UPDATE: If you are also looking for a Classic ASP Error Handling Script, I have pasted my basic one here and if you’re working with ASP components, you might find my Classic ASP Component Detection Script useful. We recently migrated eighty websites from a Windows Server Standard 2003 (IIS6) to Windows Server Sta ...
When creating multiple subscriptions (web hosting accounts) for a new customer today, I received the following error: Failed to provision the subscription to the panel #94 “Local Parallels Plesk Panel server (serverName)”: Unable to update hosting preferences. User username already exists. Incorrect fields: ...
In recent years Cisco have have started coming around to the fact that while command line configuration has it’s place, a GUI configuration program is a hell of a lot easier for those of us that don’t ‘speak Cisco’. Given that Cisco now has serious competition in the Unified Communications and P ...
I recently made some changes to our and a problem I had long thought we’d seen the back of reared it’s ugly head, random emails bouncing with an error similar to the following: #500 Firewall Error ## As has been documented in numerous places, this is caused by Cisco firewalls being over-zealous with their ...
When updating the Permalinks setting in WordPress, rather than the usual “Permalinks Setting Updated” message, you may instead get a message saying “You should update your web.config now”. In my humble opinion this should be changed to give a fraction of useful information, such as: “Perma ...
I recently started using GoDaddy for hosting some of my websites as I developed a CMS system that I wanted to confirm played well on their systems. One snag I ran in to was setting up Custom Error Pages, not just simply displaying the error message intead of the default IIS message – actually displaying a page of ...
I bought a 40″ Toshiba television earlier this year (a 40RL858) and was very pleased with apart from the fact that BBC iPlayer didn’t work out of the box. Update: the 40RL858 has now been superseeded by the The TV has a built in firmware updater but everytime I ran it, it simply told me no update was avail ...
So for years now I’ve been receiving notifications from Twitter for some guy called Matt Ward and I have no idea why. I’ve tried tracking him down but to no avail, this page serves solely as a place to track how many requests I get in the vein hope that one day he’ll realise the error of his ways. Th ...
Today I ran in to a problem in IIS, I wanted to configure multiple websites with SSL using a wildcard certificate but without using more than one of my fast dwindling supply of static IPV4 addresses. Pre-requisites You have the SSL certificate installed in IIS on a website You know the website identifier (see here for ...
Today Microsoft soft finally dropped the axe on their Small Business Server line and while this didn’t come as a surprise to most Microsoft-centric service providers, many were disappointed an angry. The sad irony is that the current incarnation of Small Business Server (SBS 2011) is the first version that feels ...
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