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Installation of ISAPI_Rewrite x64 on Windows 2008 Server x64 may seem a trivial task and it really is of that kind, but nevertheless we’d like to show you the steps installer is making so you could fix possible (though unlikely) problems. Continue reading
Hello!
We have decided to start a series of little titbits about our software. You may find them interesting
and helpful.
Today we’re gonna explain you what the “double registration” term means. It’s a typical situation on our support when a user can’t get ISAPI_Rewrite working while everything seems great, NTFS permissions are OK, the rules are the simplest ever but still no go.
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We’ve decided to write this article, because sometimes knowing internals of what’s happening to your server is beneficial and may save time and nerves. Continue reading
Proxy-server is a network service empowering clients to perform indirect requests to other network services. Proxy-server may be considered an intermediary. The brief description of proxy-server operation is as follows:
And the client may be ignorant that the requested resource was delivered from another server. Continue reading
SEO, SE-friendly, search engine marketing — these words are driving mad lots of people today.Everyone wants to be SE-friendly. According to the Wikipedia, search engine optimization (SEO) isthe process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from searchengines via «natural» («organic» or «algorithmic») search results.In other words, SEO simplifies search robots’ job thus bringing the web site to the top of the search results.Having got the idea, you would probably like to use that technique everywhere. Any new web-site of yours will be optimized for search engine.And that’s pretty good, but not good enough. We’ve missed something here, huh? What about existent sites?What if they are really huge and require loads of code modifications. Are they doomed to have stupidlinks like index.php?id=123? Do you need to spend loads of hours tinkering with a source code? Definitely NO!Right here we are going to show you an easy and powerful way to let SEO in your server without significant effort.Luckily Helicon Ape just got all needed features.
FarCry CMS is a popular content management solution built with FarCry Core (a web application framework based on the ColdFusion language). As this software is quite popular these days, we want to illustrate to those interested how to operate SEO-friendly URLs in FarCry with the help of Helicon Ape.
Prerequirements: Windows 2008/Vista, IIS7, MySQL, ColdFusion, Helicon Ape.
What is mod_hotlink? It’s a Helicon Ape module you’ll undoubtedly enjoy. Why? ‘Cause it’ll help you avoid the headache when thinking of traffic leechers. It will do it all for you. And now we’ll illustrate this ingenious process taking Gallery2 photo gallery as an example.To start we need the following ingredients:
When the server is configured so that all external requests are prohibited the following problem may occur.
We have already shed some light on the question of web caching and its benefits in our «Web Caching: what is it?» article. We’ve also explained how web caching is realized in Helicon Ape in «How mod_cache works?» article. Back then mod_cache could only store requests in the memory, but now, after Helicon Ape 1.2.0.21 release, there’s mod_disk_cache module that enables cashing to the hard drive.