Unknown error while creating site: A name contained an invalid character ‘ in the logs

January 14th, 2010 by Arren No comments »
Problem
When I tried to delete a domain in Helm, it fails and in the HELM’s error log, I get the following error:
Domain creation error:
2010-01-13 17:27:40 Website.RemoveVirtualDirectory 0-2147467259: Unknown error while removing virtual directory: A name contained an invalid character.
{0}
2010-01-13 17:27:40 Website.IWeb_Execute 0-2147467259: Unknown error while removing virtual directory: A name contained an invalid character.
{0}
2010-01-13 17:27:40 CVirtualDirectory.CallMethodEx 0-2147467259: Unknown error while removing virtual directory: A name contained an invalid character.
{0}
2010-01-13 17:27:40 CVirtualDirectory.RemoveEx 0-2147467259: Unknown error while removing virtual directory: A name contained an invalid character.
{0}
2010-01-13 17:27:40 CDomain.DeleteDomainEx 0-2147467259: Unknown error while removing virtual directory: A name contained an invalid character.
{0}
Solution
1) Make sure that in IIS there are no websites set up like “Site #245″ or “Site #388″ – anything with the # symbol followed by a number. These are partially created sites that may cause issues with Helm. If there are sites like this, delete them from IIS (right-click the site and choose “Delete”).
2) Go to:
C:\\Helm.Config
and rename the IIS.xml file to another and or simply delete the IIS.xml file then try again with your account deletion.

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How to check Silverlight version?

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Just run the command below on your command prompt and

reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Silverlight

You will have the result as below

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Silverlight
Version    REG_SZ    3.0.40818.0
UpdateConsentMode    REG_DWORD    0×0

My Silverlight version is 3.0.4

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Sony Alpha A550 Advertisement Video Compilation

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Sony Alpha A550 Advertisement by Vic Chou

Sony Alpha A550 by So Ji Sub

If only you understand Japanese

Official A500/A550 Advertisement by Sony

Make.Believe

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A self-proclaimed grey-hat hacker has located a critical SQL injection vulnerability in a website belonging to security giant Symantec. The flaw can be leveraged to extract a wealth of information from the database including customer and admin login credentials, product serial numbers, and possibly credit card information.

The flaw was found by a Romanian hacker going by the online handle of Unu, according to whom an insecure parameter of a script from the pcd.symantec.com website, allows for a blind SQL injection (SQLi) attack to be performed. In such an attack, the hacker obtains read and/or write permission to the underlying database of the vulnerable website.

symantec » Read more: Symantec website got hacked

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How to restrict access into Wordpress Dashboard via IP address

November 24th, 2009 by Arren No comments »

Have you ever wonder how to restrict your Wordpress Dashboard login via IP address or IP ranges? You could possibly would like to refrain some user from accessing your Wordpress application especially WPMU where it is shared by multi users from all over the world.

Just create a .htaccess file and put it on your wp-admin folder and add below syntax as example below.

allow from “IP address or IP ranges”

The IP ranges added are the IP address that is allow to access the wp-admin folder or the Wordpress Dashboard.

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<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order deny,allow
allow from
192.168.1.0/24
allow from
192.169.1.0/24
deny from all
</LIMIT>

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Give it a try and have fun :D

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My Facebook is glowing!!!

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I am sure most of you have received the messages posted your friend’s Facebook update that sounds like this

“Go to any Facebook page and click once in a white area just to get a blank timeline to do this with. Press up arrow, up arrow, down arrow, down arrow, left arrow, right arrow, left arrow, right arrow, B, A, then the Return key.”

Give it a try and you will get the same result as my screenshot over my Facebook account below. :)

facebook

This won’t be like the forwarded email like clicking Alt+F4 or Alt+F5 then nothing comes out.

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