Software Blog: IIS

Posted under: Web Development

This post is part of a series exploring my migration from Sitefinity 3 to 4.4. Some of this information may become obsolete as newer versions are released. Always watch the official Sitefinity website for the latest info.

As part of the migration of my website from Sitefinity 3, I updated both the Url format for pages (now extensionless) and blog posts (also extensionless and different format) for better readability and SEO. This of course would leave a wake of broken links and search results linking to the old Urls.

There are many options available to resolve this, such as ...

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Posted under: Miscellaneous

This is just a quick note to document a fix for a horrendous bug in Adobe Reader that causes downloads to fail if they are being served from a Windows Server 2008 machine. It has been plaguing me for weeks, before I even knew it was a bug! The last time I needed help with something I ended up finding the solution on my own blog, so hopefully if I encounter it again, I'll end up here. Hello future self!

Anyway, the details of the bug are discussed in depth on the iis.net forum, but the basic summary is that ...

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