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.
Author: Jan Reilink
Hi, my name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely an application manager / systems administrator, doing my daily thing at Embrace - The Human Cloud. In the past I worked for clidn and Vevida. With over 20 years of experience, my specialties include Windows Server, IIS, Linux (CentOS, Debian), security, PHP, websites & optimization. I blog at https://www.saotn.org.
Microsoft Deployment Workbench: silent installation of various applications
Install and depoly applications using Deployment Toolkit. Here’s a small list of applications and their silent installation command line parameters, to use with Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or Deployment Toolkit.
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
How to use .htaccess files on Windows Server IIS
In this post I’ll show you how to install Helicon Ape in Windows Server IIS and how to use .htaccess files for your website. Further this post describes some common uses of .htaccess files by PHP applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or your own coded CMS, for example how to manage subdomains or redirect HTTP to HTTPS.
Umbraco CMS admin password reset
If you forgot your Umbraco admin password, use the following SQL query to reset your Umbraco admin password in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or MySQL
MySQL query caching using PHP/Zend_Cache
By using the Cache.php PHP class of the Zend Framework, you can relatively easy cache MySQL query results to disk. This ensures faster consecutive results and speeds up execution. In this context, caching means: execute a MySQL query once and save the result in a temporary file. For every time that same query is executed, you can simply use the result stored in your disk cache file, as long as the database hasn’t changed. Often it is faster to save this on the web server than having it to redo the query every time.
Failed Request Tracing error LOG FILE MAX SIZE TRUNCATE
Failed Request Tracing error LOG FILE MAX SIZE TRUNCATE. The maximum size of an FREB log file, in IIS 7+, is 512 KB per default. Once that size is reached, the log file is cut off (truncated) and a message LOG_FILE_MAX_SIZE_TRUNCATE is logged.
Check IP address blacklist status in Bash
Bash script to check an IP address reputation status in several blacklists. I’ve added HttpBl as backlist and an API key is required for this list. Using this script in Bash you can quickly test if an IP address is blacklisted.
PHP on IIS: No input file specified.
Here is how to resolve the no input file specified error with PHP and IIS. When you host your PHP website on Windows Server IIS, you may receive an “No input file specified” error message, when a HTTP request is made to non-existing .php files. When this happens you probably have no Request Restrictions configured in IIS’ PHP handler set
“Forensic Log Parsing with Microsoft’s LogParser”
Just stumbled upon: Forensic Log Parsing with Microsoft’s LogParser. Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows® operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory®.
7 Snippets to use .htaccess as a Web Application Firewall
Here are 7 .htaccess snippets for you to secure your website, by using .htaccess as a kWeb Application Firewall (WAF). You can use this information to block exploits and rogue HTTP requests on your website.