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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Apache failed to start with PrivateTmp=true after I changed the /tmp folder
Apache service cannot start and I know the reason but not sure how to fix it:
Apache error:
apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; ...
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Nginx Config with multiple vhosts and general part for every hosts
I have several subdomains in one configuration file.
I was wondering if is there a way to set a general configuration part for every hosts and then configure each host separately.
Like I have this ...
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Static website I am hosting cannot be reached and the server IP cannot be found
I recently used Google Domains to register a domain and have connected it to Google Cloud Console to manage a static website. I followed the Google Codelabs guide to set it up and faced no issues. ...
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simple http server in python using cpanel [closed]
i have successfully deployed the web server using cpanel python app , but when i run the script i get this error :
*returncode: 1
stdout:
stderr:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/...
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Unable to connect to website on internal server within LAN [closed]
Complete noob with things like this so bare with me; all help is greatly appreciated.
I have a server at home that I intend on hosting multiple websites i'll call website 1 & website 2.
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Execute batch file from server on client computers using php [closed]
Hi all my server is using windows server 2012 and hosting an intranet using joomla via the latest wampserver. I've been tasked with linking a portable program which is shared via UNC to the intranet ...
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Apache web server is going in hung state from last four months
We are using Apache (http)web server 2.4.33 with linux OS.
We found from last 4 months that our apache web server is suddenly going into hung state.
Normally apache server generates the error log on ...
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Is it OK to have Hostname domain different than the Nameservers domain?
I was wondering if hostname domain and nameservers domain can be different on my server. I have always kept them the same but now that I am moving my server, I do not want my clients to have the ...
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AWS architecture for dynamic web server
I'm designing the architecture of a web server with some dynamically generated html pages and hosted in Amazon AWS.
Obviously, I can do from scratch: create some AWS EC2 virtual machines and install ...
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NGINX: js/css not being in
while trying to setup a 404 webpage on one of my sites I couldn't find a solution for non-existing links containing a slash, for instance if i try to connect to https://supra.tf/anything, it will ...
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Optimizing IIS for serving static content over TLS
I am trying to fine tune an IIS 10 web server for the sole purpose of serving static files.
I've disabled session state, disabled managed code, added all necessary public cache control headers with ...
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How to simulate a remote server that has a different public IP address?
I'm trying to set up 2 remote servers, each connected to the internet through their dedicated ISP router. In order to self-host email+web services and many more. My goal is to make them able to DNS ...
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Nginx proxy request to url specified in GET variable
I need Nginx to respond to a request like
https://example.org/proxy/?url=https://othersite.com/path/file.php%%a=test123%%b=321tset
or a similar method, like
https://example.org/proxy/https://...
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Can both a web server and email server be referenced in the hosts and hostname files?
Environment: CentOS, Nginx, Postfix/Dovecot, Digital Ocean Droplet
Question: Can both a web server and email server be referenced in the hosts and hostname files? Is it better to have a separate ...
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does nginx support use variables along with return?
does nginx support use variables along with return? I'm trying to declare a custom error string only for a specific group of HTTP errors, something like:
error_page 401 403 404 502 /error.json;
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Expect-CT header: Is needed something special for report-uri?
I've was reading about the Expect-CT header (e.g. : Expect-CT - A new HTTP Security Header to be aware of
),
For example in Apache:
Expect-CT: max-age=0, report-uri="https://www.example.com/report"
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Syncing web servers over WAN without port forwarding
We have multiple locations (2 now, soon to be 3) with ProxMox servers that have containers (ubuntu server) on them set up as the following (but will have more web servers):
Location 1:
GitLab-server
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Failover cluster of 2+ servers for disasters with only 2+ physical machines
TL;DR: Question in bold below
Here http://www.howto-expert.com/how-to-create-a-server-failover-solution/ is an (I assume) old blog post, explaining how to setup 2 server machines (one master and one ...
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Configuring an Ubuntu 20.04 server
this is the first time I am setting up an Ubuntu server. It is going to run a low-usage app for a company but I want to make sure not to leave any security issues out.
1) I installed a fresh Ubuntu ...
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Why are concurrent downloads faster
Many download managers like this, this and this support downloading a file over multiple parallel connections, one per thread.
The concept is that each connection will download one part of the file ...
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Proper UFW rules for webserver being tunneled through Openvpn Server on EC2 instance
I have configured a webserver locally. I am running an Ubuntu 18.04 EC2 instance which is configured as an openvpn server. My webserver is successfully connecting/tunneling to my OpenVPN Ubuntu server ...
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ProxyPass not working - Apache2
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin callumokane123@gmail.com
ServerName server.maniabots.xyz
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
</...
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Nginx handle multiple htmls in different for different locations in same server
I want to deploy my react app's in nginx under the same server, serving different html's for different locations, I have tried below configuration but it din't work for me
server {
listen 8080;
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How do I use another version of Php for an app served under a certain path with Apache?
I am on Debian Testing so Php 7.4 seems to be the current one. This is fine with me since most of my Apache served apps are fine however two of them are broken. One is Wallabag and the other one is ...
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why use both web servers and application servers in the same architecture? [closed]
I understand the difference between the two, but I don't understand why you would use both. What is the point of separating the work between the two types of servers and increasing the amount of ...
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My URL Rewrites/Reverse Proxy in IIS is not working as desired. Can anyone please double check my setup?
