In this post, I will tell you how to access a folder with no document in IIS. It's easy, just follow these steps:

Step 1

Create a folder called Original--IIS-Files

Step 2

Move all the files into folder Original-IIS-Files

Step 3

Navigate to your web server. By default, the Web Server will render the following message when the folder has no default documents.

And you're done! Simple, right?

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In this article, I will tell you how to configure DNS record for sub domain.

Step 1

Open your domain control panel then go to DNS manager.

Step 2

Add following A records for domain.com and www.domain.com which point to IIS server IP address:

domain.com  IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
www.domain.com  IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
service.domain.com IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

First two rows will ensure that whenever user browse domain.com or www.domain.com at that time it will be routed to IIS server and rest will be take care by IIS then it will serve public site. The third row in above is important for next step.

Step 3

Now add following wildcard CNAME record:

*.domain.com  IN CNAME service.domain.com

In above wildcard entry ensure that any sub domain request for domain.com will be routed to server which is pointed by service.domain.com.

In IIS setup, you have to edit website binding to include domain.com and www.domain.com as host header, by this way you can tell IIS that any request from domain.com and www.domain.com will be handled by this particular website. So, whenever user browse domain.com or www.domain.com it is serving public website without any problem.

While in case of sub domain it is showing error that “The connection was reset” this is because IIS does not found host header entry for requested domain in any websites. So, you need to add host header entry in service.domain.com website created in IIS setup because service.domain.com is actual website which is going to serve hosted service application when it is browse from sub domain. Use the following code to add host header entry programmatically in IIS:

private string GetWebSiteId(string serverName, string websiteName)

{

    string result = "-1";

 

    DirectoryEntry w3svc = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("IIS://{0}/w3svc", serverName));

 

    foreach (DirectoryEntry site in w3svc.Children)

    {

        if (site.Properties["ServerComment"] != null)

        {

            if (site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value != null)

            {

                if (string.Compare(site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString(),

                                        websiteName, true) == 0)

                {

                    result = site.Name;

                    break;

                }

            }

        }

    }

 

    return result;

}

       

private void AddHostHeader(string hostHeader, string websiteID)

{

    DirectoryEntry site = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/w3svc/" + websiteID);

    PropertyValueCollection serverBindings = site.Properties["ServerBindings"];

 

    serverBindings.Add(hostHeader);

 

    Object[] newList = new Object[serverBindings.Count];

    serverBindings.CopyTo(newList, 0);

 

    site.Properties["ServerBindings"].Value = newList;

    site.CommitChanges();

}  

 

AddHostHeader("127.0.0.1:80:user1.domain.com", GetWebSiteId("localhost", "service.domain.com"));

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In this article, I'm going to explain how to set Windows Authentication to configure ASP.NET application in IIS. To make Windows authorize application you need to make changes in web.config as well as IIS manager.

Configuring Windows Authentication

<system.web>
   <authentication mode="Windows"/>
</system.web>

1.     Start Internet Information Services (IIS).
2.     Right-click your application’s virtual directory, and then click Properties.
3.     Click the Directory Security tab.
4.     Under Anonymous access and authentication control, click Edit.
5.     Make sure the Anonymous access check box is not selected and that Integrated Windows authentication is the only selected check box.

If you will put Anonymous check box checked then it will not take windows login Id for the user. e.g. string windowsLogin = Page.User.Identity.Name;

Now, your application will work on windows authentication.

Here is the example code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   try
     {
       //Start:
        if (Session["EmployeeCode"] == null)
          {
             string windowsLogin = Page.User.Identity.Name;
             //Check user is valid or not from data base
            //I am putting simple condition by hard code value
            if (windowsLogin=='ValidUser')
                 {
                   Session["EmployeeCode"] = userId;
                 }
             else
                {
                  Session.Abandon();
                  Response.Redirect("InvalidUser.aspx", false);
                }
         //End
     }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
       //Handel exception here
       Throw;
     }
}

It's done! You will get user from windows credential and check with existing user with database. If user is valid go ahead other wise navigate the user to Invalid page.

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