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Convert .htaccess to web.config

This post describes some of the IIS URL Rewrite Module web.config equivalents of commonly used Apache .htaccess settings. This is useful when you convert your Apache .htaccess to IIS web.config. The second part of this post outlines how to use Internet Information Services Manager to import and convert .htaccess rules to web.config.
08/02/2013Posted inWindows Server
Posted inWindows Server

PHP with WinCache on IIS

Learn how to install PHP on Windows Server IIS. With Windows Cache Extension for PHP (WinCache) and a custom php.ini path. WinCache enabled PHP gives you great performance for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla websites, and decreases CPU usage. A custom php.ini file path offers more flexibility.
05/02/2013Posted inWindows Server
IIS Length of URL for request exceeds maxUrlLength value
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"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.
23/09/2012Posted inWindows Server
Posted inWordPress

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
14/01/2012Posted inWordPress
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WCF Service error: “This collection already contains an address with scheme http.”

"This collection already contains an address with scheme http. There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection." is a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) error message indicating you are trying to add an already existing binding. By default the web service listens to all in IIS configured host headers. A host header is the website address, for example example.com and www.example.com. If this is not correctly added to the web.config file, the following error is thrown
27/12/2011Posted inWindows Server