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PHP system() calls result in CGI Error on IIS

Writing a custom executable for a client earlier this month, I encountered an issue with calling it from within a PHP script on IIS running PHP 5.2. Every time the page was accessed, we would get an error page saying something along the lines of "...

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IIS7, FrontPage 2002 and Windows Server 2008

I was excited to find out that Microsoft were running an open beta test for Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), their latest and greatest in server technology. I've since downloaded and installed my evaluation copy and plonked it on an old Windows...

Delicious RAM

Lenin, my web server, was in dire need of a RAM upgrade, so I got him one, just because I care. I don't know if it will make much of a difference to the web services but I've been using it as a central BitTorrent download machine for the house and...

Setting Up a Test Server

Today I was trying to set up an additional development server for testing of ASP.NET sites and MS-SQL databases, as our original server had become overloaded and was performing poorly for testing purposes. In setting up the server, I encountered s...