17.1. Configuring Shared Configurations
The configuration files that you want to share between servers in the farm are the applicationHost.config and administration.config files mentioned back in chapter 6. These files contain the entire configuration for the server: the websites, application pools, and bindings you want to share. They don’t contain the individual website settings normally stored in the web.config, but I come back to that in a bit.
The reason this technique works is because the IIS team at Microsoft removed server-specific information from these configuration files. Any number of servers can successfully use the same set of configuration files. Changes made on one web server will automatically occur on all other web servers in ...
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