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Apache2 Configuration for Multiple Name Based Virtual Server on 1 IP

I have been trying to configure virtual servers to my websites without any luck. I'm running on Debian 2.6.32 on a VPS. I have configured the virtual servers with many configurations and have left it ...
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I'm looking for a Debian VPS service. I'm unfamiliar with Debian - what questions should I ask?

I'm looking to find a VPS service, providing me with a low cost, hosted, Debian package. I'm unfamiliar with the OS, and, after looking at several offerings, I'm not entirely sure how I can best ...
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Clone a debian virtual private server

I would like to have a couple of VPS servers with identical configuration and software. Is there any chance to do something like this? : install one server do some sort of a backup get another blank ...
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Configuring VPS running OpenPanel for hosting with external nameservers

I have a VPS running Debian 6.0 and OpenPanel. With all the regulars already running(mysql, apache, php, etc) Now, i ran into the problem with domains and DNS. Im not really an expert in that area so ...
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Setting up VPS with MySQL - Can't find user and phpMyAdmin stopped responding [closed]

I'm helping out on a PHP project that was moved from a regular PHP hosting server to a VPS server due to load increase. The original site is somewhat simple. It only uses PHP 5.3, MySQL and Apache. ...
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Server rejects connections on svn:// protocol (SVN repositories)

I have Debian OS on my VPS server. I can connect with it via SSH, HTTP, FTP, but when I'm trying to operate on svn:// protocol, my server close connection after about 5 minutes from request. E.g. I ...
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Setting primary IP for VPS (out of 2 available)

I've got a little problem. My VPS (Debian box) has 1 primary IP address, but now my hosting provider decided to assign me another one due to problems with first one. Let's say new IP is 91.222.152.20 ...
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How do I apply multiple subnets to a server with one NIC?

I am trying to route multiple IPs through one physical NIC on my dedicated server for use with Proxmox KVM VMs. I have a dedicated server which is currently running Debian 4.4.5-8 with 3 available ip ...
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how fix high load in this vps?

i have a 512MB vps runing on debian. I offen get high load alert from lfd titled like this: lfd on *.com: High 5 minute load average alert - 8.43 here is 3 logs I made in 3 alert: ...
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Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/as0t0: No such file or directory (errno=2)

I just attempted to install OpenVPN Access Server on my Debian VPS that uses OpenVZ. It installed fine, however when I try to start it from the administration panel, I get these errors: process ...
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Which user is the website host?

I'm learning about servers, and I'm configuring Nginx, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress. the server distro is Debian 6. I created a new user and I want each user to be the owner of the site folder ...
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login with rsa to my vps

I successfully added a rsa key my root account. since I don't want everything in my root acc, I created a new user. but for some how, I keep getting "server refuses our keys" message :S I did ...
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Can not input through bash terminal

Very often I encounter this problem in my Debian VPS. When I type characters, the terminal refuse to display them. Instead I get a beep and shows outputs like (arg : 4) (arg : 5) (arg :-1) And ...
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Load Average above 20 for single core vps on debian

OS: Debian 6.0 RAM:3072 M, CPU:single core. top: top - 08:56:43 up 21 days, 12:37, 1 user, load average: 28.38, 22.48, 15.95 Tasks: 8 total, 1 running, 7 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie ...
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Rsyncing VPS's “/” directory to an external drive: Good backup solution?

I have a VPS with Debian 6 (squeeze) and want to back it up on an external drive at home, so that in case of failure I can restore the complete operating system with all software, settings and ...
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Create FTP accounts with access to just some folders in the web directory

I own a VPS server. At the moment I havent installed any FTP server on it, I am using SSH and SFTP only. I am using Debian 6 Squeeze and Apache2 service. The web directory is in /var/www/ Well, I ...
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configure secondary dns server debian

I have two VPS. I would like to use second one as a secondary dns server. both VPS are Debian 6. how I could do that? is it enough that I install bind9 and copy zone files from first VPS to second ...
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Route a subnet from Debian host to VM

Ok, I have a Proxmox 2.1 system with a Debian Squeeze base, and a FreeBSD KVM. I have a primary IP (obfuscated here) of 325.29.11.168 on a /27 subnet (though mine is the only IP I own on that subnet) ...
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Heavy disk write on a Debian VPS gives “ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)”

I have a new Debian VPS that appears to fail almost every time I run a heavy disk write test on ext4 filesystem. The filesystem goes to read-only mode and "ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)" is ...
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Dnsmasq Configuration for OpenVPN

I'm trying to configure an OpenVZ VPS running Debian 6 to run OpenVPN. I've got OpenVPN running, and I can connect to it, but my traffic isn't passing through yet. I get an error when dnsmasq start, ...
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OpenVPN Setup - Service Won't Start

I'm in the process of setting up OpenVPN on a VPS running Debian 6. I've walked step-by-step through this guide twice now, and I can't get the service to start. When I start the service, the error ...
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Setup VPN on VPS

I tried your tutorial here: http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/iPhoneVPNServer But I can't get it to work. I have slightly different setup then the one you wrote the tutorial for. Maybe I just made ...
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Translating debian network configuration to gentoo

I just got rid off Debian on my VPS (OpenVZ) and installed Gentoo on it, however it is a plain Gentoo image without further configuration, i.e. no working network. I'm not familiar with Debian and ...
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How to install git server on debian VPS (openvz+direct admin)?

