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Two context-descriptor directories for Tomcat

My /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost looks like this: ROOT.xml manager.xml app1.xml -> /vol/tomcat/desc/app1.xml app2.xml -> /vol/tomcat/desc/app2.xml Now if I were to add an app3 to ...
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Why aren't local requests almost instant?

This is purely out of curiosity, but with every local server I've ever setup, there has always been a 0.5-2 second delay until pages are displayed. Just as an example, I've setup a completely blank ...
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How to troubleshoot banned connections on OS X / Ubuntu

I have an ubuntu 11.10 VM running on an OSX machine. Every once in a while some services become inaccessible from specific IPs (e.g. sometimes just ssh is blocked, and sometimes both ssh and https.) ...
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ssh login to strato vserver fails

I recently got problems login into my strato vserver with ssh. Using the mac terminal my Internet-Connection broke up for 1 second. Login in again the server throws back the following error message: ...
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Nginx config file only working for ''/"

I am setting up nginx as a sort of static file server. For some reason it is only working when I go to 123.123.123.123/ or 123.123.123.123. However, when I go to 123.123.123.123/static/content/ or ...
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How to search directories in home directory?

I want to find all dot directory in home directory find ~/ -name .* -Olevel 1 But it can not work
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Can installed packages (on Ubuntu) get removed from system during an update?

My apologies if this question seems dense - I'm fairly new to linux/Ubuntu. I'm pretty sure I had installed libmdbodbc some time ago on my Precise Pangolin version of Ubuntu, but recently when I ...
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using one of 2 DNSs differentiated by requested domain

I'm using some sort of a dns-proxy service (the details aren't clear but as far as I understand it works by resolving the the domain into a cloud based proxy server and returning it's address whilst ...
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tomcat wont start on ubuntu server

Original post I have a VPS and running a Tomcat server over a year without a problem. However, Tomcat just shutdowns right after VPS maintain and can not start again a week ago. I tried to reinstall ...
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Unable to open logs - Apache2 on Ubuntu 10.40

When I try to restart apache, I get the following: Starting web server apache2 (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, ...
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How to install Debian packages from list

How do you install Debian/Ubuntu packages from a file containing a list of package names? I have a file packages.txt like: apache2 install libapache2-mod-wsgi ...
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Reject all mail packages on all ports (outgoing) on Ubuntu

I just had a problem with our ISP; our internet connection was blocked because there was to much mail being send from our ip. The problem is that we all use gmail and that no mail is being send ...
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How can I downgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.0 in Ubuntu?

How can I downgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.0 in Ubuntu? I have installed Ubuntu 12.04. Sadly, there is a problem with OpenSSL 1.0.1 and I would need to downgrade to version 1.0.0. How can I do it the ...
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What specs should I seek in a medium-load web server? [closed]

I'm currently in the market for my first server, which I'll be using as a test & backup server as well as handling backend processing for a variety of web services getting 20,000-30,000 hits a ...
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Restored server from backup, now I'm missing a lot of modules

I had to restore a trashed filesystem from backup, now its not loading a lot of modules lsmod before: http://pastebin.com/MxEDZmqs lsmod after: http://pastebin.com/BthWiVXL It was a different ...
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Why is touch failing?

I must be missing something obvious. This works: [root@host2 /]# cd /home/mysite/public_html/../logs [root@host2 /home/mysite/logs]# touch x Why doesn't this? [root@host2 /]# touch ...
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MySQL, php-fpm, APC, Varnish and Nginx optimization for WordPress/W3 Total Cache?

I'm setting up my first VPS and it seems to be working well. Installed Nginx, php-fpm (as a unix socket), APC, Varnish and MySQL on Ubuntu 12.04 server with OnApp, and everything works and is damm ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 (server): Failed to load fallback graphics devices?

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 (server, x64) under ESXi 5.0 and it appears to be working fine, but when it boots I get the following message: * Starting load fallback graphics devices [fail] ...
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Regarding Reinstalling PostgreSQL

I was using PostgreSQL 8.4. I tried removing it through Synaptic Manager and then I tried to install 9.1, but I still version 8.4. I deleted all the files associated with postgresql. Now I am unable ...
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Managing XEN through virt-manager on ubuntu 12.04

I have been trying to make xen work on a remote machine with no GUI.Installed XEN hypervisor on the machine and booted in that kernel.Try to create VM using virt-manager. I tried accessing ...
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Grub2 reports physical volume pv0 not found when probing/installing

I upgraded a Ubuntu Maverick to Precise server but I get the following error while updating grub: error: physical volume pv0 not found. Now, for my system I have /dev/sda through /dev/sde ...
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Unable to install php-apc on Ubuntu 11.04

I've got Ubuntu 11.04 running on my Slicehost web server, and I'm trying to install php-apc? However, when trying to install with apt-get install php-apc I get: Reading package lists... Done ...
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multiple openVPN instances - tun1 fails

Various resources are on the below LAN, one of which is Linux openVPN server. For complicated reasons, I have to run 2 openVPN server instances, VPN1 and VPN2. VPN1 works great, hands out 10.8.0.x ...
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RAID -> LVM -> DRBD am I doing it right?

