Darren McLeod

 My wife is a professional dog trainer and behaviorist. Being the tech geek that I am I coded and maintain her website  https://dogsden.ca . She recently developed a training system called  Barbara Lloyd's Canine Cognitive Challenges , a framework that focuses on cognitive skill building for dogs rather than traditional command based training. It uses structured problem solving tasks to reveal how a dog processes information, forms strategies, and adapts to new situations. In other words, it trains the thinking system, not just the response pattern. Key outcomes of this cognitive approach include: • Stronger resilience and confidence in puppies and young dogs • Improved focus and decision making in adult dogs • Greater curiosity, autonomy, and emotional stability The program had great success in real world training, so she wanted to turn it into a scalable online course. I dutifully coded one up as a subsite under her https://dogsden.ca site. Got it all working...

For a test I was trying to run a website on my local Windows 7 machine in IIS 7.5.  I put the website files in my C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyWebsite. I opened IIS 7.5 and right-clicked on Sites and selected "Add Web Site". In the "Add Web Site" dialog I entered the "Site name", "Physical path" as above and "Host name" and clicked "OK". For the "Select Application Pool" dialog I selected "Classic .NET AppPool" which is .Net 2.0 with Classic Pipeline. I double clicked on "Authentication" and disabled everything and enabled "Windows Authentication" as this is a local intranet website. In "Application Pools" I went into "Advanced Settings" for the "Classic .NET AppPool" and changed the Identity to "Custom account" and entered "my companies domain\my userid" and password, because that is how the website is run on the corporate server unde...