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Refers to the software or hardware that make up a webserver, delivering content on a private or public website.

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Traffic mirroring with nginx

Simply put using Nginx I am trying to mirror all the traffic hitting one of our apps, app A to a newly deployed test app. I know that there is the mirror module but I was wondering if there is any ...
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What's the recommended way to use GeoIP2 with a varying mirror list?

I want to setup a webserver, where every HTTP request is directly redirected to a nearby mirror. So far we used the unfortunately no longer supported Perl module Apache2::Geo::IP together with Apache'...
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Apache2 Configuration Issue - Deny from external IP, allow by hostname

I've been messing with this for a couple days now and can't seem to get it to work. I have 2 sites enabled via their own config files. site1.conf & site2.conf Each sites has rewrite rules from ...
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How browsers deal with ports? [closed]

Suppose I've a website created which is hosted, and running on port 5000. Now you are on a web browser (let's say chrome) visits the webpage. so does chrome sends a request from your PC to my server ...
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Nginx cache does not set the "X-Proxy-Cache" header

So I´m currently trying to implement caching on my NGINX webserver. For now I have a single conf file in my sites-enabled directory linked, which looks like this: proxy_cache_path /var/cache/nginx ...
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no "ssl_certificate" is defined in server

Trying to get my routine webserver set up, and running into this roadblock, no matter what I try it's not working, something i've done hundreds of times and i'm out of ideas. Typical webserver setup, ...
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Nginx reverse proxy only specific sub directory and pass through everything else

I have development situation where i have a domain with multiple services: https://somewebpage.com On this service there are multiple project as subdirectories https://somewebpage.com <- landing ...
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Server with scalability for real-time collaboration and editing [closed]

I am here, to ask for absolute input. I have setup a local Apache Server with PHP 7.2 (currently), I am aware newer PHP exists. I know PHP and Python, I also know Node.js (server/back-end). With Node....
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My Nginx webserver does not correctly serve content with accented characters in files names

I just created a new web server using a Linux box and NginX. It seems to be working correctly for most content. I just converted a site which used to be on a Windows Server box and for the most part ...
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Can a Linux web server which hasn't been restarted for years be secure?

The content of /proc/uptime reports: 48973211.37 1627573879.70 48973211 seconds mean the server is up for 567 days without a restart. Since then many serious security fixes have been applied to the ...
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Apache2: mod_ratelimit only allowing half the speed

I'm trying to limit the file download speed in a directory I've got the following .htaccess <IfModule ratelimit_module> SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT SetEnv rate-limit 4096 </IfModule>...
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Apache 2.4 "client denied by server configuration" caused by Require expr - even though the request succeeds

Our apache error log is littered with messages saying client denied by server configuration, even though the htaccess configuration is working as intended. Here is the relevant bit of the htaccess: ...
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Structuring and serving files after a build

So this is my first self-hosted site and server, so go easy on me please! XD I've been developing locally using webpack and vanillajs. My server is hosted on digitalocean with ubuntu. I build locally, ...
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Filter CGNAT IPs from Log

I want to identify heaavy users on a web API I would like to ignore CGNAT IPs . I looked at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6598 Is this mandatory or can an ISP use any given IP ? Is there a List ...
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IIS serving files - strange behavior

I will try to explain the problem as best I can.I have an IIS server that is accessible from outside and users use it to download files (.zip, .iso, etc.). With smaller files, this is not noticeable, ...
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Forwarding (local) RTSP/HLS traffic via VPN to expose on WAN IP of VPS

I feel like I am overcomplicating this extremely by wanting to do it securely, so a fresh look at this would help a lot. I have a webcam that I want to publish / embed on a website. My current setup ...
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Nginx: Accessing website by domain name will throw ERR_TIMED_OUT

Steps I did: I've Debian VPS and I've bought domain "marek-prusa.dev" on Google Domains. Steps how I configured my webserver with domain name "marek-prusa.dev". I've created marek-...
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Specify IP address for V2ray + nginx

There's an Ubuntu server configured with nginx and trojan proxy with x-ui. The nginx listens on public IP address port 443 and x-ui on 127.0.0.1 and can be on any port. trojan proxies also listens on ...
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How Can I add Cookie value or Session ID Value in ErrorLogFormat of Apache?

I want to add the 'my_session' cookie value in the Apache error log. I have added an access log 'LogFormat' as below: <IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443> LogFormat "...
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Allowing and restricting access to specific URL in Apache 2.4

I am new to apache. And I want to restrict access to this URL(https://testserver.com/admin.php) for public IP addresses. And I want to allow access to the same URL for specific IP addresses. I am ...
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Does number of static pages on a web server's storage affect it's performance?

Imagine Website A Running on server A has 100 Static Pages and Website B Running on server B has 1000000 Static Pages, Both use the same tech (Software, Hardware E.T.C.) to run. Does Server B use more ...
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Does FileZilla Server require a public key to work?

I've installed FileZilla Pro Server to host my FTP/SFTP site. If I try to log into the SFTP server using FileZilla client, it works just fine. But we have another company trying to log in and they are ...
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nginx, two websites on two ports to two URLs instead?

I have experience with IIS but not with nginx (on Windows). I have two websites on a server as follows; http://servername:port1000 http://servername:port2000 and would like the following: http://site1....
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A web server that takes contents from another one, and serves it with slightly modified HTML

I have a web site a.com (please note: I own and run it). I want to be able to run a slightly modified version of it on b.com . The contents would be identical; however, I would apply some minor ...
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What is the web server software announcing itself as "VDL/1.0"?