I have a base website (www.example.com) that is working fine. I would like to redirect a subdomain (jellyfin.example.com) to an alternate port on the same IP address that the main domain is residing.
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How to show webpage on localhost to enduser on nginx?
I am running two different service on an embedded device. One is at localhost:4444 and the other at localhost:8082.(the service at :4444 forwards a login attempt automatically to localhost:8082).
I ...
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Where to give index.php properly?
I have /var/www/html/moodle as my website directory. When in mysite.conf the settings are as follows:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
DirectoryIndex "index.php"
mysite.com gives an Index of/ page since ...
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Apache not loading homepage
My site www.domainname.com loads apache2 'It works' page instead of the expected home page of moode which is located at /var/www/html/moodle. There is an index file index.php inside moodle directory ...
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domain doesn't work without [.www]
So I set up an Apache Webserver.
Apache is handling the requests and guides them to the web framework flask.
And i bought a domain and configured it with an A Record to my Server Ip.
And now whenever ...
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Exactly what is the “Tunnel” that Nginx sets up to connect to a back-end server when using WebSockets?
I am a beginner to the world of web development and currently I'm trying to build a socket.io flask application with Nginx serving as the front end server to handle, among other things, the load ...
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Tunnel a local webserver to AWS Openvpn server and serve traffic from AWS IP address?
I am running a LEMP server locally behind my router. Everything is working as it should. Because I would prefer that my ip address isn't exposed to the world, I am attempting to tunnel the web server ...
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Service Records for http
Is it recommended to use SRV / service records resource records for http?
Are there any significant advantages or drawbacks for using them in http?
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Ansible - what is the purpose of the key “run_once” in a task file.yml?
In a task file whose role is to install php on a remote server(s)
someone uses this module (after the one dedicated to the installation) to update the fresh install :
command:
php update.php --...
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Set a redirect in Apache to render folder static files instead of html file
I have been following this tutorial here to install swagger on my project. I created a folder with the static js/css files along with the index.html file and added .dist folder to the folder. I got to ...
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How to disable Hosttech Website block
I am hosting a website on www.hosttech.at. The page was blocked because it had a malware. Before removing it, I created a backup of the page. After fixing it, the site was unblocked successfully. But ...
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server response time for SSH git clone operation
I found the git server application prints server response time in log only after below step completed during an git clone operations. ( I am using Bitbucket server)
Example : Receiving objects: 100% (...
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nginx mask or convert query string to different url
I want to convert or mask a url with query string to another url.
From:
https://www.example.com/world/web/?q=hello
To:
https://www.example.com/world/web/search/hello
I have tried everything on ...
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Nginx Load Balancer traffic redirection
we have following nginx config :
nginx config snippet
In the ../conf.d/ folder we have different config files for domains and subdomains. Let's say aaa.conf, bbb.conf, ccc.conf. Nothing unusual in ...
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How to 301 all urls except homepage and one other url to homepage in nginx
I've recently reduced a site from a huge wordpress blog to a single page (homepage) and one other page.
I'd like to 301 redirect all pages which aren't the homepage or /confirmed to the homepage. I'...
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Sockets available per process is lesser than available sockets
The number of socket per application is set to 1000, however at the system level the sockets are more than 1000. Now consider at the application level all the 1000 sockets are consumed.
For any new ...
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How to configure redirect of HTTP to HTTPS and keep end-to-end SSL via Apache Proxy
I'm currently testing the following scenario in our lab environment to make our production web sites more available. I want to be able to update/reboot a single server without taking down any of our ...
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Nginx static website with wordpress blog routing
I have a problem with nginx config and after spending hours of trying different solutions I still can't make it work.
I have a root folder /var/www/x where I have my static website placed, lets say ...
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How Connect Webform To Ansible Or BASH/Python, To Start a Server Service
I'm a newbie with servers. My webmin service often stops after I'm done using it, so I have to SSH in to restart it. BUT that could be a security advantage. So I'd like to use an Ansible script (or ...
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PHP environmental variables are null through the web server
I am using docker to create a container with the centOS in which I have a nginx web server. I have a bunch of environmental variables that were declared in the docker-compose file(e.x. APP_ENV=docker)....
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Nginx: reverse proxy for multiple ports does not work
I'm trying to use Nginx reverse proxy port 80 to port 5000 and port 8080 to port 8081.
I've configured ssl so GET http://DOMAIN:80 with redirect to port 443 - this works fine.
I'v configured another ...
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Nginx: How to reverse proxy each port to another specific ports?
I'm trying to configure an Nginx server to reverse proxy port 80 to port 5000 and port 8888 to port 9999.
The server_name is the same for both proxies.
I tried to use the following configuration but ...
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Changing the hostname of a debian server using a subdomain
I own a domain name mydomain.example, which I use CloudFlare for DNS. The domain is configured to point to my website hosted on GitHub.
In parallel, I have a Debian VPS from OVH, and I would like ...
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How to view a log file realtime (similar to “tail -f”) via web
I have a server that runs a number of tasks. Each task has a log file. I have a webserver that lets you see these log files, but it just copies the contents of the file to the browser and the user ...
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nginx site shows blank page. No errors
Background
I'm trying to get an nginx /php-fpm7 site up and running on an alpine linux server.
Problem
No errors appear when i navigate to it. Cert is good. And the in the /var/log/access.log ...
