When you use Visual Studio Code on Windows, one handy feature is you can always call it from the command line by typing "code ." (without the quotes) in the folder where you want to work on. But when you try that on macOS Terminal, this is what you get: zsh: command not found: code Not to worry, the same feature can be had on macOS but it's just not installed by default. In order to … [Read more...]
How to Get Application Pool Identity Password With AppCmd
Typically, web application is run using ApplicationPoolIdentity on IIS. However, for various reasons, it's very common to find large corporations use service accounts to run the application pools. Sometimes the challenge comes when you need to move the website to a different server and you're not given the proper credential to set it up on the new environment. What's worse, it's also not … [Read more...]
How to Migrate IIS Websites to a Different Server
Setting up a website on IIS is very easy to do. However, it can get very tedious when we have migrate multiple websites from one server to another. For a new server, the easiest to migrate all those settings of course is to clone the server and then we can reconfigure the IP addresses for each web instance from IIS on the new server. But what if that option is not possible? In this post, we'll … [Read more...]
How to Customize 401 Error Page with 302 Redirect on IIS
Continuing from the last post on customizing 401 error page on IIS, there's a different way to do so by using 302 Redirection. Using this method is actually a bit more simple to do, it's just that you have to create a second website with a landing page to serve as your error page. Not everyone has this privilege to just have a second instance created in production environment, so it's always … [Read more...]
How to Use Custom 401 Error Page on IIS
When you need to restrict access to your web application on IIS, any unauthorized users will see the standard 401 Error Page from IIS: Often times, though, you want to show your end users a custom error page with specific instructions on what to do. That is certainly a more graceful way of handling the error than just showing the standard windows 401 error page. If you have the … [Read more...]