Tag Archives: IIS

IIS 7 Reverse Proxy with the Application Request Routing module

Posted by dave on March 15, 2013 No comments

I recently setup a new web server and wanted an easy way to point a public site to an internal server. Fortunately this is very easy in IIS, download both the URL Rewrite module and the Application Request Routing module: http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite http://www.iis.net/download/ApplicationRequestRouting Then, in the …

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IIS URL Rewrite Rule to automatically point all traffic to a new location

Posted by dave on January 20, 2013 No comments

A new release of a site meant that a certain page was in a new location, but many users had the old location bookmarked. The easy solution was to a a rewrite rule to point anybody accessing this page to …

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Using LDAP authentication with MediaWiki and IIS

Posted by dave on January 15, 2013 No comments

I wanted MediaWiki to use Windows Authentication automatically when users visited the Wiki. This wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped but I finally managed to get it working, this is roughly how I went about it: Install PHP Install LDAP …

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IIS ODBC SQL Logging

Posted by dave on January 23, 2012 No comments

I was basically after a way to make better use of the IIS log files. We use Google Analytics on most of our sites but with all the information being stored in the IIS logs, it made sense to work …

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IIS7 SSL Host Headers

Posted by dave on October 7, 2011 No comments

If you want to use multiple SSL sites on the same IP in IIS7 then you will need to hack it a little. It’s pretty straight forward though: Navigate to the Inetsrv folder: Cd “C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\” Run this command: appcmd set …

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IIS URL Rewrite Rule HTTP to HTTPs

Posted by dave on July 18, 2011 No comments

Just a quick snippet for a url rewrite rule in IIS7: <rules> <rule name=”HTTP to HTTPS redirect” stopProcessing=”true”> <match url=”(.*)” /> <conditions> <add input=”{HTTPS}” pattern=”off” ignoreCase=”true” /> </conditions> <action type=”Redirect” redirectType=”Found” url=”https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}” /> </rule> </rules> And if you want to …

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Simple Cookies in PHP

Posted by dave on May 18, 2011 No comments

For one of our public sites we have different sites for different countries and to make things easier for the end users I put together a landing page where they can then choose a flag (based on the country they …

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PHP optimisation in Windows IIS

Posted by dave on February 18, 2011 No comments

Firstly, use the non-thread-safe version of PHP, its more efficient, see here. If you are unsure which version you have, check the very top of phpinfo() Then you can make some slight changes to php that will save some processing …

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Using hMailServer with RoundCube front end (DCOM Errors)

Posted by dave on December 17, 2010 No comments

I installed hMailserver and then installed the RoundCube front end. I then installed a few of the plugins (‘archive’, ‘settings’, ‘userinfo’, ‘emoticons’, ‘markasjunk’, ‘additional_message_headers’, ‘jqueryui’, ‘rss_feeds’, ‘google_contacts’, ‘hmail_password’) but was having an issue with the hmail_password plugin, which was fairly …

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