When developing with Visual Studio, when you attach to the process or use the inner server (Cassini) a new process is launched. This one doesn’t always stop when you stop debugging. You can have a list of process that is running and sometime this can cause problem when debugging because you are not accessing the right one. To close those server,...

IIS service start well, but all website sent an 404 error. This behaviour is strange because if you go into the IIS Manager you can see that the Sites property display that the Default Web Site is not started. If you try to start the Default Web Site, an error message tell you that it’s already taken by another process. Default web site running To...

I had to install Mercurial Server on IIS 7 recently. One of the prerequirement is to have Python installing on IIS has a CGI extension. For this, you need to add an handler on IIS to map .cgi to Python. Unfortunately, this operation is not straight forward. If you try to add the Handlers Mapping for CGI you will get this error message. Add Script Map...