How do you troubleshoot a classic ASP website when it crashes with the following error message? Turn Off Page Buffering By default, page buffering in ASP is set to On so one way to do it is just to turn off the page buffering. At the top of your ASP page, add the following line after the VBScript declaration (Line 2 - highlighted): In general though, you do want to pose a limit … [Read more...]
How to Serve WebP Image on IIS
As most web users are using Chrome as their default browser how do you take advantage of serving WebP image from IIS server? The problem with using IIS Server is by default IIS does not recognize WebP as an image type so it cannot correctly render it on the page even if the browser can support it. Using a test page webp-test.html with the content below, the page will render as … [Read more...]
How to Upgrade to PHP 7.1 on Windows 10
This setup should only be used as PHP development environment on Windows as it has not been tested on production. If you followed the steps from the previous post on PHP installation on Windows using Web Platform Installer, you will now have PHP 7.0 to do your web development. The problem using Web Platform Installer (WPI) is that most likely you won't be using the latest version of PHP (at … [Read more...]
How to Install PHP on Windows 10 Using Web Platform Installer
If you need to install a PHP on your local Windows machine with Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft has already provided a way where you can do it fairly quickly using WPI. Keep in mind though, this setup has not been tested for production environment. So only use it as a PHP development environment for Windows. Steps Open Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows … [Read more...]
How to Manage IIS Servers Remotely
Managing several IIS servers can be overwhelming if you have to RDP to each server to perform your tasks. Unfortunately, there are many IT professionals still doing it the hard way by not taking advantage of this capability to manage IIS servers from their workstations. Using IIS Manager for Remote Administration, you can manage remote IIS with the same experience as if you're logged into the … [Read more...]