In this article you’ll learn how to install PHP on Windows Server IIS. With the Windows Cache Extension for PHP (WinCache). WinCache enabled PHP gives you great performance for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla websites, and decreases CPU usage. In this post I’ll show you it’s not hard to set up a high performing PHP stack on Windows Server (IIS). So, let’s optimize our PHP hosting on Windows Server!
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Yahoo! YSlow recommends removing Entity tags – also known as “ETag”. Unfortunately removing the ETag response header is not an easy task on Windows Server IIS web servers. Here I show you how to properly remove ETag HTTP response headers with an IIS Rewrite Module Outbound rewrite rule…
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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 than configured maxUrlLength URL’s, and here is how to resolve this issue…
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Acunetix’ Bogdan Calin wrote an article explaining why .htaccess files should not be used to secure sensitive data: htaccess files should not be used for security restrictions.
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HyperDB database class. HyperDB: an advanced database class for WordPress, that supports replication and partition of data. HyperDB is a replacement for the standard wpdb class, which adds the ability to use multiple databases. HyperDB supports partition of data as well as replication.
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Multiple vulnerabilities found in IIS 6.0 and 7.5 web servers. On the Full-Disclosure mailinglist Kingcope posted several IIS 6.0 and 7.5 bugs. Because I am a Windows Server and IIS admin, I took some time to test the various vulnerabilities …
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Silently deploy applications through Windows Deployment Services (WDS) / Microsoft Deployment Workbench, or the command line. Sometimes you just can’t find the correct command parameter – or switch – for silent, unattended software installations. Unattended, silent installation of software is ideal in an automated deployment installation of Windows Server or Windows 7, 8 & 8.1 client computers, through Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
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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, you only need one (1) simple SQL statement.
…After applying MS11-100, an out-of-band security update for ASP.NET to mitigate an ASP.NET Denial of Service vulnerability, you may experience the following error comming from an .NET web application:
…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. Yes, expect a lot of .htaccess examples for IIS :) 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 HTTPS redirections.
…“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:
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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…
…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.
As you’ve probably read in my post AppCmd introduction and examples, AppCmd is a very extensive tool to administer Windows Server IIS hosting environments. Therefore, now a bit more about a common error message you might get using Failed Request Tracing: LOG_FILE_MAX_SIZE_TRUNCATE.
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