Hardened WordPress Redis Zero Touch setup on Windows Server/IIS with phpredis, narrow ACLs, enrollment checks, and validation scripts.
Amixa Redis Zero Touch for WordPress on Windows Server IIS – setup, phpredis and validation scripts
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How to allow local user to install software onto an Entra managed PC
Get the user’s full UPN, which is usually something like “username@companyname.onmicrosoft.com” on local computer, open administrative command prompt provide administrator credentials to open command prompt net localgroup administrators /add “AzureAD\username@companyname.onmicrosoft.com” You should see “command completed successfully” or similar. The user should now be able to install software on their device by logging in with their…
The response is not a valid JSON response – Windows IIS
If you’re I presume you’ve already tried some other techniques to fix the “The response is not a valid JSON response” issue with WordPress running on Windows Server and IIS. In my case, I am running PHP 8.1.8 and the issue was easy to fix. For me, the error happened while trying to save content to a Widget.…
How to get IMAGICK working under Windows Server IIS
Here is the simple method to get IMAGICK working under Windows Server 2019/2022 and IIS 10.0 and later. Presuming using PHP 7.4.X (current version is 7.4.27 as of 2/14/22). NOTE: This is not working properly under PHP 8.x Make sure you’ve downloaded the most current 7.4.X version and installed it on your IIS/PHP Manager,…
WordPress There was an error. The response is not a valid JSON response.
If you are running WordPress on IIS and experiencing this issue, another thing you can check is the FastCGI settings to make sure the OPTIONS verb is allowed. In my case, I am using a brand new setup of WordPress on a Windows Server 2019 IIS 10.0. When I went to Appearance, Widgets, made a…
How to configure IIS to allow access to apple-developer-merchantid-domain-association
Also know as how to configure IIS to permit access to files with NO extension. In this case we need to create a file in this location: https://(my-website-domain)/.well-known/apple-developer-merchantid-domain-association Create a directory in your website called “well known” Create a virtual directory in the IIS manager, alias is .well-known and point it to the directory…
Cannot browse network neighborhood under Windows 10 Fall Creators update 1709 and newer
Once again, Microsoft has thrown a monkey wrench into the operation of how your network neighborhood (or “Network”) item under Windows 10 works. I had previously created this blog post which addressed the initial issues with Windows 10 not allowing the Network to show a list of all your local computers. Well, due to the…
Symantec Messaging Gateway sluggish under Hyper-V
Make sure you are NOT using dynamic memory. Hard set your memory to at least 8gb (8192mb). (this should do the trick). Also make sure you are using a hard drive size, fixed, of 60gb at minimum.
Coldfusion 10 and Windows Server – Installation Musings
Here are some various tips and tricks as part of my brain dump for the process to get ColdFusion 10 running under Windows Server 2016. Run the ColdFusion installer under compatibility mode – Windows 7 you must have the following installed under IIS CGI, ISAPI (both), ASP.NET make sure the APPPOOL for the site has 32…
Coldfusion with PostgreSQL – Timeout issue when setting up CF Data source
Upon trying to connect to a remote POSTGRESQL database server — which I can both PING fine and connect to using the Windows POSTGRESQL odbc 32 bit drivers — you get this error Connection verification failed for data source: mytest_postjava.sql.SQLException: Timed out trying to establish connectionThe root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: Timed out trying to…