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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lighttpd security without htaccess
I have a webserver with limited resources and therefore I decided to use lighttpd as my webserver software. However, I notice now that it does not recognizes apache .htaccess files.
Most of the ...
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Memory Leak while using IIS Advanced Logging filters
I'm using IIS 8.5.9600.16384 with Advanced logging module 1.0 (2009-10-08).
Adding the following filter to IIS advanced logging module causes memory leak of w3wp.exe. After a day, a few GB of RAM is ...
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I want to build a virtual web server from python. Where do I start? [closed]
I use Python, and I'm familiar with its capabilities and syntax. I want to create a web server that can receive and send JSON data packets. Sorry about the short question.
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Is there a solution that does with Phusion Passenger does, but for multiple Docker websites?
Let's assume I have a server running multiple Dockerized websites - I realise that I can configure a reverse proxy (such as Nginx or Apache) to examine the headers of incoming HTTP requests, and send ...
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SCGI vs FastCGI - Which one is faster? [closed]
I want to use one of servers - libscgi and libfcgi - with dynamic content. Which one seems to be faster?
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why am I getting error for nginx?
I have installed a new ubuntu and new nginx. However, I am created a nginx.conf file inside my website project folder and created a sym link as below
ln -s <project>/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/site-...
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Does nginx as reverse proxy use buffers for every client request?
We have few requests that takes http headers size more than the default accepted size in our tomcat application i.e., maxHttpHeaderSize = 8192 (https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/http....
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What is the reason for this falsely redirect to www.www2.example.de
I set up a testserver for our main website www.example.com.
I set the apache-sites-config to www2.example.com.
I deleted the .htaccess / adjusted it to hold the basic wordpress-entries.
I disabled the ...
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Can one apache server serve to multiple apache servers on Virtual Machines?
Previously I had a single physical server running three web services (HTML/API/DB) with three Apache Virtual Hosts to serve those three services. I furthermore had forwarded both HTTP and HTTPS to ...
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Nginx server works only locally
I have set up a VPS on Vultr running Debian 10, and I've just installed nginx.
If my understanding is correct, at this stage, I should be able to see something like
when I visit my website. Indeed, ...
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Websockets: Can our server handle 3,000 users? [duplicate]
I'm building a website's with realtime events happening, this is my tech stack:
Language: PHP
Framework: Laravel
I'm using a self hosted websockets. We're expecting 3,000 users will use the website ...
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Set up fallback page for when docker is down
My web-application comes in docker-containers an gets started with docker-compose up. The setup exposes it on port 80, the rest happens inside the containers thanks to traefik etc.
If I start it on a ...
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PHP processing pages for forms not following line with rest of files
I'm a web developer hobbyist. I'm over 50, never had a true web dev job but like to tinker in my spare time for fun. That said, I have a web site hosted by Bluehost that I wrote with PHP from scratch. ...
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Free Dynamic-Dns Paradigm and how the redirections work in this case
(For 4 minutes lecture)
BACKGROUND
In my high school we're doing a project and my friends and I decided to implemented to our town.
So we decided to make a website, and now we need to create our web ...
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Getting OpenLiteSpeed to execute Perl CGI scripts
I just did a clean install of OpenLiteSpeed on Ubuntu 20.04 from the OpenLiteSpeed official repository.
I followed the instructions indicated here to enable the use of Perl scripts: https://...
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Apache: Return static string for location
For a .well-known path, I want to return a static JSON file/string.
With nginx, this seems to be possible without creating that file by specifying the content in the configuration file:
location /....
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Is it possible to hack a server with a SSTP_DUPLEX_POST request?
How is it possible to use the method : SSTP_DUPLEX_POST and the url : /sra_{BA195980-CD49-458b-9E23-C84EE0ADCD75}/ to hack a server ?
I have this request in my logs from a well known malicious IP ...
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Website cannot be accessed from an outside network despite ports 80 and 443 being open [closed]
I am home-hosting an Express server on my computer, mainly for developing, but also to have fun with my friend.
A few days ago, my ISP changed my static IPv4 address which I had for ~3 years to a ...
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Best practices for replacing a server while not breaking any URLs and not having any downtime?
I tried searching for an answer to this problem but the search term is so broad that nothing helpful popped up.
We have an old server and we want to replace it with a new one (both are physical ...
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nginx rewrite url from one site to subdomain in other site?
How can I rewrite or redirect url domain.com/auth$ to subdomain.domain.com/auth$ ?
I have tried to match url but no effect. simple redirec 301 doesnt work.
Thanks!
Just got a solution, add the ...
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PHP and Nginx on docker, curl get Connection refused in php container
I am working in a local environment with docker.
I have an nginx web container and a php container which are in the same network.
I build the php container from my own dockerfile (with phpfpm and ...
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TTFB slow on EC2 instance until reboot. What is the cause and how can I monitor this with notifications?
I have a T2 micro on AWS EC2 running Ubuntu Linux. The response times have fine been for a long time. Tested some pages today and page load time was 20 seconds or longer. I checked the "st&...
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Can you anonymise all IP addresses in AWStats, and delete previous history logs?
In AWStats, is it possible to anonymize all IP addresses, so stats are generic as possible and reduce any links to personal information? Also, is it possible to disable AWStats from saving history ...
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Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS without DNS or static IP
I've setup web servers in the past, but now I'm working on an embedded Linux project that is a bit different. I need the embedded Linux device to
run an Apache server
support DHCP
not require any DNS ...
