Run a Laravel application on Windows using Docker

PHP | Run a Laravel application on Windows using Docker Setting up Docker to run a Laravel application on Windows involves several steps. Below is a step-by-step guide to help you set up Docker and configure it to run your Laravel project: Install Docker Desktop: Download and install Docker Desktop for Windows from the official Docker website: Docker Desktop for Windows. Enable WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux): Docker Desktop requires WSL 2 to run on Windows. Follow the instructions provided by Docker to enable WSL 2: WSL 2 Installation Guide. Set Docker Desktop to Use WSL 2: After enabling WSL 2, open Docker Desktop and go to Settings -> General. Under the General tab, select the option to use the WSL 2 based engine. Clone Your Laravel Project: Clone your existing Laravel project or create a new one if you haven’t already. Navigate to the root directory of your Laravel project in your terminal or command prompt. Read More

SQL Server: insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program (mscorlib)

When using large size SQL generated scripts to create/recreate databases, the above message is encountered.

To solve the issue, go to command prompt and issue the below command

c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn> sqlcmd -S (LocalDb)\v11.0 -i D:\SQLDB\SqlserverScript.sql

Setting changes that you will need to do based on your environment

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn" go to the folder where SQL server installed in your workstation

(LocalDb)\v11.0 - Replace this with your SQL server instance name

"D:\SQLDB\SqlserverScript.sql" - path to SQL script

IIS 7 - Setting up host headers using command line or batch file

As part of windows server administration, administrators may face a common problem in transferring the host headers when migrating web applications from one server to another.

A simple solution is to prepare a list of host headers and execute the addition of these host headers via a command line

Step 1: Go to C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv

Step 2:

a) Execute the command to a "Site Host header" appcmd set site /site.name:"Website name on IIS Server" /+bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='*:80:Site Host Header']

b) For specific IP binding appcmd set site /site.name:"Website name on IIS Server" /+bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='10.0.0.10:80:sampledomain.com']

c) For HTTPS binding appcmd set site /site.name:"Website name on IIS Server" /+bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='*:443:Site Host Header']

How to remove or modify "Server" http header in IIS 7 / IIS 7.5?

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0

Few methods are used to prevent IIS from sending the identification of the server to a client. This prevents the client from identifying the server hence delaying easy break through into the server.

One such method is writing a custom module (code given below) and saving the Class file under App_Code folder

Code from Stefan Gossner

using System; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Web; 

namespace StefanG.ServerModules 
{ 
    public class CustomServerHeaderModule : IHttpModule 
    { 
        public void Init(HttpApplication context) 
        { 
            context.PreSendRequestHeaders += OnPreSendRequestHeaders; 
        } 

        public void Dispose() 
        { } 

        void OnPreSendRequestHeaders(object sender, EventArgs e) 
        { 
            // modify the "Server" Http Header
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Headers.Set("Server", "My Test Server"); 
        } 
    } 
}

Then, go to IIS 7 server and double click on "Modules". Then click "Add Managed Module". A dialog will open asking you to enter Name and Type. Enter a strong name for the module and choose the module (the one that we saved under App_Code) from the drop down and click OK. Restart the server.

Thats it! When you browse the website, Server identification will now be removed or modified based on the code in your module.

For IIS 6 UrlScan needs to be setup.

How to remove ASP.Net version header from IIS 7 , IIS 7.5?

How to remove ASP.Net version header from IIS 7 , IIS 7.5?
Add the following line to web.config within System.web node

<system.web>
<httpRuntime enableVersionHeader="false" />
</system.web>

How to check IP PING results automatically in Windows?

Write the following command in a file and save it as a .bat file in Windows.

FOR /L %i IN (1,1,20) DO ping -n 1 192.168.1.%i | FIND /i "Reply">> d:\ipreplies.txt

Run the .bat file and it will save the results to "d:\ipreplies.txt"

In the above FOR loop we check for the usage of IP's starting from 192.168.1.1 incremented by 1 to 192.168.1.20.

How to open a set of ports in windows firewall?

Go to Control Panel > Windows Firewall (or type firewall.cpl in the Run prompt). Under the Exceptions tab you can add the program or port number to which you would want to allow access.

If you want to add multiple ports there is no option for you to open multiple ports (port range) with a simple addition of a filter.

To do this we need to type the following in the command prompt (Run > cmd):

FOR /L %I IN (9000,1,9100) DO netsh firewall add portopening TCP %I "Site Ports" %I

The ports will be incremented by 1 from 9000 until 9100.

In windows 2008 it is much easier than this. You can easily add a port range in the Firewall filter rules