If you need to throttle (or limit) the amount of bandwidth a specific site on Microsoft Server — this is for you. This should work with any Microsoft Server OS from 2008 to present. Open IIS. Go to the specific site in question (in the tree to left expand and click on the specific site…
How to stop attacks on your site via IIS
Often we see hack-bots or other automated hacking tools crawling our sites and hammering various pages looking for vulnerabilities. There is an easy way to put a stop to this through Microsoft IIS 7.0 (and later). Make sure you have the “IP Address and Domain Restrictions” module loaded in IIS (if not, install it.) Launch…
eXtplorer does not allow login under PHP 5.6 and IIS Windows Server
Have you deployed out eXtplorer and received this error: PHP Deprecated: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in X:\XXXXXX\WWW.AAAAA.com\www\libraries\JSON.php on line 828 it’s an easy fix. edit the file X:\XXXXXX\WWW.AAAAA.com\www\libraries\pear.php edit line 247 change this: function isError($data, $code = null) to this: static function isError($data, $code = null)
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,…
ASPMAKER v11 Image Resizer not working under IIS
If you are using ASPMAKER by HKVSTORE to build web admin interfaces, and you’ve arrived at this page, it’s likely because the Image Resizer ASP.NET add-on is not working for you. Does this look familiar to you? Warning: ASP.NET 2.0 or later is required but ASP.NET script is not executed properly on this server: see…
Permission denied error dealing with Classic ASP loadpicture
To solve the following error, which is generated by the loadpicture object Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a0046’ Permission denied: ‘loadpicture’ set myImg = loadpicture(“C:\aaa\asdf.jpg”) == The solution is to simply add this permission as full control servername\IUSR to the directory in which this object is going to work…
How to migrate WordPress 3.X from one domain to another
I recently came across this situation on a client site where they wanted to change their domain from something like www.whatever.com to www.whatever-new-site.com and their site runs on WordPress 3.91. This is also applicable if you develop a site on a testing url like “testing.whateverdomain.com” and you want to change the site to run off…
Slow rendering or display of CKFINDER directories
Have you installed CKFINDER (maybe on Classic ASP) and have a problem with very slow directory displays while the circular “wait” animation plays and eventually displays the directory? Easy fix: Within the config.asp file (located in the CKFINDER directory) while using the Classic ASP version of CKFINDER… comment out this line Images.Add “component”, “Auto” just…
Problem with PHP mailer sending mail – Result: delayed, Status: 4.1.1 452 4.1.1 requested action aborted: try again later – GL/GL
If you see this type of message logged in your outbound mail logs, and your clients are unable to get email delivered to their domain, then I may have the s0lution for you. In our particular scenario, we have a PHP site running WordPress and the email server is located with IPOWER. So the website…
How to get IIS 7.5 web server to pass the BEAST PCI vulnerability compliance scans
If your e-commerce website keeps flunking PCI vulnerability complaince scans with the following error: BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) Vulnerability, CVE-2011-3389 and you are running Microsoft Server 2008 R2, I can help you. If you aren’t on Windows Server 2008 R2, there is no known way to pass this test short of upgrading your server…