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The problem today, is that we have a great asp.net website but search engines are indexing the http://greataspnetwebsite.com instead of http://www.greataspnetwebsite.com, this is commonly seen on the web and there are several ways to archive a good result for making the non-www to www domain. This redirection should be a 301 Permanently Moved, otherwise you will might lose your search engine indexed page or become duplicate content for your non-www and www domain. Here are easy steps how to archive a quick and clean Permanent Redirection using IIS.

Consider the case where we already have a website in IIS called: greataspnetwebsite.com

• Go to IIS Manager
• Create a new website that point to the same directory as your existing one
• Select the newly created website, open the properties box
• In the option button “When connecting to this resource the content should come from” should be change to “A redirection to a URL“
• Specify the URL http://www.greataspnetwebsite.com
• Select the check box that says “A permanent redirection for this resource.”

You need to archive your IIS Log often so as not to get your log folder full with HTTP Logs.

I have been searching for some quick implemented solutions for performing this IIS Log archiving task and found some quiet nice discussions and article about it. Here are the links to the different post and forums that talk about a solution to solve this issue:

http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/2007/02/10/Automatically+Delete+Old+IIS+Log+Files.aspx

http://www.iislogs.com/ (Tool to automate maintenance of IIS Log)

http://forums.webhostautomation.com/showthread.php?t=5053

http://forums.iis.net/p/1022450/1388469.aspx

On my side i need something with a bit more functionality so, i modified some of the scripts that i could find on the different article related above and came up with a solution that can.

• Compress each log file found in your websites folder
• FTP the compressed files on a foreign server ( Keeping historic of your IIS log ) Uses Chillkat Free FTP ActiveX
• Delete them from your disk afterward

You can launch this process everyday and there will be no log that is older than a specified number of days on your server.

Requirement for this solution to work:

• Chillkatsoft FTP.1 ActiveX
• gzip archiver

You can download the script here.

See the entire script in the full post.

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This announcement was made by Adobe chief executive on 27/02/2007.

Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday.

Yes that what it is about… one or the most biggest guys in photo/video editing software industry building up PC/MAC Applications is trying to go WEB. Creating a free open web space build up on the popular photoshop software, with ads as main revenue. They have have already shown themselves up with Adobe’s Remix that will be provided free of use to all Photobucket members soon.

How is it gonna be. We’ll Adobe take out the WHOLE Web market on photo editing online… for that we’ll have to wait and see.

Sources:
Cnet
Techcrunch
Webware

As from today, wacdesigns.com will be hosted by Media Temple (mt) with the Grid-Server (gs) technology so a quick explanation about Media Temple offer.

Featuring…

• 100 GBs of premium storage
• 1 TB of short-path bandwidth
• Host up to 100 individual sites
• 1000 email accounts
• 64 MB Ruby/Mongrel container
• and much more…

The (gs) Grid-Server currently features the following versions of software:

• PHP 4.4.4
• PHP 5.1.6
• Perl v5.8.4
• Python v2.3.5
• Apache 2.0.54
• MySQL 4.1.11
• PostgreSQL 7.4.7

The grid-server compared to the shared hosting packages provided a better handling of what is commonly known as the “bad neighbor effect“… read more here.

The migration from my old hosting plan on another server to Media Temple was quiet tricky, got issues like character encoding and the tool provided by MySQL for data migration is, how can i say, i bit difficult to handle compared to DTS tool provided by SQL Server… Finally i managed to get my data to the new server manually by generating INSERT Scripts….
But now that’s its done i am pretty good, and i can now begin to get some pretty good things going on the blog, since i have much much more webspace and bandwidth