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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.

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.

A configuration file is usually a text file associated with a specific software which describes the initial settings of the software. Some applications provide tools to generate configuration files.

Some computer programs only read their configuration files at startup. Others periodically check the configuration files for changes. Users can instruct some programs to re-read the configuration files and apply the changes to the current process, or indeed to read arbitrary files as a configuration file. There are no definitive standards or strong conventions.

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Use git for multiple server configuration files

We have migrated a lot of source code over to git and are very happy with our current solution. We would like to have our server configuration files versioned on the same system, but there are a few things that don't work the way we would like it to…
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How to fetch ./configure parameters used at last time?

I am upgrading LAMP stack on customer's server and need to ./configure mysql and apache with exact last settings they were compiled with last time. Where do I get these? PHP configure string can be got by php -i. What about others?
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Windows Service: Can I configure the current working directory?

By default, Windows services start in the sytem32 directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\system32). Is there a way to set up a different working directory? I am thinking of some registry parameter beneath…
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Looking for good documentation of odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini files on Linux

I saw partial information, old information, but nothing as good as the actual sample files with brief comments that I have locally. I need to understand the exact relationship between odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini. Superficially it is pretty obvious -…
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How to check if hardware RAID is configured?

I have several servers running Windows 2008 and Red Hat 5 that are capable of hardware RAID. How do I check that hardware RAID is configured?
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List the current configuration of nginx server

Yesterday I did something quite stupid. I edited a configuration file of my nginx server, throwing away some settings and just after I saved the file I realized I was editing the wrong file. Now I didn't reload the server, so it is still running…
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Nginx includes config files not in order?

Is the order in which Nginx includes configuration files fixed, or random? Apache explicitly states wildcard characters are expanded in alphabetical order. With Nginx it seems this does not apply, and the manual says nothing about it. In my setup,…
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Is there a way to use the Autodiscover feature without Exchange?

The autodiscover method used by Exchange looks great. However I do not have Exchange. It looks like when setting up a mail account the device/mail client looks for a autodiscover.xml file. Is there a way to create such a file by myself and serve it…
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How to split out Prometheus config files?

Right now we're using Prometheus for our monitoring and we have a lot of config (our prometheus.yml main config file is 1400+ lines long). I would like to split this out into logical groupings (maybe DEV/TEST/PROD?) but I can't seem to find any…
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Is there a way to create a "one-time" boot entry in grub?

I have the following issue: I have a small server (Debian based) to which I can connect remotely (VPN/SSH connection). Now I want to change some boot options (in fact I want to migrate my root file system to another partition) and therefore I have…
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SQL Server Files Local or NAS or SAN?

I have to install a new Server with SQL Server 2008, What do you recommend, One server with Raid 10 or the Files in a NAS? What about iSCSI should I use it? What about SAN? The server has 4Gb of RAM and that database file is about 2GB. To make my…
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Allow anonymous user to only view job list without browsing workspace in Jenkins

We are running a Jenkins CI. Generally we would like to provide full access to authenticated users from particular group full-read access to anonymous users block anonymous users to access certain projects (completely) We use Unix user/group…
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Install & configure mod_ssl on Amazon EC2 instance

I am trying to support HTTPS traffic with the mod_ssl module on my website. I am running an Amazon EC2 instance for my server. I have installed and configured the basic LAMP packages. However, when I go to put in SSL-specific commands in my apache…
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How do you document windows server configurations?

I come from a Unix background where documenting the configuration of a service (email for example) could be as simple as grabbing a few text configuration files and a paragraph or 2 of explanatory text. Faced with documenting the configuration of a…
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How can I diff two config files?

I've got two snmpd.conf files, one on a server that works, and one that doesn't. How can I diff the two config files while stripping out irrelevant comments and newlines?
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