IIS 7 Arrived at GoDaddy

March 10, 2008 by Mike van Zandwijk | Feedback (7)

UPDATE: ModPack works in IIS 7 classic mode (thanks Shantesh for testing and sharing!)

IIS 7 on GoDaddy HostingGoDaddy offers IIS 7 to new shared hosting customers since late February 2008. Migrating your existing account is not an option yet.

Microsoft's latest Internet Information Services web server hopefully improves running our favorite blog platform on GoDaddy. Perhaps it even fixes our known issues with the virtual application path, but there's more:

  • Multiple FTP accounts (about time)
  • Support for older ASP.NET versions (2.0 and 3.0)
  • Folders instead of extensions (.aspx not required)

Who's running IIS 7 on GoDaddy already?

If you do, I'd love to hear your experience and how BlogEngine.NET runs on your shared hosting account. Perhaps I'll open a new hosting account just to test ModPack and play with IIS 7 myself.

Thank you for sharing your IIS 7 stories. You'll tell us, right?

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March 15. 2008 07:26

Shantesh Patil

Hey I am using the IIS 7 Godaddy Acct. I couldnt get any version of the standard Blogengine installation to work on that. Your modpack however worked like a charm. Thanx a million

Shantesh Patil

March 15. 2008 14:16

Mike van Zandwijk

Excellent news, Shantesh and thank you for sharing your IIS7-on-GoDaddy story!

I'm thrilled to hear ModPack works like a charm (and out of the box) as well then. Now I want to open a new hosting account, just to get IIS 7 since GoDaddy's not offering a migration path yet Frown

The IIS7 feature I really want to try is to leave out .aspx extensions, so we can use friendly Internet addresses like:

http://www.Example.com/post/finally-just-folders/ (instead of /post/title-etc.aspx)

Have you tried that already?

Thank you again and keep your stories coming!

Mike van Zandwijk

March 15. 2008 15:03

Shantesh Patil

Hey there is one thing I forgot to mention. The pipeline mode for my Godaddy IIS 7 is currently running in Classic mode as opposed to the default Integrated mode which was the initial setting for IIS 7. I had switched it to Classic mode a while back to try and get the default blogengine to run and I never set it back to integrated. I am not sure what exactly the setting does but if you think it might affect bklogengine I will try to set it to integrated and check.

Shantesh Patil

March 15. 2008 15:19

Mike van Zandwijk

Integrated pipeline mode should route *all* requests (so yes including .html, .cool and even no extension at all) through the ASP.NET runtime. So what? Well, I'd like that for at least two good reasons:

1. Allows future platform migration without changing URLs (no more .aspx to .php)
2. Catches every 404-not found, so not limited to .aspx only anymore

Thanks for checking out how that integrated mode works. I'm very curious about your findings.

Mike van Zandwijk

March 15. 2008 15:49

Shantesh Patil

Hey it dosen't work in integrated mode. I am getting a 500 internal server error

Shantesh Patil

March 15. 2008 16:21

Mike van Zandwijk

Hmm, what a shame. Perhaps we'd seen that one coming after reading GoDaddy's article: "Migration Issues with IIS 7's Integrated Pipeline Mode" (http://help.godaddy.com/article/4162).

Hopefully BE.NET 1.4 will support integrated mode in IIS 7.

Else, we can tune it for ModPack (1.4) perhaps?

Though I love to make that happen, we'd need more people helping out.
What do you think?

Mike van Zandwijk

March 15. 2008 16:42

Shantesh Patil

Hey would definitely like to help. Unfortunately I am still a somewhat amateur .NET developer and still don't understand the nuances of Blogengine or IIS server. Whatever previous applications I developed at my workplace or personally run as intended without requiring any changes. Also I have tried this Graffiti CMS which is .NETbased. It also works fine in integrated mode. Still I am really liking blogengine and will definitely start studying it detail. Till then I can certainly help you with testing. Do let me know when you need help with this.

Shantesh Patil

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