Monthly Archives: November 2014

Wp-Recaptcha 4.0 and 4.1 with WordPress ERROR: Global site keys are not supported

If you have upgraded to WP-Recaptcha 4.0 or 4.1 and are now receiving this error message

ERROR: Global site keys are not supported

There are issues with the 4.0 and 4.1 WP-Recaptcha plugins.

Read here

 

Solutions:

1) roll back to 3.2.  Download it from me, here
2) change plugin to something else

** DO NOT UPDATE To 4.0 or 4.1 if you are using WP-RECAPTCHA

How to prep a Windows 2012 R2 Update 1 server for PHP / WordPress

1) Presuming you have already loaded the OS onto the machine (whether virtual or physical)
2) Join the machine to your business domain
3) windows updates
4) reboot
5) windows updates (again until no more updates)
6) configure role -> Web server and under Application Development, pick .NET Extensibility 3.5
7) once that is complete, run windows updates again
8) probably you’ll need to reboot
9) check windows updates ONE MORE TIME
10) install the Web Platform Installer (version 5.0 as of this post), from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
11) after the WPI is installed, run it and choose the following: PHP 5.6.0 (or later), Windows Cache Extension 1.3 for PHP 5.6, PHP Manager for IIS
12) install those programs, when complete, open the IIS manager
13) verify that you see the following: URL Rewrite, PHP Manager under the main server features panel
14) download the latest version of PHP. (for me, it was 5.6.3)
15) unzip and move it to a new folder under “Program Files (x86)”\PHP\ called v5.6.3 (you should see v5.6 in there).
16) Make a folder called PHP-TEMP on the C:\ root
17) Give it the following permissions, IUSR and IIS_IUSRS to full control
18) Go to the PHP manager and register the new version
19) in the PHP manager, go to Manage all Settings and update the following:
Error Log -> PHP-TEMP directory
Memory_limit = 512mb
Post_Max_size = 10M
upload_max_filesize = 10M
upload_tmp_dir -> PHP-TEMP directory
SMTP->your internal email server IP
session.save_path -> PHP-TEMP directory
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20) stop the default site
21) create your new site
22) make sure a static IP is assigned to the server for step 21
23) make sure firewall rules are in place to permit traffic to that IP
24) move or deploy the new wordpress site
25) adjust IIS settings-> Logging location and daily roll over, URL Rewrite rules for domain name and wordpress
26) you should have a web.config file from a previous (working) wordpress install. Use that for the above two things.

>more to come<