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How many VMs is too many? [closed]
I have a server with two 2.6GHz quad core processors and 32GB of RAM (along with pleanty of storage). I have a Django app which I intend to run on this server, and I'd like to set up (using VMWare) 2 ...
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Try to use nginx to proxy multiple webapps
I have multiple webapps on a server, each on a seperate port:
http://localhost:8080
http://localhost:8081
Now, I've tried to use nginx in the front as a proxyserver. Goal is, to use ...
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why is my webapp not working?
I've finally installed jetty on my machine. I then got the sample web app code from jodconverter and used the "mvn package" command as instructed here: ...
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How to prevent discovery of a secure URL?
If I have a url that is used for getting messages and I create it like so: http://www.mydomain.com/somelonghash123456etcetc and this URL allows for other services to POST messages to. Is it possible ...
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SSL 2048-bit certs, how to upgrade our web app without breaking legacy API customers?
The Problem
SSL certificate providers are moving from certificates signed with 1024–bit RSA keys to the new 2048-bit RSA key standard. One article explaining the background and significance of the ...
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bazaar ignoring files
I am trying to set up a centralised workflow using bzr as VCS with multiple developers. My problem is now, that all of the developers have to push via ssh to a centralised repo which also serves a the ...
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Deciding number of Tomcat instances - share where possible, or embrace multiples?
We've only recently started using Tomcat (6.x) as our Java servlet container for various production web applications. We're not using particularly advanced functionality, and generally Tomcat config ...
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Web application deployment - checkout or not
When deploying a Python web application what are the pros and cons of using the following methods to deploy the application:
Use the VCS to make a checkout on the server
Use FTP/SSH/rsync to ...
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Webapp causes java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.mail.Authenticator
I have tomcat6 running on ubuntu, with java 1.6.0_20.
One of the webapps causes an error, which has as root cause:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.mail.Authenticator
the mail.jar and ...
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Equivalent of phpMyAdmin for MSSQL?
Is there any webinterface for administrating MSSQL similar to phpMyAdmin (for MySQL)?
I want a self-service setup where developers can create a database through webinterface and upload/download ...
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VPS for each webapp?
I'm trying to understand how to use the VPS and how to use the resources I have.
I need to run several webapps, each on a separate domain. I have 1 dedicated server. Should I split it to different ...
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Naming convention for databases and database users for access by a web application?
When installing a web application where a single user is used to talk to a single database (say MySQL, but this could apply to other RDBMSes also), you often have a sequence of events such as this:
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Best practices to update a live web service
I am always curious about how large-scale live web application updates are done. Since the application is live, that is why it complicates everything -you should not down your service and at the same ...
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Synthetic transactions - converting From OneSight to Zabbix
We are currently in the process of converting our monitoring solution from OneSight to Zabbix. We have Zabbix up and running and monitoring our hardware, perf counters and software errors. We use ...
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Apache2 reverse proxy seems to intermittently freeze?
Apache2 reverse proxy seems to intermittently freeze when proxying a tomcat web app.
The problem is that every so often (once or twice a day usually after inactivity) when I try to log into this ...
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What are the best practices or pitfalls when managing web app deployment using OS package management (deb, rpm)?
I heard about this at a talk over the weekend and it sounded like a great idea for a few reasons I can think of:
ensures dependencies are met and not broken (e.g. web app requires specific version ...
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Tomcat web application intermittent freeze
I have a Grails web application (just a standard war file) deployed on a Ubuntu 10.10 server running on tomcat 6. My database is postgresql.
The problem is that every so often (once or twice a day ...
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What would be the easiest way to host an intranet Mono web application?
I've just finished migrating a lightweight Microsoft® .NET™ web application to Mono and now I'm looking for a straight-forward way to host such development on a (perhaps virtualized) Ubuntu 10.10 ...
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Active Directory Web-based Front-End
I'm in search for a nice web front end to a medium sized active directory. The main use case is to automate tasks that can't be done with copy from templates (things like assigning proper UNIX ...
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What are the best strategies for scaling up my web application to be able to cope with a large volume of users?
I want to get some advice / best practices for how to go about developing a strategy for scaling up my a web application. I waffle on a bit here and show my limited knowledge but want to fill in my ...
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Puppet or Chef to configure webapplication
I'm looking for a deployment tool for java based webapps deployment to QA/preprod enviroments.
Application is typical webapp, compiled to war/ear with .properties file. During deployment ...
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Locking down a box on the Internet [closed]
I'm a developer who is looking to put a new service on the Internet. I am new to administering systems and frankly I seem a little lost at where I should start with putting something on the web.
My ...
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What tools can be used to monitor a web application? Beyond “doesn't 404”
I have an internal web application that has recently gone through a major version upgrade. I would like to monitor this application over the weekend and look for 'soft' errors. I will still need to ...
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Secure Direct Access to Webapps folder on Windows Machine
I asked this question previously but recieved a unix account response.
I am going to host a webapplication on a windows machine. Are the user access roles on Windows 7 sufficient to deny direct ...
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Database Web Frontend
I'm looking for a web frontend for end users of our database (server runs either MySQL or Postgre) for organization-internal contacts and order handling.
