Being part of the IIS support team I have memorized the structure of an IIS log file and can see oddities almost instantly. Therefore, one of the things I want to look at when troubleshooting any Microsoft Azure Web App issue are the logs. As Microsoft Azure App Service is relatively new when I work […]
Read More →If you are looking for a resource that describes installing an SSL certificate on a Azure Web App, check here. Here is more information about this configuration. There are multiple modes currently supported on the Azure Web App platform: SNI base SSL – This is a new feature in IIS 8+ (SNI) that extends the […]
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Like many technologies, they seem very complicated when you begin to work with it, but once you get into it you start to hit the boundaries of its capabilities and features. Once you use a tool for some time you learn what it can and cannot do, and therefore when there is a problem you […]
Read More →A naked URL means that there is no www before the domain name and domain extension. For example, http://—.me which I use often to troubleshoot and experiment with mapping custom domains to my Azure Web App. An example of how to do map a custom domain is provided [here][LINK1], and would more than likely result […]
Read More →I wrote an article here about using Traffic Manager with your Azure Web App, please take a look at it to get more context for this article. When you create a Traffic Manager, for example, with a name of EUROPE, similar to that shown in Figure 1, the URL which you must direct your requests […]
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This is a pretty common error which can be caused by a large number of reasons. I received the below error: GenericADOExcpetion could not execute query [ select ] [SQL: select ] While I was implemented the TrueFalse NHibernate data type. What I did was in my class file (class.cs) I rightly created the property […]
Read More →During the mapping process or after a data model change you may receive this error. The error message being: {“could not execute query\r\n[ select from TABLE ]”} with an inner exception of {“Ungültiger Spaltenname ‘SPALTEN NAME’.”} {“Invalid column name ‘COLUMN NAME’.”} I received this error when I was creating a many-to-one relationship between 2 classes, […]
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One of my favorite tools for troubleshooting Internet Information Service issues is ProcDump. It is a single, small, yet powerful EXE that is very useful for capturing W3WP.exe process memory dumps. One of my other favorites is Failed Request Tracing which I have written about here and here for a Windows Azure Web Site. Failed […]
Read More →Having spent many years supporting web sites running on IIS one of the most challenging aspects was managing load. I was able to plan for near-term growth by tracking the CPU, Memory, total number of requests, etc… over time and once the utilization of these elements exceeded my threshold for what I considered manageable, it […]
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I wrote an article about the ability to enable Web Server Logging, Detailed Error Message, Failed Request Tracing and Application Logging here. In that article I discussed that you can download the logs using an FTP tool like FileZilla. You can also download the log files from within Visual Studio by performing the following. I […]
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