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How two different applications should get served using one single apache2 virtualhost configuration
Just for assumption here
testsite.com which is my php application and
testsite.com/project is python application
I have following settings in my apache site config file /etc/apache2/sites-available/...
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Nginx with multiple domains/subdomains and ssl_certificate variable
We have a Nginx with hundred of proxies to several domains/subdomains.
The way it being held during years, each new domain, we just go there and create a new conf file with server block containing ...
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Is a git repo as html content safe? [closed]
I've been searching with a couple different terms but didn't find exactly what I was looking for.
I got the idea to start a blog with a flat file CMS. It would be handy to have the pages in a git ...
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What is the benefit change cloud server time to local timezone
I have several server over the cloud with the remote time zone, due to logs investigation comparing to our local time is vary, What would affect if I change the time on the server ?
the target server ...
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NGINX not serving a maybe static HTML File
About my setup:
I have an npm-app running that is using React and the index.html file is located in /var/www/example.com/new/frontend/public. I'm using Debian 10 with the app listening on port 8080 (...
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make nginx reverse proxy use the custom path to GET static resources
I serve a Node JS app and reverse proxy it to certain custom path
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name ***.com;
ssl_certificate /path/to/cert;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/cert;
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Apache Server does not display the correct website
Hi I'm trying to learn Apache2 with a VPS. So far it's ok, but I can't find the reason for one problem that I face.
I've a website setup in my /var/www/example.com folder. I created a config file for ...
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Nginx won't run after import SSL certificate
I have a problem, after import commercial certificate with private key into my bitdefender gravityzone console, it stopped working. I have such errors:
serv bdadmin # service nginx start
Job for nginx....
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Apache redirect HTTP to HTTPS Redirect or Rewrite?
I have found two way to redirect http to https with apache.
Using Redirect
Redirect / https://mydomain/
Or Rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://mydomain/$1 [...
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Is it possible to define “excludes” for check-static in uwsgi settings?
I have an application which I don't want to modify.
It has multiple directories with static files which are defined as static via check-static directive in uwsgi's .ini-file. My problem is that each ...
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Duplicated Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine, Local Domain for Development
I'm working with a duplicate version of a virtual machine so I can make some development changes to a website, but I'm not at all a Windows developer, so I have no idea how to alter this site so that ...
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How can I configure IIS (in-domain web server) to use HTTPS if it has no connection to the internet?
I have a web server that runs Windows Server 2016 and has IIS with some ASP.Net applications hosted.
The server is part of a domain, and all machines accessing these applications are also part of the ...
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Server settings to improved Wordpress backend speed
You know how it is, caching plugins only make the front-end move faster but when you're logged in and browsing the wp-admin section, the Wordpress site grinds to a halt. I'm trying to increase some ...
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Telnet connects to server but cannot transmit data
Our client has a server and our web apps run on port 443 and 2000. Our client has two groups of IP addresses. One group is for the computers used in the company building. These computers can browse ...
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When a website is reachable through an IPv4 address, DNS is tested and working but all domains error out in Chrome what needs to be checked?
I just moved from Digital Ocean to AWS. My usual setup procedures for the web server I use for experimentation are not working.
I can reach the site through IPv4 but all domains error out and my SSL ...
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How can I discover and crawl all of the websites on a webserver?
I want to query several internal servers that I know are running webservers and discover which websites they are running. Is it possible to do this? The servers I need to query are running either ...
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NGINX - django subdomain proxy_pass keeps redirecting
I'm trying to add subdomain news.abc.com for my django application and forward it to example.com/news/
And NGINX keeps redirecting whatever i do.
My current config is
server {
server_name news....
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Passing firebase authentication into http authentication for nginx web service
I'm trying to use a basic firebase app as a (secured) entrypoint to some web services hosted on a web server (using nginx).
The links to the webserver are simply hidden on the html (e.g. class='...
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Should I be concerned about attackers spraying for vulnerabilities on our webserver?
I'm running a webserver with monitoring software (Sentry.io) and I can see (failed) hits to the following endpoints:
GET /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php
GET /console/
POST /api/...
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Webpage always takes 5 seconds to load the first time using Nginx
I've deployed a webserver using Nginx. The webserver is under a virtual machine using Virtualbox. Everything seems to work properly. Connections are carried out on a local network context.
The problem ...
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Docker Apache httpd can't display pictures on mounted share
I'm trying to set up a simple webserver to display some images loaded from my NAS.
My problem is that I can only get the webserver to display images when they're stored in a folder on the Ubuntu-host. ...
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Unable to access apache2 server from any machine except localhost
I have a Magento2 instance set up on a server running Ubuntu 20.04.
When I open a browser from that machine I can access the webpage using any of: magento.local, 127.0.0.1, and 192.168.20.11 (which I ...
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Nginx http to https redirect downloads an empty file instead
Im trying to redirect my site from http to https using nginx.unfortunately when I enter the address with http , it will not redirect it to https but will download a file instead.this is happening for ...
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1gb vs 10gb uplink in terms of TTFB
I am about to setup a new dedicated server, I have the option of 1gb vs 10gb uplink with a considerable price difference. I do only have 10 domains on this sever and traffic is not huge. However, on ...
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Image displaying in a browser but not in a HTML compiler
My image is displaying correctly in a browser, but when i use the image link inside an HTML compiler, its showing a broken image symbol.
Image link : http://winterminer.com/glogo.png
<img src="...
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New IIS Website not reachable
Following problem: I installed IIS (V 10.0.17763.1) on a Windows Server 2019. The default website can be reached via the IP (accessible from anywhere). Then I created another site in its own ...
