Thoughts from the mountains

I just moved a site that has a large collection of pdf files that are searchable though a verity collection from being hosted on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Edition. Much to my disbelief, I was unable to download many of the pdf files on the new server. After doing a little searching I found out that there is a known issue with IIS 7.5 and serving pdf files. According to chatter on the net the problem revolves around how IIS 7.5 does byte-range requests and a bug in the Adobe Reader plugins. More information is available on the this thread at forums.iis.net.

I've been moving a site from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 and thought I would mention one of the items I ran into this evening.I needed to setup 301 redirects for some old domain names that we no longer use and at first glance could not figure out where to do so.

Today I experienced the following error, "Unable to Load Library Null" from a custom tag that was in use on a site that I was moving from CF7 to CF9. The custom tag, CFX_Check_Email, was working fine on my CF7 server, but was producing errors on my new CF9 server running IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008. The custom tag did run fine on my development machine with Windows XP and CF9, so I was a little confused as to why I was getting the error on my new server.