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Convert a Folder to an Application on a Remote IIS Host

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 […]

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Manually Remove the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin

I installed the W3 Total Cache plugin last night and enabled about 1/2 of the features. Everything seemed fine initially so I left it alone. Today I went to write a post and noticed my site was down. Yikes! No idea how long it was down because no one bothered to tell me (thanks for […]

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Linking spam sent through shared IIS SMTP server to a user

Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a runaway process performing the abuse)? Well, it takes a little effort but it is possible to track down the username being used to […]

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Change the WordPress Domain Name After Moving a Site

If you’ve recently changed domain names, or made a copy of the site (for testing, development, or any other purpose) then you need to update the domain setting in WordPress. If you don’t, then all links will point back to the old/original domain name and take you away from the new site. You may also […]

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Update Your WordPress Database Connection String

I recently decided to create a test/development instance of a WordPress site that I run. In part of doing this I had to deal with how to backup one MySQL database and restore it to another database. After that was done, and I copied over the content files, I had to tell WordPress where to […]

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Restore MySQL Dump File to a Different Database Name

Today I had to take a MySQL database backup from one database and then restore it to a different database name (for development/testing purposes). I tried a number of different tricks that I found online through Google without any success. The issue was that the user I was using to restore the data was NOT […]

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PUT/POST/DELETE Verb Errors On Site

A client was getting errors when using PUT/POST/DELETE verbs on their web application recently. The errors he was seeing were: After some troubleshooting the error was isolated to the fact that WebDav was installed on the server and was intercepting those requests for its own service use. Rather than removing WebDav from the server, we […]

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WordPress: Redirect One Domain to Another

I have multiple domains pointed to certain WordPress installations that I run. Some people have setups like this and run multiple sites in their WP install. I, on the other hand though, wanted to redirect all requests for certain domains to a single domain. Basically consolidating the domains so the users all wind up on […]

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SQL Server restore failure and resolution

A friend on mine had a recent issue where the restore of a SQL Server backup file – taken on one server and being restored to a different one – wouldn’t complete. It would continually throw an error of: Server was unable to process request. —> File ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\TheDatabase_log.ldf’ is claimed by ‘YAF_log'(2) […]

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How to Backup a MySQL Database (Using Workbench)

Here’s a good post showing how to back up your MySQL database remotely – without administrative access – using Workbench. http://jeffgraves.me/2012/04/24/backup-database-using-mysql-workbench/  

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