What are the risks and precaution steps when installing git server on debian VPS (openvz + direct admin) ? How to install git server properly in such environment ? I would like to use git server ...
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Directadmin exim don't start anymore

We have VPS server and currently we are having the following error when trying to start exim: root@c58-76:/usr/local/directadmin/scripts# /etc/init.d/exim start Starting exim: /etc/init.d/exim: line ...
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VPS - The easiest way to start sending email

I have installed (clean) Debian 6 on VPS, and I am running a Django-powered application on it. Everything works fine, except that I need to set up SMTP to enable my application (meaning sender is ...
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Copying a server to a local VirtualBox

I have customers with VPSs in various hosting companies, using the following OSes, Ubuntu, CentOs, Debian, and Suse I'd like to create VirtualBox images locally for testing purposes. What is the ...
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Filesystem access causes occasional slowdowns on Lenny vps with minimal load

I have a virtual server hosting multiple small sites in a LAMP environment. The system was originally a Debian 4, later dist-upgraded to Debian 5. It has 1GB dedicated and 1GB shared RAM and 20GB ...
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MySql does not start on Debian 5 VPS server

I have a 128MB RAM VPS server. I have Debian 32bit OS running on it and I have decided to install some light weight LAMP, so I installed lighthttpd and MySQL but then it had to be started It said it ...
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Redirect example.com to www.example.com VPS & Apache2

I have a VPS and a domain name registered with the provider. When I enter www.example.com my site is displayed correctly, but entering example.com does not work. I am able to ping www.example.com. I ...
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Any alternative firewall solutions for debian that aren't based on netfilter / iptables?

I have a virtual server running Debian. It's host OS is using Linux Vserver and due to its lack of support for network namespaces, using iptables to secure the box is not an option. I did many ...
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Hudson on Dreamhost

Have you successfully installed Hudson on a Dreamhost VPS? If you have, what are the steps to make it run continuously, even if the server restarts? They run debian on the servers.
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debian VPS - auth.log flooded with “No such file or directory”

i was browsing through the questions here in serverfault and I decided to take a look in my /var/log/auth.log . And I discovered that 2 lines are being added repeatedly Mar 8 10:17:19 slides ...
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Investigating why server became unresponsive

I am running a virtual private server (Debian/Linux running apache+tomcat+jruby) and from time to time it becomes unreachable (I am not even able to ping it). I blame this on our service provider. ...
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Debian or CentOS for VPS?

I'm in need for a VPS. My current hosting provider is able to provide with very cheap two options - CentOS and Debian. I don't expect a high traffic there, it is only so I can host my SVN repos (and ...
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iptables-restore: line 1 failed

I am new to servers, and I was following this guide and it failed on the first command instructed. Could anyone give me a hand? http://wiki.debian.org/iptables ~ZORO~:/etc# iptables-restore < ...
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Removing Apache from Debian 5

I had Debian 5 installed on my VPS but I found that it came with apache2 already up and running. I tried apt-get remove apache2 but it said that apache2 wasn't running. I checked top and yep, there ...
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centos or tomcat restarting - how to monitor?

I'm a almost totally beginner to server administration. I recently got a VPS box on nixcom.ca to learn the stuff, installed nginx and tomcat. The issue is that almost after every one or two days of ...
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I just got a linode VPS a week ago and I've been flagged for SSH scanning [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My server’s been hacked EMERGENCY I got a 32-bit Debian VPS from http://linode.com and I really haven't done any sort of advanced configuration for securing it ( port ...
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Disable IPv6 on Debian VPS (Virtuozzo!)

Note: This question is still unresolved - the answer was auto-accepted. I have a Debian Lenny VPS, that's running virtualized by Parallels/Virtuozzo. Currently, the network interface doesn't have an ...
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How to stop my VPS from picking up ARP reqs it is not supposed to?

Machine: Xen-3.0 image running stable Debian Linux 2.6.18, pretty vanilla. My VPS provider asks me to deal with some trouble my image is causing, namely handling IP addresses it is not supposed to: ...
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Debian 5 server is randomly shutting down

My debian 5 vps is suffering from random shutdowns. I reinstalled it several times, the hosts moved me to a different physical box, check the install image and said everyone else also uses it and is ...
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debian 3.1 to 5

I am about to buy a VPS server but they preinstall debian 3.1 and it seem abit ancient version thus I need to upgrade to 5 version (lenny), is it easy to upgrade 3.1 to 5 via ssh ? If so what would be ...
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My VPS not responding, after reboot everything's fine though. Why?

The server suddenly seems to be very busy and not responding to anything: ssh or web requests. It's automatically happened several times so apparently something's wrong with my system. After reboot ...
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Where to upload cgi script on Linux Debian VPS with Plesk?

I'm newbie to Linux. I have uploaded rebol ( a script langage similar to perl from http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.html ) the linux debian version to /usr/bin on my VPS Where do I upload this ...