Questions tagged [web]
"The web," or "world-wide web" is a term for the system of hypertext linked documents accessed over the internet, with a web browser. The "www" that comes before most webpages is a reference to the "world-wide web."
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How much HDD space would I need to cache the web while respecting robot.txts? [closed]
I want to experiment with creating a web crawler. I'll start with indexing a few medium sized website like Stack Overflow or Smashing Magazine. If it works, I'd like to start crawling the entire web. ...
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What technologies allow bidirectional streaming of video? [closed]
Wikipedia says that Flash allows "bidirectional streaming of audio and video". Is it possible to do that with other technologies (for example with JavaScript)?
In other words, I want to transfer ...
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Deployed Web Application Requests for User Name and Password
Deployed Web Application Requests for User Name and Password
I recently deployed a .NET web application into the server.
Authentication mode is set to Windows (since the application is accessible ...
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How does too many requests make a server crash?
I am wondering why websites crash at all.
If a server has too many requests, it
might queue up the request in its
waiting lists and serve it when all
the earlier requests have been served.
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How much RAM on a windows VPS (2003, 2008, 2008R2)
Right now I'm running Windows Server 2003 on a VPS with 640mb RAM and it works fine. I would like to upgrade OS to Windows Web Server 2008 or Windows Web Server 2008 R2.
I understand that it is ...
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Best Linux flavor for web application development (LAMP) [closed]
Currently I am using Fedora 12/13 for web application (LAMP) development. Would serious users of LAMP consider any other flavor.
Usage is for my laptop.
If you require more info, pls request, just ...
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IIS: redirect to a webpage if authentication fails
We have an IIS site (MOSS 2007) that uses Windows Authentication. When a user that has forgotten their password tries to login the servers keeps sending 401 requests. This means on IE the user gets ...
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proper concurrent users estimation case studies
I've been asked to size a web architecture for an excessive number of concurrent users ( hundreds of thousands ).
I'm having a hard time convincing these people that unless you are in the top 5 of ...
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How can I block websites in Mac OS X Server 10.6?
I want to block sites on clients computers. I have a Mac OS X Server 10.6 and my clients are using Mac OS and Windows. I have used parental control in the Mac OS X Server before, but it only works for ...
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Web 2.0 online network diagram image generator [closed]
Does any web 2.0 online network diagram generators exist?
Thanks.
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setting upload/space limit for FTP client
As part of my web hosting plan i've also got a few domain hosted for family and friends. I have my own FTP account with full access and I would like to give FTP to a web designer and a user. Is there ...
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Making python run on my webserver
im getting a bit stuck regarding options for running python scripts on my server. From the research ive done so far, i can see i need to modify apache slightly to run python scripts, by using either ...
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How to disable mod_security2 rule (false positive) for one domain on centos 5
Hi I have mod_security enabled on a centos5 server and one of the rules is keeping a user from posting some text on a form. The text is legitimate but it has the words 'create' and an html <table&...
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Changing a site name or domain
I got an active social networking site right now with about 530 members and I would like to change my site's domain name to another one.My question is how can you do this efficiently without losing my ...
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Best user portal? [closed]
Anyone recommend a good user portal, looking to create a portal for users to provide them some self help material. Has to be REALLY simple!
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How to run an executable of linux/windows server from browser?
Suppose the uri of that executable is known:http://domain.name/exe_uri
Will it be executed if we just type it in the address bar?
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Transition domain to new web host without waiting for DNS propagation
I was considering switching to Amazon EC2 to host my website to handle more traffic. It seems like I would have to update DNS records to point to the new server but I was wondering if there was a way ...
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Windows Server traffic monitor that show traffic for each connected IP
I would like to see traffic in bytes of individual users (IP's) in real time. Logging would be good too.
Additionally I would like to see which process (CGI.exe, php script etc) they are connected to ...
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Apache /folder redirect to different IP
We have a site, www.domain.net running on xxx.xxx.xxx.1, we would like to have a folder/alias of www.domain.net/time redirect to the root of a site at xxx.xxx.xxx.2. How would you do this with apache ...
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Setting up Virtual Hosts with Apache on Windows 2008 server for multiple sites. Complicated setup, including subversion [closed]
I am setting up apache on my windows 2008 server at my home. It will serve 2 functions.
Subversion hosting to allow me and some others to manage company documents with version control
Local ...
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Just LB or also Web Servers in Demilitarized Zone? [closed]
In a load balanced environment, is it necessary to have all of the web servers in the DMZ? Or will just having the Load Balancer in the DMZ achieve the desired security? If it matters, the web ...
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Server 2008 Web Edition IIS6 SMTP conflict
I'm using IIS6 Manager to setup the SMTP service on Windows Server 2008 Web Edition.
There seems to be a conflict (port 25?) which means that I cannot start and stop the Default SMTP server within ...
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How to deploy a site with www2 or www3 prefix (Load Balancing)
Some of the web sites started with www2 or www3 (www[n]) which is because balancing computing mentioned here at Stackoverflow )
I want to know how to do this ? and also has it any benefit or not ?
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Recommended programming language for linux server management and web ui integration [closed]
I am interested in making an in house web ui to ease some of the management tasks I face with administrating many servers; think Canonical's Landscape.
