GNU/Linux, Web applications
Take control of your server resources by learning how to block aggressive bots and unwanted search engines using .htaccess and mod_rewrite. This guide provides copy-paste ready configurations to prevent bandwidth theft, stop scrapers, and ensure that only relevant search engines crawl your website.
Windows Server
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Native support for HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022, jeej! Host HTTP/3 web services in Windows
GNU/Linux
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Learn how to enable HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) in Linux Apache .htaccess. I wrote about enabling HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in IIS earlier. But what about enabling HSTS in Apache .htaccess? Here is how.
Windows Server
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Follow this if you have no more need for Windows Server IIS and want to remove IIS completely from Windows Server using PowerShell
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.
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.
Windows Server
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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.
Windows Server
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In this article you’ll learn how to start all stopped application pools that have the ApplicationPool.AutoStart property set to $True using AppCmd.exe or PowerShell. This is something you often or occasionally have to perform on various servers, for example when an application pool hangs.
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.
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.
Windows Server
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In this article you’ll learn how to install and set up PHP with the Windows Cache Extension (WinCache) on windows IIS web servers. WinCache enabled PHP gives a great PHP performance boost for your WordPress-, Drupal or Joomla website. This post will show you it’s not hard to set up high performance PHP hosting on IIS.