I have a working ASP.NET web application. I'm trying to enable SSL using Let's Encrypt and to do this my shared web host host (A2) adds a web.config in the .well-known/acme-challenge directory. (All this web.config does is to bind extensionless files to plain text).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="text/plain" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
The issue is the mere presence of a web.config in a subfolder seems to cause any request for resources from this folder to fail, returning a 500 error. I've even tried a completely empty web.config in this folder and that still causes 500 errors. My understanding is that ASP.NET should support additional web.configs in subfolders but I have no idea why it isn't working.
I have a web.config in my root folder with the proper binding for extensionless files but the A2 Let's Encrypt tool insists on adding its own into the subfolder. I do not have any attributes preventing overridding in this web.config.
I've searched extensively for how to fix this but most of the solutions I see require changing IIS configuration. As this is a shared web host, I have extremely limited control over IIS, so that is not a viable option.
Can you add this to your root web.config:
<customErrors mode="Off" />
... which will then result in some more error information included in the 500 response? That could provide some hints as to how to properly fix this.
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I've started learning web services with ASP.NET. When doing a quick search on how to build and use a simple web service, this page seemed nice and simple.
I followed the instruction "copy FirstService.asmx in the IIS virtual directory...[and] open the web service" (actually, it is displayed as FirstService.asmx.cs), but from there on problems started. I got several HTTP Error (as explained here, I gave permissions to both IUSR and IIS_USRS, though the latter is probably irrelevant) and I'm now stuck with Error 404.7.
I tried the suggestions of these two (1, 2) SO posts (so I now have a second file on my folder, a Web.config file, though the site linked above said nothing about Web.config files), nothing helped.
Note that I also followed this page to register the correct version of ASP.NET with IIS.
Is there any other option?
EDIT:
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit), IIS 7.5
Full error (pardon the graphics):
Error Summary
HTTP Error 404.7 - Not Found The request filtering
module is configured to deny the file extension.
Detailed Error Information
Module: RequestFilteringModule
Notification: BeginRequest
Handler: StaticFile
Error Code: 0x00000000
Requested URL: http://localhost:80/MyWebServices/WebService1.asmx.cs
Physical Path: C:\Users\home\Desktop\MyWebServices\WebService1.asmx.cs
Logon Method: Not yet determined
Logon User: Not yet determined
My Web.config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<fileExtensions allowUnlisted="true">
<remove fileExtension="." />
<add fileExtension="." allowed="true" />
</fileExtensions>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
.cs is a code file and by default all .cs files are not allowed to be browsed in browser of course due to security concerns as all code is in there.
Also if you want to browse your webservice you don't need to browse .cs file you need to browse following
http://localhost:80/MyWebServices/WebService1.asmx
If MIME Type for asmx is not added you will need to added MIME Type for asmx.
Go to IIS
Select Your Website/Webservice on left side.
Select MIME Types.
Select Add on top right.
Add .asmx in File Name extension and text/xml in MIME Tpe
I have one or more than one url like http://vfiresolution.in/pdf/p.pdf. And I want to redirect the above url to http://vfiresolution.in/page.aspx?id=1.
I am using the below given code. My code is working on local host. But If i publish my code on shared server code not working.
my code is
<configuration>
<location path="pdf/p.pdf">
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://vfiresolution.in/page.aspx?id=1" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/httpredirect
check the iis
(httpredirect)
Compatibility
The httpRedirect section of web.config is compatible with IIS 7 (w2k8) and IIS 7.5 (w2k8 r2).
Web.config files are deeply integrated with IIS 7.x.
The httpRedirect directives listed will apply to all files and directories (php, jpg, png, htm, etc), not just asp.net files.
While some web.config sections sometimes require that the containing directory is set as an application, this isn't one of them.
A simple web.config with a httpRedirect section may be placed in any directory, and the directory does NOT need to be set as an application.
This is a continuation of a answered question in the following link:
How to set Allow Parent Paths in IIS Express Config
I am running a classic asp web site in IISexpress.
The same web site is also used in IIS 7.5 in a w7 pro and works fine enabling the parent paths in the IIS configuration of the web but trying to use the web.config in IISExpress does not work
The problem that I am experiencing is that in the suggested web.config in order to enable the parent paths:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<asp
enableParentPaths="true"
bufferingOn="true"
errorsToNTLog="true"
appAllowDebugging="true"
appAllowClientDebug="true"
scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true">
<session allowSessionState="true" />
<cache diskTemplateCacheDirectory="%TEMP%\iisexpress\ASP Compiled Templates" />
<limits />
</asp>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I get a 500 error every time that I try to use any asp tag
If I remove the asp tag it all works fine,
Anybody has a clue?
TIA
You have not read carefully. The configuration file that mentioned isn't web.config. It is applicationHost.config. As a shotcut:
Press Win+R
type
notepad "%userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config"
hit ⏎. This will open the host configuration file with notepad. You need to find your web site's section. It's something like <location path="YourSiteName"> ... </location>. Look inside that node, find the <asp> section and change with yours. Finally, don't forget to remove the asp section from web.config.
I'm having some trouble with a website on a webhotel. It will not serve *.mp4 files - I simply get error 404.
Had I access to the server I'd add the mimetype in IIS, however I haven't :-(
The webhotel said they wouldn't customize their IIS for one customer, so I should enable it in my web.config instead.
Now my question is: how do I do this ?
I'm aware of the FileExtensions tag, but its default behaviour is to allow all extensions, so I doubt that's what they meant.
They're a bit slow to elaborate on these kinds of things, therefore I ask here :-)
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<staticContent>
<mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Obviously, don't repeat any sections that are already in your web.config just add the children in the appropriate places.
This should be a simple one. I am using a program that has themes defined in its Web.config file. I want to turn these off for a subdirectory.
I copied Web.config into a subdirectory and tried removing the theme attribute from the pages element on Web.config but that didn't get me anywhere. I got a bunch of errors about elements that are apparently not allowed in non-root Web.config files so I removed all of those elements, but I am still getting the same error.
I tried adding EnableTheming="False" in the ASPX Page header, the thing that defines Language=C#, etc., but it didn't work either.
So if someone can tell me a tested, confirmed way to make this work, I would appreciate that. I am using .NET Framework 2.0 on Server 2003.
Got it with a very basic Web.config:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages theme="" />
</system.web>
</configuration>