This means doing things like, applying package ...
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Web Content Filtering
I have recently bought a Cisco ASA 5505 for my small business, I was initially led to believe this device could do some limited website filtering that we would need. (one list of unrestricted, and a ...
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SVN, Samba and Symbolic Links. How to get them all to play together?
I've got a website project under version control that relies on files from an unversioned directory on the same server via Symbolic Links.
I'm currently storing the symbolic links in the repository. ...
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Getting web.archive.org to archive website again
I noticed that my website isn't archived anymore by web.archive.org. When I look at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cnn.com it is clearly visible that it stopped working in july 2008. web....
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How Do I Determine Which Domain Has The Most Traffic?
My client is hosting like 500 domains. His senior sysop for some reason is unavailable. We're trying to figure out what command you type with Linux and Apache to determine which domains are taking up ...
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Setting Up Lynx As A Web Browser On Windows - Proxy Mess
I need to use Lynx on my machine - The only problem is the company has a proxy which they force us to use and cannot be by passed
I have had a look at lynx.cfg but I do not understand how to force it ...
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How should we set up a web server that supports ongoing development?
I have rented a VPS (Linux - Fedora) and it's to be used as a web server for both development and production of the same web application.
I have yum-installed apache, subversion, and all packages ...
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What's your attitude towards malware-friendly hosting providers?
Last week I had to deal with the following situation: some of my users complained that they got emails telling them that their computers are infected and they should go to a certain site for a free ...
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Setting up a Develop, Acceptance, Production for a single person business
My wife is a graphic designer who is starting her own business in the field of designing templates for wordpress other php based systems. I'm going to setup the servers (VMware with CentOS) so she has ...
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wget mirroring, subdomains and directories and cookies
I have an account on a web page that is now "full" (ie I have used up all my allocated space) and I would like to make a mirror of that site. wget seems like the thing to use.
The problem is that I ...
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Can you recommend a robust OpenAPI 2.0 provider?
Help me find a robust OpenID 2.0 provider!
We're looking at various SSO solutions for our organization, and I would like to suggest OpenID as a viable option, since (a) there is good consumer support ...
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What is the first thing you do if your website was hacked?
What would you do as first thing if your website was hacked?
Taking the site from net? or rollback a backup? not realy or?
Did you made any experiences in this way?
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Server Redundancy
I have web hosts at 3 different locations. I want to create a fail-safe for the websites, so if one host is down, the web sites are still available.
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CherryPy, Load Balancing, and Remote Failover
Our company's current customer-facing site & intranet site is currently built on Classic ASP running on IIS 6. The current site only contains about 10 customer-facing pages, and an internal site ...
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Which is faster at serving up PHP pages, Apache or NGINX
I've read quite a bit on the major benefits to running NGINX over Apache for serving static files. However, I have never seen an article talking about Apache vs NGINX for serving PHP pages.
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SBS 2008 Users report that they are unable to access some web sites
Users in a Windows Server 2008 domain may report that some web sites are inaccessible, while others work OK. The inaccessible web sites may be in .uk and .eu Top Level Domains or in certain other TLDs ...
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SBS 2008 DNS stops working after 1 day for .uk, .eu and some other TLDs outside USA
In SBS 2008, when first installed or rebooted, DNS queries succeed, but after a period of about 1 day users report that they are unable to access some web sites. On inspection, it may be noticed that ...
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How to know which package of VPS to order?
What should I think about when ordering a VPS account (virtual private server), I have these questions that I would like answered:
1- How much processor 'power' do I need? I mean, they are offering ...
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Running a Web Service
I have a web service created in .NET. I thought I had setup everything correctly based on a set of instructions I followed but for some reason I'm getting: "Not Found" when I try to load in my browser ...
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Problems running snort's web frontend
I can't find a good snort web frontend that works properly. I tried base i got so many errors while trying to get it to work:
Warning: include_once(Mail.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open ...
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Is there a simple logging based web proxy?
For the fun, I'm curious to save all web traffic I send/receive. Is there any FLOSS web proxy software that runs on Ubuntu Linux that will just save, to a file, the headers, url, datetime and the ...
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Is it possible to make apache print http parameters in access log?
Apache prints the request to access log. The line will tell you which page is access, say test.php but is it possible to ask it to log the HTTP post parameters as well? Ideally, a specific parameter?
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Proxy server monitor
What is the best proxy server web monitor for a small IT company with less than 40 employees?
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storing private data on a public site (but unlinked) OK?
I've occasionally had occasion when I needed to share some as-yet "private" data (i.e. unedited drafts of audio lectures) so it can be reviewed by authorized people before being made public. ...
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fastest web server for static, dynamic content?
I'm looking for the fastest http server available for:
serving static content -- huge set of large images. Minimal features need, just as fast as possible.
dispatching dynamic content plugins -- ...
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unique visitors on multiple servers
I have several servers' apache access logs (multiple servers serving the same domain). What's the simplest way to calculate unique visitors for a given period. I',m on linux, so the linux environment ...
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view client browsing history
Right now My company is on Google's Blacklist somewhere someone in my company is spamming google. I would like to view the Browsing History on my clients computers to try to find out where it is ...