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How to hide the .php file extension with IIS URL Rewrite Module

How to hide file extensions, such as .php or .asp, with URL Rewrite Module in IIS. This example will hide the .php extension using IIS URL Rewrite Module, in a ready to use web.config & .htaccess example: extension less URLs in IIS.

By Jan Reilink 23/05/2014Windows Server

WordPress

Minify JavaScript, CSS and compress images

Optimizing, minify and compressing JavaScript and CSS files, the easy and fast way? With YUI Compressor on the Windows-, Linux- and macOS command line of course! Compacting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can speeds up your website because of smaller and faster downloads, parsing, and execution time. Fire-and-forget JavaScript and CSS minification and optimization

By Jan Reilink 18/05/2014WordPress

WordPress

Optimize images for the web in bulk

Optimizing and loss-less compressing images is one of those items that always pops up when analyzing your website with Google PageSpeed Insights. Images have to be loss-less compressed to save many bytes of data and thus bandwidth. This speeds up the download time of your website. But, how do we optimize images for the web? Or, what if I have hundreds of images that needs optimization? Let's optimize and loss-less compress images in bulk, read on.

By Jan Reilink 12/01/2014WordPress

PowerShell

Add websites and application pools to IIS with PowerShell, in a for loop

How to use PowerShell to create websites and application pools in IIS. How to use PowerShell to create websites and application pools in IIS... A client of the company I work for wanted to quickly add 60 sub-domains to his website. But, the sub-domains had to be created as self contained IIS websites, and running in their own application pools. Luckily, the client wanted 60 consecutive sub-domain names. This made our task a bit easier, because we could easily script this in PowerShell

By Jan Reilink 11/11/2013PowerShell

Code base

How to send authenticated SMTP over a TLS encrypted connection, in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET?

Send outgoing mail over authenticated SMTP using TLS, in PHP, ASP and ASP.NET. Send email securely from your website. Ready to use examples!

By Jan Reilink 15/05/2013Code base

Code base

Connect to MS SQL Server with PHP 5.3+

mssql_connect() no longer works with PHP 5.3 and up. As of PHP 5.3.2 you have to use the SQLSRV API functions to connect to an MS SQL Server database from PHP. For example, use sqlsrv_connect() to create a connection resource and open a connection.

By Jan Reilink 22/03/2013Code base

Windows Server

Start all stopped application pools in IIS 6.0

How to stop and start application pools using VBScript and ADSI in Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0. Iterate with vbscript and ADSI through the IIS 6.0 metabase AppPool objects, find out their .State value and start an AppPool if its state isn't running.

By Jan Reilink 28/12/2011Windows Server