Enable TCP/IP Protocol and set Login mode to Mixed mode in C#

Try to enable Microsoft SQL Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocol and set the Login mode to Mixed mode using C# without involve registry. Come across information below http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2266697/changing-sql-server-settings-programmatically

The information is really helpful but when try it in SQL Server 2008 using the C# source code given, it's not working very well. Then try to do some testing and finally it's work. I've added a line srv.Settings.Alter();



private static bool SetServerProperties()
    {
        #region standardize Connection String
        string tempCatalog = "master";
        string temp = @"Data Source=" + dataSource + ";Initial Catalog=" + tempCatalog + ";Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True";
        #endregion

        SqlConnection sqlconnection = new SqlConnection(temp);
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select @@ServerName", sqlconnection);
        sqlconnection.Open();
        string serverName = "";
        try
        {
            SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
            while (dr.Read())
                serverName = dr[0].ToString();
        }
        catch
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Failed to Set SQL Server Properties for remote connections.");
        }

        Server srv = new Server(serverName);
        srv.ConnectionContext.Connect();
        srv.Settings.LoginMode = ServerLoginMode.Mixed;
srv.Settings.Alter(); 

        ManagedComputer mc = new ManagedComputer();

        try
        {
            Service Mysvc = mc.Services["MSSQL$" + serverName.Split('\\')[1]];

            if (Mysvc.ServiceState == ServiceState.Running)
            {
                Mysvc.Stop();
                Mysvc.Alter();

                while (!(string.Format("{0}", Mysvc.ServiceState) == "Stopped"))
                {
                    Mysvc.Refresh();
                }
            }

            ServerProtocol srvprcl = mc.ServerInstances[0].ServerProtocols[2];
            srvprcl.IsEnabled = true;
            srvprcl.Alter();


            Mysvc.Start();
            Mysvc.Alter();

            while (!(string.Format("{0}", Mysvc.ServiceState) == "Running"))
            {
                Mysvc.Refresh();
            }
            return true;
        }
        catch
        {
            MessageBox.Show("TCP/IP connectin could not be enabled.");
            return false;
        }
    }


Thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/users/1635051/reza-ameri

EC2: Access to PHP (Apache) in windows server

My Amazon EC2 is running in Windows 2008 Server R2 with IIS. I can access to aspx pages via Elastic IP http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx easily without any problem.

Now i want to have my php application with Apache running in the same server with same IP but port http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:81 to display in the web

There are mainly 3 important steps

1. Change httpd.config (configuration file for apache)
   Find line with Listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (or localhost) and change to Listen 0.0.0.0:81
   Find line with ServerName  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  (or localhost)  and change to ServerName  0.0.0.0:81
   Save the file and restart apache 
2. Go to windows firewall and add Port 81 in inbound rules
   
   
3. Add Port 81 to EC2 Security Group. Remember to apply the rule after added.
   
   

Done. It's work like charm!