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By the time applications reach production, HTTP is usually treated as a solved problem. Requests arrive.Responses are returned.Encryption is assumed to be a configuration detail. When IIS is introduced, that assumption quietly breaks. Many IIS produc...

Most IIS production failures share a common pattern. The site is running.The application pool is started.Deployment succeeded. And yet: requests return HTTP 500 logs are missing or incomplete some endpoints work while others fail restarting IIS c...

In production systems, IIS is rarely questioned once it is installed. If the service starts, a site responds, and a basic health check passes, the platform is considered ready. From that point onward, failures are almost always investigated at the ap...

An application runs perfectly when started locally.It responds on the expected port, logs look correct, database connections succeed, and authentication behaves as expected. The same application is deployed behind IIS. It starts.It binds successfully...

Deploying a Next.js 14 static export application to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) can be challenging, especially when transitioning from a containerized environment like Azure or SUSE Rancher to a Windows Server with IIS. This article...

We’re deploying a secure password change portal in a DMZ, accessible only from the Corporate network—OT is locked out. OT users, stuck with RemoteApp access, must hit the Corporate side to reset DMZ passwords. We’re using ASP.NET Core, HTTPS, and ent...

It might seem like a minor issue, but it took me two days to debug! :( The firm I worked with had been using .NET 4.5 for over four years (shocking, right!?). This year, we decided to upgrade to .NET Core. Since it was my first time, I chose to do a ...
