How to find all symbolic links, junction points and hard links in a folder in Windows Server quickly? Use dir /al /s /b. Jan ReilinkMy name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely a systems administrator, doing my daily thing at Vevida. If you feel a post has…
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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. Jan ReilinkMy name is Jan. I am not a hacker,…
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Show the number of registered WordPress users in At-a-Glance widget Often when a WordPress site is compromised, the website owner doesn’t notice anything strange at first. First a lot of users are created, and it’s only later when posts filled with spam are created or existing pages/posts edited. In the time between compromise and creation…
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On a daily bases, new vulnerabilities are found in WordPress plugins. And when you host thousands of WordPress sites, you can count on the fact you have some customers using that vulnerable version of that particular plugin. So you need to find those vulnerable versions on your servers fast. On Windows Server, PowerShell is a…
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Secure wp-content/uploads in Linux Apache and Windows Server IIS It’s recommended to disallow access to and execution of PHP files in wp-content/uploads folder. Preferably and without the use of a security plugin. Blocking access to PHP files in WordPress wp-content/uploads folder is easily achieved with a .htaccess file on Linux Apache, or web.config accesssPolicy in…
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You can use this Bash function in your .bashrc file to generate a random alphanumeric string. This comes in handy when you need to generate a long, secure password for example. Adjust to your needs. Jan ReilinkMy name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely a systems administrator,…
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This post contains some example WMI filters for you to use in Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to target and manage specific Windows Server versions like 2012R2, 2016 and Windows Server 2019. Jan ReilinkMy name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely a systems administrator, doing my daily thing…
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Basic Authentication managed HTTP module for IIS with virtual users support In my pursuit of a basic authentication alternative in IIS, other than the built-in Basic Authentication module or Helicon Ape, I came across Devbridge AzurePowerTools. It’s apparently one of few HTTP managed modules for IIS that enables HTTP Basic Authentication with support for virtual…
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In this post I’ll show you how to configure an IP whitelist for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell iisadministration and webadministration modules
how to remove phantom application folders from websites in IIS using PowerShell? Today I wanted to remove application folders from the website configuration in IIS whose physical path on the filesystem was removed. E.g when the application folder “/test1” in the website example.com should point to z:\sites\example.com\www\test1 but was removed. Here is now.
Here is how to change Akismet interval to three days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter. Jan ReilinkMy name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely a systems administrator, doing my daily thing at Vevida. If you feel a post has helped…
How to easily create the backup of IIS websites, application pools and configuration and restore them, using appcmd.
An System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException “The given key was not present in the dictionary” can be the result of using a too old MySQL Connector/NET version in your ASP.NET web application. A KeyNotFoundException is thrown when an operation attempts to retrieve an element from a collection using a key that does not exist in that collection. An unsupported…
Whenever WordPress is using a lot of CPU and you have Wordfence Security plugin enabled, it is recommended to double check some settings. Unfortunately the Wordfence “Live Traffic Options” (“Traffic logging mode”) feature can cause high CPU usage and load issues for WordPress websites. Therefore, I recommend you disable this feature to improve the performance…
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This might be specific to my Windows Server environment and PoSH scripting, but using -SeachBase with PowerShell’s Get-ADComputer gives me faster results. You can use this for your own advantage, here is a little example to speed up AD DS queries. Jan ReilinkMy name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru.…
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