A single server has started to sometime leave zombie w3wp.exe processes when trying to recycle. A new process is spawned properly and everything seems to work, except the old processes are still present and take up memory. Task manager reports there's only a single thread left, far from the active ones that have between 40 and 70 threads usually.
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Once you start distributing your ASP.NET website across multiple webservers, you're going to need a way to share session state. That is, unless your app is stateless, in which case scaling it should be a breeze!
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When adding sites to IIS7 either by script or by editing the config files directly, you may receive an error in the sites list that says:
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Some time ago Peter Loft Jensen wrote about how to easily give a user account the neccessary permissions to access the IIS metabase & required directories, and thus be used for running the IIS process.
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Upgrading to IIS 7 should be rather transparent, unfortunately that is not the case when it comes to URL rewriting as we knew it from IIS 6. In IIS 6 all we had to do was to add a wildcard mapping making sure that all requests went through the ASPNET ISAPI process. After this was done, one could create a global.asax file that would either pass requests directly through or rewrite the URL based on an internal algorithm.
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