2012 - Sysadmins of the North

IIS Length of URL for request exceeds maxUrlLength value

"The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value"

Learn how to increase IIS' max URL length value to resolve the IIS and ASP.NET error message "The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value". The Windows Server IIS maximum URL length is defined by the HttpRuntimeSection.MaxUrlLength property. Its value is 260 characters. This may cause problems with longer than configured maxUrlLength URL’s.

By Jan Reilink 23/09/2012Windows Server

Web application security

“htaccess files should not be used for security restrictions”

An article explaining why .htaccess files should not be used to secure sensitive data. In many cases it is wrong to impose security restrictions using .htaccess files.

By Jan Reilink 08/08/2012Web application security

WordPress

WordPress HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication

HyperDB database class. HyperDB: an advanced database class for WordPress, that supports replication and partition of data. HyperDB is a replacement for the standard wpdb class, which adds the ability to use multiple databases. HyperDB supports partition of data as well as replication.

By Jan Reilink 20/07/2012WordPress

Windows Server

Multiple IIS 6.0/7.5 Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities found in IIS 6.0 and 7.5 web servers. On the Full-Disclosure mailinglist Kingcope posted several IIS 6.0 and 7.5 bugs. Because I am a Windows Server and IIS admin, I took some time to test the various vulnerabilities ...

By Jan Reilink 17/07/2012Windows Server

brown brick wall with black and yellow caution sign

Web application security

How to filter web traffic with blocklists

I needed a HTTP blocklist. Block and filter unwanted web HTTP traffic with blocklists, on both IIS and Apache webservers. Protect your website easily with this PHP blocklist class. Let's create our own little HTTP filter.

By Jan Reilink 27/05/2012Web application security

Windows Server

Microsoft Deployment Workbench: silent installation of various applications

Silent installation command-line arguments to install and deploy applicatoins using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). Install programs like 7-Zip, Windows Update Agent, IIS Manager and Microsoft Office silently and unattended.

By Jan Reilink 23/03/2012Windows Server

WordPress

Clean up WordPress post revisions

Every time you write or edit a WordPress post, WordPress saves the change as a post revision. As you might expect, this fills up your database with a huge amount of unneeded post revisions and information. This uses space which should be free space, the MySQL database becomes bloated. You can clean up these WordPress post revisions quite easily

By Jan Reilink 14/01/2012WordPress

Windows Server

“System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The URL-encoded form data is not valid.” error after MS11-100

"HttpException (0x80004005): The URL-encoded form data is not valid." is an error that might occur after applying MS11-100 out-of-band security update for ASP.NET. Here is how to fix this er

By Jan Reilink 03/01/2012Windows Server

Year: 2012

"The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value"

“htaccess files should not be used for security restrictions”

WordPress HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication

Multiple IIS 6.0/7.5 Vulnerabilities

How to filter web traffic with blocklists

Microsoft Deployment Workbench: silent installation of various applications

Clean up WordPress post revisions

“System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The URL-encoded form data is not valid.” error after MS11-100

Windows Server

Web applications

PowerShell