Questions tagged [web-server]
Refers to the software or hardware that make up a webserver, delivering content on a private or public website.
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general questions about php server
i'm a newbie to php - planning to rent a server for php hosting and have some general questions about which hosting requirements i should be looking for:
ability to host several domains on the same ...
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Script Added in Website Main page automatic
In my 2003 webserver there is a script added automatically in home page of websites.
http://imgddd.net/t.php?id=16379119
How colud the link added in website.
How to stop this kind of attack on server....
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Good Firewalling practice for internet facing servers?
Does it make sense to firewall an internet facing server, say a webserver? Assuming I did not want to restrict anyone from accessing the webserver in its capacity to serve web pages, I would be ...
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Recommended Nginx + WSGI Configurations
Please explain pros/cons when using the different Nginx WSGI interfaces? Please explain in detail what differentiates each configuration? Which configuration should scale the best?
If relevant, what ...
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IIS7 - Bind virtual directory to different IP address
I have a website hosted with IIS7 (www.mysite.com).
I want to configure virtual directories to point to different IP addresses, with a logical name off of my site.
For example, I want www.mysite.com/...
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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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Exposing a website externally
I got asked to set up a website that could be accessed externally in IIS.
We have a web server that has a website currently available externally on it. It sits under an "External Website" Site in IIS....
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Web App not working on Windows Server 2008
I think I am having an issue with security on Windows Server. I have a web app that I put on a Windows 2008 Server. I first tried it in Development Server and on my Windows 7 machine and it worked ...
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Recommended server specs [closed]
I'm looking to purchase a new server. My use cases are as follows:
Primary OS will be Win '08 running SQL '08 as a development server.
On my current server I also run WAMP for LAMP stack development. ...
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Web based BIND9 DNS tools?
Are there any good front end tools to manage a BIND9 server? I'd like to offer users the ability to have a login and manage their hosted zones.
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Somebody eating all our bandwidth, what should I do?
OK, this is frustrating, my site got thousands of page views/connections in the last 3 days and finally we ran out of monthly bandwidth. We bought more bandwidth and closed the site for maintenance. ...
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Single IP attack or other issue?
Description of incident:
I notice in my MRTG panel that httpd processes have climbed to 800 ( our maximum ), but all other parameters are normal ( cpu, memory, traffic )
I immediately ran a nestat ...
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How to create log-server without affecting web-server?
I am thinking of making a log server to track all requests that come to my website in someway different from apache logs and thus be able to create custom reporting system.
What is the best way to ...
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Ideal server specs/software for mail, file, and database storage
I'm trying to figure out what the ideal set up would for a few servers.
1) Website
1) Mail server
1) Database server
1) file server
In this given scenario, say there is a site that will offer each ...
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What regular expression can I use to identify invalid file requests in nginx logs?
I need help configuring a regular expression for fail2ban. I use my web server primarily for simple podcast file hosting but I see a lot of invalid requests for php, asp, and pl files in the logs.
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General firewall / security procedures for webservers & databases
My webserver and database server are separate. All I've done to secure the webserver is used ufw and denied from all except ports 22, 80, and 443. What else really needs to be done there?
On my ...
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Identifying sites enabled for FPX in IIS6
We are running a server running a couple of hundred sites on a Server 2003/II6 setup. We're looking to migrate as many of these users as possible to a Server 2008R2/IIS7.5 setup. Which of course doesn'...
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why CSVN do not run anymore?
An unknown service is causing the server to crash.
I then stopped and started those services, but the CSVN does not run and makes the server slow when I start the service.
When I do a rollback this ...
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Website fails after application pool recyle
This past weekend our website running with IIS 6.0 stopped handling calls to web services. The log file was filled with the following error until the server was rebooted approximately 8 hours later:
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configure server to handle a lot of requests
I have a website and we bought some advertisement on neobux.com. We bought 1000 views hoping to get more users on the website. We have a VPS with 1gb ram and 1gb burstable running apache. When we ...
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How can I test HTTPS configuration in a LAN?
I'm developing a website that should be used with HTTPS. I am developing the site on my Windows machine and I have a Linux machine on the same LAN where I test my websites. I don't have a DNS-server ...
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Accessing server running inside virtual machine
I am running Ubuntu on a OS X, using Parallels and Ubuntu is running a web server on port 8080. I want to test the development outside the virtual machine. But when I try the ip address of the Ubuntu ...
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"fallback" http server
I have a web application, which is served by a standalone app. Sometimes the JVM it's running in crashes, but most often, I need to take it down to deploy a new version or to update the system. For ...
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GoDaddy virtual dedicated servers
I have been using a GoDaddy VDS for about a month now. I have had several issues with the server and every time the support reps tell me I need to upgrade the server. I basically have Windows, IIS7.5 ...
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What Linux server distro is best for a dedicated webserver and a file server? [closed]
I just wanted to know which Linux server distro is most compatible/stable for a dedicated Web Server and a separate dedicated File server. And also please suggest me for a file server what would be ...
