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What are compelling use cases for having both Chef/Puppet and RightScale/Scalr?
I was wondering about the differences between cloud computing management tools and server configuration software as there seems to be an overlap between them. I would like to have some feedback from ...
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How much memory should I put in our SQL server 2008 server?
Currently our SQL server 2008 machine has 24 gb of memory.
After analyzing some reports (PAL) and performance counters, I came to the conclusion that the server could use some more memory.
What is a ...
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What is the Ubuntu command that allows you to specify what you will use the server for?
When you install an Ubuntu server, you get a screen to choose if it should have OpenSSH, be a LAMP server, have visualization, ...
There is some console command that shows you the same menu. What is ...
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mysql libs conflict with with mysql client
I am trying to get redmine up and running and its not been going well. Currently I am trying to install the required package mysql-devel and getting the error:
Transaction Check Error:
file ...
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Error Connection to SQL Server using [HOSTNAME]\instance or [FQDN]\Instance, [IP]\instance working
This one's kind of weird, at least to me.
I've got MSSQL server 2k5 (STD) installed on Server 2k3 R2 SP2 (on account of some legacy software that doesn't yet support x64 or Server 2008), using ...
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Using Augeas to modify Squid configuration
I'm running squid-deb-proxy and I want to alter the configuration using Puppet/Augeas.
When I try this:
augeas {'squid-deb-proxy.conf':
lens => 'Squid.lns',
incl => ...
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nginx: How can I set proxy_* directives only for matching URIs?
I've been at this for hours and I can't figure out a clean solution.
Basically, I have an nginx proxy setup, which works really well, but I'd like to handle a few urls more manually. Specifically, ...
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xlsx fix - on the server vs in php
We have a php application, and xlsx files are getting downloaded as zip files.
I've seen many posts with solutions for handling this - with htaccess, httpd.cond, and mime.types files.
Our files ...
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Configuring Windows Server 2008 IIS for large static downloadable files
I'm setting up a Windows server that is Quad Core and 8GB RAM. It will be used for serving static downloadble files (.zip, exe etc) what are some configs that I should do in IIS?
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Using nginx's try_files with behaviour on HTTP method
I've cleaned up my nginx config replacing all the ifs with try_files but I've got this last one that is bugging me. I wan't it to behave like try_files only if the HTTP method is not DELETE. Delete is ...
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Plesk control pannel installing Tocmcat deleted Apache configurations. How to restore?
I updated the Plesk control pannel from 7.1 to 10.3.1. It got updated successfully however after some days when i tried to install tomcat using Toos and Utils -> Updates -> install new software. But ...
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Is it possible to reduce this nginx proxy configuration?
I'm having an hard time trying to find out how to reduce this "repeated lines" for my NGinx configuration, just to change one property :
server {
#listen [::]:443 ipv6only=on; ## listen for ...
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how to config VPS with plesk and glassfish [closed]
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how to config VPS with plesk and glassfish
I have VPS with plesk and Appache in it.
I installed glassfish on it and deploy my project.
now i can see my project in this ...
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configuring varnish, and document root directory of varnish
due to heavy load and disk issue we are going to use varnish webserver
we have worked on nginx and apache webserver
we heard that varnish is little more fast because it store web pages in memory ...
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Recomended Apache configuration?
Sorry to ask a question like this if its too superficial for you. Considering the information below, how would you configure httpd.conf?
The load time of pages reaches to 30 seconds when the server ...
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Apache virtual host config not working for one hosts
I am new to configuring Apache. I have two applications that I need to run locally, they are running on different servers - one on jboss and the other on Jetty. Now both of them use the same Apache ...
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How to add file handlers in Apache2?
I moved a website from another server to mine and there is a PHP file with .ph extension. On other server it worked fine, but not on the new one. It just tries to download the file in question, ...
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server handover document template - users, security settings (firewall,selinux), packages etc
As part of the handover of our linux application server automated builds I would like to produce a high level "handover document" which captures the key functions and config items. (This is more of a ...
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How do you conditionally include files in Nginx vhost?
In the lines below, I might have a site-specific configuration file that contains additional fastcgi_params unique to that site. If this file exists I want to load it.
server {
listen 80 ...
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MySQL - Changing FT_MIN_WORD_LEN (my.ini)
I've recently asked my server administrator, for my Windows dedicated server, to change the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf) to allow search words of 2 characters or more, from the default of 4.
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Tomcat 7.0.16 not accepting password for webapp
I am trying to set up Tomcat to password protect an entire webapp, but when I get the password prompt, it's not accepting the username/password I'm providing to it (just keeps prompting for the ...
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Apache hung connections on traffic spikes due to MinSpareThread
I'm trying to solve this issue on my company high traffic sport website: on particular sport events a lot of people open the website at the same time, causing a big requests spike. Five Apache load ...
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Possible to have multiple IP addresses for a server that point to different doc roots?
Ok, so my set up is as follows:
I own a domain, let's call it domain.com.
I have an amazon AWS account with one micro-instance (free tier).
domain.com and www.domain.com both point to a static IP ...
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Mapping all subdomains of a domain to an IP
How should I set up a server to map all subdomains of a domain to an IP?
I wish I could do something like that in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 *.example.com
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Why cache static files with Varnish, why not pass
I have a system runnning nginx / php-fpm / varnish / wordpress and amazon s3.
Now I have looked at a lot of configuration files while setting up the system, and in all of them I found something like ...
