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HTTPS for WordPress

SSL in WordPress: how to move WordPress to HTTPS? The definitive guide

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • WordPress
  • 15 July 201618 December 2020

Having an SSL certificate in your WordPress is the de-facto standard nowadays, did you know that? Google ranks sites having HTTPS higher in their SERP. But in WordPress, how do you configure an SSL certificate and HTTPS URL? You’ll learn the important steps to move WordPress from http to https in this post.

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Ghost on IIS with HTTPS, how to resolve a “Too many redirects” error

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 17 May 201619 June 2020

When you use iisnode to host the Node.js blogging software Ghost on your IIS web server, and you set up an SSL certificate for your Ghost website, you may run into too many redirect issues when changing Ghost’s config.js file. This happend to me yesterday, and here is the solution.

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HTTPS for WordPress

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • GNU Linux, Windows Server
  • 13 March 20154 December 2020

In this post I provide you various HTTP to HTTPS redirection methods, for Windows Server IIS and Linux Apache. Use these examples to your advantage to secure the traffic between your visitors and your website.

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ASP.NET web application monitoring in Zabbix, part 2

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 27 February 20215 March 2021

When you host multiple websites in IIS, and you need to monitor them, Zabbix is one of your options. In Zabbix, you can take advantage of Windows Servers performance counters using perf_counter and perf_counter_en. In this article, I’ll show you some important Windows performance counters to monitor your ASP.NET web application in Zabbix

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Monitor IIS application pools in Zabbix, part 1

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 27 February 20215 March 2021

Microsoft Windows Server IIS monitoring with Zabbix

Zabbix can harnas the powers of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to query the Windows system for data. In Zabbix you use wmi.getall for this. Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per application pool in Zabbix. In this example I’ll be using a Plesk server running IIS 10.0.

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Disable Joomla Contacts component (com_contact) in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • MySQL
  • 5 January 20216 January 2021

How-to disable Joomla’s built-in contact forms component and its ability to send a copy to the sender, directly in your MySQL database using phpMyAdmin

Often the built-in Joomla contact forms component (com_contact) is abused by spammers. These contact forms allow the sender to receive a copy of the form contents. All spammers need to do is enter the email address of the target as sender/from. This way, anyone can use the Joomla contact form for spamming anyone. This short article explains how to disable and combat this.

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Disable WordPress XCloner Plugin logger in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • WordPress
  • 5 January 20215 January 2021

If XCloner Logger option is enabled, it will store a log file inside the xcloner-XXXXX folder inside the backup archive. The file is named xcloner-xxxxx.log. This can generate a huge amount of temporary files and log files on your file system. This short article provides you one SQL statement to disable XCloner log directly in your WordPress MySQL database, using phpMyAdmin.

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Force HSTS in Apache .htaccess

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • GNU Linux
  • 18 December 202018 December 2020

I wrote about enabling HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in IIS earlier. But what about enabling HSTS in Apache .htaccess? Here is how.

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.NET Core 2.1, 3.1, and .NET 5.0 updates are coming to Microsoft Update

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 4 December 20204 December 2020

Jamshed Damkewala writes on devblogs.microsoft.com: Starting in December 2020, we will be delivering .NET Core updates on Windows via Microsoft Update. We have received many requests for this, particularly from organizations that acquire and manage all of their Microsoft-related updates via Microsoft (or Windows) Update. This change will enable organizations to manage .NET Framework and .NET Core updates in the same way. If you don’t want to use Microsoft Update to update .NET on your machines, you don’t have to, and can continue using one of the existing options.

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Microsoft OpenSSH SSH Server Properties screen

Manually install OpenSSH in Windows Server

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 9 November 202023 December 2020

How to install OpenSSH Server in Windows Server 2019 Core using PowerShell, or Windows Server 2016

OpenSSH is an ideal and secure way of performing remote maintenance & administration on your servers. Even on Windows Server! :) Microsoft have released their OpenSSH port for Windows Server and Windows 10 back in 2015. Here is how to install the OpenSSH Server on Windows Server 2016 and 2019.

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Emulate ternary operator in PowerShell

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • PowerShell
  • 28 October 202022 December 2020

Quickly and dirty determine if a condition is true or false in PowerShell 5.1 by emulating the ternary operator. For example when determinering if the server you are servicing is a Windows Server Desktop Experience version or not (and thus Server Core):

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Force BITS to download WSUS updates in the foreground in Windows Server

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 18 September 202018 September 2020

When WSUS downloads are slow

WSUS uses BITS for downloading updates, and it does so in background mode. Unfortunately, this utilizes remaining bandwidth of the server instead of its full capacity. To speed up WSUS downloads, you can configure BITS in WSUS to use foreground priority.

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Securing privileged access

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 21 August 202021 August 2020

Protect your privileged admin credentials!

Microsoft has published guidance on the easiest way to secure privileged access in Windows Server.

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My New Hugo Site created in WSL 2 on WIndows 10

Hugo development environment in WSL 2

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • Windows Server
  • 25 July 202019 August 2020

How to install and configure Hugo for static site development in WSL on Windows 10.

Do you find it too difficult to install Go or Hugo in Windows for your static site development? Have you tried Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2? Using a default Ubuntu 20.04, it is pretty easy to install Hugo, set up your development environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu’s IP address instead of localhost / 127.0.0.1. This makes your Hugo development site accessible for browsers in Windows 10. Neat, right?

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How to Fix Yoast SEO for WordPress DeleteDuplicateIndexables MySQL error

  • Jan Reilink Jan Reilink
  • WordPress
  • 28 May 202025 June 2020

In recent days, there are a number of reports about broken Yoast SEO database operations, related to the DeleteDuplicateIndexables function. The PHP function is located in the file wordpress-seo\src\config\migrations\20200507054848_DeleteDuplicateIndexables.php, and in this post I’ll provide you with a possible fix for this statement. Read on.

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