Author Archives: ruslan

Make your websites work faster

In April 2010 Google announced, that speed of a web site will be considered as an aspect of web search ranking. This means that web site creators and webmasters need to optimize their websites. What is the best way to do … Continue reading

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IIS reverse proxy and load balancer with web admin panel

Since build 3.0.0.50 Helicon Ape offers a web interface for the load balancer.

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Load balancing with Helicon Ape mod_proxy

Helicon Ape mod_proxy module provides simple way to configure load balancer. This article is giving explicit instructions of how to configure and test such load balancer.

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Trace HTTP traffic and IIS configuration

Since build 3.0.0.43 Helicon Ape is equipped with brand new mod_developer module.

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Keyword reach URLs in 5 minutes

This article is an introduction as well as a detailed guide to new mod_seo module being an integral part of Helicon Ape 3 which is destined to build good-looking URLs based on the application’s DB data or maps without necessity … Continue reading

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Automatic cache cleaning in Helicon Ape

Up to version 3.0.0.39 Helicon Ape cache could be cleaned only manually. Memory-based cache (mod_mem_cache) required recycling of corresponding application and disk-based cache (mod_disk_cache) cleaning implied manual files deletion form the file system. That was slightly inconvenient, to put it … Continue reading

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Titbits: Making Ape work with Plesk 9.5.1

If you have Ape and Plesk installed on your server, you may come across the issue that Ape is not working in it’s entirity. This may be caused by the fact that Plesk overrides the handlers list for each domain … Continue reading

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Titbits: Disabled ASP.NET handler prevents Ape from working

There have always been problems with any kind of software, when the software itself is installed correctly but doesn’t seem to work. The same problem occured with Helicon Ape while installing on Windows Server 2003, IIS6. User had full control … Continue reading

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ISAPI_Rewrite3 vs LinkFreeze – which is better?

From time to time we get the questions of this kind on our forum/email, so I guess it’s time to show the difference to everyone.

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Titbits: Plus sign in IIS7

This seems to be a known issue, but I’ll cover it once again just in case… So, after fresh install of IIS7 you are likely to notice that requests containing plus (‘+’) character are not accepted.

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