Questions tagged [configuration]
Configuration is a general term that can refer to the arrangement of functional units according to their nature and characteristics. Also, it can refer to software configuration which more suitable for server-related topics.
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IIS 7.5 Unable to write configuration file
I have a fault regarding IIS 7.5 on Win Server 2008 R2, whenever I try to change any site bindings or start an application pool I get the error below:
Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\...
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Understanding exim configuration files on Debian/Ubuntu
I want to understand what's going on with this Exim configuration directory.
In /etc/exim4, there's:
* exim4.conf.template
* update-exim4.conf.conf
* conf.d
The conf.d has a mess of directories and ...
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How to check if dovecot's configuration is valid? (config file syntax)
Is there a command that I can issue that will tell me if the current set of config files for dovecot are valid or if there's an issue?
I just made a change to my dovecot config files. Before ...
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Is there a global config file for Unison synchronization tool?
I'd like all my unison profiles to have
merge = Name * -> meld CURRENT1 CURRENT2
diff = /usr/bin/meld CURRENT1 CURRENT2
confirmmerge = true
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PHP: what is --enable-zend-multibyte configure option for?
What is exactly --enable-zend-multibyte option for when you ./configure PHP?
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Methods for analyzing Red Hat sosreport output?
For some time (since EL 4.6), Red Hat has embedded a system report and troubleshooting tool into the operating system. The tool, sosreport, collects system information and settings and bundles it into ...
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Is there a way to increase the maximum allow url length for incoming requests on Apache HTTPd?
I'm running a web services site on Apache HTTPd and every once in while I get an error indicating the incoming URL is too long (HTTPError: HTTP Error 414: Request-URI Too Large).
My site is servicing ...
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how to configure open ldap to work on localhost
From the documentation:
Use your favorite editor to edit the
provided slapd.conf(5) example
(usually installed as
/usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf) to
contain a BDB database definition of
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debian, diff, config default
I want to know if is posible to get the diff on the original versus the current config files of installed debian packages.
If found an answers which shows up the modified config files, but I find no ...
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Is it possible to generate openssl configuration file from an existing x509 certificate?
I am looking for a way to restore openssl configuration from an X509 certificate (or a csr).
I know it's possible to look at the certificate and manually reconstruct the config file but it's ...
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How to Disable TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 in Nginx
I'm trying to figure out how to disable TLSv1 and 1.1 Nginx and ONLY allow connections on 1.2. This is for testing reasons more than in production use and for the life of me cannot figure out why ...
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Using revision control for Windows server configuration?
Does anyone have experience with Puppet or cfengine like setups for a Windows server environment? Is there such a thing?
I am looking to track configuration file and file security changes over a ...
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How do I get an aggregate of all the stats from all uWSGI vassals using uwsgitop?
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Can anyone tell me how I may get uwsgitop to monitor all of my vassals in my emperor-vassal setup in one shot?
I have an emperor-vassal setup for my uWSGI server, and I need to monitor all my ...
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Can't successfully run Sharepoint Foundation 2010 first time configuration
I'm trying to run the non-GUI version of configuration wizard using power shell because I would like to set config and admin database names. GUI wizard doesn't give you all possible options for ...
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Issues with nginx autoindex
I am trying to set up nginx so that a certain url produces the directory index of a certain directory on my server. Currently this is what my default.conf looks like.
location / {
root /...
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Disable windows file shares without losing share config
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We're currently upgrading an old app from running on Windows Server 2003 to running it on Windows Server 2012.
Users and other systems communicate with this system via HTTP (i.e. users ...
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which images dockerd starts automatically?
Once I have restarted the docker service on Ubuntu box with service docker restart it started some of the containers I didn't expect it to start.
Why is that? Which config file/storage/whatever ...
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How to detect ssl in shared 80 / 443 ssl nginx server config?
When nginx server is configured this way:
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name www.example.org;
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}
how can be detected that the request came via HTTP or HTTPS?
(E.g. $...
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CentOS default ssl.conf file
Does anybody have a default ssl.conf file for the latest version of CentOS?
I am trying to understand if I can use the auto-generated SSL certificate, but I accidentally overwrote it with another ssl....
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What are compelling use cases for having both Chef/Puppet and RightScale/Scalr?
I was wondering about the differences between cloud computing management tools and server configuration software as there seems to be an overlap between them. I would like to have some feedback from ...
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Apache ProxyPass only if from a Subdomain
I have two servers, both running Apache.
Server 1 and 2 are on the same Public IP address.
Server 1 has a Network IP of 192.168.1.101
Server 2 has a Network IP of 192.168.1.102
example.com goes to ...
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UTF-8 and !# shell scripts
Is there a way to configure bash on Linux (red hat and ubuntu) to allow shell scripts to be encoded in UTF-8?
I can't find a simple way to change just one little thing and have the whole system just ...
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Keeping configs, user ids, groups and passwords consistent across Linux-servers
I have a couple of Debian servers with only little users and services. The applications are kept as far as possible in their own directories where they can be backed-up or synced easily.
But I have ...
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Should Production Windows Web Servers (IIS & SQL) be in a domain?
We have a few web servers and a few database servers. To date, they've been standalone machines that are not part of a domain. The web servers don't talk to each other, and the web servers talk to ...
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Postfix server configuration values explained?
I am trying to setup a single server to send out email from a single domain but I'm having trouble identifying the correct values for these Postfix settings.
mydomain = example.com
myhostname = ...
