The default setting on Windows 2008 Firewall is configured to block certain types of traffic. One of them being ICMP.
To enable ICMP
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
To disable ICMP
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disabled
Archive for June, 2011
Enable ICMP Ping reply on Windows 2008 Server
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Static compression is being disabled warning in IIS 7 on Windows 2008
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011In IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008, application pools can be run as the “ApplicationPoolIdentity” account instead of the NetworkService account.
To resolve this issue, we will need to assign the ApplicationPoolIdentity permission to IIS temporary Compressed Files directory.
You can add the app pool identity from the command prompt with something like icacls.
icacls e:\inetpub\wwwroot\Temp /grant “IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool”:(OI)(CI)(RX)
PHP Redirect http to https
Friday, June 17th, 2011if ($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] != “on”) {
$url = “https://”. $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];??? ?header(“Location: $url”);
exit;
}
Joomla Custom Page Title
Friday, June 17th, 2011Insert this php code in your template’s index.php file just before the closing </head> tag
hint: make sure it’s inside: <?php … ?>
$document = &JFactory::getDocument();
if (JURI::root() == JURI::current()) { // Front Page
? $document->setTitle( "Your Front Page Title" );
} else { // All other pages
? $document->setTitle( $document->getTitle() . " ? Your Site Name" );
}