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Web development is one thing; running and securing a web server is another.
If you want to run a web server and understand how you can lock it down, instead of hosting it at a service provider, maybe the following links can point you in the right direction. Be prepared for getting some unwanted attention, and spending some time to deal with it.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5055458.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/iis/tnt1-40.mspx
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Installing_Securing_IIS_Servers_Part1.html
http://www.washington.edu/computing/support/windows/UWdomains/IISsecchecklist.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid14_gci1015581,00.html
If you want to just run a web server that you and a few people known to you wants to access, you can use a port other than port 80. Also make sure that only the web server port remains accessible from the Internet.
Go through the web server logs regularly. A hardware firewall may be good to have, but not essential. After all, if you have problems that take up too much of your time, you can just block the port, take down the webserver, and host it on a hosting service. It might also be a good idea to capture incoming packets (you won't have too many) using Wireshark so that you understand what kind of traffic your webserver attracts.
If you have the time, I will recommend that you do this. It will enhance your skills for sure. But, if you are interested in just getting a web presence and not in understanding how to run an Internet facing server, you better use a hosting service.
IIS or Apache -- the issues are the same. Your windows background makes IIS ideal. Checkout Ruby on Rails also. http://www.rubyonrails.org/. Paul Watson is the resident expert on this subject.
Thomas
Thomas
modified 29-Aug-18 21:01pm.
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I'd suggest a book which i have:
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 -- its a Microsoft Press Resource Kit book, very informative.
If your on vista or longhorn however you may want to look for a version 7 book, IIS has changed a great deal, the management console especially.
I'd suggest going with ASP.net if your a c# developer, Java will just p*ss you off to no end.
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Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Hi,
I'm using .Net 1.1 and AJAX.
I'm using a "div" in my aspx page.
I have a textbox and a button used to search the database.
Now, whatever the user types in the textbox I want to show the returned results within the "div".
The problem I'm facing is that in my code the "xmlHttp.responseText" is returning the entire content of the page. And not the returned results part.
And so, is throwing me "Unknown Runtime Error" (javascript error).
Am I doing something wrong?
Please Help.
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The response will contain whatever you put into it. What's your code for setting up the response ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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As a quicky, try adding Response.End() after you write what you want on the server.... 
"Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......"
Christian Graus At The Soapbox
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Thanx for the suggestion...Richard...
Your advice worked...
Thanx once again...
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I am developing a site with multilanguage. Now my question is how to translate english to other language (french ) and vice versa. I want to use one database for all language. I am using php. plz. suggest me!!!
Bharat Bhusanam
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If the pages are dynamic in your site, I am affraid you won't be able to translate the site to other languages because it would become an hassel for you to do it. If there are some static content such as (text, label, title, etc.) in the pages, you can set the the appropriate strings in different languages in database also variables in the pages for these strings.
With LCID session variable, you can retrive the value and then load the appropriate strings for the variables in pages from database. The most web sites actually have partially static pages in different languages.
What a curious mind needs to discover or penetrate a knowledge is noting else than a pin-hole.
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I have to translate the site to 6 language.I have already done what you have maintioned.Your procedute is vety simple. If the user is in english labguage and it changes to some other language then the content dynaminc data from the database should displayed with converted language. For your reference you can take the example of www.Unister.com. How they does? Exactly I need that. In that case they are using one database or one database for each language.Plz. help me.
Bharat Bhusanam
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Okay! I have examined the www.unister.com and saw that they have a different domain name for each language and they have developed the pages as I mentioned above.
You should decide about data in the pages what must be dynamic or static and then the things would become easier for you realize the project. For example if you have a news section in the pages that must be dynamic because you suppose to display the news in different languages on daily basis. If you have some static messages. you don't have to enter this to database just keep it static in the specific language.
Of course I assume that you have a control panel where you can add or modify the data (right?). If you don't have a control panel in asp or php, you better consider to have it first.
Also it is not mandatory to have everything translated to another language for example banners. Of course it is up to you.
Let me know the progress.. OKAY! Take it easy... 
What a curious mind needs to discover knowledge is noting else than a pin-hole.
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You're talking about Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l11n). Theres lots of resources and tools for this, just look it up!
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Are you ok with a translator webservice like FreeTranslate, Google Translate, Altavista Babelfish?
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Hi,
I'm trying to design some nice looking HTML based forms. I'm not a CSS wizard so the thousands of hits I got when Googling the subject were useful but not definitive. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced HTML editor which understands/exposes all the various CSS tags and shows you what the results look like? I'd have expected to find loads of choice but nothing has yet come up on the radar. I've got FP2003 etc but this seems to be totally lacking CSS editing support. Any thoughts etc most welcome.
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Might want to have a look at the new MS tool[^]. Haven't tried it myself, but i've heard it sucks less than their previous tools.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Actually it's very useful. Advanced WYSIWYG features and IntelliSense are just two of the few notable features. Although I only used it for plain html files, it does support ASP.NET controls as well.
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szukuro wrote: Advanced WYSIWYG features and IntelliSense
Hmm, these have been present in many an HTML editor for ages, another victim of the MS marketing engine!
But besides that your right, it is quite good. Another class to Font Page and well set to take on Dreamweaver (check that out if your not interested in MS).
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Hi there,
For the first time I am uploading the application to the server. After putting all the things as soon as I start the application I got following error:
Warning: file() [function.file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/.jorel/karma_avinashi/karma.avinashi.com/workreport/library/WorkReportLibrary.php on line 87
I am using php4 file.
Can you please tell me how can I solve this problem????
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I guess.. you dont have "Write" permission on this server. so, enabled "write" permission for your id.
Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
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As I told before I am doing all these first time, can you please tell me that from where I can do so?
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Please Please Please
Answer me. I am not able to solve this problem yet 
I have to complete this task today itself.
So hope you will help me out from this.
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My problem is to retrive the URl in the browser. i am a beginner and i dont know where to start. Please do help friends. thanks in advance
Malini Nair
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Getting the current url in Javascript.. but no idea for Java..
var url = window.location.search;
Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
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I am trying to make my web site have a few different sections with a title bar and then the information in the bottom. If you look on the codeproject home page and look where is says Welcome to CodeProject, then it has the information in a box underneath it, that is what I am looking for.
I have looked into the AJAX Custom Panel toolkit, and thought about using custom panels in general, but is there a better, or easier way?
Thanks for you time, appriciate all the help!
The only way to speed up a Macintosh computer is at 9.8 m/sec/sec.
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Those look to me like custom controls laid out in a simple table.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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I have seen them on many web sites. Most of which are aspx. I thought there might be a common control since they all look the same...
The only way to speed up a Macintosh computer is at 9.8 m/sec/sec.
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