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IIS Outbound Rules with gzip compression

Learn how to use URL Rewrite Outbound Rules in IIS, to offload content from a different server or host name. This way IIS with URL Rewrite acts as a reverse proxy. Add gzip compression to the mix, and this will improve website performance. In this post, I'll also show you how to fix the URL Rewrite Module error "Outbound rewrite rules cannot be applied when the content of the HTTP response is encoded ("gzip")." in IIS.
13/05/2014Posted inWindows Server
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Block WordPress comment spammers manually

Learn to block WordPress comment spammers manually. 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. Here is why & how.
30/11/2013Posted inWordPress
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Convert .htaccess to web.config

This post describes some of the IIS URL Rewrite Module web.config equivalents of commonly used Apache .htaccess settings. This is useful when you convert your Apache .htaccess to IIS web.config. The second part of this post outlines how to use Internet Information Services Manager to import and convert .htaccess rules to web.config.
08/02/2013Posted inWindows Server
IIS Length of URL for request exceeds maxUrlLength value
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"The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value"

Learn how to increase IIS' max URL length value to resolve the IIS and ASP.NET error message "The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value". 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.
23/09/2012Posted inWindows Server