Load balancing with Helicon Ape mod_proxy

Helicon Ape mod_proxy module provides simple way to configure load balancer. This article is giving explicit instructions of how to configure and test such load balancer.

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Trace HTTP traffic and IIS configuration

Since build 3.0.0.43 Helicon Ape is equipped with brand new mod_developer module.
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Keyword reach URLs in 5 minutes

This article is an introduction as well as a detailed guide to new mod_seo module being an integral part of Helicon Ape 3 which is destined to build good-looking URLs based on the application’s DB data or maps without necessity to change anything in its code.

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Automatic cache cleaning in Helicon Ape

Up to version 3.0.0.39 Helicon Ape cache could be cleaned only manually. Memory-based cache (mod_mem_cache) required recycling of corresponding application and disk-based cache (mod_disk_cache) cleaning implied manual files deletion form the file system. That was slightly inconvenient, to put it mildly.
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Titbits: Making Ape work with Plesk 9.5.1

If you have Ape and Plesk installed on your server, you may come across the issue that Ape is not working in it’s entirity. This may be caused by the fact that Plesk overrides the handlers list for each domain it creates. Continue reading →

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Titbits: Disabled ASP.NET handler prevents Ape from working

There have always been problems with any kind of software, when the software itself is installed correctly but doesn’t seem to work.

The same problem occured with Helicon Ape while installing on Windows Server 2003, IIS6. User had full control of config files and was able to browse the sites in IIS, but not a single rule took effect.

Investigation of the problem led us to IIS Manager/Web Service Extensions. The ASP.NET handler was disabled, which was completely blocking Helicon Ape operation.
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ISAPI_Rewrite3 vs LinkFreeze – which is better?

From time to time we get the questions of this kind on our forum/email, so I guess it’s time to show the difference to everyone.
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Titbits: Plus sign in IIS7

This seems to be a known issue, but I’ll cover it once again just in case…

So, after fresh install of IIS7 you are likely to notice that requests containing plus (‘+’) character are not accepted.
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Two-digit back-references in ISAPI_Rewrite and Ape

We’ve planned to implement it for a long time and eventually it’s done.

In ISAPI_Rewrite 3.1.0.70 and Ape 3.0.0.32 one can have more than 9 submatches and consequently more than 9 back-references in both RewriteCond and RewriteRule (RewriteProxy, RewriteHeader) statements.
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"Zip and save" option in Ape Manager

Hello, everyone!

We want to inform you of a new helpful feature that is available in Helicon Ape 3.0.0.32 and higher.

To make your interaction with our support team more fruitful we’ve introduced a context menu item “Zip and Save Ape Configuration” that makes an archive including all Ape config files for current location (on which you right-clicked) and its parents, web.config and Ape rewrite and error logs.
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