The web has got the whole ‘multiple versions of IE’ fairly well documented already, but you have to scroll way down to the bottom of the second article to see that if you want cookies to work, you’ll have to download wininet.dll from Microsoft.
So the full directions:
Download IE 5.0 or IE 5.5
Use a zip utility [...]
In the Windows world it’s a reasonably straightforward process to add pseudo domain names using the HOSTS file usually located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\. Open the file, add a name / IP address entry, save the changes and you’re off and running. It’s slightly more involved on OS X as this site details. OS X [...]
FYI: If you’re developing a Java web application using Tomcat on Mac OS X and you see:
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
appearing in the dock, you need to add:
export JAVA_OPTS=”-Djava.awt.headless=true”
to your startup script.
Source:
· Installing Tomcat on OS X
· Decapitating java.awt
We’re in the process of upgrading our webservers to Windows 2003 and thus IIS6. One of the issues we ran into was that the Server_Name key of the ServerVariables collection in VBScript started returning the computer name of the machine rather than the host name of the website. I spent a couple hours googling [...]
I’m not sure where this script fits into ‘The Joel Test’, but in the interest of automating the process of releasing a build in Subversion, I had the new guy (hey Pete!) spend his first couple days writing a script that:
copies the trunk to the named branch (ie: /myproject/trunk –> /branches/1.10)
copies the ‘latest’ tag to [...]
Spent some time today buried in IIS trying to figure out why an ASP.NET application would throw the following error message for every single page that existed in an application within a website:
Server Error in ‘/myapp’ Application.
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The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could [...]
We’ve had a problem on our websites at work for the last couple years where if a user doesn’t use a trailing slash when visiting a directory, ie:
http://www.hostname.com/mydirectory
the user gets a “The page cannot be displayed” error. The problem is that if you don’t use a trailing slash IIS sends a redirection to use the [...]
I tried installing AWStats a couple months ago on my server, got frustrated after an hour or two of reading the documentation and trying to figure out permissions problems, gave up and then tried again about two weeks ago, this time with more patience. Maybe after reading my notes (on RedHat Linux) someone else [...]
I’ve been keeping a list of interesting links in a text file for the last couple years and only recently thought better of it and started using del.icio.us to store links. And I wanted to show the links as part of this blog, but I wasn’t satisfied with just including their RSS feed of my [...]
If you happen to work for a company that uses the worst email client ever, you should try the Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino. Combined with the ReadAsPlain registry hack, I can communicate with my fellow CowOrkers without having to use Notes and without having receive RTF emails full of useless graphics.
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