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Redirect old URL to new URL or send 404 page with PHP

If you've moved some old PHP pages, or URLs, to new pages and URLs, you can use the following PHP code snippet to easily redirect all visitors and incoming requests to the new location. This PHP code snippet uses a 301 Moved Permanently redirect, perfect for SEO and returns a 404 Not Found if a new location hasn't been set up yet.

Published on Sunday, 12 October 2014

Conditionally start Application Pools on remote IIS web servers

In my routine, I occasionally have to start multiple website application pools when they are in a stopped state. On more than one web server. Being a lazy system administrator, I find it too much work to log on every server. Therefore I start those application pools in a loop. A condition for me to start application pools is that the application pool AutoStart property is set to true. This is because I set autostart to false when I disable hacked websites, and those application pools may not be started until all problems are resolved of course. To start application pools, I use the AppCmd command.

Check website availability with PHP and cURL

Here you'll find a PHP script to check if your website is up and online available. It uses PHP and cURL. This script comes in handy because website uptime and availability is important, and you want your website to be always online available. If your website is down, it'll send you an email to notify you about downtime.

Send authenticated SMTP email over TLS from WordPress

Learn how to override wp-mail() and send secure email using authenticated SMTP and StartTLS from WordPress.

Published on Tuesday, 29 July 2014

8 Tips to improve Joomla performance

Learn how to speed-up Joomla performance on Windows Server IIS using these 8 simple, but important, tips. Add caching, gzip compression, set your sessions & optimize MySQL database functions.

Published on Sunday, 29 June 2014

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

Sometimes it's important to remove (or hide) the file extension of scripts you use. Security by obscurity might be that reason, if you don't want others to know what script language you are using for your website, or for static site hosts.

Published on Friday, 23 May 2014

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.

Optimize images for the web in bulk

Optimizing and lossless compressing images is one of those items that always pops up when analyzing your website with Google PageSpeed Insights. Images have to be lossless compressed to save many bytes of data and thus bandwidth. But, how do we optimize images for the web?

Published on Sunday, 12 January 2014

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

Published on Monday, 11 November 2013

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

Learn how to send email securely from your website using TLS with ASP.NET, PHP, WordPress and Classic ASP!

Published on Wednesday, 15 May 2013

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