HackRepair.com’s Bad Bots .htaccess in web.config for IIS
Learn to protect your WordPress website with this web.config file on Windows Server IIS. Block IP addresses, bad bots, query string sequences
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IIS URL Rewrite Module “Rewrite Module error: Expression contains a repeat expression”
Fix for IIS URL Rewrite Module error "Rewrite Module error: Expression contains a repeat expression"
Always_populate_raw_post_data setting in PHP 5.6 & Magento 2.0
How to fix upgrades to Magento 2.0 in PHP 5.6 and higher: PHP 7+.
Generate pseudorandom passwords with OpenSSL
OpenSSL comes in handy when you need to generate random passwords, for example for system accounts and services. In this short post I'll give you a quick example on how to generate random passwords with OpenSSL in Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.
PowerShell return value, exit code, or ErrorLevel equivalent
Here is how you can verify whether an external command in PowerShell was executed successfully or not by checking its errorlevel. Simply by verifying the PowerShell exit code using the $? operator or $LASTEXITCODE.
Get Hyper-V guest serial number with PowerShell
Learn how to get the Hyper-V guest virtual machine serial number with PowerShell, this is ideal for automated deployments with WDS or docs
How to block BaiduSpider bot User-Agent?
The Baidu spider (BaiduSpider user agent) can be a real pain to block, especially since it does not respect a robots.txt as it should. This post shows you how to block Baidu Spider bot, using IIS URL Rewrite Module based on its User-Agent string.
How to enable HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) on IIS
Set up HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) response header in Windows Server IIS 10, here is some more technical information about HSTS in IIS, and other security headers...
Use authenticated SMTP over TLS encrypted connections, in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET
Send outgoing mail over authenticated SMTP using TLS, in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET. Send email securely from your website. Ready to use examples!
Tunnel RDP through SSH & PuTTY
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to perform remote administration on a Windows Server, and the RDP port 3389 is blocked on a firewall? You can tunnel RDP over SSH with PuTTY
Monitor Windows services with PowerShell
Schedule a PowerShell script to monitor local services in your Windows Server environment
PowerShell Get-FsrmQuota and Set-FsrmQuota
To get and set File Server Resource Manager NTFS quota you now have to use PowerShell FileServerResourceManager cmdlets. It's pretty easy to get directory information with Get-FsrmQuota and change dirquota.exe using Set-FsrmQuota.
Set IIS Application Pool recycle defaults to Specific Times, not Regular Time Interval
By default, an IIS application pool (or "AppPool") recycles on a regular time interval of 1740 minutes, or 29 hours. One reason for this time interval is that application pools don't recycle at the same moment every day (every day at 07.00 for example).
PHP 5.6 default_charset change may break HTML output
A change in PHP's default_charset php.ini setting causes HTML output to break if you try to set a different charset in your HTML head. It also might break functions like htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars().
Turn off swap
Learn how to turn off swap in Bash, because when a swap partition is enabled Linux starts swapping, which may degrade (MySQL) system performance
Software deployment through WDS
Here is how to install software packages during a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) deployment, without Microsoft Deployment Workbench (available in the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or MDT).
How to play old games on Windows with DOSBox
PC retrogaming how-to for 64-bit Windows - and Linux!
Find all files owned by a particular user using PowerShell
Sometimes you need to find all files owned by a specific user, recursively on your Windows Server NTFS file system. PowerShell has some neat cmdlets to automate this task for you and here is how.
Disk Cleanup in Windows Server
Over time, as your Windows Server runs longer, more and more disk space is eaten. Simply gone! Investigating the disk usage leaves you clueless; there are no large log files, crash dumps, or there is no software to be removed. Where did that space go?
Convert decimal to hex in Bash, hexadecimal to decimal and dates to Unix timestamp
Cconvert decimal to hex hexadecimal to decimal and Unix timestamps in Linux Bash. A quicky for my archives.