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Sandboxing Web applications
I want to sandbox multiple web applications hosted on the same server. To test my scenario I configure an Apache web server on a local machine with web apps hosted on that machines. One of the web ...
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Server scailability for WebApplication ( SaaS ) running on VMs - Ubuntu [closed]
This is a little broad and I don't want to get closed for promoting discussion rather than getting straightforward answers so let me narrow this down while keeping it general enough that it would help ...
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Safely create accounts from a non-root web applicaion
I have a web app that runs as a non-privileged user that needs to create linux accounts.
I'd prefer not to run it as root, so the only scheme I think of is to create a simple C suid program that ...
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Is it a good practice use LDAP for auth in a public webapp beside the app DB?
Internet app needs to be really secure. So LDAP for auth got into the game. Instead doing the traditional db with users table, we want to authenticate agains a LDAP server. How good/bad you think it ...
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Appropriate Hosting Solution for git, web apps and more? [closed]
Right now I'm in the market for a hosting solution but I'm not sure exactly what kind of solution is best (cloud, vps, shared) for what I need to do. I was thinking that I would probably go with cloud ...
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How to Deploy an ASP.NET Web API- and Browser-based Application to a Production Environment [closed]
(Please forgive if this is posted in an incorrect forum. We didn’t know exactly where to post it.)
We have an ASP.NET Web API single page application - a browser-based app running in IIS to serve up ...
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Multiple request from a web server [closed]
First of all I think this is a common problem, but cannot find a really good solution;
We have a web application, some of its request takes more than a minute. In the mean time we should be able to ...
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Use web browser to launch windows applications [closed]
I'm look for some software (it may not exist yet) that would allow me to do something along the lines of: Install the software on a server, "package" and "publish" it similar to Windows Remote App, ...
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Logs reporting in a human way
I'm currently working on our IT System to improve it a little bit.
I've install set and run a rsyslogd on our servers (Physicals and virtuals), all of them now sending their logs into a database.
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Where is the best location for an app made in NodeJS on a server?
For some time I am developing an application in Nodejs. And I asked where in the Linux file system on a server was the best place to leave it running. Since PHP5 and Apache2 is in /var/www , and ...
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How to configure Glassfish + NGINX to serve static files with NGINX?
I have a EC2 ubuntu with Glassfish v3 + Nginx setup to host my java web application. This application is deployed as a WAR file to Glassfish . The NGINX is currenty passing all request to the ...
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Simple Web App to edit an XML File [closed]
I have a very simple xml file that looks something like this:
<teams>
<team lead="jim" wing="bob" />
<team lead="frank" wing="mary" />
<team lead="george" wing="hans" ...
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Multiple Tomcat Services on port 80
I have a Tomcat server that that I want to run multiple webapps each with a different domain name. Given the configuration below, I want to be able to connect to http://webapp1 and get to its webapp ...
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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 [closed]
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 [closed]
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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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 ...
