Notes

Enable Reverse Proxy functionality in Azure Web Sites

ppolyzos October 26, 2015 4779 1 Comment

In Azure all hosted sites have URL Rewrite and ARR (Application Request Routing) modules installed but the proxy functionality is disabled by default in ARR. So, when you create a simple rewrite rule like the one that follows:

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="ProxyAdmin" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="backend/api(.*)" />
            <action type="Rewrite" url="http://api.yourdomain.com/api/{R:1}" logRewrittenUrl="false" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

<rules>

</rule>

</rules>

</rewrite>

where, for example all the requests like http://www.yourdomain.com/backend/api/… should be served by http://api.yourdomain/api/… will result in a 404 (Not Found) status code with the following message:

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

1	The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

To…

Azure: Monitor the upgrade to the new service tier/performance level

ppolyzos October 11, 2015 1811 0 Comment

Notes

In Azure it is very easy to upgrade from one pricing/performance tier to another in a matter of clicks, but some processes are not instant. Upgrading your SQL Database may take some time and through the portal the only info you can get at the moment is that an update is in process. Azure SQL Database provides progress information on management operations (like CREATE,…

Handle Database Diagram support objects cannot be installed issue

ppolyzos October 9, 2015 1723 0 Comment

Notes

SQL Server management studio allows you to have Database Diagrams to graphically show the structure of the database. In addition, you can create and modify tables, columns, relationships, and keys. Plus, you can modify indexes and constraints. While trying to Create a New Database Diagram you might come across to the following error:

Issues when downgrading to ServiceStack.Redis V3

ppolyzos October 8, 2015 2827 1 Comment

Notes

ServiceStack has recently announced that will go commercial from version 4 and on. Although it is a very useful library that worth paying for you might not want to go straight ahead to acquire a license. One option is to downgrade to version 3.9.71 which is free to use and decide later if you want to buy a license or find a better alternative. In…

Windows: How to delete a file when filename is too long

ppolyzos May 28, 2015 1339 0 Comment

Notes

When you want to completely delete a directory and it has files with long names in it you can use ROBOCOPY Let’s assume you want to delete a folder under the name dir_to_delete from a command line you can do the following:

mkdir empty_dir
robocopy empty_dir dir_to_delete /s /mir
rmdir empty_dir
rmdir dir_to_delete

mkdir empty_dir

robocopy empty_dir dir_to_delete /s /mir

rmdir empty_dir

rmdir dir_to_delete

This can happen when developing with NodeJS and node_modules folder contains a very deep file structure.

WordPress & nginx basic configuration

ppolyzos February 13, 2015 1294 0 Comment

Notes

When setting up a new wordpress site there might be some things that you can forget, so let’s write them down as a problem-solution. WordPress requests FTP credentials to install any new theme, plugin. You might have forgotten to set permissions on your site folder, so you need this command:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress-site

1	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress-site

This will set up the ownership properties, recursively, to…

Enable Reverse Proxy functionality in Azure Web Sites

Azure: Monitor the upgrade to the new service tier/performance level

Handle Database Diagram support objects cannot be installed issue

Issues when downgrading to ServiceStack.Redis V3

Windows: How to delete a file when filename is too long

WordPress & nginx basic configuration

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