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.
Jan Reilink
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Conditionally start Application Pools on remote IIS web servers
In this article you'll learn how to start all stopped application pools that have the ApplicationPool.AutoStart property set to $True using AppCmd.exe or PowerShell. This is something you often or occasionally have to perform on various servers, for example when an application pool hangs.
Send authenticated SMTP email over TLS from WordPress
Learn how to override wp-mail() and send secure email using authenticated SMTP and StartTLS from WordPress.
Huge increase in WordPress xmlrpc.php POST requests
How to identify, block, mitigate and leverage xmlrpc.php scans, brute-force, and user enumeration attacks on WordPress sites... Secure WordPress xmlprc.php interface and reduce service disruption.
Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header
Windows Server IIS loves to tell the world that a website runs on IIS. It does so with the "Server:" header in the HTTP response, as shown below. In this post I'll show you how to remove HTTP response headers in Windows Server IIS. You don't want to give hackers too much information about your servers, right?.
8 Tips to improve Joomla performance
Learn how to speed-up Joomla performance on Windows Server IIS using these 8 simple, but important, tips. Add caching, gzip compression, set your sessions & optimize MySQL database functions.
Delete all MAILER-DAEMON emails in Postfix queue
How to delete all MAILER-DAEMON emails from your Postfix queue, when it matches a sender or recipient email address condition. In Postfix, there are various similar commands to delete messages from the Postfix mail queue, based on the Message-ID and/or email address for example...
How to install the Web-WebSockets feature in IIS using PowerShell
Easily enable support for the WebSocket protocol on Windows Server IIS by installing the Web-WebSockets feature using PowerShell. Learn how to install WebSocket Protocol support in Windows Server IIS 8.0.
Test SMTP authentication and StartTLS
Investigate SMTP authentication issues like a boss! When using TLS encrypted SMTP connections, it's always handy if you are able to create a SMTP logon credentials and test SMTP authentication over a TLS/StartTLS connection. Preferably from your command-prompt.
Delete files recursively with ForFiles in Windows Server
The Forfiles command on Windows selects and executes a command on a file or set of files. Forfiles is ideal for batch processing through scripts, for instance on Windows Server systems. With Forfiles, you can run a command on or pass arguments to multiple files. For example, you could run the type or del command on all files in a tree with the .txt extension.
Bash: Grep through a large number of files – “Argument list too long”
/bash/grep and /bash/rm give me an error Argument list too long. Here is how to overcome this error with Bash grep and rm.
Don’t turn off CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and fix your PHP configuration
Learn how to fix your PHP config instead of turning off CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER in php.ini and overcome certificate validation errors with cURL and PHP.
Connect to MS SQL Server with PHP 5.3+
As of PHP 5.3.2 you have to use the SQLSRV API functions to connect to an Microsoft SQL Server database from PHP. For example, use sqlsrv_connect() to create a connection resource and open a connection. Learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database using PHP 5.3+ and SQLSRV.
Convert .htaccess to web.config
This post describes some of the IIS URL Rewrite Module web.config equivalents of commonly used Apache .htaccess settings. You'll learn how to translate .htaccess content to IIS web.config, this is useful when you need to migrate your website from Apache to Windows Server IIS.
PHP with WinCache on IIS
In this article you'll learn how to install and set up PHP with the Windows Cache Extension (WinCache) on windows IIS web servers. WinCache enabled PHP gives a great PHP performance boost for your WordPress-, Drupal or Joomla website. This post will show you it's not hard to set up high performance PHP hosting on IIS.
“The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value”
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The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value is an IIS error telling you the length of the given URL exceeds a limit. 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 URLs, and here is how to resolve this maxUrlLength issue.
Microsoft Deployment Workbench: silent installation of various applications
Silently deploy applications through Windows Deployment Services (WDS) / Microsoft Deployment Workbench
PHP on IIS: “No input file specified”
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 settings. Here is how to fix the "no input file specified error" with PHP and IIS.