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IIS virtualhosts and SSL

gregs — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:09:04 +0000

For posterity, if you are configuring several websites, that use the same IP/port combination for SSL and you are using host headers to identify them, then you’ll need to follow these steps, particularly this one here. Always strikes me as odd that when you basically have everything in a GUI, for the final step you have to crak open the command line. Especially when you consider that you don’t need to do anything for multiple hosts on port 80.

Mysterious IIS crashes

gregs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We recently started experiencing a few site crashes but there were no obvious errors, but after some investigating one of my colleagues (nicknamed the Wolf) stumbled across this error message:

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DCOM got error "Overlapped I/O operation is in progress. " and was unable to logon .\IWAM_BOB in order to run the server:
{3D14228D-FBE1-11D0-995D-00C04FD919C1}

He dug a little further and found the solution to the problem (look for the post by yakhunter). For posterity here is the resolution.

How to create IIS mappings for coldfusion

gregs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just the other day I installed Cold Fusion Enterprise on one of our web servers hosted externally. After the re-boot I fired up a browser to test the installation. Alas the server wouldn't execute .cfm file extensions, instead offering me the chance to download these. The problem was down to the installation program not mapping .cfm extensions to the Application settings. You can check the mappings and fix this by carrying out the following steps:

Start up IIS MMC.
Right click on your site and select Properties.
Change to Home Directory, and in the Application settings box, click on the configuration button.
Under the Add mapping tab yo can see all the file extensions that your server can interpret. If .cfm is not listed, this is the reason your server s not executing the Cold Fusion templates.
Click on the Add button and complete the dialogue. Under executable specify the path and file name for your CF server executable, usually :CFUSION\Bin\iscf.dll. Next specify the file extension, i.e. .cfm and make sure that the option for Scrip engine is ticked.

Repeat the same step for the file extension .dbm, if it's not listed either. Once done click on OK and OK again to return to the console. Fire up your browser and try it again. The files should now execute.