Umbraco
Out of the box, Umbraco is a well built and pretty fast content management system. However, it is still important you perform some steps to further optimize Umbraco’s performance and loading speed.
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Here are 3 ways of blocking access to a PHP sendmail.php script on your Windows Server IIS webserver. 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.
Umbraco
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Add a trailing slash to URL’s in Umbraco 8, using IIS URL Rewrite Module, without breaking the Umbraco backend. Forcing one particular URL avoids duplicate content, which is important for SEO.
Windows Server
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HTTP Basic Authentication managed module for IIS enables HTTP Basic Authentication with virtual user support in Windows Server IIS.
Umbraco
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Umbraco 7 is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS). Out of the box Umbraco performs pretty well, but there are still some areas you need to tweak and tune for a more performant Umbraco website. Here are 11+ tips.
WordPress
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How to protect your WordPress from brute-force XML-RPC attacks, because the WordPress XML-RPC API has been under attack for many years now.
WordPress
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Gzip compress and serve WP-Super-Cache or Cache Enabler static HTML files, to supercharge your WordPress blog!
WordPress
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Move WordPress to HTTPS correctly. Learn the Site Health switch, database search and replace, IIS/Apache redirects, HSTS hardening, and OpenSSL verification.
Windows Server
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Learn to protect your WordPress website with this web.config file on Windows Server IIS. Block IP addresses, bad bots, query string sequences
Windows Server
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Fix for IIS URL Rewrite Module error “Rewrite Module error: Expression contains a repeat expression”
Windows Server
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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.
WordPress
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A web.config file for WordPress on Windows Server IIS. Are you having trouble with your web.config? Here is mine 🙂
Windows Server
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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…
WordPress
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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.
Windows Server
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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?.
Umbraco
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Configure Umbraco for SQLServer sessionState storage and prepare Umbraco for high performance web garden or web farm, and load balancing environments. This post explains it all.
WordPress
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The less spammers hit your WordPress blog, the better your blog performs, is one of my opinions. A second is, the less unnecessary plugins you use on your WordPress blog, the better. So, a little while ago I decided to remove plugins like Stop Spammer Registration Plugin and do its work myself.
Useful
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In this post I provide you various HTTP to HTTPS redirection methods, for Windows Server IIS and Linux Apache. Use these examples to your advantage to secure the traffic between your visitors and your website.
Web applications
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How to let MySQL Connector/NET and Entity Framework play nicely. This blog post is a quicky and an oldy… Since we still receive a reasonable amount of questions about this topic at the customer service of my employer I’m posting this here, with some commonly made mistakes and points of attention.
Windows Server
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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.