Amixa Technical Blog
Here is where we post our juicy IIS tips & tricks we’ve learned over the years.
We recently came across an issue with one of our client sites that runs under ASPDOTNETSTOREFRONT where the site would appear function properly on normal desktop browsers (IE 9, FF, Safari, Chrome), but when the mobile site would run on an iPhone or iPad, and the mobile site would go into SSL mode, it would…
Here is the proper way to avoid getting the dreaded “System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type ‘System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’ failed.” error while attempting to get DotNetNuke 6.x installed onto Windows Server 2008 R2. download and extract the DNN installer. In my case, I downloaded DotNetNuke_Community_06.01.03_Install and extracted it into a temporary directory.…
If you are here you probably are having the dreaded “broken images” problem while running WordPress under IIS. You may have found this issue by looking at the IIS logfiles for your site and seeing 500 errors logged when it’s supposed to be pushing out images. I will save you a lot of time. This…
Need help getting the Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash working under W2K8 or W2K8 R2 server? Here is how to properly configure your server: Install the Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash software and register it using your registration key. In the destination folder for the videos, you will need to grant {machinename}\IUSR full…
I recently upgraded a site from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2008 R2 Web Server and needed to be able to continue running .htm files through the ASP engine, because many of the pages on the site comingled ASP and HTM. After spending about 3 hours looking into this, I finally worked out…
I thought I would share a few important tips on getting WordPress 3.x to work properly – with PERMALINKS / SEO friendly URL’s. It’s taken me a lot of trial and error to figure out the finer points, but assuming you can get it installed, these tips should help you get it 100% functional. to…
During the process of migrating a site to IIS 7 we came across an issue with Classic ASP file uploads throwing 500 errors when larger than 200kb. There is an EASY fix for this. In IIS 7, click your site and expand it then click the ASP icon. Expand the Limits Properties icon, and change…
Ok, so you are using the Google Page Speed plugin for Firefox and you can’t figure out how to clear the “Serve the following static resources from a domain that doesn’t set cookies” issue so that you score better… First off, since we are using the Windows platform for our hosting, this entire post is…
Ok, so you’ve completed your install of ASPDNSF 9.x onto a Windows 2008 R2 server, and when you first try to access the domain, you get this error: Server Error in ‘/’ Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific…
Well, now that Microsoft is shipping Windows 2008 Server R2, we need to know how to (easily) migrate a site from one W2K8R2 machine to another, right? Microsoft didn’t exactly make this an easy process because there is no built-in method in the IIS 7.0 GUI to do the site export. So to do the…