The topic recently came up of the best way to convert a folder to an application on remote shared hosting server. Some hosts may have this built-in to their control panel. I know many (like Cytanium) have options in the control panel to create Virtual Directories, but sometimes an application specifically needs its folder to […]
Changes are not allowed while code is running
Got this error today while tinkering with some code in Visual Studio 2013: “Changes are not allowed while code is running”. I did click run earlier to check on something, but I had closed out the browser. So, to me, the code wasn’t running. But really it was. I scratched my chin for a second […]
Visual StudioRunning Hyper-V Inside of VMware Workstation
If you try to install Hyper-V inside of VMware Workstation you will most likely get the error message “Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running”. To get around this error, power down your VM. Then, within VMware Workstation, click VM->Settings. From the Virtual Machine Settings page, select the options tab. Under the General […]
Adding a Second Disk Live in VMware Workstation
I was installing Visual Studio 2013 today in my development environment – which I run inside of VMware Workstation – and it warned me that I didn’t have enough free disk space. No problem – that’s one of the wonderful things about running this in VMware, I can just add another disk on-the-fly with minimal […]
IIS/ASP.Net Install Error “The referenced assembly is not installed on your system”
Guest post from Rick Barber from OrcsWeb today… While attempting to install IIS through role services with other than the default options checked or ASP.Net under IIS in role services on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 you may come across errors like the one below; ‘Attempt to install XXX failed with error code 0x800736B3. The […]
ASP.NET, IISWhen Was The Last Time You Checked For Broken Site Links?
When was the last time you checked for broken site links? For me, it has been years. I don’t really deleted much content (personally or professionally) so I assume everything is fine. Well, related to an issue I was troubleshooting last time, I stumbled upon a dead link. Bummer. I figured if there was one, there […]
Basic IIS Performance Statistics
There are some neat counters available in Windows Performance Monitor for showing some IIS (Internet Information Server) statistics. My three favorites are: Current Anonymous Users: This counter shows the number of current anonymous HTTP connections. Since most web sites serve content to anonymous users, it’s the one that seems to make the most sense to […]
Hosting, IIS, performance, System Administration, WindowsWordPress on Win08, Win12, and CentOS+NGINX
So… I’ve been reading a lot about nginx and how awesome it performs. It sounds magical! The Issue My blog (running WordPress) hasn’t been running as fast as I (or Google) would like. The TTFB (time to first bite) is often > 500 ms which is slower than it should be. I thought this would […]
CSS Style Overlaps, Duplicates, and Priorities
I sent most of this past weekend trying to get a nice looking responsive table to work. At first I tried to mess with it from scratch. Then someone recommended I look into Twitter Bootstrap. Wow, am I glad I looked into Bootstrap because that has saved a ton of frustration. Okay, so I have […]
css, Hosting, Learning, tip, TroubleshootingTurn Off IE Enhanced Security Configuration
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) that is turned on by default on Windows Server drives me crazy. Being unable to download files, and constantly being prompted to add URLs to be viewed, is super-annoying. So, my SOP now is to disable that setting for Administrative users on servers (note: these are generally […]
System Administration, tip, Windows