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How to configure IIS 7 for Vevocart Web Hosting

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Vevocart provides shopping cart software for small to medium sized businesses and in this part we look at how Vevocart can be installed on Windows 2008 IIS 7 for web hosting purposes.

The advantages of moving toward IIS 7 would be for the purpose of SEO, a plug-in can be downloaded from Microsoft which provides the ability for URL rewrites.

The advantage of this plug-in is Canonicalization, and Site Reorganization which can be performed with no code rewrites.

To continue now will discuss how to setup IIS 7 to work with your Vevocart e-commerce hosting.  These steps assume that you have already configured your Vevocart website and assigned a dedicated application pool for your Vevocart e-commerce site.

  1. Open Internet Information Services MMC
  2. Click on the dedicated application pool and click “Advanced Settings…”
  3. Change “Managed Pipeline Mode” to classic.
  4. Click OK to save these settings
  5. Click on the Vevocart site to enable the settings
  6. Click on the “Handler Mappings”
  7. On the actions menu now click on “Revert To Inherited”.
  8. Now you will see all the ASP.NET handlers now exists for this site

This is how simple it is to setup IIS 7 to work with your Vevocart installation.

I suggest if you need any additional help how to host or configure your Vevocart installation contact us at Click IT Solutions and we can provide our IT Consultancy services, our experience lies with development, deployment, and hosting of Vevocart and other ASP.NET solutions.  Contact us at (02) 9029 5194 or you can email us at: info@clickitsolutions.com.au.

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Setting up Permalinks on a Wordpress Blog hosted on Microsoft Windows IIS to take advantage of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

A neat feature of IIS 7 is the free module provided by Microsoft which can rewrite your URL before it gets served to clients.  You can specify the rules for rewriting URLs in your web.config file hosted on your website.

This is advantageous when using Wordpress since SEO is critical to leverage the use of your Blog.   Now the next section I will describe in detailed steps to setup your Wordpress blog to take advantage of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

Step 1: Download the Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 – Click here to download the file

Step 2: Run through the wizard to configure this on your web server

Step 3: Create a web.config generic file in your Wordpress blog directory

Step 4: Add the following URL rewrite rule into your web.config file:

  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule stopProcessing=”true”>
            <match url=”.*” />
            <conditions logicalGrouping=”MatchAll”>
                <add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsFile” negate=”true” />
                <add input=”{REQUEST_FILENAME}” matchType=”IsDirectory” negate=”true” />
            </conditions>
            <action url=”index.php/{R:0}” />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

Step 5: Open your Wordpress blog and goto Settings -> Permalinks

Step 6: On the custom textbox enter the following value: /%category%/%postname%/

Step 7: Click update to amend your changes and now you will notice that your blog posts will have a URL rewritten to “yourdomain/Investment/Is-2009-right-time-to-invest” instead of the generic URL of “yourdomain.com/blog/?p=30”.

Well that is it you can see it is quite simple to take advantage of using IIS 7 URL rewrites to gain SEO benefits on your Wordpress blog.  With previous versions of IIS 6 it would require you to purchase an additional ISAPI DLL and install this onto your IIS server.  With IIS 7 Microsoft have capitalised and made this feature easily integrate in with the web-server which was once of the selling points for me to abandon from using Windows 2003 IIS 6 and move towards web hosting utilising Windows 2008 IIS 7.

If you are interested in web hosting or are considering moving your website onto Windows 2008 IIS 7, then perhaps we can help.  Contact Click IT Solutions now and speak with a consultant who can assist you with the migration process.  You can contact us at (02) 9029 5194 or alternatively contact us via email at info@clickitsolutions.com.au.

If you have any comments or questions please don’t hesitate to contact us via email at info@clickitsolutions.com.au.

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