Windows Server IIS loves to tell the world that a website runs on IIS. It does so with the `Server:` header in the HTTP response, as shown below. In this post I'll show you how to remove HTTP response headers in Windows Server IIS. You don't want to give hackers too much information about your servers, right?.
Published on Sunday, 6 July 2014
Sometimes it's important to remove (or hide) the file extension of scripts you use. Security by obscurity might be that reason, if you don't want others to know what script language you are using for your website, or for static site hosts.
Published on Friday, 23 May 2014
Saotn.org used URL Rewrite Outbound Rules in IIS to offload content from a different server or host name. Doing so, IIS uses URL Rewrite and acts as a reverse proxy. Add gzip compression to the mix, and this will improve website performance. But just recently I noticed Outbound Rules conflicted with gzip compressed content. The following HTTP 500.52 URL Rewrite Module Error was thrown...
Published on Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Offloading content is important for the performance of your website, because then content is downloaded in parallel and thus faster. A faster website attracts more visitors, is more user friendly, improves CTR and Google SEO. Here is how to create a Content Delivery Network (CDN) using IIS outbound rewrite rules.
Published on Sunday, 29 September 2013
This website Saotn.org is hosted on Windows Server 2012 with IIS 8.0 with WordPress for a few months now, and everything is running very smooth. And I would never hit this bug because I don't need to change my permalinks structure. One of my colleagues on the other hand, just moved his website to an IIS 8.0 web server and he noticed he couldn't save his Permalinks structure in the IIS web.config file. This can be pretty annoying ;-) Quick fix attached...
Published on Tuesday, 19 February 2013
The advantage of having your website content hosted on a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is having your content distributed and stored across the Globe. Utilizing the network of the Content Delivery Network provider. Hosting your WordPress website on a Content Delivery Network is an important WordPress optimization tip.
Published on Sunday, 17 February 2013
This post describes some of the IIS URL Rewrite Module web.config equivalents of commonly used Apache .htaccess settings. You'll learn how to translate .htaccess content to IIS web.config, this is useful when you need to migrate your website from Apache to Windows Server IIS. The second part of this post outlines how to use Internet Information Services Manager to import and convert .htaccess rules to web.config automatically.
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Published on Friday, 8 February 2013
Yahoo! YSlow recommends removing Entity tags - also known as "ETag". Unfortunately removing the ETag response header is not an easy task on Windows Server IIS web servers. Here I show you how to properly remove ETag HTTP response headers with an IIS Rewrite Module Outbound rewrite rule.
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Published on Thursday, 24 January 2013
In this post I'll show you how to install Helicon Ape in Windows Server IIS and how to use .htaccess files for your website. Yes, expect a lot of .htaccess examples for IIS :) Further this post describes some common uses of .htaccess files by PHP applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or your own coded CMS. For example how to manage subdomains or HTTPS redirections.
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Published on Wednesday, 28 December 2011