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5 Common Administrator Mistakes in CMS

JamesMcNally — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:17:10 +0000

A content management system (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. In a CMS, data can be defined as almost anything – documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, etc. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Content that is controlled is industry-specific. For example, entertainment content differs from the design documents for a fighter jet. There are various terms for systems (related processes) that do this. Examples are web content management, digital asset management, digital records management and electronic content management. Synchronization of intermediate steps, and collation into a final product are common goals of each.

When a CMS gets hacked, usually the reason for this is not that the CMS itself is insecure but that hackers took advantage of some common admin mistakes. The list of admin mistakes is pretty long but not surprisingly, the number of the most common ones is a single digit. Here are some of these mistakes you must know and never do in the CMS you administer:

1. Default passwords

One of the first things hackers check when they plan to attack is for “easy passwords”. Default passwords (i.e. the passwords that come together with the installation) are easy to find. It is true that many CMS don’t come with a default password or even if they do, the installation procedure will make you change your password before you can use the software but if your CMS comes with a default password, make sure that you change it.

2. No patches installed

It is true that installing tens of patches a day is boring but if you don’t watch out for (at least) the critical updates and don’t install them in a timely manner, this is an invitation to hackers. Hackers monitor reports for new vulnerabilities and rely on the fact that the administrator won’t install the patches immediately.

3. Unreliable and insecure web hosting

Insecure web hosting is one of the greatest danger for the security of your CMS. Vulnerabilities in the operating system and the other software that is installed on your web host are also among the favorite targets of hackers and the worst is that if your web host is insecure, there isn’t much you as an admin of your CMS can do to counteract it. You can’t fix the holes in the security of your web hosting provider and the only thing you can do is escape to a better web host.

4. Generous user privileges

There are hardly any admins (in their right mind), who will give admin privileges to ordinary users but there aren’t that few admins, who are really generous when user privileges are concerned. One of the most important security rules is the least privilege rule – i.e. give users access only to those parts of the site they really need to have in order to do their jobs.

5. Insecure plugins

Hackers might not enter through the front door of your CMS but if the other doors are open, they don’t need backdoors (i.e. malware) to gain access to your site. Almost any CMS relies on plugins to provide additional functionality and this is the charm of CMS because you get a base installation and you have the freedom to add only the functionality you need but this freedom is also a security risk.

1. Default passwords

2. No patches installed

3. Unreliable and insecure web hosting

4. Generous user privileges

5. Insecure plugins

As a world leading web hosting industry, webhostforasp.net has many experiences in CMS. We are fully aware of many hacker’s threats out there. That’s why we regularly update our CMS version with the latest patch in order to provide secure environment for our customers who want to use CMS as their main web site. Looking for secure web hosting? don’t go anywhere, because webhostforasp.net is your right choice!

Windows Web-App Gallery Service

JamesMcNally — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:13:56 +0000

The Windows Web Application Gallery makes it easy to explore, discover and install popular community ASP.Net and PHP applications on Windows. Users can browse and view applications for different types of Web sites, ranging from photo galleries to blogs to ecommerce sites.

The Web Application Gallery integrates with the Web Platform Installer 2.0, so that when a user clicks “Install” for an application, the Web Platform Installer 2.0 launches with context set on the user’s selection. This powerful combination of application discovery and simplified installation makes it easier than ever for community-based applications to run on Windows.

The Web Application Gallery also provides a way for developers to reach millions of Windows users. When an application is accepted by the Web Application Gallery, the application is added to the Web Application Gallery ATOM feed. The ATOM feed is consumed by the Web Application Gallery itself, Web Platform Installer 2.0, IIS7 Manager, and participating Hosting Control Panels.

Webhostforasp.net supports web-app gallery application, which will make their clients install many application easily. They just need a couple of clicks then the application installed. With Dotnetpanel control panel latest version supported, the web app gallery runs smoothly and makes your web developing world so much easier.

.Net 4.0 RC Released

JamesMcNally — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:38:59 +0000

The .NET Framework is Microsoft’s comprehensive and consistent programming model for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes

Enhancements to ASP.NET

More control over HTML, element IDs and custom CSS that make it much easier to create standards-compliant and SEO-friendly web forms.
New dynamic data features including new query filters, entity templates, richer support for Entity Framework 4, and validation and templating features that can be easily applied to existing web forms.
Web forms support for new AJAX library improvements including built-in support for content delivery networks (CDNs).

WebHostforasp.net proudly announce that .Net 4 RC is supported on their server with Windows 2008 and IIS 7 environment. If clients need to change their .net version to .net 4 RC then they need to request to support staff for this. Support staffs will change it manually.

Moodle Hosting Service

JamesMcNally — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:00:36 +0000

Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.

Moodle can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU). There are many knowledgeable Moodle Partners to assist you, even host your Moodle site. The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It’s also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.

