Tagged "IIS"

Block AI Crawlers in ASP.NET Core

How To Block AI Crawlers Like GPTBot and ClaudeBot in ASP.NET Core and IIS October 28th, 2026

Stop GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot and other AI crawlers with robots.txt, ASP.NET Core middleware, or an IIS rule, without blocking Google or Bing.

Tagged: AI, ASP.NET Core, bots, C Sharp, IIS

Locked Files Publishing .NET Core Apps

Locked Files When Publishing .NET Core Apps to IIS with MSDeploy October 28th, 2026

Web Deploy says your DLL is locked by an external process? MSDEPLOY_RENAME_LOCKED_FILES only works on Azure. On IIS, enable ASP.NET Core shadow copying.

Tagged: ASP.NET Core, IIS, MSDeploy, PowerShell

Keeping IIS Sites Alive With PowerShell

Keeping IIS Sites Alive: AlwaysRunning, Preload and a Warm-Up Task October 28th, 2026

Fix slow first requests on IIS: set Start Mode to AlwaysRunning, Idle Time-out to 0, turn on Preload with Application Initialization, and add a warm-up task.

Tagged: IIS, PowerShell

How to Automate IIS Log Clean Up

How To Automate IIS Log Cleanup October 28th, 2026

IIS never deletes its own logs, so they can fill your disk. Where IIS logs live, plus a PowerShell script and scheduled task to delete logs older than 30 days.

Tagged: IIS

How To Redirect WWW. with Web.config

How To Redirect WWW. with Web.config January 28th, 2024

Redirect your www traffic with your web.config

Tagged: IIS

Deploying To A VPS with Psake and WebDeploy 3.0

Deploying To A VPS with Psake and WebDeploy 3.0 January 28th, 2024

Setting up IIS, ports, permissions, and SQL Server Express. Migrating from shared hosting to a VPS with Psake, MSBuild and WebDeploy 3.0.

Tagged: IIS

How To Redirect WWW. To The Root of Your Application With IIS

How To Redirect WWW. To The Root of Your Application With IIS January 28th, 2024

Improve SEO and link building buy redirecting your www. sub-domain to your domain.

Tagged: IIS