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How to make get_current_user() return the same user as $_SERVER['AUTH_USER']?

PHP fixed a fifteen year old bug. You should update your script. It should not return the logged in user. It should return the owner of the script file. From php.net/get_current_user get_current_user(...
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IIS: Multi level subdomain with wildcard not resolving

This is how wildcard certificates work. *.example.com work only for hosts like: host1.example.com, host2.example.com, etc. If you want to have it work for abc.in.example.com you need to use ...
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How do I resolve the "Snapin Error" when setting up SMTP on IIS Server?

We found that doing the following worked, and can now edit the settings in the II6 Manager without errors (and without crashing when applying settings) every time: Stop SMTPSVC service [Display Name: ...
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IIS Digest repeatedly asking for authentication

The question is 11 years old, but still not solved. The actual problem is wrong MD5-sess implementation in Chrome and Firefox. The only correct implementation can be found in (already abandoned) IE. ...
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Cant set correct .Net version in IIS Server Pool

There really have been (*) only two .NET releases: 2.0 and 4.0. 3.0 and 3.5 are just additions to 2.0. 4.5, 4.7, 4.8 are just additions to 4.0. And yes, the IIS UI is even more confusing. Anyway, 4.x ...
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Set IIS 10 server to public

Microsoft IIS does not have a concept of localhost vs. public. In your screenshot you show IIS Manager running on a machine EC2AMAZ-NN0LTIR the term localhost next to it, just means that this IIS ...
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is it possible to use .cer file to server website without private key?

Windows wants the private key and the certificate combined into a single PKCS#12 file. You can create one with a command like this: openssl pkcs12 -export -out filename.p12 -inkey filename.key -in ...
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IIS reverse proxy redirection rule

Not sure if I'm understanding you right, but you can try this as the web.config for the site you've created in IIS. I'm assuming you have a site in IIS created that you're trying to make redirect to ...
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Allow access to FileZilla SFTP server through FTP subdomain and no other domains

SSH / SFTP does not have concept of virtual hosts in the way http / https protocols have. Therefore the answer is no. You need to have a separate IP address to limit access.
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Why are MIME types needed if we can identify file types by their extensions?

There's a massive "safety gap" between what a user needs to know to use a system, and what is needed to use it safely. As it is, the whole .ext and MIME thing is an exploitable mess; no ...
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How to use AD CS to auto-renew certs for securing IIS websites that use SNI?

You can't expect the CA to permit IIS to enrol for a certificate for all your SNI sites and the CA doesn't know that you own those names. If the CA issues certificates for any Subject the client ...
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IIS Management Service IP and Port Bindings - How to Reset

The setting itself is stored in Windows registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WebManagement\Server\IPAddress (REG_SZ) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WebManagement\Server\Port (...
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How to migrate Azure server including IIS sites with the same name, different DNS

IIS supports multiple host headers, so you can just add your new name to the sites on your old server alongside the existing one. The host headers in IIS have no impact on DNS and the DNS entry for ...
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Stop and Start IIS Website remotely using WMSVC

WMSVC was solely developed for IIS Manager remote management. Remote PowerShell management isn't going through WMSVC. Thus, "The end goal though is we want to be able to connect to the site ...
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enquiry on performance boost/hit for centralized source code location

Is there any benefit to doing this? Yes. 1 POF is better than 10 or is it only going to make the website slow? Maybe slower than with local storage I, personally, prefer to avoid Windows-shares in ...
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Temporary / Intermittent "Access Denied" error on IISReset

This issue is explored and documented over here: https://www.leansentry.com/guide/reset-restart-recycle-iis/dangers-of-iisreset#it-can-leave-your-server-in-a-stopped-state The article offers that the ...
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"IIS Manager Permissions" icon missing from Windows Server 2019 IIS

IIS Manager Permissions is only visible if you enabled Management Service role service, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/manage/remote-administration/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-...
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IIS 7 how does http.sys know which request is for which application?

I think ever since HTT 1.1 the URL requested is sent IN THE HEADER. So, Http.sys just looks at the request. Note that every application must be unique in the URL to a degree - and that is what HTTP....
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Exporting certificates on Microsoft IIS 2019 ver 10

You can of course export this certificate from the mmc certificates. Run CertLM.msc to open your local computers certificates and locate it by opening the Certificate Store it mentions in the list in ...
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How to forward traffic from HaProxy to an IIS FTP server?

FTP is a crappy protocol that requires two connections: For passive FTP that is initially one connection, the control connection. That connection is made by the client, typically to the default port, ...
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can IIS smtp role in windows server 2016 send mails direct to internet without exchange server or smart host?

Anything that speaks proper SMTP “can” send email to the Internet. However, there’s a certain amount of knowledge you need to be reasonably sure that anyone actually receives the email you send. The ...
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Why would my WordPress website be so slow?

It looks like in the end for me, the thing that made the biggest impact and made my site load like 10x faster was moving to a XAMPP installation. The following are some changes that were made in my ...
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My IIS URL Rewrite rule is not working for my IIS website

Try this - set a DNS entry for both "url domains" to point to localhost, or a hosts file entry. 127.0.0.1 astro.res... and next line same with astronomyteams.org . then find out why we had ...
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Can't open IIS manager

Tried the solutions above this is the only thing that worked. Task manager > Expand IIS manager > Maximize
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Missing "Server Certificates" icon in IIS10

Server Certificate is missing if you connect to another machine remotely. That's by design. To manage certificates remotely, you need to use Remote Desktop Connection or other approaches (like ...
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virtualizing physical IIS box into Hyper-V breaks API, Server 2012 R2

StarWind V2V Converter is your best friend! https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v2v-converter
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How can I get the list of app pool using appcmd.exe

You can also do in powershell via Get-IISAppPool in the IISAdministration Module like this: Import-Module IISAdministration Get-IISAppPool
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Browser Downloading ASP App Instead of Displaying

For us it was a binding issue. If you open IIS and right click the website and look at binding properties it will list all the names and how it will treat the files. There were two entries we needed ...
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How to completely disable request filtering in IIS

You ask how to disable request filtering entirely (for a site, I assume), and there's a way to do that which I'll offer in a moment. But first, were you aware that you could at least try to raise the ...
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Using FTP on IIS in passive mode both for internal and external network

Root Cause Analysis For external clients, their control and data channels all go through the public IP address you configured. That's why usually they work with basic configuration. However, for ...
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