HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) response header is used to tell browsers that the particular website should only be accessed solely over HTTPS. This is a powerful feature that is easy to implement to mitigate the risks for the communication to be intercepted by hackers and keep your website visitors safe. Enabling HTTP Strict Transport Security on IIS See the steps below to enable HSTS on … [Read more...]
How to Troubleshoot IIS 500 Error for ASP Websites
You try to load your classic ASP (Active Server Pages) website and all you can see in your browser is the all too familiar display of 500 Internal Server Error. What is 500 Internal Server Error First of all, the 500 Internal Server Error is a very general HTTP status code that indicates something has gone wrong on the web server without any specifics on the exact problem. This … [Read more...]
How to Fix SMTP 550 5.7.1 Unable to Relay Error on Windows Server 2012 R2
Here is one way of fixing an SMTP error on Windows Server 2012 when you see an error message similar to the one below: Error Message Steps to Add Localhost to the SMTP Relay Launch IIS 6.0 Manager. Right-click on the STMP Server (on this example it's named default, but it could be named something else) and select Properties. Click on the Access tab and at the very bottom … [Read more...]
How to Install IIS on Windows 10
Although IIS is included in every installation of Windows 10, it's not turned on by default. Here's a way to install IIS on Windows 10. Right-click on the Windows button on the bottom-left corner and select Run In the Run dialog box, type appwiz.cpl and press ENTER. As soon as a new window called Programs and Features is opened, click on the link Turn Windows features on or … [Read more...]
How to Upgrade to PHP 7.2 on IIS (Windows 10)
This tutorial is a shorter version of the previous post upgrading to PHP 7.1 on Windows 10 and it is intended as a follow-up on how to upgrade your PHP to the latest version (in this case PHP 7.2) if you have already installed the previous version of PHP 7 in your Windows system. Steps to Upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2 Download PHP for Windows. Since we’re using PHP as FastCGI, we’ll use … [Read more...]