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What's causing these 403 errors for the DocumentRoot on my Apache setup?
I'm configuring Apache myself, and trying to force myself to (re-)learn the configuration process. It's been a long time!
Version is Apache/2.2.21 running on Amazon Linux
I'm planning on running a ...
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How to setup Tomcat 6 with Lighttpd so that Tomcat6 forwards requests to Lighttpd
I have run into this scenario where I have a Rackspace VPS server running Ubuntu 10.10 with Tomcat 6 serving a moderately complex JAVA WebApp using a fixed domain. The problem is that I would like to ...
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Would a server with a NAS mounted be an issue for this? [closed]
I am writing a web app and trying to decide the best set up for this. Here is the background.
The web app will be for independent film makers. The film makers will be uploading quite large movie ...
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my.cnf and php.ini configuration
What do you guys recommend for a 512MB linode vps? I am hosting a user-driven content upload web site which is powered by wordpress. It's a new site so what do you recommend for my.cnf and php.ini ...
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MS SQL Hardware Configuration
About to order a replacement mirrored database pair to drive our multi-user web applications and looking for some guidance on some aspects. I have read various feedback on other posts but finding it ...
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Internal e-mails
We need to send mails from our domain (assume this is example.com) to our self. Now, the 'incoming' mails are handled by another server (from Google). We can send mails through sendmail to external ...
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Is TCP/IP required to connect to SQL Server 2008R2 with ODBC over a LAN *NOT* the internet
I have read one two three related threads but im not clear if SQL Server 2008 needs TCP/IP to make this work. Can it not accomplish with a pipe? I would prefer not to open up the machine to the ...
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How to retrieve all MySQL settings?
I have a configured MySQL server (MySQL 5.1.47-community) that works perfect. I installed a second server (MySQL 5.5.15-community) to see if the new version of MySQL would work with my application ...
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Directly editing IIS 7 applicationHost.config configuration file
I know that IIS 7+ now uses XML config files instead of the metabase. I also know that if I edit a web.config file for a given site, IIS automagically detects the changes and implements any ...
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What logs exist on an Exchange Hub Server that should be moved off the C:\ drive?
I'm trying to move any logs, queues, etc off the default C:\ drive, but am having trouble locating all the various settings.
This gets tougher when you consider diagnostic logging, and everything ...
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Why doesn't shared config on IIS 7.5 replicate app pool identity SIDs?
We have an IIS 7.5 server farm set up using shared config. The config files were exported to a network share accessible to both machines. We know the shared config is working because everything is ...
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Determining what's the slowest component of the server windows 2003
I'm trying to determine what needs to be upgraded on my server.
When doing some load testing I saw that the processor spiked to 100% . But how can I determine if the hdd might need an upgrade too ?
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How do you clone a sharepoint 2010 front end server and then add the clone to the farm?
We have a SharePoint 2010 farm with one front-end server. This server is a VMWare virtual machine. Let's call it SERVER1.
We want to add a new front-end server to this SP farm to enable load ...
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Cleaning up my configs with try_files in Nginx 0.8.54-4
After following the Pitfalls guide I am trying to cleanup my URL rewrites using the try_files directive. However, when using this on my install of Nginx 0.8.54-4 (from dotdeb) I get a prompt to ...
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Is it possible to rename php.ini to something else?
It's possible in apache's configuration httpd.conf to set up .htaccess so that it is named something different, using the AccessFileName .htaccess directive.
Is there any way to set up PHP so it ...
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Options for listing Apache vhost configuration (birds-eye)
I am using Ubuntu Linux with Apache2 and several vhosts, located in /etc/apache2/sites-available and symlinked (activated) from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. The default setup on Ubuntu.
I'd like to ...
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Nginx language redirect: /de/test/test.php to /test/test.php?
I'm trying to configure Nginx on a new server. I have a number of PHP scripts (f.e. /test/test.php) and I want to use this scripts "as is" (default language, English), as well as with language ...
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Should redundant servers have exactly the same configuration, or slightly different?
If you provide a service on two servers to ensure high-availability, is it better to configure them in exactly the same way, of instead should you introduce slight differences to prevent "freak ...
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IIS 7.5 gives 503 error after importing new configuration
recently I had to move all my applications from a server machine (which is going to be dismissed) to another one. Both machines run Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5.
I exported the configuration of ...
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Invalid variable error in Nginx Config - PHP-FPM but 502 Bad Gateway [Updated]
Update 2
I restarted the server and now all sites are resolving. I am assuming this must have been an error with PHP5-FPM after I killed Nginx without using the /etc/init.d/nginx -restart due to it ...
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Node.js and Apache on the same server, but different urls
I have a server behind the corporate firewall with only port 80 open. Is there any way to run Apache and Node.js separately on the same domain, but different urls? For example, can I run Apache on ...
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Stop nginx from trimming file name in directory list?
Just a quick question:
How can I prevent nginx from trimming file name with ... in listing directory?
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Apache User Directory URL
I have a SUSE server running and it is configured allow users to login with their windows credentials. I have apache with user directories turned on. So that users could upload their sites to the ...
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Is Jenkins/Hudson ciphered password storage “safe”?
In setting up our Jenkins/Hudson server recently it became clear that it has to store passwords. It seems that it stores the passwords "ciphered" in config.xml I can't see how this would be safe as ...
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Serve millions of concurrent connections and static files?
I am just curious about the server configurations to serve just static files from one server.
Is it possible to build a server that just for static files and serve millions of concurrent connections. ...
