How to Send Your Files to a FTP Server with WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 25 December 2012 12:00

In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to send your files to a your ftp server with WebsitePanel

1. Log into your WebsitePanel.

2. Click on Scheduled Task:

How to Deactivate PHP in WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 December 2012 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 23 December 2012 12:00

By default, PHP is active under our Windows Hosting. Many users were wondering if there was a way to totally disable PHP. In this article I will give a step by step guide on how to deactivate PHP in WebsitePanel

1. Log into your WebsitePanel.

2. Click on Websites:

How to Activate Perl in Virtual Directories with WebsitePanel

Last Updated on Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:00

Many users are wondering if their perl scripts will be able to work under our windows hosting. We do support Perl on our Windows Hosting. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to activate Perl in a virtual directory with WebsitePanel

1. Log into your WebsitePanel.

2. Click on Websites:

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: