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Have a need for IIS in your Windows 11 development station, and now you wonder how to install IIS? Here I describe how you can easily install IIS and some modules using PowerShell
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Block PHP files like sendmail.php on Windows Server IIS webservers. This comes in handy if a websites on your webserver sends out spam and you need to block access to a script on a specific website or globally in IIS. Here are 3 methods.
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Use IIS Manager to administer various components of your website through a graphical user interface (GUI) if it's hosted in Windows Server IIS. In this article you'll learn how to install and setup IIS Manager in Windows 11/10 to manage your website(s).
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HTTP Basic Authentication managed module for IIS enables HTTP Basic Authentication with virtual user support in Windows Server IIS.
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In this post I'll show you how to configure an IP allow list for IIS FTP Server using PowerShell, iisadministration and webadministration modules.
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When you start to play with Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10, you'll get an error when you try to install the IIS URL Rewrite Module in IIS. The error occurs because the URL Rewrite Module installer contains an invalid version check for the IIS being used. Here is how to install IIS URL Rewrite Module 2 in IIS 10...
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The AppCmd.exe command is your one-stop-shop for administering Windows Server IIS web servers. In combination with WinRM it is your Swiss Army knife for your daily routine. This post introduces appcmd and provides you with a lot of helpful appcmd examples.
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Using Windows Server File Server Resource Manager‘s File Screens you can block vulnerable WordPress plugins from being uploaded to your IIS web server. In the following example, you'll learn how to block WP DB Backup plugin system-wide on Windows Server, read on…
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Learn to block Baidu spider (BaiduSpider user agent) properly, because it is a real pain to block. Especially since Baidu does not respect `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.
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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...
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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?.
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Learn how to enable WebSocket protocol support in IIS and ASP.NET 4.8 on Windows Server. Step-by-step PowerShell guide for quick installation.
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Gzip compression conflicts with IIS Outbound Rules resulting in HTTP 500.52 URL Rewrite Module Error. Here is how to resolve this.
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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.
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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 (...).