Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Nov 13 16:37:14 CST 2009
Hi Ken Thank you. I'll keep an eye on this next time working with IIS. /gustav >>> kismert at gmail.com 13-11-2009 16:39 >>> Gustav: >Could you shed some light please on how to understand and >handle 'the big unspoken critical element' in their configuration >utility? Is this a trap of some kind? Yes, a 'stupid trap'. And it held me quite effectively for longer than I care to admit :P IIS7 has a hierarchical configuration scheme - the base configuration can be overridden at the application pool, site or even folder level. But of course, their configuration program gives no hint as to the hierarchical nature of the configurations. No tree views, no lineage lists, nada. You just click around, and see very slightly different configuration options at each level. You can imagine the potential for mayhem if a program gives no clue as to the impact of your changes. Also, all the critical commands are shaded in tan on the right side -- a 'less-important' positioning from a graphic design point of view. I kept searching the 'obviously important' stuff on the left, baffled that those commands didn't do anything. I was drooling out of the corner of my mouth before I figured that one out. I found enlightenment on the www.iis.net forums. The Apache method of making you dig through a beautifully-commented config file was really started to show its merits at the end of my first IIS7 configuration foray. -Ken