A handy guide can be a perfect companion if you are learning a new tool or system. In my case, this guide by Alex (draxeman), Lars, Joanna & Stephen was my guiding light when I was learning Linux administration. This guide was written way back
Recently I was asked to set up IIS 7.5 and Apache on same server to run different applications – one on .NET and another of PHP. Initially, I considered running PHP on IIS but discarded this option since the client did not want to take
Sometimes it is required to change the domain-ip mapping of a domain without actually modifying the DNS records. I usually require this for sanity testing before moving applications to a new server. In such cases one option can be to use a secondary domain or
Earlier I blogged about scripting web browsing in .NET and C#. While automating fetching of simple webpages using GET method is pretty simple, form posting and retrieving response can be even more challenging. I had a tough time getting form posting to work. But once
For a client I needed to set up OpenX on Windows/IIS platform. OpenX is written in PHP/MySql and hence I needed to make PHP work on IIS. After searching on the net, I found this article. After following the instructions given I was able to
If you are a developer, there will be times when you want to automate a users action in a browser. For ex: if you are trying to download a complete website locally (also called web scraping), you will need to recursively fetch pages from the
Here is a script to check free diskspace in C#/.net. It uses WMI logicaldisk object to retrieve information on the system drives. .NET provides ManagementObject class to encapsulate the Windows WMI interface. Here is the sample code: ManagementObject Disk = new ManagementObject(“win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=”c:””); Disk.Get(); if (double.Parse(Disk[“FreeSpace”].ToString())
For one of my projects I required the dynamic public of my ISP connection. I blogged earlier about getting this through www.network-tools.com but in this case I needed it in my script. I wrote a quick script to scrape it of the same site. This
I was setting up a local server at home and wanted it to be publicly accessible from a domain name. Unfortunately my ISP refuses to give a static IP and my only option was to use a dynamic DNS server. After checking some out I
WHOIS is a networking protocol that allows you to discover information about a domain. Following information can be obtained from a WHOIS server. 1) Owner information 2) Technical Contact 3) Administrator Contact 4) Registration date, expiry date, last renewal date 5) Registrar of domain WHOIS