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Unexpected URL referrers from trusted websites?
I just found these two entries in my error logs:
Date: 2012-02-09 11:33:46.693
PageUrl: ...
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Server setup on bare metal: Services on VM vs services on bare metal(host) OS
I have a beefy linux server (32 GB RAM) with good harddrives. with one of my hosts. I run a lot of webapps which use varnish, nginx, unicorn app server, thin app server, redis, mongodb and ...
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Cannot access a local web server within a local Wireless network [migrated]
I have a Tomcat web-server running on a machine within my home wireless network, and I'm willing to connect to it from other devices/machines. The problem is that the only way to access web server is ...
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Web page monitoring with performance statisitcs, also web transactions
Do any of the open source monitoring applications do the following:
download a web page, and provide a detailed breakdown of how long it took to download the page and all its elements ...
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How to connect to remote IIS Web Server from Visual Studio [closed]
I want to create users and each user can access to his own website created for him.The user name and website name are same.Now how can a user can log into iis web server from visual studio so that a ...
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Disabling excess services on Windows Web Server 2008 R2 [migrated]
I'm running a development VM on my notebook with Windows Web Server 2008 R2 operating system. To save some resources and gain some speed I'm thinking about disabling some services:
Microsoft ...
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Unable to edit files on Macbook pro. Permission denied [migrated]
I am using my Macbook as a local dev environment. In order to make the files publishable I had to give my web folder user and group of _www:_www using chown command.
The issue is that I am using ...
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What are the best linux permissions to use for my website?
I have a Linux web server running Apache2 that hosts several websites. Each website has its own folder in /var/www/.
/var/www/contoso.com/
/var/www/contoso.net/
/var/www/fabrikam.com/
The base ...
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redirect to a static page on another web server when main web server is down
We have a single IIS web server in house that when it goes down we would like to redirect traffic to another web server and display a message that the web site is down. I have been all over the net ...
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apache2: why <LimitExcept> parameter results “deny not allowed here” error in virtualhost tag?
I have asked the same question to stackoverflow but then I thought it might be more related to here.
in apache's httpd.conf between VirtualHost tags I put <LimitExcept> expression like follows:
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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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Server returning response for previous requests
It's a really strange problem. I believe it to be a server issue, but it's so strange and hard to reproduce that I'm not entirely sure.
Just as the title says I'm receiving responses for earlier ...
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HTTP resource caching / fetching
I'm trying to optimise a page, and I'm seeing some strange behaviour. Each time I click on a link to the page, all resources are fetched from the server, responding with 200s. However, when I refresh ...
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internal website - can't access from outside
At first it worked fine. I was running Apache on CentOS 5.5. I remember I didn't change any fancy settings to my Apache, just some virtual hosts.
Then yesterday I reinstall that server with CentOS ...
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I had hosted a site in a server, I just want to hide that domain or ip from the user? [closed]
I'm developing a windows application in C# and I also developed a asp.net website and hosted in a server. My motive is to not show my server source or domain address to the user.
Hence I designed a ...
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Linux 10.04 configure default site on webserver
I am trying to figure out what determines the "default" website on a webserver.
I am running a Ubuntu 10.04 webserver that hosts 5 different websites.
In my apache2/sites-available folder there is ...
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apache webserver unresponsible with server-status showing all child processes waiting for connection
My setup:
i have 3 nearly identical webserver machines serving the same high loaded dynamic website with simple load balancing over dns. The service has been working for over two ears with the same ...
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Can I install Ngnix on a server that is already on Apache?
I have a dedicated server that is running on Apache, I heard Nginx is uses less resources and gives 10 times better results on the same hardware.
Is it possible for me to replace Apache with Nginx? ...
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IP Level Failover for Web Servers With BGP (Am I Insane?)
I've considered using Round-robin DNS failover, but due to various levels of DNS caching, you run the risk of old records pointing to a down site.
If I own my own address space and AS number, in data ...
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ApacheTop like tool for Nginx for measuring hit contents?
Are there ApacheTop like tool for Nginx for measuring hit contents?
I want to find out the most popular URL from the web server log (Nginx)
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Website load speed around the world
I would like to test a small website's loading speed around the world.
What are some relevant websites/tools that you find useful for this test?
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PhP on Tomcat 7 possible?
I have a website using PhP and Apache Webserver (e.g. mod_php). I need to use Tomcat for another purpose. Rather than just add Tomcat to the current mix, I'm wondering if I should eliminate Apache ...
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Setting up SELinux server
As the name implies, I am going to set up a webserver running SELinux... (I will get the kernal from: http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/code/download-stable.shtml
I have never done this before, so ...
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Where to put Web Root in CentOS? /var/www/ or /home/user/public_html/?
Our old server has it in /home/user/public_html/ but it seems like it makes more sense in /var/www/.
The old server had cpanel and I suppose that as part of that setup, it separates virtual servers ...
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Is there a CentOS server edition and a seperate desktop edition?
Until now I have been using Ubuntu server. Ubuntu has separate downloads for desktop and server editions. I want to try a CentOS server, when I download a copy from a mirror through centos.org the ISO ...
