Using Log Parser on IIS Log files to get data on bandwidth usage. I came across the need recently to gather information on traffic on each site hosted on a Windows IIS 7 server. to get the breakdown across each site, I needed to set up the log files to log all of the bytes-in […]
Having ColdFusion run on the new Windows Server 2008 server under IIS 7 is pretty easy, however you have to have the right components installed. Windows 2008 uses lots of routines from Vista, so installs are really easy, and in this version, instead of installing everything, and then disabling the features, 2008 simpy doesnt install […]
SQL server has always had difficulty with its backup and maintenance plans in removing old backups. Until now this has been a major issue on some of our servers, each month someone has to go through the backup folder and remove the old Transaction Log and Full Backup folders. No longer – Robocopy to the […]
We dont very often do much server maintenance, especially on our centralised dev and file server boxes. Mostly we don’t have time, as a small team that goes through mountains of work its not a priority. Today I had 5 minutes (!) to actually see if there was a way to automate Disk Clean up […]
Recently I discussed how to set up HTTP Compression in IIS 6 using its native gzip support. Here are a couple of tools you can use to verify your compression is set up correctly. Both tell you pretty much the same information, simply enter your URL and it tells you the result, and how much […]
Just a quick bit of information. We are pretty tight on types of documents that are allowed to be uploaded and users are starting to use Office 2007, so we had to extend our extension and mime type validation to include the new (to the microsoft world) xlsx, docx, ppsx extensions and open XML document […]
URL Rewriting allows you to recode ugly URLs like into something like …while having a valid url… …still passed to ColdFusion or your coding language of choice. Using the url examples above I will take you through implementation of rewriting in Apache with mod_rewrite and in IIS using a plugin ISAPI_Rewrite. Implementation To cater for […]
I had the need today to go through our login history for one of our applications to try and hunt down possible compatibility issues coming from some new jQuery / AJAX related code. The issue in question is in another country and we wont be able to get a tech or developer in front of […]
Using Ctrl + Pause/Break will force CF to push a JVM thread dump into your log file. You should try and so at least 2 dumps while the server is under pressure. this way you can find the threads that are taking time and probably eating the resources. Once you know which of your sites […]
