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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…
Recently we were hired to fix two web sites that were designed in Microsoft Publisher and then output as HTML and uploaded to a server for a local business. The problem is that since IE 8 came out (March 2009), both of these web sites – for anyone using Internet Explorer 8 (even using compatibility…
I recently came across this problem where one of our servers would not show up in the “browse list” under the “Network” icon in Windows 7. I also checked this same issue from other computers Network Neighborhoods and verified it was just this one server “webserver6” which was not showing up. We are in a…
Are you having problems getting your home office LAN, with varying computers between Windows 7 and Windows XP to properly share files? Here are a few quick tips & tricks to solve your issues (these are at a high level, so if you don’t understand these, ask a friend to assist you). These tips presume…
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…
Is Internet Explorer driving you nuts by opening up in a smaller window, offset from center on your screen, when it should be opening full-screen? Yes, this is a really annoying “feature” in IE, and it is not easy to figure out how to get IE to stop opening windows in this small mode. This…
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…
So, do you have old AVI videos from an old USB or Parallel Logitech web cam? I did, and I happened across them recently – but they won’t play in Windows 7 because the CODEC’s cannot be found. These videos dated to around 1998 and I wanted to watch them, however I could not figure…
If you are trying to do a bulk product import into ASPDNSF and come across the following error Ignoring bad/duplicate CategoryRef, Name= This is usually solved in one of two ways. First, you have a malformed XPATH (category) field. The proper syntax is /category name 1/category name 2/subcategory name 1 for example, /Sports/All types of…