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grouping two sites under domain and sub domain
I have 2 websites a main website hosted at fasthosts and an e-commerce website hosted at Vidahost.
I want to combine both websites under the same domain set.
Main site would be www.mydomain.com
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Creating an efficient work flow for developers
I need some ideas on how our work flow compares to some others. We have a single developer that works on our marketing website and she knows how to code and that's about it (no source control ...
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Shared SVN-powered web development with branching on Apache
We're a web development shop and have our sites checked out from SVN on a single development server via samba, like this:
share/
site1/
trunk/
site2/
trunk/
branches/
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Simple DNS Server or Tool for Local Web App Development
When I develop web-apps I sometimes have to hard-code full URLs into my generated markup. Even though one can generally get by using relative URLs a la
<a ...
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Should I setup a linux virtual box or develop on Windows and deploy to Linux? [closed]
I am running a Windows 7 machine for development at the moment. Is it best practice to develop on a virtual Linux machine locally so that your development environment is closest to your production ...
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Recommended permission settings for web developers
I'm in charge of administering a WWW linux server at work.
I have a team of web developers which need to work on a specific directory (let's say /var/www/website). Every developer should be able to ...
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.htaccess ModRewrite when moving web root content into subdirectories?
I'm cleaning up and rearranging the files on my server (basic shared hosting situation) and am digging into .htaccess to do so. I'm moving the content I had in my web root into the subdirectory of ...
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Filesystem for web developing [closed]
My distro is ArchLinux. I have an empty HDD I would like to mount at /srv. What is the best filesystem for storing projects (PHP, Zend Framework, many files up to 100 kB but they may be bigger - ...
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Exposing BL as WCF service
I'm working on a middle-tier project which encapsulates the business logic (uses a DAL layer, and serves a web application server [ASP.net]) of a product deployed in a LAN. The BL serves as a bunch of ...
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Avoid modifying REAL's config when upload DEV's config
I'm developing a website. I have two environments: DEV and REAL. Each of them have a config.php to store database configuration and something.
When I modify something in DEV's config.php and upload ...
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How to use ssl_verify_client=ON on one virtual server and ssl_verify_client=OFF on another?
I want to force ssl client verification for on of my virtual hosts. But get "No required SSL certificate was sent" error, trying to GET something from it.
Here are my test configs:
# defaults ...
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Issue compiling PHP APC
I have downloaded the APC-3.1_9.tgz official version.
When I followed the steps:
tar -xzvf APC-3.1_9.tgz
cd APC-3.1_9
phpize
./configure --enable-apc --enable-apc-mmap ...
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SSL - should I just make my entire site secured?
I'm planning on building an application wherein my users can create accounts on it, email other users, etc. The site will also have forums, chat, etc. It will also need to process credit cards. I'm ...
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Including and excluding extensions — PHP installation
Note: This question is not only about the PEAR extension, it is in general.
I disabled the PEAR extension by installing PHP on CentOS server with the following command:
$ yum php --without-pear
Now ...
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How to better simulate remote development locally with virtual hosts?
When developing WordPress websites, for instance, such a script saves a few values on the database with detected paths/addresses. To avoid issues when uploading the production version to the server ...
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World Wide Publishing Service very slow to restart on IIS? Why?
Every now and then, we look to restart our IIS server by restarting the "WWW Publishing Service". On most systems this would usually only take a minute or two, but this can often take up to 10 minutes ...
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Where to store application that I develop?
I'm developing a server application for ubuntu server, clients will connect to in through socket connection. It's in beta stage and under heavy development. At the moment lots of people are using it ...
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Building youtube-like servers? [closed]
If there is no budget limit, what are the things needed to host a website something like youtube?
I know this question is very broad, to narrow down, here is what I need to know:
How many servers ...
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Speed up asp.net Development server
I am running a website in ASP.Net using the development server, which is insanely slow to load a page with no apparent reason since it is fast in production. Are there any tips to speed up the ...
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.htaccess vs chmod [closed]
what is the difference between .htaccess and chmod?
and what is the meaning of if someone say's that this file/directory is chmodded?
how to rewrite my .htaccess file on server?
how to change mod ...
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Have VM using bridged networking, but on host machine without network
I'm configuring a LAMP development environment inside a VM and I'm no Linux/networking champ but I'm trying.
I've installed Centos (5.6) in a VM (VirtualBox) on my local machine. I've set networking ...
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Access, Permissions, and Security for 3rd party developers
Our Marketing department wants to start hiring an outside company to assist in the development and maintenance of our marketing website. The website right now is on FreeBSD (using apache), but with ...
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how to allow root login on vsftpd ubuntu
How do I enable root login on vsftpd?
Note that this FTP server will not be accessible via WAN/Internet. And I need full permissions for my web development environment (localhost, VirtualBox Guest ...
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How do you create a reverse proxy on Mac OSX?
How do you create a reverse proxy on Mac to redirect specific domains to another port on localhost?
For example, this is what I'm trying to do.
In /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
Which ...
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When to run apache httpd + tomcat?
What are the primary benefits of running apache httpd in front of tomcat? Are the benefits worth the extra setup and complexity?
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PHP not running in the browser, works fine from the command line
I've installed Apache, PHP and MySQL with no errors and I can run the PHP program from the command prompt.
