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Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header

Windows Server IIS love to tell the world a website runs on IIS. And dito for ASP.NET Framework. But this gives hackers a lot of information, right? Let's remove the IIS Server header and ASP.NET version headers. Security by obscurity as a pro :-)

By Jan Reilink 06/07/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

.svc WCF web service returns 404 Not Found on IIS 8

When a Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) web service returns a 404 Not Found error, after installing the HTTP-Activation feature in IIS, you might need to add an extra Handler to your IIS configuration.

By Jan Reilink 30/06/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

Send email with Ghost using SMTP authentication and TLS encryption

As you know, more and more web hosting providers require SMTP authentication (often abbreviated as SMTP AUTH) and a TLS encrypted connection to send email. Here you'll find some script examples to Send secure SMTP email from your website.

By Jan Reilink 19/06/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

Export and migrate WordPress to Ghost

A little while ago I installed Ghost on IIS, along with the required Node.js and iisnode module. All in an isolated test environment, in which Ghost runs as a production site only. Now I wanted migrate from WordPress to Ghost, but failed. Here's the write up.

By Jan Reilink 16/06/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

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

Windows Server

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.

By Jan Reilink 13/05/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

Install Node.js, iisnode module and Ghost on Windows Server / IIS

This post describes the steps necessary to install iisnode, Node.js and Ghost on Windows Server IIS. Ghost is a Node.js web application, specific for just blogging. To run Node.js applications in IIS, you need iisnode as a module. Here is how to install all of this.

By Jan Reilink 22/03/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

Target multiple ASP.NET versions with AppCmd.exe

You can address both x86 and x64 versions of .NET with AppCmd. When administering an IIS web server you frequently have to use AppCmd.exe to make configuration changes. Whether it is for a specific web site or server wide. Some think AppCmd is very limited, but here is how you can target multiple ASP.NET versions with AppCmd!

By Jan Reilink 18/02/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

Forfiles: How to delete files recursively on Windows Server

Delete files recursively with Forfiles on 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: you can run a command on or pass arguments to multiple files. For example, you delete files recursive if files are older than 'n' days.

By Jan Reilink 01/01/2014Windows Server

Windows Server

How to fix Joomla HTTP 500 errors after updates

Over the last week, at Vevida, we received quite some problem reports from customers who updated Joomla to version 3.2.0. After logging on to their administrator back-end, they received an HTTP 500.0 error with error code 0x8007000d. Let's investigate and resolve this Joomla Administrator login HTTP 500 error.

By Jan Reilink 12/11/2013Windows Server

Windows Live Essentials repaired successfully

Windows Server

Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161 (Fix)

After not using Windows Live Mail for quite some time, it gave me an error code 0x80041161. This Windows Live Mail error can have several different reasons, like corrupt files or services that aren't started, not easing the task of identifying the cause. Read on to learn how to fix this Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161...

By Jan Reilink 10/10/2013Windows Server

Windows Server

Create your own CDN using IIS Outbound Rules

Here's how to create a Content Delivery Network (CDN) using IIS outbound rewrite rules. Offload your static content and speed up your website with these tips. Offloading content is important for the performance of your website, because then content is downloaded in parallel and thus faster. A faster website attracts more visitors, is more user friendly, improves CTR and Google SEO.

By Jan Reilink 29/09/2013Windows Server

Windows Server

Fix "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel" error

Today one of our clients received a System.Net.WebException error on a newly deployed ASP.NET web application. Part of the exception was: "System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.". Here is how we resolved that issue.

By Jan Reilink 17/07/2013Windows Server

Windows Server

ASP.NET performance: what to keep in mind

(ASP).NET programmers have to keep certain rules in mind when developing high performance ASP.NET applications, and/or optimizing your existing ASP.NET website. A lot of information is available on this subject. In this post I'll share some valuable posts, and I continue to update this post when I find something new. Posts about ASP.NET performance I frequently pass on to customers so they can improve their ASP.NET web applications.

By Jan Reilink 13/07/2013Windows Server

Windows Server

Drop all tables, SPs, triggers, constraints and dependencies in one SQL statement

Drop all tables, SPs, triggers, constraints and dependencies in an SQL Server database in one SQL statement.

By Jan Reilink 22/03/2013Windows Server

Windows Server

Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header

.svc WCF web service returns 404 Not Found on IIS 8

Send email with Ghost using SMTP authentication and TLS encryption

Export and migrate WordPress to Ghost

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

IIS Outbound Rules with gzip compression

Install Node.js, iisnode module and Ghost on Windows Server / IIS

Target multiple ASP.NET versions with AppCmd.exe

Forfiles: How to delete files recursively on Windows Server

How to fix Joomla HTTP 500 errors after updates

Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161 (Fix)

Create your own CDN using IIS Outbound Rules

Fix "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel" error

ASP.NET performance: what to keep in mind

Drop all tables, SPs, triggers, constraints and dependencies in one SQL statement

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