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IIS: Disable the web site and display generic app offline information | Blinded by the lights

Deployment of a new version of a site is a very tricky/risky procedure. At some point (i.e. until deployment is not completed) your service will work not as it is supposed to, which can result in reset session, HTTP errors displayed, etc. Whatever the result is it can really discourage the users of your service…

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IIS on Windows XP: There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time. | Blinded by the lights

I started getting this error when I accessed pages hosted on IIS installed on my machine (I’m running Windows XP): The page cannot be displayed There are too many people accessing the Web site at this time. ——————————————————————————– Please try the following: Click the Refresh button, or try again later. Open the localhost home page,…

Registering different versions of .NET Framwework | Blinded by the lights

It’s possible to have more than one ASP.NET IIS installed and registrated on one machine (that runs Windows). To check which version is currently registered run Command Line (Start/Run… and type ‘cmd’) and go to %SystemRoot%Microsoft.NETFrameworkvXXX directory where %SystemRoot% is a special system-wide environment variable found on Microsoft Windows NT and its derivatives (read more…