Wednesday, August 22, 2012

BLUEHOST: WP_MAIL ISSUE


BLUEHOST: WP_MAIL ISSUE

The default mailing behavior for WordPress typically fails based on the fact that it does not provide an appropriate From: header, which is a strict requirement in our hosting. The simple and effective work around is to install the MailFrom WordPress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/) which gives you simple control over the formatting of the From: header and allows you to set the mail as being sent from any user you wish rather than the default WordPress user which will often not exist in the cPanel email accounts, resulting in yet another point of failure for proper mail delivery in our hosting. I've yet to encounter anyone who has not been able to get WordPress sending mail with ease after having installed the MailFrom plugin.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Disallowed Path Characters in IIS7


This error is often seen in classic ASP when the site is loaded for the first time,
 
Server.MapPath() error 'ASP 0175 : 80004005'
Disallowed Path Characters

To resolve this error

1) To see the real error, go to MMC and load the IIS Manager snap-in and go to your website. Double click on "ASP" in the Features View tab, drill down.

2) Expand the ' Behaviour'  section and set the value of ' Enable parent paths' to 'true'.