If you lost your windows user password, you can boot into Linux Live CD or Rescue CD and reset your Windows password as follows. Most VPS and dedicated server providers have the option to boot your server into rescue mode. Install required packages Find the Windows partition and mount it If you get error while … Read more
You can download nginx for windows from https://nginx.org/en/download.html To download nginx from command line, use following command in PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.19.6.zip -OutFile nginx-1.19.6.zip Auto Start Nginx on Windows When using Nginx on Windows, you need to escape paths with \ like following root C:\\sites\\my-site; For SSL, i used listen 443 ssl http2; ssl_certificate C:\\nginx\\ssl\\crt\\dedi.ai-chain.pem; … Read more
To download a file using PowerShell, run Invoke-WebRequest -Uri URL_HERE -OutFile FILE_NAME_HERE Example Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.17.10.zip -OutFile nginx-1.17.10.zip See Windows
To delete SSL certficate in IIS, 1) Start Internet Information Service (IIS) Manager 2) Click on Server Name (server hostname) 3) On right side, click on Server Certificates button. On next screen, you will get a list of all SSL certfificates. You can right click on any of the certficate and delete it. For older … Read more
To auto start Nginx on Windows, download http://nssm.cc/download Extract the file, you will find “nssm.exe” file for 32 and 64 bit windows. Copy the file for your Windows version to a folder like C:\utils\nssm.exe Start a command promt as user Administrator, then to go the folder where nssm.exe is, then run .\nssm.exe install “Nginx”” In … Read more
To find windows server version from command line, run gwmi win32_operatingsystem | % caption
To check Windows OS health If any errors are found, fix them with check disk errors Fix disk errors check for system file corruption Compress a file using powershell To change hostname of a computer, run as Administrator in PowerShell. If you don’t want to restart, remove -Restart option. To stop/start a servce
Generate CSR: IIS 6 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. From the Start button select Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services Manager. In IIS Manager, double-click the local computer, and then double-click the Web Sites folder. Right-click the Web site for which you want to request a certificate, … Read more
After upgrading Main computer (one that connect to DSL modem) on LAN, other PC’s are able to get internet. But failed to ping on 192.168.0.1. Method 1 Go to Start > Search > secpol.msc Navigate to Network List Manager Policies > Unidentified Networks Double Click and Change Location Type to Private Warning This means from … Read more