There are many dimensions to interoperability for e-learning systems. Moodle’s interoperability features include:

Authentication, using LDAP, Shibboleth, or various other standard methods (e.g. IMAP)
Enrollment, using IMS Enterprise among other standard methods, or by direct interaction with an external database
Quizzes and quiz questions, allowing import/export in a number of formats: GIFT (moodle’s own format), IMS QTI, XML and XHTML (NB although export works very well, import is currently not complete). Moodle provides various types of questions – Calculated, Description, Essay, Matching, Embedded Answers, Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Numerical, Random Short-Answer Matching, True/False.
Resources, using IMS Content Packaging, SCORM, AICC (CBT), LAMS
Integration with other Content Management Systems such as Postnuke (via third-party extensions)
Syndication, using RSS or Atom newsfeeds – external newsfeeds can be displayed in a course, and forums, blogs, and other features can be made available to others as newsfeeds.

Steps to Have Your Own Website

JamesMcNally — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:34:36 +0000

There are several steps you need to take when you want to have your own website. Here are the three (3) basic steps of having your own website : create a website, get a web hosting service (including a domain name) for it and uploading all the web files using FTP client. These three steps will make you have a website published at your own domain like www.yourdomain.com.

Create a website First you have to create a website. Depending on your level on knowledge in web development you have the following options. Either you can create the site yourself through manual programming in an editor program like DreamWeaver, EditPlus or Notepad. Otherwise there are a number of open source alternatives available without any requirement of prior programming knowledge.There also an easy way by using a CMS, CMS is designed to simplify the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices, in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. There are many CMS, one of them is Joomla, Joomla is a free CMS software which basically creates the site for you and eases the task of content administration. The only thing you have to do is to install it properly. In addition to this, you are also normally granted free access to site-building tools when you sign up for a hosting plan.
Get a Hosting Plan and domain name Next step is to find somewhere online to put your website files and assign an address to that somewhere. Any given hosting plan include storage space on a web server and a domain name registration. Depending on what size your website has and potential traffic volume it’s going to generate, you get a hosting plan based on three factors – storage space, bandwidth and CPU. Nowadays, there are many qualitative and cheap web hosting plans to choose between.
Upload your files Upload your files to the root directory of your purchased web hosting server space. You can do this either by using your hosting account’s in house file manager, but those are often slow and manage large file volume poorly. Our recommendation is to get your hands on a FTP client. More specifically, a FireFox add-on by the name FireFTP. It will allow you to access your hosting account directly in the web browser and transfer website files with ease.

WebHostForAsp.net is a reliable web hosting company, Webhostforasp.net has many qualified support staffs whom could support your dream to have your own website comes true, they will assist you to upload the files, make sure your site is working and many things. Webhostforasp.net is a reliable windows web hosting company that you can trust.

MsSql 2008 For All Plans

JamesMcNally — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:07:06 +0000

We have provided MSSQL 2008 database for all of our plans including the Personal Plan, We support 1 MSSQL database with 100 MB quota for the Personal Plan.

Sharepoint Hosting

JamesMcNally — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:37:59 +0000

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.

Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) includes several major components:

An underlying framework including an object model, persistent storage of content and configuration in SQL server databases, and ASP.NET controls for presenting the content
A management web site for managing a “web farm” consisting of one or more servers hosting one or more web sites
Built in template sites and pages that can be used to quickly create your own sites and add pages and libraries to existing sites
Site editing web controls that allow you to edit the structure of your web site, modify the layout and contents of individual pages, create new workspaces and lists, and edit the schema of existing objects
An indexer that crawls content databases indexing their contents for fast searching
A collection of additional template sites and pages, including additional logic in code, known as “Application Templates”
A configuration wizard that helps you get an initial site set up within minutes

Collaborate Easily and Effectively

Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to make more informed decisions and get the job done. Enhancements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 make it easier than ever to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.

Provide a single workspace for teams to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions—within the organization and over the extranet.
Easily author and manage documents, and help to ensure their integrity with enhanced features including the option to require document checkout before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security.
Help people and teams stay on task with a variety of communication features that let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards.
Provide creative forums for brainstorming ideas, building knowledge bases, or simply gathering information in an easy-to-edit format with new templates for implementing blogs (also known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that can be quickly edited by team members—no special technical knowledge required).
Stay productive while mobile with enhanced support for offline synchronization through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that users can use to manage document libraries, lists, calendars, contacts, tasks, and discussion boards even offline, and to synchronize changes when reconnected to the network.

Webhostforasp.net completely support sharepoint hosting for all their clients. They support Windows Sharepoint Service 3.0 service pack 2. The latest version of Windows Sharepoint Service edition. We will help our client for the sharepoint parts and templates installation. Webhostforasp.net is your right partner to enter the sharepoint world. Please check this link for further information http://www.webhostforasp.net/Sharepoint-Hosting.aspx

Why Reliable Web Hosting Provider?

