How to Restart Application Pool in WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 07:29 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 28 November 2012 12:00

The Application pool enables the isolation of your web application for better security, reliability, and availability. In this article I will give a step by step guide on How to restart Application Pool in WebsitePanel

1. Sign into your WebsitePanel

2. Click on Websites:

How to Allow Access to Anonymous Users in Your ASP Application

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:25 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 14 November 2012 12:00

ASP application that requires authentication prevents anonymous or non authenticated users from accessing any page without proper authentication. This is a great feature, however if you have a page or pages within your asp application that you want to display to non authenticated users you won’t be able because of ASP Authentication restrictions. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on How to Allow/Deny access to Anonymous users in your ASP Application

Note: For the purposes of this guide, I will grant access to non authenticated to the ‘credits’ page of my ASP application.

1. Open the web.config file of your ASP application.

How to Set a Machine Key to Your Custom ASP Application

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 08:30 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:00

Machine key is used for authentication and security in ASP. If you have an asp application that requires login, you must set the Machine Key for security and to avoid a viewstate validation error. A viewstate validation error will log off any user connected to your application even if you set a 8 hours timeout. For that reason, In this article I will give a step by step guide on how to set a Machine Key to your ASP Application

The Machine Key <machineKey> element helps to control tamper proofing and encryption of ViewState, forms authentication tickets, and role cookies. Instead of creating a complicated function, we will use a tool to generate random machine keys.

1. Go to this address and get a random machine key. It should look like this:

How to Increase or Decrease Session Timeout in Your ASP.NET Application

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 05:41 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Monday, 5 November 2012 12:00

In this article, I will give you a step by step guide on how to set, increase or decrease session timeout for your ASP Application.

1. To set the session timeout for your application we will use the timeout attribute. The timeout attribute indicates the time (minutes) that the user will stay logged in into your application. To set the time, we will edit the web.config file your application.

2. Open web.config and look for this tag:

<authentication mode=”Forms”>

3. Now, we are going to add the timeout parameter. We will set it for 600 minutes:

How to Setup CloudFlare on ASP Accounts

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:02 Written by Arian Jahansouz Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:02

CloudFlare is the web’s easiest performance and security solution. You can learn more about what CloudFlare is in this article. This article will give you a step-by-step guide on how to setup CloudFlare on your ASP account.

To begin, visit the CloudFlare signup page by clicking here:

1) Enter your email address into the email address boxes