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IIS/ASP.Net Install Error “The referenced assembly is not installed on your system”
Guest post from Rick Barber from OrcsWeb today… While attempting to install IIS through role services with other than the default options checked or ASP.Net under IIS in role services on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 you may come across …
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Getting .NET 4.5 working on a new IIS8 installation
I fought with IIS8 and ASP.NET 4.5 way longer than I should have had to this morning. Per previous lessons learned, I used WebPI to install IIS and the recommended configuration. I also selected .NET 4.5 and Web Deploy. Afterward …
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DevOps. What does it mean?
What does DevOps mean? Like many terms, there are a variety of slightly different (in some cases vastly different) definitions. The current definition per Wikipedia seems pretty good: “DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration …
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Basic IIS Performance Statistics
There are some neat counters available in Windows Performance Monitor for showing some IIS (Internet Information Server) statistics. My three favorites are: Current Anonymous Users: This counter shows the number of current anonymous HTTP connections. Since most web sites serve …
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WordPress on Win08, Win12, and CentOS+NGINX
So… I’ve been reading a lot about nginx and how awesome it performs. It sounds magical! The Issue My blog (running WordPress) hasn’t been running as fast as I (or Google) would like. The TTFB (time to first bite) is …
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Does anyone manually install IIS anymore?
Microsoft has made installing – and doing the initial base configuration of – Internet Information Services (IIS) ridiculously easy by using the Web Platform Installer (WebPI). Open WebPI, select Products in the top menu bar, then select Server in the …
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Handler "PHP5x_via_FastCGI" has a bad module "FastCgiModule" in its module list
Below is a guest post by Desiree at OrcsWeb with an IIS/PHP/CGI troubleshooting tip: I installed WordPress for one of our managed clients recently, and what should have been a simple install, turned into quite a bit of troubleshooting. The …
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Three Helpful .NET / IIS SMTP Posts
These are some of the most popular posts on my site so I figured I’d put them into a single link making it easy to find and deal with them together. People are generally interested in sending email via ASP.NET …
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Can you run WordPress on Windows? Sure, it works great!
Did you know that WordPress works – and works great – on Microsoft Windows? Sure, WordPress runs on top of PHP and MySQL, which are commonly thought to be related to Linux, but they work perfectly on Windows Server also. …
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Some great WordPress optimization tips
http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/02/07/web-performance-optimization-automation/
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Using LogParser to Check Visitor IPs to a Certain Page
Today I noticed we were getting an increasing amount of spam on one of our form pages. I was curious to see if all of the user IP addresses were the same (in which case I’d just add them to …
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Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8
Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 isn’t as hard as you might think. At least it isn’t as hard as I thought! Server Core can be intimidating to long-time Windows users who expect to see the comfortable familiarity of …
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Linking spam sent through shared IIS SMTP server to a user
Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a runaway process performing the abuse)? Well, it takes …