But, I can't get a PHP page to display in the browser.
When I try to view a PHP page in ...
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How To Back Up a Database from My Web Hosting Server to My Computer
i wana back up my database from my web hosting to my computer but i face this errror .
i google it but none of the solution work for me .
i only have the servername, username , password and initial ...
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how do i restart xampp
apparently closing the program completely didn't do the trick. So what is the "standard" way to restart xampp?
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Hosting a MySQL server on Amazon Web Services
We are evaluating hosting our application on Amazon EC2 service. While I am confident that a Small instance (1.7GB RAM) will be sufficient for our web server (at this point), I am not sure about ...
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how do I set up my web app dev environment for easy production transition?
I'm about to start developing a web app. It will be hosted on dedicated servers in the cloud when its time to go live. Currently my development environment is my shared hosting account. I'm assuming ...
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Can't make mod_alias work
I'm receiving from the client a request for a ".png" file.
The request is by sending the full address (I cant change that).
meaning:
/var/www/imges/<file name>
The problem from what I ...
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Choosing a technology for a 20 million visitors / month project [closed]
Which technologies would you choose for:
Over 20 million views a month
Up to 100GB of database (MDF)
$100,000 budget
I'm planning to build this website using 4 servers of 2 x ASP.NET 4.0 and 2 x ...
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httpd-vhosts.conf - Why does this work?
I'm running Apache 2.28 on Windows 7, and this is my directory structure:
C:/
www (which contains the Apache server, it's the free Web-Developer Server-Suite, that's its default configuration of ...
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How can I determine the likely cause of a 504?
We always have these on Reddit, but Reddit just claims it's not the servers, or at least it can't be solved by throwing more servers at it. What normally causes these errors? Is it likely in the code? ...
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How to limit log file size in Apache2
Log files in /var/log/apache2/ are too big.
I want to limit the file size.
Is it possible to store only the recent 100 lines?
Thanks.
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What is performance bottleneck of my Apache server?
I have too many requests waiting which can be seen from netstat as follows
$netstat -anp | grep :80 | grep TIME_WAIT | wc -l
840
$netstat -anp |grep :80 | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l
50
memory ...
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should I use a subdomain on live server for my development environment?
What are the pros/ cons of setting up a subdomain to use as a dev environment on the same server as a live webserver?
the pros for me are it's already set up - dev.mysite.com, I dont need to worry ...
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Webdav on iis7.5 - always shows empty folder
I've followed all directions on configuring webdav on iis7.5 from this url:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/350/installing-and-configuring-webdav-on-iis-7/
The only difference is, I'm configuring ...
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Subversion multi checkout post-commit hook?
The title must sound strange but I'm trying to achieve the following:
SVN repo location: /home/flx/svn/flxdev
SVN repo "flxdev" structure:
+ Project1
++ files
+ Project2
+ Project3
+ Project4
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DDOS attack - How to prevent
Recently I read about Denial of Service attack on Amazon & PayPal. I am curious that how this is performed. These big companies must have huge servers, so DOS would require billions of bots to ...
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DNS: Why does my DNS take so long to look up?
I have a web-application that I'm testing the frontend performane using looks like YSlow and http://www.webpagetest.org/
One of the things I notice the most is that the time to perform the DNS lookup ...
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Development Environment SMTP Server - Rewrite email recipient address
I am looking for a way to setup an SMTP server in our development environment that will run on the local dev server and rewrite the recipient email address to our debug address, without effecting the ...
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Sharing local web-server (Windows, NAT) in Internet
There is a Windows machine connected to Internet by NAT (no IP, no incoming connections). Is there any way to make local web-server on this machine accessible from Internet by static IP or domain?
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web development server for windows?
can anyone suggest a good web development stack for windows. Ive tried xampp, but i want to see what else is available, has anyone had any particular experience with any alternatives. Im looking for ...
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When should you use and not use Etags?
I was just looking at our site on WebPageTest.org and one of their recommendations for speeding up a website is:
ETag headers should generally not be used unless you have an explicit reason to ...
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Website address with or without www?
Should we automatically convert www.example.com/abc.htm to example.com/abc.htm or vice-versa on the server side? Because user may type the site address with without www.
Which is better?
EDIT:
I'm ...
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Where do I get Two Letter Domain Name?
For my business purpose I want to take a Two letter domain name(eg: xx.yy). Where do I get this?
I think GoDaddy.com doesn't support two letter domain names?
my name is not yet registered, thank ...
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how to define multiple document roots in apache
I use root relative path for all the links in PHP files, like "url(/img/myimj.jpg)"
In Godaddy host server, that works fine.
But I want to run it in my local host. (Ubuntu 9, Apache 2, PHP 5)
For ...
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domain serves content from subdomain on another website
I have several sub-domains on 1 website
http://sub1.mysite.com
http://sub2.mysite.com
http://sub3.mysite.com
I've also registered equivalent domains for each of these sub-domains at
sub1.com
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Offer Custom URLs using CNAME
How do I allow my customers to access subdomain.myapp.com from a subdomain.customerdomain.com.
Google Apps allows you to do this with a CNAME change. How can I offer a similar functionality?
I found ...
