Archive for Windows Server

How to Block IP Addresses in Windows Server 2003

February 11, 2010 | 14 Comments

Microsoft Management Console

If you want to block an IP address or a range of IP addresses, and you don’t have access to the router or firewall of the network you could use Windows’ IP Security Policy Management instead. Follow the steps bellow to learn how to do so:

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WordPress Permalinks in Windows Using IIRF

November 19, 2009 | 6 Comments

Ionic’s ISAPI Rewrite Filter is an URL rewriting ISAPI filter for IIS 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0. It could be found at http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF. It has a detailed online help file, a long list of examples, and a discussion board that has more than 650 discussions. With the help of this filter we have been able to use WordPress in Windows with Pretty Permalinks enabled for nearly a year now without problems. Below are the contents of the iirf.ini file we use.

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Installing ionCube Loader in Windows Server

November 5, 2009 | 0 Comments

ionCube Loader is a free PHP extension used to decode PHP files encrypted using ionCube’s PHP Encoder. Follow the steps below to install it in a Windows machine.

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DOS Batch File Scripting Tips That Work in Vista

January 14, 2009 | 0 Comments

Ms DOS
Batch files have been around since the early Ms DOS days. They are text files that contain a list of command-line executables. They can be compared to UNIX shell scripting, but are much simpler. For a file to be recognized by command.com (Microsoft’s DOS shell) it needs to have a .bat extension.

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