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IIS configurations are stored in web.config and other XML files that are easily editable.
by Osiris 13y ago
IIS configurations are stored in web.config and other XML files that are easily editable.
- nahname 13y agoNothing easy about editing a couple thousand line xml file. Especially when it's on the server and you have to do it with notepad.
- nawitus 13y agoWhich is why IIS has a GUI tool to do it, and with .NET you can edit the configuration with a few lines of code.
- GFischer 13y agoIt being on the server precludes opening an IDE? That said, I agree that it would be better if it isn't a thousand lines, and maybe there are better options than XML. The company I work for is a Microsoft shop (for now, switching to Java sadly), and I've edited a lot of web.configs in servers, sometimes using Notepad, and it wasn't much of a hassle (though I did have to research what to edit beforehand in some cases).
- thirsteh 13y agoYou have IDEs installed on your production servers...?
- Osiris 13y agoMy comment was refuting the parent's comment that IIS needed a GUI because it used the Windows Registry to store configuration information.
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- lmm 13y agoYes, because the registry is terrible. If the registry were any good, IIS configuration would use it, and you'd be able to programmatically reconfigure IIS, or any other program, in a standard registry-based way.