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SSL in WordPress: how to move WordPress to HTTPS? The definitive guide

Having an SSL certificate in your WordPress is the de-facto standard nowadays, did you know that? Google ranks sites having HTTPS higher in their SERP. But in WordPress, how do you configure an SSL certificate and HTTPS URL? You'll learn the important steps to move WordPress from http to https

By Jan Reilink 15/07/2016WordPress

WordPress

17+ Useful WordPress snippets

Here are 17+ valuable WordPress snippets for site-specific plugins and functions.php to provide you a better WordPress experience. Enhance your WordPress site with these small PHP snippets: WordPress filters, actions and functions. Quickly add or extend the functionality you need for your WordPress website! Read on...

By Jan Reilink 30/05/2016WordPress

Windows Server

Ghost on IIS with HTTPS, how to resolve a “Too many redirects” error

When you use iisnode to host the Node.js blogging software Ghost on your IIS web server, and you set up an SSL certificate for your Ghost website, you may run into too many redirect issues when changing Ghost's config.js file. This happend to me yesterday, and here is the solution.

By Jan Reilink 17/05/2016Windows Server

Windows Server

IIS URL Rewrite “Rewrite Module error: Expression contains a repeat expression”

How to fix the HTTP Error 500.52 - URL Rewrite Module Error: "The expression "^/{C:1}" contains a repeat expression (one of '*', '?', '+', '{' in most contexts) that is not preceded by an expression" on Windows Server IIS.

By Jan Reilink 16/02/2016Windows Server

PowerShell

PowerShell return value, exit code, or ErrorLevel equivalent

PowerShell $? operator and $LASTEXITCODE: How to verify whether an external command in PowerShell was executed successfully or not by checkingits errorlevel, or PowerShell exit code.

By Jan Reilink 08/10/2015PowerShell

Windows Server

RewriteProxy with .htaccess in IIS

Rewrite and proxy HTTP requests in IIS using a .htaccess. In my case scenario, I had to proxy requests in IIS, because a website was moved from web server A to B, and the DNS wasn't updated yet. All HTTP requests for the moved website are handled in IIS' Default Web Site; that's the wildcard host, and the original host no longer existed there. We needed to match our website and proxy those requests to the new IIS web server. This can either be done using a proxy with IIS URL Rewrite, IIS Application Request Routing (ARR), or a .htaccess file handled by Helicon Ape.

By Jan Reilink 08/10/2015Windows Server

Windows Server

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.

By Jan Reilink 08/08/2015Windows Server

Web application security

Add a delay to your WordPress login form

This plugin adds a three second delay when logging into WordPress. This slows down brute-force attacks on your website. However, it is not recommended to use sleep(), because a heavy brute-force attack will let all those POST requests sleep for the given amount of time.

By Jan Reilink 10/07/2015Web application security

Windows Server

How to enable HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) on IIS

Learn how to enable HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) response header in Windows Server IIS 10 web servers.

By Jan Reilink 06/06/2015Windows Server

GNU Linux Windows Server

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Various HTTP to HTTPS redirection methods, for Windows Server IIS and Linux Apache.

By Jan Reilink 13/03/2015GNU Linux, Windows Server

Web application security

Joomla websites abused as open proxy for Denial-of-Service attacks

Joomla websites using the Googlemaps plugin for Joomla are actively abused as open proxy for launching Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The problem with the Joomla Googlemaps plugin lies in the fact anyone can execute cURL HTTP requests to remote websites.

By Jan Reilink 16/11/2014Web application security

Windows Server

Custom PHP version on IIS Express and WebMatrix 3

PHP 7 with OPcache in IIS Express for Microsoft WebMatrix 3: learn how to create your own PHP development environment easily with Microsoft WebMatrix and IIS Express and your own custom PHP version. Note: this guide also applies to newer PHP versions, just change the version numbers. (outdated)

By Jan Reilink 19/08/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header

Windows Server IIS love to tell the world a website runs on IIS. And dito for ASP.NET Framework. But this gives hackers a lot of information, right? Let's remove the IIS Server header and ASP.NET version headers. Security by obscurity as a pro :-)

By Jan Reilink 06/07/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

.svc WCF web service returns 404 Not Found on IIS 8

When a Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) web service returns a 404 Not Found error, after installing the HTTP-Activation feature in IIS, you might need to add an extra Handler to your IIS configuration.

By Jan Reilink 30/06/2014Windows Server

PowerShell

How to install the Web-WebSockets feature in IIS using PowerShell

How to install WebSocket Protocol support in IIS using PowerShell's Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet. Easily install and enable support for the WebSocket protocol on Windows Server IIS.

By Jan Reilink 27/05/2014PowerShell

Search results for: web.config

SSL in WordPress: how to move WordPress to HTTPS? The definitive guide

17+ Useful WordPress snippets

Ghost on IIS with HTTPS, how to resolve a “Too many redirects” error

IIS URL Rewrite “Rewrite Module error: Expression contains a repeat expression”

PowerShell return value, exit code, or ErrorLevel equivalent

RewriteProxy with .htaccess in IIS

How to block BaiduSpider bot User-Agent?

Add a delay to your WordPress login form

How to enable HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) on IIS

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Joomla websites abused as open proxy for Denial-of-Service attacks

Custom PHP version on IIS Express and WebMatrix 3

Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header

.svc WCF web service returns 404 Not Found on IIS 8

How to install the Web-WebSockets feature in IIS using PowerShell

Windows Server

Web applications

PowerShell