Category: IIS web server

Free Internet Informaton Services (IIS) web server log rotation

At last. a simple free utility to rotate log on IIS. This is the first stable (beta) version and will move logs to a designated directory either on demand or on a scheduler. Free IIS log rotator more »

Install squirrelmail to Parallels Helm 4.1 as an application package (APS)

I recently needed to be able to offer squirrelmail 1.4 to customers using Parallels Helm 4.1 I downloaded the latest version of squirrelmail and bundled it up so that it can be added as a package in the control panel. The config file is based on th… more »

Parallels Helm not recording bandwidth and space usage

I recently setup parallels helm for a small hosting company. I came across a very strange problem. I could not record bandwidth and space usage. I was able to resolve it by doing the following steps 1) go to system/schedule tasks and setup the f… more »

Mysql field in asp generates error: Variable uses an Automation type not supported in VBScript

Recently whilst migrating an old site from mysql 4 and Windows 2000 server to MYSQL 5 and IIS7/Windows 2008 an old script that worked fine stopped working giving error type mismatch and when trying to determine the type name it returned error Variable u… more »

Error in my_thread_global_end():1 threads didn't exit

I recently got this strange error message trying to migrate a site from a dedicated server to a shared host server using php 5.2.5, mysql 5, plesk and windows 2003 server: Error in my_thread_global_end():1 threads didn't exit Although a lot of the post… more »

IIStracer - check web server requests in real time

I recently had one of the IIS web servers I am managing have 100% CPU utilisation. I was able to find the cause of the problem using a small program called IIStracer which displays in real time the requests from the webserver. The description of the p… more »

How to get IIS to process PHP scripts in pages with html extension

If you want to have your web server to process php scripts in pages with html or htm extensions you need to follow the steps below. Please note that this tutorial assumes you can access the control panel of your IIS web server. 1) Open the IIS manage… more »