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If you've stumbled upon this post, it means that you ran into a common issue happening right after installing/upgrading to MediaWiki build 1.26.2 (and above) under a Windows/IIS environment. The problem …
MediaWiki and IIS redirect loop issue: how to fix it Read More In case you installed MediaWiki on IIS, you might want to use pretty URLs instead of ugly ones. To quickly understand what we're talking about, here's an example of pretty …
MediaWiki: how to handle pretty URLs under IIS with web.config and URL Rewrite module Read More
These days a lot of users are installing the recently released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which brings a lot of useful features we already mentioned here. If you stumbled upon this …
How to fix Windows Update Error 0x80004005 in Windows 10 Read More
After the abrupt shutdown of Torrentz.eu, one of the most popular and successful torrent search engines during the last 13 years, a whole lot of bittorrent file-sharing protocol enthusiasts are arguably looking for a …
Five Torrentz.eu alternatives they didn't shut down (yet) Read More
A bunch of years after the launch of the native mobile apps for Android and iOS, Ookla choose to revamp his premium network performance measurement tool known as SpeedTest.net by publishing a lightweight, yet fully functional version on …
Speed Test by Ookla switches to HTML5 and launches a Chrome Extension Read More
If you stumbled upon this post, chances are you've just downloaded Microsoft's Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 together with the Microsoft .NET Core 1.0.0 VS2015 Tooling Preview Update 2, following the instructions …
Microsoft .NET Core 1.0.0 VS2015 Tooling Preview Update 2 fails to install with Error 0x81f4000: how to fix it Read More
This tutorial describes the common mandatory tasks to properly route, install, deploy and configure a web site or service upon a remote server of any kind: VPS, dedicated server, web …
Deploying and configuring a web site on a remote server Read More
You most certainly know FileZilla FTP Client, arguably one of the best open-source FTP clients out there for Windows, Linux and Mac: we already mentioned it more than once, for example …
How to share the FileZilla Address Book between multiple PCs Read More
Some months ago I made a couple posts explaining how we can configure IIS to allow the download of Android APK and iOS IPA files: now, upon request, I'm posting the …
Allow the download of Windows Phone XAP files within IIS (avoiding 404 errors) Read More
Some months ago I made a post explaining how we can configure IIS to allow the download of Android APK files: now, upon request, I'm posting the same thing for …
Allow the download of IPA files within IIS (avoiding 404 errors) Read More