How to change the port for GeoServer on Windows with Jetty Faced with the task of upgrading a production GeoServer under heavy constant use, I decided to install the newer version alongside first, migrate the content, then make the switch when I was happy... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 19 April 2015 Categories: GeoServer IIS Windows Server 2008 Comments(3)
How to hide the MapServer map file location on IIS (without writing any code) We posted some notes a few days ago on how to set up MapServer WMS/WFS server on IIS. Someone called Dennis has commented appreciatively, but asked how to hide the location of the .map file and... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 12 April 2014 Categories: GIS (general) IIS MapServer WMS Comments(0)
Making our mojoPortal sites even more secure I’ve just run a couple of our mojoPortal web sites through the test on https://asafaweb.com and thought I’d write up some notes on how to get the best possible test results (and therefore presumably... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 10 April 2014 Categories: IIS mojoPortal Security Comments(1)
When RD Web Access doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 11 We found that our Remote Desktop Web Access didn’t work with IE11. Browsing to the /RDweb page produced this message: “Browser Not Supported This Web browser is not supported by RD Web... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 03 January 2014 Categories: IIS Remote Desktop Comments(2)
Presenting GeoServer on port 80 on a Windows IIS Server We run several instances of GeoServer on Windows servers, using the Jetty web server included in the GeoServer for Windows installer. By default this results in a service running on an address like... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 25 June 2013 Categories: GeoServer IIS Comments(1)
asp.net - json compression Dynamic content compression does not work by default in asp.net for ‘application/json’ mime types, and given that we’re doing more mobile apps and client side data requests this can make quite a... read more Posted by Stewart Bellamy 29 May 2013 Categories: ASP.Net IIS Comments(1)
Revealed: the Identity of the ApplicationPoolIdentity While setting up a new mojoPortal site I tried our running the application pool with the identity “ApplicationPoolIdentity”. Previously we have tended to create a specific user account for each site... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 08 June 2012 Categories: IIS mojoPortal Comments(1)
How to set up a new mojoPortal site in 10 minutes OK you had better have a .Net 4 IIS server and a SQL server already, or this is not going to work. And if sharing the web server with other sites, you should have a host name configured and pointing... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 14 January 2012 Categories: IIS mojoPortal Comments(0)
Breaking a site with Multi-Mechanize In my previous post I got started with Multi-Mechanize and established that it is a useful tool for load-testing web sites. Next I tried it on a real site that we are currently building – the new... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 28 December 2011 Categories: IIS Load-testing Python SQL Server Comments(0)
Trying out Multi-Mechanize web performance and load testing framework Information and download from http://code.google.com/p/multi-mechanize/ UPDATE 14th March 2012: now moved to http://testutils.org/multi-mechanize Multi-Mechanize is an open source... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 27 December 2011 Categories: IIS mojoPortal Python Comments(0)