David
Fri Mar 30 16:19:51 CDT 2007
Thanks for the clarification.
This is interesting info for me to compose a blog entry on, so that is
what I will reply with.
It is at least doubly hard for you because you are learning both a new
configuration system as well as new server core.
//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//
On Mar 30, 10:40 am, "dogface" <pwhitl...@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Let me ask it this way.
>
> I understand that the old metabase has been replaced primarily by
> applicationHost.config and I understand the hierarch to a degree.
> For instance I understand what a location tag is and you use it to unlock
> sections. I know that <system.webServer> is a section group. My feeling is
> that in the example below <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script"> is a
> section though I don't understand the accessPolicy piece. The add name sort
> of confuses me in that is this a setting? Does "add name" create a setting?
> Below is an example from the applicationHost.config (the add name is quite
> long so I cut out most of it) though shortened to try to get each part in.
> I've put in brackets what I think each part is.
>
> <location path="" overrideMode="Allow"> (location tag)
> <system.webServer> (section group)
> <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script"> (section ?)
> <add name="TraceHandler-Integrated" path=.....>
> (setting ?)
> </handlers>
> <system.webServer>
> </location>
>
> I've been given the task of understanding IIS 7.0. I'm a networking guy
> (IGRP, OSPF, DNS, NAT, PAT, etc.) those are things I'm comfortable with but
> I've been tasked to learn this by my company.
>
> All help is appreciated and I apologize for my ignorance on this subject. I
> know what it's like to deal with a newbie and now I'm one again. Humbling
> to say the least.
>
> "David Wang" <w3.4...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1175256421.868338.257280@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > <add> are elements of a collection. In this case, you are refering to
> > the <modules> collection.
>
> > It happens that when you install "Components" within Vista that some
> > translate into adding modules and globalModules, but there is no
> > direct connection between "features" and "add" elements.
>
> > For example, adding ISAPI component leads to "isapi" module being
> > added, but adding the ASP component does not add any more modules. It
> > adds handlers instead.
>
> > Depending on the configuration properties, you are really asking about
> > different parts of IIS7 architecture. When you ask about
> > <globalModules>, <modules>, <handlers>, you are really asking about
> > the core Integrated Pipeline that we designed in IIS7, and without
> > understanding that design, the configuration is not going to make
> > sense.
>
> > //David
> >
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
> >
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> > //
>
> > On Mar 29, 8:30 pm, "dogface" <pwhitl...@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> >> Here I am again, the rookie from hell.
>
> >> In the applicationHost.config file, we have section groups and sections.
> >> I
> >> understand those. I'm kind of lost on what one element is referred to in
> >> applicationHost.config. Here is a small example:
>
> >> <system.webServer>
> >> <modules>
> >> <add name="HttpCacheModule"/>
> >> <add name="Profile"
> >> type="System.Web.Profile.ProfileModule">
> >> </modules>
> >> </system.webServer>
>
> >> Are the elements or lines with the "add name" in them referred to as
> >> features in the hierarchy?
>
> >> TIA- Hide quoted text -
>
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