Web application times out when debugging
Published by David Potter on June 4, 2010
This article has moved to my new technical blog site.
http://davidstechtips.com/2010/06/web-application-times-out-when-debugging/
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Editing applicationHost.config on 64-bit Windows
Published by David Potter on November 16, 2009
I’m coming up to speed on IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 R2. There is a lot to like, but there is also a lot to learn. One of the things that’s interesting about R2 is that there is no 32-bit version, so I’m finally running 64-bit Windows. This doesn’t come without its problems.
One of the [...]
Troubleshooting on IIS7
Published by David Potter on November 7, 2009
I’ve been setting up WordPress on Windows Server 2008 R2 lately and as part of trying to understand the issues fully – by installing, uninstalling, installing, etc., the last time through I forgot to create the database and the SQL user for WordPress. Unfortunately, when I connected to my website, all I got was the [...]
PHP Failure Due To Missing Timezone
Published by David Potter on November 6, 2009
I’ve been working on installing PHP 5.3.0 on a new server running Windows Server 2008 R2 and encountered a problem I hadn’t run into before. After installing PHP following the instructions I published here (FastCGI is supported natively by W2K8 R2 so I didn’t need to do anything to use that), the following message was [...]
Preparing to Install WordPress on Windows and IIS
Published by David Potter on March 13, 2009
This is the fifth part of the Installing WordPress From the Ground Up series. Previously I discussed installing MySQL, the FastCGI Extension to IIS 6.0, PHP, and phpMyAdmin. This article will show the exact steps for configuring MySQL and IIS to prepare for setting up WordPress on Windows and IIS.
Dependencies
Before you can perform the steps [...]
Installing phpMyAdmin on Windows and IIS 6.0
Published by David Potter on March 12, 2009
This is the fourth part of the Installing WordPress From the Ground Up series. Previously I discussed installing MySQL, the FastCGI extension, and PHP. This article will show the exact steps for setting up phpMyAdmin on Windows and IIS 6.0.
phpMyAdmin is a web-based tool for managing MySQL database servers. I would go so far as [...]
Installing PHP on Windows and IIS
This is the third part of the Installing WordPress From the Ground Up series. Previously I discussed installing MySQL and then installing FastCGI on IIS6. This article will show the exact steps for setting up PHP on Windows and IIS.
PHP is an open source general-purpose scripting language especially suited for web development. WordPress along [...]
Installing FastCGI on IIS6
Published by David Potter on March 11, 2009
This is the second part of the Installing WordPress From the Ground Up series. Previously I discussed installing MySQL. This article will show the exact steps for setting up FastCGI on IIS6. If you are running a later version of IIS (e.g. 7.0 or 7.5), this step will not be [...]
High IIS CPU Usage
Published by David Potter on February 12, 2009
The IIS processes on my web server (w3wp.exe) have been experiencing high CPU usage lately, but only for one of my app pools – the one for my main WordPress sites. I use two ISAPI DLLs - PHP5 and Ionics Isapi Rewriter - but I am also currently using an older version of WordPress. I did a [...]
Rewrite Rules for IIS
Published by David Potter on October 14, 2008
It seems that much of the open source community (including WordPress) works hard to avoid Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) available on Microsoft operating systems in favor of Apache – even if they are running on a Microsoft operating system. I’ve been using Windows for a very long time and am comfortable with it and [...]
