Server requirements for silverlight.

The silverlight dose not need any special server requirements. Silverlight websites can be run on very simple windows servers having dotnet framework, ms sql (If website need). All you need to add MIME types to support the correct content type interpretation by the browser. Generally in IIS7, these MIME types are already added. If they are not it will give errors such as 404.3 or may prompt to download etc.

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How to enable remote connection for mysql server?

Enable Remote Access To MySQL Database Server
Most of the linux servers do not provide remote access for mysql database. That’s way the website developer use the hostname as localhost while creating a mysql database connection with your website or while installing CMS like Joomla or Wordpress.

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What is Internet Protocol (IP)?

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the transmission mechanism used by the TCP/IP protocols. IP is an unreliable and connectionless datagram protocol. IP provides no error tracking or error checking. IP assumes the unreliability of the underlying layers and does its best to get a transmission to destination but without guarantee.

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What is DNS (Domain Name space)?

Domain name space was designed to have hierarchical name space. The domain names are inverted-tree structure from root to top. The trees only have 128 levels. Root is levels 0 and top has 127.

Labels: Each and every node in the tree has label. Label is having maximum length 63 characters. The root label is a null string. DNS require that children of a node have different labels, which guarantees the uniqueness of the domain names.

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How to turn on / off php safe_mode?

Most of the time is important to turn on OR turn off the php safe_mode on the server for a particular account. If you turn on OR off the php safe_mode using php.ini file then safe mode will affect for all the accounts on the server if the server is shared server. The best way to turn off the php safe_mode for a particular account is the .htaccess file.

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Configuring email account on MAC OS.

Following are the steps to configure your email account on MAC OS. Before we start be ready with following details.

Your incoming mail server ie. POP server. Most of the time it is mail.yourdomain.com OR pop.yourdomain.com

Your outgoing mail server ie. SMTP server. Most of the time it is mail.yourdomain.com OR smtp.yourdomain.com

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Creating password protected directory using .htaccess file.

Hi all. In this post I am going to tell you how to create a protected directory in your website using .htaccess file. Many a time it is a requirement of the website that only authenticated people have an access to files in particular folder. In this article we are going to see the same thing. This post is only for Linux servers only as .htaccess file does not work on windows servers.

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