Convincing IIS7 to accept URLs containing plusses (+)
Problem: Old retiring IIS 5.0 web server has been accepting URLs containing plus (+) for spaces instead of %20 for like 74 years. People have the old URLs bookmarked and stuff so they’ll keep going to them. The content will…
Deny access to .svn directories with IIS
The problem: I like using Subversion to deploy web content to production servers. I check in everything while I’m working on the development copy, then check out onto the server when it’s ready. Subversion creates a .svn directory contain readable…
Getting PHP’s GD module to work with IIS
Grrr, this cost me about 10 hours, and was hard to research, so I’m documenting it here for The Good Of Everyone: Problem I work with PHP on a bunch of different web servers. In this case I needed to…