What Do Trust Levels Mean?

Trust Level plays a vital role in web hosting operation, and different trust levels do affect the right of users to run and administrate websites applications.

Trust levels allow you to set the security rules of your site. They dictate to the operations an application can carry out like reading a disk, changing file permission, accessing registry and customizing system files among others.

There are different trust levels, and each has a policy file associated with the exception of the Full trust. The user sets how the trust levels manage access to different aspects. You may decide to restrict access to different resources and operations that you feel are not secure. You set the <trust> feature a given trust level. The levels include full, high, medium, Low and minimal trust levels.

Type of Trust Permission

Full Trust Level

If applications are set at full trust level, they will be able to execute arbitrary code that is native in their process of their running. However, most people feel that this comes with risks of accessing malicious codes, and its lack of a policy file makes most users avoid it.

High Trust Level

This uses most .NET Framework approvals and support trust only partially. This is mostly for applications you trust and want to have fewer user rights to reduce the risks involved. It offers same application access as the full trust level but restricts COM Interop and unmanaged code.

Medium Trust Level

Medium trust applications can read and write on the directories associated to them, at the same time communicate with Microsoft SQL Server. The code does not grant user rights to access ODBC or OLE DB. You should set this mostly on shared server as it allows communication to SQL server files and withholds the user rights to the root structure of the application.

Low Trust Level

Though this low trust code can read its application, it cannot communicate to the database or to the network. By using this code, you allow applications to access their applications and restrict access to external resources such as system resources.

Minimal Trust Level

Minimal trust applications code allows execution of resourcing but restricts interaction with the resources. It is the best for hosting sites with a high number of websites.

 If you want to know what is the trust level you must learn each of the above trust levels and how they impact on your website. However, your web hosting providers may offer comprehensive information when you do not understand the any of the levels.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the latest Moodle manually on Windows Server hosting environment with Plesk Control panel and will show you the error during the installation. Hope this tutorial will help you.

Moodle Installation Requirement

To install Moodle, we need to make sure that your server support the latest PHP 5.4 version or higher. Without this PHP version, we can’t install the latest Moodle version. And also you need to install MySQL on your server. With our configuration settings (Plesk), we have install MySQL previously and you can create the database via Control Panel. Please see this complete steps how to install Moodle

1. Download the latest Moodle version directly on their site https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/. Just download it to your computer.

2. Login to your Plesk Control Panel and add MySQL database.

3. Extract the Moodle file to your root folder.

4. Then, you may try to browse your site and it will prompt permission error as below

5. What we need to do is give full permission to root folder and then change the open_basedir restriction to NONE on your Plesk Control Panel. Login to your Control Panel, find PHP settings on your Plesk Control Panel and then set open_basedir to None and then click OK. Please see this image below:

6. Browse your site again. It will ask the Moodle installation.

7. It will show the error message again:

"Parent directory (C:\ClientSites\MyDomain.com) is not writeable. Data directory (C:\ClientSites\MyDomain.com\moodledata) cannot be created by the installer."

Then, please give full permission again to C:\ClientSites\MyDomain folder. Once, you have given the permission, then you can continue the installation.

8. Once you click Next, it will ask the database server that you want to use. In this case, we use MySQL server so we select MySQL.

9. Once you click Next, Moodle requires your database details. Please make sure you fill the correct details so you can continue the installation.

10. Once you have filled all your database details, it will show this error message

If you receive this error message, then refresh the installation again

11. Once you have refreshed it, you won’t see this error message again. You will be asked about language that you want to use.

12. Then, some of you find this error message:

HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error
c:\php-fastcgi\php-cgi.exe - The FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout

This is the last error that you might find during the installation. If you can fix this issue, then the Moodle is ready. This issue is about the timeout error, so we need to increase PHP activity timeout on the server.

How to Increase Fast-CGI ActivityTimeout in IIS

When your PHP script runs longer than 10 minutes (600 seconds) you will get an 500 Internal server error.

To fix this issue you will need to increase the fastCgi activityTimeout in IIS7.

1. Start a command promt and go to this folder:

c:\Windows\System32\inetsrv

2. Execute this command to see the current settings:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd list config -section:system.webServer/fastCgi

Output will be something like this:

<system.webServer>
<fastCgi>
<application fullPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.4\php-cgi.exe" monitorChangesTo="php.ini" activityTimeout="600" requestTimeout="600" instanceMaxRequests="10000">
<environmentVariables>
<environmentVariable name="PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" value="10000" />
<environmentVariable name="PHPRC" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.4" />
</environmentVariables>
</application>
</fastCgi>
</system.webServer>

3. To change the timeout to 1 hour (3600 seconds) execute the following command:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/fastCgi "-[fullPath='C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.4\php-cgi.exe'].activityTimeout:3600"

Not the use of double and single quotes to specify the correct parameters.

4. After you run this command you will see this output:

Applied configuration changes to section "system.webServer/fastCgi" for "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST" at configuration commit path "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APPHOST"

After running the list config command again the output now looks like this:

<system.webServer>
<fastCgi>
<application fullPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.4\php-cgi.exe" monitorChangesTo="php.ini" activityTimeout="3600" requestTimeout="600" instanceMaxRequests="10000">
<environmentVariables>
<environmentVariable name="PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" value="10000" />
<environmentVariable name="PHPRC" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.4" />
</environmentVariables>
</application>
</fastCgi>
</system.webServer>

As you can see the activityTimeout is now increased.

5. Restart your IIS service and your good to go.

Conclusion

I hope article above help you to install Moodle. Please feel free to share this tutorial if you find this is useful. Thank you for reading this tutorial.

Speed is essential for your website and can determine the success of your online business. Slow loading pages are bad for business and your visitors will be reluctant and leave your site and seek another one. In fact, you can lose rankings in search results, however we are here to help you and below we share several tips to help users improve their WordPress website speed.

Choose a reliable web hosting provider

An efficient and reliable wordpress hosting is definitely essential to your fast loading speed. If you select one not so efficient you may experience problems such as frequent down (during high peak) traffic times, slow website speed and slow servers.

Select an appropriate theme

When you decide on a Theme, what you should take into consideration is not just a basic theme, but also a framework for extra benefits to your weblog site, for instance, you should look at how often the framework is modified and whether it is protected enough.

Database Optimization

WordPress uses the database to store pages, posts, settings, comments and plugin information. Whenever a page is loaded, WordPress automatically reads the. It’s important for databases to be optimized on a consistence basis; this is because the information shown or found may take a long time when your database is too busy. We recommend using the WP-DBManager plugin, which restores, optimizes and helps you back up your database.

Delete spam comments

We recommend cleaning up and deleting spam comments because they help slow your website down. Users can modify their site quicker by removing them from your WordPress dashboard. Simply just click the “Empty spam” button and this will clear all the current spam comments on your site. Furthermore, there’s hundreds of WordPress spam plugins to eliminate the spam also i.e. Spam Comments Cleaner.

Delete Post Revisions

When editing a post in WordPress, the old version will be saved. So every post will more likely end up with 10 post or more, so removing these revisions can help speed up your WordPress site to some level. If you want to delete WordPress revisions, we recommend choosing the “Better Delete Revision “plugin and after installed, simply go to your settings and click the Check Revision Posts and delete them, that’s it!

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