So I've setup RAID1 with an LVM on that and then used the LVM as a physical disk for DRBD. I'm planning on mounting the DRBD to /mnt/data and then moving all config and data files for apache2, mysql, ...
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new IP for ubuntu VPS can't ping outside the box / ssh hangs

my VPS provider just changed my VPS' IP, everything is working (like the webserver) but I have two problems when I login via SSH after I type the user the console hangs for about 10 seconds before ...
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Empty error on starting almost-default PostgreSQL

When trying to start PostgreSQL, I get this 'empty' error message: root@mountain-lion:/home/ubuntu# service postgresql start * Starting PostgreSQL 9.1 database server * Error: could not exec ...
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Rewrite URLs with Apache (to be used in combination with mod_proxy)

I'm using Apache and mod_proxy to provide access to the Monit GUI over HTTP. So far my configuration is as follows: ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow ...
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Prevent dependency from being installed with APT

I have this script line to install all packages for a new server. apt-get install mysql-server openjdk-7-jre-headless tomcat7 tomcat7-admin jsvc apache2 ntp subversion As you can see it installs ...
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Load balancing ISPs on Ubuntu Server

I have a Dell server with Ubuntu 11.10 Server installed on it. The server has 3 Ethernet cards eth0, eth1 and eth2. I have two ISPs say ISP1, ISP2 eth0 has a public IP (provided by ISP1 - we require ...
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PHP session timeout on shared sessions file storage

So to start of with I know that using a memcache or a database would be a better way to go. But I have (for now) made a load balance environment where I have a shared PHP session file storage. Some ...
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/var is using 91.4% of 3.99GB in new Ubuntu dedicated server from 1and1

Yesterday I purchased a dedicated server package from 1and1. I installed Rails, Mongo and nginx. Today, when I logged in, it displays this message: Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux ...
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Internet Sharing solution

I have a client that is a business. The people at this business are not in anyway computer savvy. I was asked to make a file server for them. This server will need to have four shares with a ...
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Varnish client.ip says 127.0.0.1

So I have a setup like Nginx -> varnish -> apache2 If I get a request with a static file it is sent through nginx to varnish and back to nginx again since its a lot faster than letting apache2 server ...
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What is the most simple way to install newer versions of RabbitMQ and Erlang on Ubuntu 10.04?

I need to use RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 10.04. I have installed it before, but it was for code testing/learning purposes. I want to use newer versions of Erlang and RabbitMQ than the ones provided in the ...
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Can Octopussy use messages other than syslog style?

I am currently exploring different options for a centralized log server. We use both Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 / 12.04, LTS for both) and Windows, though for this specific issue only Linux is relevant. I ...
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How to easily administer 5-12 computers with ubuntu?

I've been asked to provide a small business with an infrastructure similar to what you would find in larger companies for a minimum price (i.e. my services and that's it, they do not wish to pay for ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Apache Sluggish Performance

I've got two installs of ubuntu 12.04 running on VMware ESX host servers and I'm getting very sluggish performance loading web pages from apache compared to the other servers I have on the same data ...
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How to upgrade php curl on Ubuntu 10.04

I have a web service on 64bit AWS/ubuntu 10.04 machine. Current php ver PHP Version 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.15. Current curl ver: 7.19.7 This Curl version has a memory leak and I need to upgrade to V 7.25.0 ...
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Ubuntu and ZFS, loses pool on reboot

I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, with the ZFS PPA. I'm finding when I create a pool it will mount and function fine, but after a reboot it shows as UNAVAIL and I can't find a way to ...
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Removing write-protected'ness of a file system from terminal in Linux

I recently saw that my 2GB SanDisk microSD card was mounting as read-only filesystem on my linux (Ubuntu 10.10). I tried changing its property through nautilus, but it went in vain. Also I tried ...
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Change folder permission for apache on VPS

Symfony 2 config keeps saying Major problems have been detected and must be fixed before continuing : Change the permissions of the "app/cache/" directory so that the web server can write into ...
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dns configuration ubuntu server

how to make zone files auto updated? I mean It should add clients' computers' names. but it doesn't happend. even more - client can't ping itself with domain name. and nslookup for either 192.168.1.10 ...
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Hadoop on Ubuntu - two different install directories?

I recently installed Hadoop 1.0.3 from the .deb provided by Apache. The package installed correctly, but there seem to be two directories that have Hadoop-related files: /usr/share/hadoop has jars and ...
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Server crashing after Wordpress upgrade to latest version (nginx+php-fpm)

I upgraded Wordpress on my huge blog (around 300 000 visitors per day) from 2.8.4 to latest 3.3.2. Everything went well but my server started returning lot of Errors 502 although it worked perfectly ...
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Process in rc.local does not seem to run — where to see?

I want to run a process in rc.local (Ubuntu Natty) but I am having trouble determining if it has run. I added /bin/sleep 10 /usr/bin/killall PassengerWatchdog /bin/echo "Killall returned with code ...
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Why is my RapidSSL Certificate chain is not trusted on ubuntu?

I have a website that works perfectly with Chrome & other browser but i get some errors with PHP in CLI mode so i'm investigating it, running this: openssl s_client -showcerts -verify 32 -connect ...
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Postfix not sending email after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04

After upgrading a server from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04, postfix is no longer sending email through sendgrid.com. I followed this guide about 6 months ago and everything had been working perfectly until ...
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Cannot use I/O in console for Xen HVM running FreeBSD/pfSense

I've been having a really hard time trying to get a Xen HVM using pfSense 2 (based on FreeBSD 8.1) working. I can make the machine run, and boot from an ISO image, but I cannot get I/O to work in the ...
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Fail2ban don't want to start the server

I just installed fail2ban on my Ubuntu 10.04 server. I modified my jail.conf like this : http://pastebin.com/tEeM2hxe When i try to start the client it returns : ERROR Could not start server. ...
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Ubuntu: remotely disable upgrade?

I have a number of Ubuntu machines that have unattended-upgrades set up. I am running 11.10 and do not wish to update to 12.04. How can I disable the upgrade dialog (which still pops up after booting ...

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