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Running Wordpress on MariaDB on Windows
You might have read that the MySQL codebase was forked. The MySQL founder, Monty Widenius, is - how should we say it - not quite happy with the direction MySQL is going after the Oracle acquisition. So Monty and his team forked MySQL and called his branch MariaDB after his youngest daughter.
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Setting up SSL made easy…
This blog post is about a small tool I just finished. It makes configuring and using SSL much easier. In the first part of the blog post I quickly review the problems and difficulties you run into when setting up SSL. Then I introduce SELFSSL7 and finally walk through several usage scenarios.
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Microsoft Web Platform on Amazon EC2
One thing we often hear from Web developers, especially those who offer Web site design and consulting services, is the need to get a Web site up quickly, which runs fast and gives them total control of the server for maximum flexibility and scalability. Today's post is about the four Microsoft Web Platform Images (AMIs) we offer on the Amazon EC2 platform. These four images allow you to start a blog, stream media or run a web application within minutes - live on the Internet!
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A New Site - Quick!
For testing purposes I sometimes need a new IIS site, often times running in its own AppPool. And I usually need it fast and without much programming. I hate ports and so I normally put my site name in the hosts file. Locally this works great!
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How to run a CGI program under IIS 7.0 or IIS 7.5
Looking around I didn't find a good documentation on how to get good old CGI's running on IIS 7 or 7.5. Here is a quick walkthrough: