DNN site's search issue with index outside bounds of array

I had an issue with a DotNetNuke 7.4 site's DB size. It had grown way too big and we found out about it because of the server's warnings about low disk..

Both Exceptions and EventLog tables had three new logs (General Exception, Scheduler Event Failure, Scheduler Exception) every 30 seconds saying that the "Index was outside the bounds of the array."

Homemade certificates for the web developers

Working with the web, you will definitely end up having to generate a trusted certificate at least for your localhost. In my case, I have been working with certificates a bit more and the need of a personal CA was obviously the best solution. Moreover, I wanted to modify Fiddler's CA name to avoid having the ugly "DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot". This post describes how I automated the certificate generation process and also mitigated the Firefox's warning about the old SHA1 hashing.

“Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission’” fix

If you try to transfer an old DNN installation to a brand new Windows Server 2008 R2 you will probably run in the following run time error:
" System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed."

Securing Asp.net applications by hidding response header

Although it’s fairly obvious that a website is running asp.net (through session cookie and the viewstate) you may protect your server by removing a few response headers that advertise the iis and the asp.net version. The most common response headers you should remove are the following:

• X-Powered-By:ASP.NET
• X-AspNet-Version:*.*.*
• Server:Microsoft-IIS/*.*