I am looking at an old web form located at: http://www.teleservices.lyon.fr/etat-civil/naissance/ Of course, it is obsolete, bogus, without TLS, etc. But I don’t recognize the web server publishing it....
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Webserver cannot be reached from outside, but updates are available and URLs are resolved

I'm having trouble with my web server. It cannot be reached from outside, and I don't know how to proceed. OS: Ubuntu 20.04 ufw is not running executing ufw status on the server yields Status: ...
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How can I forward-proxy https requests with Nginx?

I am running a local web app on my dev machine. And I want to reach my local web app from a test machine (a phone). I set up Nginx to listen on port 8888. My test machine can reach my dev machine at ...
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Increase in spams through website contact forms after change of server

I recently moved my website from Hostgator to an Amazon Web Services' EC2 instance. From a few days later people/bot started posting spam messages in the forms that are on the website. Is there ...
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How to redirect/block IP access to Nginx

I am hosting a Website on some EC2 Instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. The Website can be reached via the public IP of the Load Balancer. This public IP is changing frequently so I have to ...
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How can I make my nginx web server reachable from outside its local network?

I am trying to reach a subdomain of my website from outside its local network. I can successfully ping it (ping my.subdomain.com): PING my.subdomain.com (ser.ver.ip.add) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes ...
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Will a web server get blacklisted for port scanning?

As I understand it, port scanning is an activity that can be a precursor to malicious activity, as one of the things it is used for is to scan for open ports that one can attack. In that train of ...
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Ubuntu server resets to work only locally

This is maybe a very stupid question as I am very new to this. Just lost so much time looking for the solution, but couldn't find any so far. So any tips would be appreciated. My problem is with web ...
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Routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic from one Linux server to another Linux server

The DNS for the domain.com is pointing at Server1 (it has a public ip address). The webserver is running on Server 2 (no public IP address, but connected to Server1 via OVPN). Is it possible to route ...
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Pointing a sub domain to an ip with a port (apache)

I've been having an issue for a while and none of the answers for similar posts have been working. My Issue: I have a domain running on a linux server (using apache): example.net; I have a second ...
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Why is the use of limit_req_zone not limiting requests by clients as expected on Nginx?

Background: I've been trying to use rate-limiting on Nginx following this NGINX rate-limiting in a nutshell article, but I have an unexpected behavior when using the $binary_remote_addr option. The ...
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Is there a simple way in Azure to redirect all HTTP(S) requests to a "server down" status page?

I have a web server (Windows/IIS) hosting various web applications running as a VM on Azure. Now, I'll need to do some maintenance on the web server, which will involve shutting down and reconfiguring ...
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Can apache return multipe ErrorDocuments for the same response code depending on a header value?

So let's say I have a 403 page but if the request header has a custom value in it - I want to return a different 403 with a bit more information in. So the normal 403 location may be /error_403 and ...
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Apache2 - Redirect to external Server for several domains

my goal is to setup a webserver, that redirects http requests to another server. For example, when an URL/Domain changes. I want to create an CNAME Record for the old domain to the redirectserver (...
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How to create a local host that can be accessed through everyone on the same internet?

I've had an Apache Virtual Host working for a couple of month where workers on the office wifi could type in something like www.XYZ123.com and was able to access the website through their browser. Now,...
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Connection issue with nginx and php-fpm on ubuntu 22.04 LTS

I am not able to contact my website which has been set up on a freshly installed ubuntu server 22.04 LTS. Unfortunately, my connection attempts time out with error 522 and I have no idea where to ...
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Random IIS Failures

I have a 2 node IIS cluster using Microsoft Network Load Balancing under Windows Server 2019 hosting multiple websites/application pools. The cluster ran without problems for a year. However, ...
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NGINX secure_link returning 403

I´m using the following serve block to serve some mp4 files using NGINX secure link. server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; root /var/www/cdn; index index.html index.php ...
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Apache webserver's ServerName and/or ServerAlias should be registered on LAN's DNS server?

If I create an Apache webserver into my LAN, with 2 VirtualHosts, both on port 80, should I register their ServerName and/or ServerAlias on my LAN's DNS server? That's what I did (using in this ...
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AWS t3.medium web traffic

I have a ecommerce website running on t3.medium instance. Is there a way to find out how much web traffic can be handled by same in numbers? So if our web traffic increases do we need to buy another ...
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Nginx 404 Not Found when entering a specific url path

What I am trying to do is to prepare this machine to serve my web application. It works without any problems when I serve it via npm start. I have a domain, let's say, example.com on which I installed ...
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is Microsoft IIS Media Services still maintained?

any articles i find about IIS Media Services seems to be from 2012 and not much for updates since then. Is that because it's been working well since then? or because it's no longer being maintained? I'...
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Proper way to put http-server into background

I'm using raspbian on a pi Zero to serve a simple static HTML page with an index.js and some styling. I'm using the npm package http-server I've installed it globally. https://www.npmjs.com/package/...
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Can I validate client certificates signed with different root certificates in nginx?

Preface: I'm new to certificate validation I've configured an nginx website as a reverse proxy, which validates client certificates. Without all the other specifics, this is the config that I used: ...
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How to restrict apache Guacamole access to certain IP addresses?

How to restrict apache Guacamole access to certain IP addresses? We want to allow access to ONLY to our office Ip address. Not able to find anything on this topic in the config files.
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Apache does not start

I am trying to start Apache on my Webserver but I keep getting this error: httpd.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Any solution would be appreciated. Edit: Log Entries Jun 3@ 63:41:59 racknerd-...
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