How to prevent image hotlinking from your website

hotlinking or Image hotlinking: when someone uses a link of an image from one site into another website is known as image hotlinking. This can increase bandwidth uses, even if the site is not being viewed by many users. 

In this video tutorial you are going to learn how to prevent image hotlinking from your website:

Prevent hotlinking using URL Rewrite in IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 

How to Configure Request Filtering for File Name Extensions in IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012

Request Filtering is used for restricting the types of HTTP requests that processed by IIS 8. it help to prevent potentially harmful requests from reaching the server. The request filter module scans incoming requests and rejects requests that are unwanted based upon the rules that you set up.

If you have configured Request Filtering users will get this error "404 file or directory not found" when they try to access the blocked file name extension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7ER0eeOqU

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Solveing Windows firewall can't change some of your settings. Error code 0x80070422 on Windows Server 2012

Windows firewall can't change some of your settings. Error code 0x80070422

This problem occurs when there is some error in Windows firewall services and it is stopped.

To Solve this problem:- 

You Should be login as an Administrator

Goto run type:- Services.msc  

Next:-

Scroll until you see Windows Firewall. 

Next:-

Double-click Windows Firewall.

Next:-

Click the drop-down list next to Startup type, and then click Automatic. 

Next:-

Click Apply,  then click Start, and then click Ok.

Next:-

Now of you check the Windows Firewall should be enabled.

See the step by step video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hn077ejKqs

How to configure multiple sites using Host Name in IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012

Its easy to understand difference between host name and domain name. When we buy a domain name for example itzoz.com its a host name, but its considered the default host name for the domain because it dose not have any host segment. We can use domain name to setup any number of host names like www.itzoz.com,  it.itzoz.com, and videos.itzoz.com  most of the times these are called sub-domains.

How to assign a separate Port numbers to the for each website with same IP address in IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012

In this tutorial you are going to see how to assign a separate Port numbers to the for each website with same IP address in IIS 8.
This is very useful when you want to configure multiple website using a single ip address and you don't have a domain name.