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HTTP Redirect seems simple enough. Always was in IIS6 and in IIS7 there's even a button labeled HTTP Redirect that promises relative redirects.  It looks like it'll be as easy Apache finally.  That is until you try to redirect a querystring.  Then everything bombs. Turns out it still is relatively easy, except you have to know that Microsoft changed $S$Q to $V$Q. Why? $Ss and $Gs I suspect. And How. In our example we'll redirect all pages under http://olddomain.com/content to http://mydomain.com/content. Pick the virtual directory you want to redirect. e.g. http://olddomain.com/content Click HTTP Redirect under IIS in the IIS management console. In the HTTP Redirect Dialog: Check Redirect requests to this destination Enter your new path ending with $V$Q.  e.g. http://mydomain.com$V$Q Counter-intuitively check Redirect all request to exact destination (instead of relative destination) Choose the appropriate Status Code (Permanent or Temp...

When attempting to run Microsoft Jet Connection to MS Access Databases on a 64bit Machine you will get the following unhelpful error: The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine. Googling will point you on a couple crazy paths involving recompiling your application in 32 bit mode. The solution isn't that complicated if you are using IIS7. In IIS7 right-click on your application pool and choose "Advanced Settings" In the dialog that opens, set "Enable 32-bit Applications" to "True". There I fixed it.

To serve up KML in IIS 6, you have to add a few MIME Types. The easiest way to do this is to apply new MIME Type settings globally by changing the properties on your server's "Web Sites" folder in IIS. Google Earth reads KML and KMZ files. The MIME type for KML files is * application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml The MIME type for KMZ files is * application/vnd.google-earth.kmz Source: Google KML Tutorial To add a MIME type to a Web site or directory 1. In IIS Manager, right-click the Web site or Web site directory for which you want to add a MIME type, and click Properties. 2. Click the HTTP Headers tab. 3. Click MIME Types. 4. Click New. 5. In the Extension box, type the file name extension. 6. In the MIME type box, type a valid MIME type. If you define a MIME type that has already been defined at a higher level, you are prompted to select the level where the MIME type should reside. To create a MIME type for an undefined MIME type, type an asterisk (*) in the Ext...

No wonder Ctrl-F5 never seemed to work. Force a browser reload. Internet Explorer Users should press Ctrl-F5. Firefox Users should press Ctrl-Shift-R.

Open Source on Closed Source. Probably a bad idea from the start. Installing Drupal hearkened back to the old days of computing. Way too much jargon and far too little push-a-button-and-it-works. But I'm sold on the Drupal. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have made it through the past two hours trying to install it (I'm tempted to say her here, which suggests a certain love-hate relationship is already evolving). Drupal installations should be straight forward. Lullbot manages the whole install in one five minute video that I would highly recommend. My installation took significantly longer. LESSONS LEARNED GOTCHA #1 MySQL - At least in my instance the directions for setting permissions given in INSTALL.mySQL.txt were not sufficient to allow the database creation scripts to run. Command provided in INSTALL.mysql.txt: GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON databasename.* TO 'username'@'localh...

Recently it came to my attention that google and other major search engines were no longer indexing querystrings. I'm not sure when the switch took place but on a number of sites I maintain the majority of the content is no longer indexed. Enter URL Rewriting which allows us to convert: http://foo.com/tools/product/mcleod Into http://foo.com/tools.aspx?product=mcleod This is extremely commonplace in the Apache world, but how do we accomplish it within IIS? Today I downloaded Helicon's ISAPI_Rewrite 2.11 Lite. It's free and best of all it works off regular expressions. Installation and Configuration 1.) Download ISAPI_Rewrite 2.) Install 3.) Open the global httpd.ini file Start > Programs > Helicon > ISAPI_Rewrite > httpd.ini 4.) Add a rule to process querystrings, in this example we'll loop through the querystring of all files ending in .aspx [ISAPI_Rewrite] # Repath .aspx files RewriteRule (.*?\.aspx)(\?[^/]*)?/([^/]*)/([^/]*)(.*) $1(?2$2&:\?)$3=$4...