New Helicon Ape 3.0.0.32 released

Hello, everyone.

Good news – we’ve just released the new build of Helicon Ape – 3.0.0.32.
So, what’s new:
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Adjusting Coldfusion & ISAPI_Rewrite collaboration

If you have ISAPI_Rewrite3 (Ape) and Coldfusion installed on your server, you may encounter issues with requests to .cfm resources. The problem lies in handler mappings configuration. To resolve it, any handler mappings for *.cfm extension should be mapped to 1\jrun_iis6_wildcard.dll executable (instead of run_iis6.dll).
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mod_dbd: Saying technically

Hello,
Two previous articles—“Introduction to database functionality of Helicon Ape” and “How to connect mod_dbd with various databases” were aimed at every customer and they are enough if you don’t want to deepen into this matter. But in case you’re such a guy who wants to learn the internals of mod_dbd—please feel comfortable. In this article you’ll find what you need.
One little note: the text below requires basic knowledge of .NET Framework.

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How to connect mod_dbd with various databases

Hello,
This article is briefly describing the basic steps you should follow to configure mod_dbd and make it “understand” different databases.
The article mostly goes by those who don’t want to know mod_dbd deeply but only have a desire to get Ape database modules working. More specific information you may find in “Introduction to database functionality of Helicon Ape” and “mod_dbd: Saying technically”.

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Introduction to database functionality of Helicon Ape

Hello,
New release of Helicon Ape has come out right after winter holidays. We wanted to fix a few found bugs and satisfy users’ feature requests. However we also had a desire to bring something new and useful. So here you go—Helicon Ape v3.0.0.30 obtained database functionality. This means Ape has a potential to work with almost any RDBMS. Let’s
provide you with a little explanation. Please note, this article isn’t aimed to give you deep technical information or instruction steps. If you want these please consider “mod_dbd: Saying technically” and “How to connect mod_dbd with various databases”.

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Titbits: dynamic mapfiles names

Not so long ago one of our clients urged us to test an interesting situation we’ve never tried before. The result was positive and saved him a lot of lines in the config file. Now we want to share this experience with you.

So, the conditions were:

  • about 300 mapfiles with the first part of name being the name of the city, e.g. london-map.txt, paris-map.txt, moscow-map.txt etc.;
  • the requests are made to the subdomains having the names of the cities, e.g. london.domain.com, paris.domain.com, moscow.domain.com etc.;
  • requests to SEO-friendly URLs should be rewritten to the .asp page with the “id” taken from the corresponding mapfile and the “city” parameter being the city name.

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Helicon Ape 3.0.0.30. Happy new build!

Hello, everyone!
Happy holidays!
We’ve got some good news for you—the new build of Helicon Ape 3 is released and available for download.

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Helicon Ape remote management using IIS 7

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Helicon Ape 3.0.0.29 released

Just wanted to let you know that we have slightly improved Ape 3 and released a new build – 3.0.0.29. The enhancements relate to incorrect snap-in and License Manager behavior in certain situations and address improper installation package actions under specific conditions.

Feel free to download.

Best wishes,
HeliconTech Team

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Helicon Ape License Manager

In this article we are going to shed some light on the licensing policy implemented in Ape 3 and tell about its new feature—License Manager.

We’ll review each of the possible license types so you could opt for the one that best fits your needs.

To start with, there are two distinct installation packages supporting various license types:

  • Full (including 45-day trial)
    • free licenses
    • per-site licenses
    • server-wide license
  • Free (gratis for up to 3 sites only)
    • free licenses

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