompression>
The actual response mime type starts with 'multipart/mixed' but varies depending on the boundary id appended to it.
Content-Type:multipart/mixed; boundary="0bb00cbc-234a-4264-87dc-60109719e79f"
The request is sending up an Accepted-Encoding header so I don't think the problem is there I think it is something to do with IIS match the mime type.
Any ideas would be awesome!
Thanks,
Jon
I also ran into this, and was able to get around this by using this NuGet package:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.MessageHandlers.Compression/
This also supports the compression of the batch responses.
Info on how to use it is on the github page:
https://github.com/azzlack/Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.MessageHandlers.Compression

Enable compression fontawesome-webfont.svg

I am always getting RED mark "enable compression for fontawesome-webfont.svg"
on https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Compressing resources with gzip or deflate can reduce the number of bytes sent over the network.
Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size by 175KiB (70% reduction).
Compressing /fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg?v=4.0.3 could save 175KiB (70% reduction).
I already did IIS provided compression options:
Static files only
Dynamic application responses only
Both static files and dynamic application responses
By default, IIS doesn't map the MIME type for SVGs. You will have to update your Web.config to include the correct mappings for SVGs like so:
<system.webServer>
<httpCompression directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files">
<scheme name="gzip" dll="%Windir%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll" />
<staticTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/atom+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/xaml+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
<!-- HERE -->
<add mimeType="image/svg+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/font-woff" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/x-font-ttf" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/octet-stream" enabled="true" />
<!-- HERE -->
</staticTypes>
</httpCompression>
<urlCompression doStaticCompression="true" doDynamicCompression="true"/>
</system.webServer>
For more details on this, check out this answer. To test whether compression is working or not, use the Chrome Developer Tools and check the HTTP response header contains the following:
Content-Encoding: gzip

Configuring IIS dynamic compression of Json

I'm having problems testing the dynamicCompression of my Json output. The Application is an MVC/WEBAPI5 application and the request I'm investigating is a Get WebAPI request.
Im getting Json back but its not being compressed.
I've followed the steps to configure dynamic compression of Json in IIS8 in How can I get gzip compression in IIS7 working?
as :
<httpCompression directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files">
<scheme name="gzip" dll="%Windir%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll" />
<dynamicTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/json" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/json; charset=utf-8" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
</dynamicTypes>
<staticTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/atom+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/xaml+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
</staticTypes>
</httpCompression>
I have the compression module installed and i can see the following in the FailedRequestTracelog for this particular call:
You can see in my fiddler trace that it does seem to be a matching type despite it saying this is not the case in the FailedRequestTrace output.
Any ideas?
You can take a look at my below blog post on one way of doing compression in Web API.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kiranchalla/archive/2012/09/04/handling-compression-accept-encoding-sample.aspx
If you would like to use IIS for compression, take a look at the following post:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17331627/1184056

GZip response on IIS Express

I want to compress responses coming from my IIS Express driven web application. We're using IIS Express as local development webserver and IIS on staging and on our build machines. I have found many guides on enabling gzipped responses on IIS but none for IIS Express. Is it even possible?
You can enable compression in IIS Express, just like for IIS.
Start command prompt and go to IIS Express installation folder (%PROGRAMFILES%\IIS Express)
Run following command
appcmd set config -section:urlCompression /doDynamicCompression:true
To add compression for JSON run the following two commands from the IIS Express installation directory:
appcmd set config /section:staticContent /+[fileExtension='.json',mimeType='application/json']
appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='application/json',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
Make sure to restart IIS Express.
For Visual Studio 2019 I found the above does not work, as the applicationhost.config file is unique to the project. This file is stored in .vs\<solution_name>\config\applicationhost.config. For VS 2017 it isnt in the solution subfolder.
Thus the solution for me was to replace <httpCompression/> with the following.
<httpCompression directory="%TEMP%\iisexpress\IIS Temporary Compressed Files">
<scheme name="gzip" dll="%IIS_BIN%\gzip.dll" />
<dynamicTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/json" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
</dynamicTypes>
<staticTypes>
<add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/atom+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="application/xaml+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="image/svg+xml" enabled="true" />
<add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false" />
</staticTypes>
</httpCompression>

DefaultDocument suddenly not working on IIS7

I have a website which has been running on IIS7 for about 2 months. We have the default documents set up to load a default.asp page when users go to the domain with no page. Suddenly this morning, I am getting errors and the default document will not load. If I type the default.asp, the file loads just fine.
Error Info:
Module: DefaultDocumentModule
Notification: ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler: StaticFile
Error Code: 0x80070002
here is a section from my applicationhost.config:
<system.webServer>
<asp>
<cache diskTemplateCacheDirectory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\ASP Compiled Templates" />
</asp>
<defaultDocument enabled="true">
<files>
<clear />
<add value="Default.asp" />
<add value="Default.htm" />
<add value="index.htm" />
<add value="index.html" />
<add value="iisstart.htm" />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
<directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
<globalModules>
<add name="UriCacheModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\cachuri.dll" />
<add name="FileCacheModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\cachfile.dll" />
<add name="TokenCacheModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\cachtokn.dll" />
<add name="HttpCacheModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\cachhttp.dll" />
<add name="StaticCompressionModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\compstat.dll" />
<add name="DefaultDocumentModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\defdoc.dll" />
<add name="DirectoryListingModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\dirlist.dll" />
<add name="ProtocolSupportModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\protsup.dll" />
<add name="HttpRedirectionModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\redirect.dll" />
<add name="ServerSideIncludeModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\iis_ssi.dll" />
<add name="StaticFileModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\static.dll" />
<add name="AnonymousAuthenticationModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\authanon.dll" />
<add name="RequestFilteringModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\modrqflt.dll" />
<add name="CustomErrorModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\custerr.dll" />
<add name="HttpLoggingModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\loghttp.dll" />
<add name="RequestMonitorModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\iisreqs.dll" />
<add name="IsapiModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\isapi.dll" />
<add name="IsapiFilterModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\filter.dll" />
<add name="CgiModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\cgi.dll" />
<add name="FastCgiModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\iisfcgi.dll" />
<add name="ManagedEngine" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\webengine.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness32" />
<add name="ConfigurationValidationModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\validcfg.dll" />
<add name="ManagedEngine64" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\webengine.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness64" />
<add name="RewriteModule" image="%SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\rewrite.dll" />
<add name="ManagedEngineV4.0_32bit" image="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32" />
<add name="ManagedEngineV4.0_64bit" image="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness64" />
<add name="WebDAVModule" image="%SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\webdav.dll" />
<add name="WindowsAuthenticationModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\authsspi.dll" />
</globalModules>
I have also verified that the modules physically exist on disk. I am not aware of any changes on this server, and the default document has definitely been working up till yesterday. Server is Windows Server 2008 x64 with IIS 7.0.
I've recycled the app pool, booted the server, removed and reentered the default documents. the error looks like it cant find the default document module..
What else can I try?
My coworker and I have been chasing this all morning and someone on IRC pointed us to the resolution. Turns out that IIS was having trouble with the default document b/c the website root folder had gotten marked as Hidden. Apparently, when the folder is Hidden, the default document module cannot find it and you get the ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND shown above.
We verified this behavior on a Dev server by setting the web root folder to Hidden and sure enough got the same error for the default document. Removed the Hidden attribute and the default document loads correctly.
I have seen a lot of questions about this today, and no one has posted an answer that fit our problem. I want to say thanks to whoever that was on IRC! And hopefully this will help others to post it here.

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