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Best way of publishing to web server [closed]
What's the best way of publishing changes on a web server with minimal down time?
I am unsure of the evironment as it's hosted. Currently I use FTP.
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Reset Linode root password
I've recently been put in charge of a Ubuntu server in the Linode platform.
This webserver is running a production Rails application with a MySQL database.
I need to ssh into it to download a copy ...
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How would the outside world access my machine? [closed]
I have a local address e.g:
http://127.0.0.1:8125/ -> this works,
How would I access this using a different PC lets say from work, or friends house or allow anyone to access this?
I am using ...
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Can we call a VM as a 'dedicated' server?
I've noticed our 'dedicated' web server is running on an MS VM. I don't like it, cause we can't tell if another VM is running on the same machine or not, other than taking the word of the provider.
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Server stops responding without any load, restart required
Sever is working as a very high-traffic application back-end
We are using Apache2, MySql, and PHP.
We have already optimized the above for best performance
Server configuration is:
Linux ...
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Run web server behind router which I can't change anything in [closed]
I'm currently at a schools network and can't change anything in the routers configuration but I still want to be able to run a web server. I've scanned the router for some open ports and only found ...
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replacing apache with nginx [closed]
I have a fairly popular site on the internet (15K visitors/day) on an micro Amazon instance.
Users are now competing for CPU-time.
Can I take my configuration to nginx?
How much 'work' is it?
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mysql/web server failover setup using reverse proxy
I have two webservers and at the moment have DNS - Round Robin setup so that they are somewhat 'failsafe' this was only ever a temporary failover solution and I am now looking at a more permanent and ...
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web servers & php [closed]
I usually code in PHP, and always used apache. I have started my own website but I soon realised that apache is not the best solution to have: it uses 15MB of memory per page, making a small server ...
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Should I copletely turn off swap for linux webserver?
Recently my friend told me that it is a good idea to turn of swap on linux webservers with enough memory. My server has 12 GB and currently uses 4GB (not counting cache and buffers) under peak load.
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Centos web server, 123-reg domaina nd DynDNS standard - cannot access site from domain, only IP
How to configure a 123-reg domain with DynDNS and a linux server?
Hi,
I've just set up a CentOS web server running lamp, purchased a domain from 123-reg and have signed up for DynDNS standard.
I'm ...
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What is the best way for serving a file that is being written to?
I'd like to setup a web-server (or other kind of server?) that will allow clients to download a file using http. However, I want to start serving the file before it has been fully written to disk.
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How do you set server specific ENV values in Nginx?
I am starting a project that uses environment variables to set the database connection and a couple other things. (They didn't want to use configuration files since people are careless and overwrite ...
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Apache send HTML without comments
I have a problem with my Apache Webserver, I got 2 environments: Development and Production. Both have the same configuration, but the first one sends the HTMLs exactly as they've been created, the ...
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Using wordpress as a subdirectory of a drupal installation?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with NginX 0.7.65.
I have Drupal installed in the root directory and it works perfectly with an appropriately configured vhost file, but now I would like to install Wordpress ...
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How to find the file which says, “It works!”
If I type "localhost" into a web browser address bar I get a page with the following information:
It works!
This is the default web page for this server.
The web server software is running but no ...
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IIS7 logging options - Difference between Server and Site level
I am setting up my first IIS 7.5 server and have come unstuck. Is there a difference between the server logging options and site logging options.
I am assuming that the server logging options relate ...
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Django: Nginx with WSGI or Apache with WSGI
Are there any studies comparing the performance (RPS, CPU, Memory usage etc) of delivering python web apps (Django in my case) between nginx and Apache?
Can someone help me with facts?
Which ...
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VM on ESXi host - How does one make externally accessible? [migrated]
I have a home server running ESXi v5.0.0 with a VM guest OS (linux) up and running.
I have apache 2.x installed and serving to my machine (i.e I can access the default apache page when going to ...
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captive billing portal?
For a while now, I've been looking at how we deal with customers that have not paid their bill. At the moment, after several gentle email reminders being sent to an email address that the customers ...
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How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites
I'm looking to create a canonical question of tools and methods of capacity planning for web sites and web-applications.
This is intended to be a canonical question so that we don't have to have ...
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Is it wise to have 2 websites on user account? [closed]
So we've got a dedicated server where in we can create "packages" for web hosting. Each package has its own cPanel and user account that he can use to log in. Currently I set up only 1 package with ...
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Make a file accesible by PHP but not from the outside
My host gives me two folders for my use, a /home/public/ which is where the pages go, and /home/private/, which is for my personal use. I would like for PHP to create a file that's readable by me from ...
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Different limit_req depending on get argument in Nginx
How can I use different limit_req for one location depending if a get-argument is present or not?
In logic:
if($_GET['a']){
applyLimitA();
}else{
applyLimitB();
}
I have achieved this but ...
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CentOS webroot Owner
I'm working with a dedicated CentOS server where the base exposed webdirectory is /var/www/html
For security, who should own the html directory "root" or "apache"?
The perms are drwxrwxr-x (are ...