I've searched the web for free/opensource ...
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Web server is extremely slow
My web server is running on PHP 5 and MySQL 5.0. When I copied an application developed in CAKE PHP, the server is extremely slow. The organization who provides the files are running the same ...
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SSL Certificate only works when session active in Server 2008
I have a web app that uses an installed certificate to send a web request to a 3rd party web service. This has worked for a long time on Windows Server 2003, but just recently we found a problem with ...
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Hosting two web applications on same server
Without giving all the details, I'm trying to set up (via apache) two web applications that will be served from the same (internal development) server. Currently I have two VirtualHost directives and ...
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Tangible benefits of keeping web applications and web server separate?
We develop and maintain web applications; and in our current setup; we are using a three-tier system of database server, application server, and web server.
So far, so good.
The problem we are ...
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Execute encrypted files but don't let anybody read them
I want to provide a virtual machine image with an installed web application. The user should be able to boot the vm (don't login, just boot) and a webserver should start automatically.
The point is I ...
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Diagnosing Solaris 8 server memory and swap space usage
Essentially, my question is related to memory allocation for Solaris virtual machines.
I am running a couple of old Sun ONE 6 Java web servers on two Solaris 8 virtual machines. I see that there's a ...
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bottle.py on EC2 micro instance causes 2 order of magnitude slowdown
Cross-posted from StackOverflow:
I wrote a little toy script to solve this type of game, and put it on my new micro EC2 instance. It works perfectly, but while it takes around 0.5 seconds to run a ...
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iptables REDIRECT scope
We run a webapp via an unprivileged user, on unprivileged ports. A startup script is executed as root solely to set iptables REDIRECT rules, then drop privileges and start up the app.
I'm trying to ...
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“Timeout expired” with application consuming web service on another machine
I am having issue with an ASP.NET web application hosted one server trying to consume an web service hosted on another server. When I browse to a page consuming the web service, I get the following ...
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Building Cloud WebHosting using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud OS
Currently I run a few CentOS dedicated boxes on which I run a few hosted applications (these are online). It currently caters to a little over 200 clients. For the sake of scalability as this is going ...
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Help with “exim wait-remote_smtp” at 99% cpu
I'm currently in the process of building up a web application. However, I occasionally run into an issue where "usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp" suddenly jumps up to 99% cpu and ...
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How to provide web access to interact with a file system?
I need to be able to provide web access to interact with a file system (upload/download files). In general people will access these files using sshfs but in a pinch we want people to have web access ...
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How should I deploy my JVM-based web application on ubuntu?
I've developed a web application using clojure/compojure (JVM based) and while developing I tested it using embedded jetty that runs on 0.0.0.0:8080. I would now like to deploy it to run on port 80 on ...
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Mitigating the 'firesheep' attack at the network layer?
What are the sysadmin's thoughts on mitigating the 'firesheep' attack for servers they manage?
Firesheep is a new firefox extension that allows anyone who installs it to sidejack session it can ...
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Geographic web+pgsql load balancing
My goal is (don't know if this is possible, that's why I'm asking):
have two separate geographic locations. At each location, a web server and a postgres database run. The application is the same at ...
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A multiple web-app backup script
I'm mostly a Drupal developer, and have a backup script that goes through each site and uses Drush to perform a db dump, before archiving all the sites and their dumps. I've just finished a small ...
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Web application to manage software distribution
I'm the IT guy for a small software development company. We have software that is downloadable by customers that purchased a license via our web site. I'm trying to find a solution to better manage ...
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Is there an app/script I can deploy to enable my users to change their own LDAP passwords?
I've recently enabled LDAP based authentication on my domain. This has allowed us to use a single set of credentials to administer the blog, the forum and the wiki.
Unfortunately, this has come at ...
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Deploy .ear file in to geronimo
I need to deploy an .ear application into "geronimo" apache (java) aplication server.
I need to replace an OC4J server, and i think i would replace it with geronimo.
When i try to deploy a working ...
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Optimal default installation location for IIS hosted web application
I have a .NET web application that users will be running on their own servers. The installer I am writing will provide the user with a default installation directory.
My question is what is the ...
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Simple document/file management software
I'm looking for a simple way to share documents/files with other people via a web-based interface. The requirements are the following:
runs on Linux
web-based download/upload
versioning
basic ...
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How do you account for/track your time?
I'm a consultant and I'm not happy with my workflow and want to get some suggestions.
Current workflow: Paper notebook where I track time and what I accomplish for clients, I have Outlook where I ...
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Load balancing based on session cookie?
I have a web app that is going to run on multiple servers. I'd like to make sure, that requests using the same session (HTTP cookie header with value JSESSIONID=x) always communicate with the same ...
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Which (PHP?) framework to use for a SOAP frontend with AJAX
I'm planning to develop a web application. All the heavy logic will be done via SOAP webservices; this question is about the frontend which will thus have to communicate with the backend via SOAP. It ...
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Windows 2008 Enterprise server user license
I am planning to buy 64 bit windows enterprise server 2008 for web server. It comes with 25 user licenses. I am planning to deploy a web application into that server and web application uses windows ...
