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Jul
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revised Unable find the right encoding for a HTML -file in Vim
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Jul
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answered Unable find the right encoding for a HTML -file in Vim
Jun
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answered Hidden features of FreeBSD?
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Jun
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answered Who is a good registrar these days?
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awarded  Organizer
Jun
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revised How do I pipe a downloaded file to standard output in bash?
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Jun
15
comment How do I pipe a downloaded file to standard output in bash?
The -o /dev/null is only necessary if you truly don't care about errors, since without that errors will be written to stderr (while the file is written to stdout).
Jun
14
comment How can I view a website on my server without assigning a domain name to it?
To tell your browser how to map the name (let's say "providercorga.example.com") to an IP address, add a line to your /etc/hosts file as detailed above (for example, "123.45.67.89 providercorga.example.com", substituting your correct IP address of course). Then, when accessing providercorga.example.com your browser will contact 123.45.67.89 directly without using DNS. On doing so, the browser passes the name "providercorga.example.com" to the HTTP server, and then Apache will look for a matching VirtualHost section with "ServerName providercorga.example.com".
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Jun
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comment How can I view a website on my server without assigning a domain name to it?
Apache cannot look up the named virtual host if you access your web site by IP address only. You must access it by using its actual name (that matches ServerName), which is why you need to tell your browser (through /etc/hosts) how to map that name to the IP address of your server.
Jun
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answered How can I view a website on my server without assigning a domain name to it?
Jun
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awarded  Good Answer
Jun
11
comment Could one make a file in WinXP that is executable and unreadable at the same time?
Yes, you can, using NTFS file permissions. Gortok is right, though.
Jun
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comment Have I messed up buying the wrong SSL certificate for my domain?
This question was originally asked on Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/972080/… and automatically migrated here by voting. When questions are migrated, they are forced to "community wiki" mode, and not associated with the same user account so nobody can uncheck the wiki.
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awarded  Nice Answer
May
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answered SVN+SSH Security
May
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answered Should Roles always be used for applying SQL Server permissions?
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