JamesMcNally — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:37:44 +0000

The internet business is one that is quite interesting because of the various dynamics going on in the business simultaneously with each other. There are so many people interested in so many things when it comes to the best web hosting that quite often so many people really don’t focus on any one aspect in order to achieve the results that they want. A very good example of this is in the case of web hosting. Words like top, best, great, good and other descriptive terms are the words that tend to be used in terms of discussing web hosting, rather than very objective statistics that actually show the worthiness of a particular web hosting website.

Now the question comes up, why we need to choose the best or reliable web hosting company? Because we need to make sure our web site is online 24 hours and we also need to make sure we get the service when we really need the service.

Reliable web hosting is vital for serious business clients who need their web sites to be fully-functional and their domains accessible at all times. These businesses could be any online industry, be it bank, financial institutes, railway and flight online booking sites or even ecommerce sites. Only with help of reliable web hosting can you maintain the highest level of security for discreet user transaction on any website. All ecommerce websites are integrated with payment gateways and if your web hosting is not secure or reliable then anyone can hack your site and you can lose essential online cash flows.

Webhostforasp.net not also known as web hosting provider, but we provide more, we provide number one service, we provide best server performance and we commit our self to give customer support 60/60/24/7 (always online). We understand in this era, internet becomes so important and so your web site uptime. We have qualified technician in our data center always ready for supporting any trouble with your website. Webhostforasp.net is beyond web hosting, it’s what you need when you want to online!

Blogging is a Great SEO TOOL

JamesMcNally — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:54:55 +0000

Great SEO Tools take advantage of your normal working methods to give you an added edge. They’re non-intrusive but great in terms of improving your search engine rankings. One such tool is the blog.

You can look at a blog from several perspectives. For most people, it is just a simple self-expression method, others see it as a discussion forum. However, if you look at a blog not only as all of the above but also as a SEO tool, your handling of the blog will change. How you write your posts will change.How you think about your blog will change. You’ll then be able to derive great business value from your blog.

Search engines love keyword rich content and inbound links. While traditional SEO tools do this by making you manage links to other sites and increase or optimize keyword usage, your blog is doing this in the most natural way and gives you a great big, ready-made user base! Of course, before your blog does become your SEO tool of choice, there is a lot of work to be done. You will not be able to build the niche you are looking for if you do not focus completely on the quality of your blog. This means that your content has to be great and the better than average informed reader still has to find something worth reading on your blog.

Blogging is one such method. Blogs traditionally have a large number of posts on them that relate to a specific subject. Readers who are interested will come to the blog, read what is on offer, agree / disagree and leave feedback and comments. If you promote your blog actively, you will also visit the blogs of your readers, and leave comments on their sites along with a link back to your blog. Can you see how the blog is beginning to behave like a SEO tool?

Two things happen if you handle this well – your blog gets lots of keyword rich content and it gets a lot of links to itself from other sites. Either way, your business gains.

Webhostforasp.net provides SEO services for all their clients. Webhostforasp.net provides article submission, search engine submission, directory submission service and many other SEO services. Please go to http://www.webhostforasp.net/seo-service/ for further information. Webhostforasp.net also supports blog hosting service for all his clients, Webhostforasp.net supports many blog engines installation and pre-installed application.

URL Rewrite Module On IIS 7.0

JamesMcNally — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:57:49 +0000

The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to:

Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications;
Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables;
Web site content handling;
Controlling access to web site content based on URL segments or request metadata

Features

The Microsoft URL rewrite module includes these key features:

Rules-based URL rewriting engine. Rewrite rules are used to express the logic of what to compare/match the request URL with and what to do if comparison was successful. Web server and site administrators can use rewrite rule sets to define URL rewriting logic.
Regular expression pattern matching. Rewrite rules can use ECMA-262 compatible regular expression syntax for pattern matching.
Wildcard pattern matching. Rewrite rules can use Wildcard syntax for pattern matching
Global and distributed rewrite rules. Global rules are used to define server-wide URL rewriting logic. These rules are defined within applicationHost.config file and they cannot be overridden or disabled on any lower configuration levels. Distributed rules are used to define URL rewriting logic specific to a particular configuration scope. This type of rules can be defined on any configuration level by using web.config files.
Access to server variables and http headers. Server variables and HTTP headers provide additional information about current HTTP request. This information can be used to make rewriting decisions or to compose the output URL.
Various rule actions. Instead of rewriting a URL, a rule may perform other actions, such as issue an HTTP redirect, abort the request, or send a custom status code to HTTP client.
UI for managing rewrite rules and rewrite maps. Rewrite rules and rewrite maps can be added, removed and edited by using “URL Rewrite Module” feature in IIS Manager.
GUI tool for importing of mod_rewrite rules. URL rewrite module includes a GUI tool for converting rewrite rules from mod_rewrite format into an IIS format.

Webhostforasp.net uses IIS 7.0 platform on Windows 2008 server. We Provide our clients with URL Rewrite Module, so they could use URL rewrite easily. Now if you have Wordpress blog, it will automatically synchronize to the URL rewrite module when you set the permalinks up. Webhostforasp.net always provide the latest technologies!