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How to make spamassasin reject mail based on score?
I am running Linux with Postfix, Dovecot, Postgrey and spamassasin/spamd.
This is my main.cf
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,
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What configuration items do you track for proper configuration management? [closed]
As a professional system administrator, what configuration items do you consider it essential to track to perform proper configuration or change management?
For example, in Windows, do you track ...
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How would you add a share to smb.conf via a script?
I'd like to script adding a share to a smb.conf file. My current script just appends it to the end of the file, but that's not ideal. I'd rather have something that will add a new share if it doesn't ...
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How to find out what program is sending emails
I have linux (debian) box which is running fine.
However I have problem I need to find out what program is sending emails when i use "mail" command. Or for that matter when a PHP script is sending ...
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haproxy NOSRV issue with redirected port
I am attempting to catch http traffic on one port (8080) and redirect it to an internal port (12345). I have the following in my haproxy.cfg
frontend rest_front
bind *:8080
#reqadd X-Forwarded-...
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Is there any way to see the group_vars, host_vars, etc. available to a host in ansible?
So I just started a new company, and while familiarizing myself with the ansible repository, I was wondering if there's any way to see the variables that come from group_vars, host_vars and all that ...
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iptables SSH connection logging
Is it possible to only write a log-entry when a connection is established ?
I have tried:
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j LOG --log-level notice --log-prefix "outgoing ssh connection"
to log ...
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Best way to restrict some SSH users to publickey authentication only (disable password authentication)
I'm running Mac OS X Server.app on Yosemite and I have SSH enabled for users with the default settings in /etc/sshd_config (publickey and password auth enabled by default). However, I need to ...
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Is Jenkins/Hudson ciphered password storage "safe"?
In setting up our Jenkins/Hudson server recently it became clear that it has to store passwords. It seems that it stores the passwords "ciphered" in config.xml I can't see how this would be safe as ...
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Can't change NGINX timeout
I'm getting a 504 timeout on my Nginx server:
504 Gateway Time-out.
The website allows users to download custom data files. The site works fine under most conditions and users can download some files ...
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Using DocumentRoot as a variable in other sections of Apache config file
Is there a way to use the DocumentRoot as a variable in further sections of a site's config file in Apache?
Something as below:
DocumentRoot /var/www/myNiceRoot
<Directory $DocumentRoot/mySubDir&...
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OpenVPN Server hangs at "Initialization Sequence Completed"
I have been trying to get an OpenVPN server setup on FreeNAS (not the most straight forward choice, I know) and have run into a puzzling error. It seems that the server is hanging after the "...
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Rewrite URL before passing to proxy Lighttpd
I'm trying to setup a reverse proxy in lighttpd, such that all requests (and only those requests) under /mobile/video is redirected to the / directory of a secondary web server. This is pretty easy in ...
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Nginx point subdirectory to root
How can I point www.domain.com/ru/ to open the content of www.domain.com/ ?
Not a redirect.
I have tried alias and root but can't figure how to make it work.
Thank you.
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nginx - deny all *.php requests except index.php for security reasons
os: CentOS 7
nginx: 1.6.2
httpd: apache 2.4.6
cms: Drupal 7
After my server was compromised I removed all from server, reinstalled OS and soft, and restored data from backup.
Now I configure all ...
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Configure PHP to use a proxy?
Using PHP 5.2.6 and need to configure it to use our forward proxy (which requires authentication be set) so that the PHP scripts can connect to the internet correctly.
I see that PHP.INI in the 4 ...
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Securing the primary Ansible user
It seems that there are only two reasonable approaches for the primary Ansible user:
Using root
Using another user (e.g., ansible) with NOPASSWD sudo access
The first option is a no-go since I ...
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Apache - Include conf Files Relative to ServerConfigFile (-f arg)
I want to use the -f command-line option for the Apache server so that I can store the conf files in a separate place (a data diectory) from the server binaries.
The problem is that I use the Include ...
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Creating a fallback error page for nginx when root directory does not exist
I have set up an any-domain config on my nginx server - to reduce the amount of work needed when I open a new site/domain. This config allows me to simply create a folder in /usr/share/nginx/sites/ ...
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Puppet manifest example
Can anyone point me to a full example (tar/zip) directory of a Puppet manifest? I get the guides but it would be way easier just to look at a working directory.
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Why won't MariaDB start after upgrade (NO_NEW_PRIVILEGES)
After upgrade of my debian(testing, jessie to stretch) server on DigitalOcean, MariaDB won't start with service mariadb start.
I tried to purge all mariadb-* and mysql-* packages, delete configs and ...
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What is the correct way to generate /etc/audit/audit.rules on Centos7?
At the top of /etc/audit/audit.rules on Centos7 it tells me:
## This file is automatically generated from /etc/audit/rules.d
Okay, so I went and looked, and found /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules. It ...
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Create separated syslog file for each host with rsyslog
I have a syslog server (running rsyslog on RHEL 7.4) that consolidates all the syslogs from my network devices. It's listening on port TCP/514.
I want to redirect the logs of each device to a ...
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Nested location doesn't work properly
I cannot debug this piece of nginx configuration:
I want to add some headers to all requests for a .pdf file
Then I want to remove a token which I add to my veiw directory to avoid unwanted browser's ...
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Significance of NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT in Postfix log?
I set up brand new Postfix server last night and did not configure at all yet, just did the install. So, I logged in this morning to finish the configuration and notice that there is stuff in the log:
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