DotNetNuke – Allowed file extensions and File Manager module
We had recently upgraded a client site from DNN 4.x to DNN 6.x and refactored the site in a major way during the upgrade. One of the things involved as part of the upgrade was revamping the theme of the site.Some days ago, I got a message from the client requesting to...
CollabNet Subversion – Restricting user access to repositories
I have been using Subversion for version control for a good time now. And I use CollabNet's Subversion server for all in-house SVN repos. It has been only recently that a need arose to restrict access to repositories for my colleagues.Basically I needed to enable...
Connecting to SqlExpress over a secure SSH Tunnel
I am in the process of revamping server setups for my office as a part of which I am establishing different Windows servers for Sql Server Developer 2008, Sql Server Express and Svn Server. Considering that I often work late nights from my home as well as when I am...
Windows Firewall – opening/closing ports via command-line
I was today making some changes to a web application for a client hosted on a dedicated Win 2008 server. When I tried to connect using FTP to upload my changes to the web-server, I got a:Response: 425 Can't open data connection.Error: Failed to retrieve directory...
Outlook – Automatically forwarding e-mails when the server does not support it
I was recently allocated a Microsoft BPOS Online Services Exchange account for a client and I was configuring the same in Outlook. To keep up with the emails on the new account, I wanted to receive all incoming/outgoing emails for this BPOS account to my...
Voip Drupal and PhoneRecorderField – Resolving “Audio not recorded. Try again.” error
This week I delievered the first phase of a VOIP based Drupal site to a medical industry client using the VoipDrupal suite of modules. Let me first take this opportunity to acknowledge the great work Leo Burd and his team at MIT Center have done in developing an...
SVN – Copying versioned folders recursively on Windows without .svn folders
Most of us (I mean developers using SVN as version control system) at some point or the other have needed to copy a versioned folder/folders recursively to another location without those ".svn" directories being copied, right. For me, this is a pretty common task...
Visual Studio – Converting a library project to web application project (WAP)
So it happened that I had a library project in a large solution in Visual Studio 2010 that I now wanted to operate as a Web Application project so I can configure an IIS application for it (it was bascially a bridge project for communication with a third-party library...
Drupal 6 – Adding custom operations to Users list in administration pages
In my recent Drupal work last week, I needed to add custom operations to the Users list administration page accessible at "admin/user/user" on a Drupal 6 site (see the screenshot on the right).The usual suspect to get the ball rolling was hook_form_alter. I did a...
IIS 7 – 500 Internal Server Error trying to configure a default document in web.config
I am in the process of deploying an osCommerce site to a Windows 2008/IIS 7 machine as I write this (no point debating the merit of doing so, you really can't fight the management if they have taken a decision and you are not even a part of that particular decision...
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