Inveigled By Design

I’ve been playing around with Silverlight 3 on Vista and having problems getting the test pages to display in IE 8. IE had the very helpful message “Internet Explorer cannot display the page”.

Thanks to Vijay Kodali I was able to find the answer.

Go to c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ and open the hosts file. You have [...]

For some reason I had a tough time finding this one, so for my own future use and in case it helps anyone else, here’s how you rewrite a url inside an nginx config file.
Calling the old url OldUrl and the url to map to newUrl, here it is:

server {
listen 80;
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