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slow http connection in LAN
I have a weird problem I'm trying to solve, but can't find out how. I found that problem when trying to access a php page and only the basic html and css were loaded but the flash didn't. when I tried ...
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Fastest Dynamic Webserver Build for 2011? [closed]
I am wondering what your favorite build is for a new dynamic website (of unknown traffic especially)?
After scouring the web, it seems that Apache with an Ngnix reverse proxy does not offer any ...
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/home/vhosts/ or /var/www/
Some web servers I've come across use /home to store the site files:
/home/vhosts/www.example.com/
Others use /var like:
/var/www/www.example.com/
What's more clean and "Linuxy"? Should we all be ...
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Why is there old PHP with LiteSpeed Web Server?
I have Litespeed Web Server Enterprise v4.0.1 installed and configured.
I decided to check phpinfo() and it turned out that I have php 4.4.9
I checked in LWS Admin panel and there are three script ...
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How do I create a guest ftp user and give access to specific sub-folder with SSH?
I just got a virtual dedicated server at GoDaddy. I got the Simple Control Panel. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a guest ftp user through this control panel and I was told it must be created ...
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How Can I Log Outbound HTTP Requests From My Web Applications?
One of our apps is calling a third-party webservice which has recently been switched to a different URI. We need to investigate this to try and see where the old address is being used (the code/config ...
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Lightweight PHP-supporting webserver: Nginx, Cherokee, or Hiawatha?
Next month, I have to move my company's website from our current 3rd-party webhosting to our own cloud-based server.
I want to use a lightweight webserver. The requirements are:
PHP support
HTTPS ...
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Cherokee & .HTAccess files
I believe that Cherokee does not support .htaccess files (which could be though of as a good thing in terms of speed).
But, how do I do the things I used to do with .htaccess with Cherokee?
Also, ...
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Is there any chance of IP getting blocked?
I have my dedicated webserver in US I was installed sitemap script and was running the same. but frequently the script was stopped many times. and also parallel I was opened FTP port too. both are ...
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What is the best way to estimate hosting/server costs? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Good sites for discussing specific hosting provider/server specification scenarios
I'm currently developing a web app that is built on the LAMP stack. I want to know how I can ...
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Permissions for user on linux machine to host website
I have root access to my hosted machine. I have created a user account 'abcd' and the user's directory is:
/home/abcd/public_html
In httpd.conf i have:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName abcd....
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List directory contents on website hosted by LiteSpeed
I have a website (say www.example.com) being hosted on a LiteSpeed webserver.
I've created a directory at www.example.com/media but I'm unable to list the contents and get a 404 error. How can I fix ...
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How can I set up Trac to run on a webserver?
I'm setting up Trac for a project on a Windows Server 2003 which already has Apache2.2 and Virtual SVN already installed and in use. I managed to install Trac and run it on its in built stand alone ...
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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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php on IIS copying files to a windows share on another server
I have a php application on my intranet web server running IIS 6 (Server "A") which contains a form to upload files to my other web server running IIS 7.5 (Server "B") on a different subnet. Server A ...
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Apache config to point requests in all possible subdir to main dir
I would like to point all requests for a certain directory and all its possible subdirs to one documentroot.
So, for example, I get a lot of requests on many different subdirs here:
domain.com/...
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Webserver backup through SSH and Linux Live!
Yesterday my dedicated webserver crashed due to hardware failure. It has been replaced with another server by Leaseweb. It's the same specs but another server so it needs to be re-installed. That ...
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mapping naked domain (www.example.com) to static website saved in s3
I am developing a web application. I recently purchased a domain from godaddy.com and am using google apps for email, calendar, docs and other services as well.
Now I just need to show that "my site ...
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nginx redirect subdomain to a folder
In Nginx, I would like to redirect my subdomain.domain.com to domain.com/sub/ .how do I do that ?
I would like to use the existing sites config file for domain.com instead of creating a new one.
the ...
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What is an effective file server setup?
I know this question may be fairly simple, but because it seems to be common knowledge, I cannot find anything on the topic. There are many different file servers available, but I am trying to figure ...
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Getting a new server
My boss told me we can get a new web server if it is really necessary. I don't know if this is really necessary, so I decided to ask the ones who probably do know.
The website has the IIS 6.0 as well ...
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Any way to speed up my website in other countries?
My website(social network) was built with django, cassandra && memcache, rabbitmq, mysql
it used rabbitmq to serve POST requests (often it user submitted contents), to balance the load of ...
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How to build missing PHP 5.3 extensions on CentOS 5.6
I've created a fresh installation of CentOS 5.6, and installed PHP 5.3 using the php53-* packages from the CentOS repository. Specifically, I've got:
php53
php53-cli
php53-common
php53-devel
php53-...
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Will this situaton generate a warning from the browser?
I need to set up a domain/server/page with a ssl certificate.
let's call it
https://page.domain1.com
this will contain in an iframe content from
https://page2.domain2.com
Will this situation ...
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URL Redirections [closed]
I have registered 3 domains with .com, .co.in and .in extensions. My .com domain is hosted. I want users to be redirected to the .com website when they type in the .co.in and .in urls. How do I do ...
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