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NeatUpload and Windows 2008 Server

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

NeatUpload will not work by default when used with Windows 2008 Server. Like many other web applications that you install from earlier Windows servers, you need to make modifications to the web.config file.

First of all, you need to make sure that the component is installed properly. This procedure is described in its documentation. Then [...]

Fixing web.config for Windows 2008 Server Web Applications

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

A web site created with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition will not work in Windows 2008 Server. The web.config file needs to be modified in order for the web site to run correctly.

For an ASP.NET Web Site (.NET 3.5), make the following changes:

In <configSections>, add comments around scriptResourceHandler: [...]

Viewing .htaccess in Remote Connections in Eclipse

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 04 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

I’ve been trying to view .htaccess files in a web site connected to remotely in Eclipse. These do not appear in file listings so they can’t be opened. I’ve added an .htaccess file type, but that didn’t work. After searching around in the Preferences (found in the Windows pull down menu), I found an option [...]

Fixing File Upload Size Limit in IIS 7

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7 proved to be a real challenge in moving my old IIS 5 applications that were running on Windows XP Pro. Just when I thought everything was running smoothly, I ran into a file size upload limit which I thought I had already adjusted.

In the older IIS, I added the [...]

Compressing Files on OS X

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

StuffIt is the most common file compression utility on Macs. Like similar applications, you can compress and uncompress files and folders. If your transferring a large number of files by FTP or e-mail, the best thing to do is compress them into one file for an easy upload.

There is a free version of StuffIt, [...]

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