IIS Outbound Rules with gzip compression
Gzip compression conflicts with IIS Outbound Rules resulting in HTTP 500.52 URL Rewrite Module Error. Here is how to resolve this.
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Delete files recursively with ForFiles in Windows Server
The Forfiles command on Windows selects and executes a command on a file or set of files. Forfiles is ideal for batch processing through scripts, for instance on Windows Server systems. With Forfiles, you can run a command on or pass arguments to multiple files. For example, you could run the type or del command on all files in a tree with the .txt extension.
Grep for forensic log parsing and analysis on Windows Server IIS
How to use GnuWin32 ported tools like grep.exe and find.exe for forensic log file analysis in Windows Server. Find webshells and backdoors in websites, check visitor's IP addresses or hits to backdoor/webshell files in IIS log files easy. Command-line log analysis in Windows Server, search for Joomla-, WordPress-, Drupal- and PHP- malware & backdoors in your website with grep and find.
Convert .htaccess to web.config
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.
PHP with WinCache on IIS
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.
Remove ETags HTTP response header in IIS
Removing ETag response headers is not an easy task in Windows Server IIS web servers. Here I show you how to properly remove ETag HTTP response headers with an IIS Rewrite Module Outbound rewrite rule.
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“The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value”
The length of the URL for this request exceeds the configured maxUrlLength value is an IIS error telling you the length of the given URL exceeds a limit (...).
MySQL Connector/NET 6.5 in partial trust
How to use MySQL Connector/NET 6.5 with MySqlClientPermission Class in partial (medium) trust
Microsoft Deployment Workbench: silent installation of various applications
Silently deploy applications through Windows Deployment Services (WDS) / Microsoft Deployment Workbench
PHP on IIS: “No input file specified”
When you host your PHP website on Windows Server IIS, you may receive an "No input file specified" error message, when a HTTP request is made to non-existing .php files. When this happens you probably have no Request Restrictions configured in IIS PHP handler settings. Here is how to fix the "no input file specified error" with PHP and IIS.
