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Windows Server Forum / IIS / IIS General Topics / July 2008web.cfg - does it need to exist?
Hello, I noticed my II7 folders for https and file transfer have a web.cfg file in them - these are not for web sites - just for file transfer. I moved the file out of the folder and everything still seems to work properly but I've put it back for now until I find out what would be a potential issue of not keeping it there. I have a program to wipe out all files that haven't been modified in a while and I'd like to know what would happen if it deleted that file. Are you talking about a web.config file? or a web.cfg file? The former is an IIS7 configuration file, the latter isn't. What are the contents of this file? Cheers Ken > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > haven't been modified in a while and I'd like to know what would happen if > it deleted that file. it is a web.config file on a IIS7 server It says the xml version, encoding security authorization roles > Are you talking about a web.config file? or a web.cfg file? The former is > an IIS7 configuration file, the latter isn't. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> all files that haven't been modified in a while and I'd like to know what >> would happen if it deleted that file. > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > modified in a while and I'd like to know what would happen if it deleted > that file. You need to fix your program to ignore IIS7's distributed configuration files. With IIS7, It is possible for you to make system configurations in a distributed fashion at server setup time, intending to not change them ever -- and this program will obviously start deleting your original configuration changes after a while, much to your surprise. Since one can have any IIS configuration in the distributed files --- functional, performance, security settings -- deletion of the distributed files can result in randomizing behavior on the IIS7 web server. In other words, consider your cleanup program as capable of making random configuration changes to your web server (through config file deletion). It is your choice as to whether you can deal with the randomness. //David http://w3-4u.blogspot.com http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang // Thanks >> Hello, >> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang > // |
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