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Sharing an Apache configuration between testing vs. production

I have a personal web site with a slightly nontrivial Apache configuration. I test changes on my personal machine before uploading them to the server. The path to the files on disk and the root URL of the site are of course different between the…
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Test a site with a static subdomain locally

How can I test a site that uses one or more static domains for serving images locally? e.g. domain.tld with images servered from static.domain.tld Local working copy of the site on WAMP checked out from SVN: URLs will be pointing at…
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Can we execute steps conditionally in a JMeter script?

I have recorded a sequence of steps to be executed for testing my web application, in a JMeter .jmx script. (The recording tool used was BadBoy). It is possible that one of the steps might return an error response in the HTTP response content. In…
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Development, testing, and production envorment for large php/mysql projects

Hello i am working on a large php/mysql project and i am getting to the point where everything get really confusing. I have a dedicated sever that runs CentOS with PLESK. And i have a windows PC with XAMPP. Now the way i work is doing the…
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How do I configure IIS so my Web.config is determined by URL?

I am running a test rig with IIS6 serving an ASP.NET (and Sharepoint) web site. We have several clients, and so we have custom root Web.config files for each client. For this test rig, I want to just serve straight from the Trunk of our source…
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Is there a kind of a/b test for checking CPU Usage?

Our team try to find a way to compare CPU and Memory usage between the current version and the new version. I found some answers. (1) Using load balancer By using load balancer, we can divide our servers into two group. And by deploying different…
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Assign and remove multiple LUNs from VMs on ESXi 4

We currently have a test environment where we create hundreds of LUNs on our SAN-attached storage array, export them to one or more (physical) servers, run tests on the data contained on the LUNs, then destroy them and repeat. We would like to use…
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How to verify that Windows application respects proxy settings?

I want to solve the following problem: I have a Windows desktop application which does a number of things that requires internet access. I want my application to be able to use a proxy. This is simple enough to code, but my problem is how to TEST…
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Automated windows restart testing

I am developing a program, which depends on basically all other programs in our company. As there are so many programs that could potentially change and I never get notified of the changes, I would like make a test environment, where various windows…
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How to deliberately fail DNS resolution in Linux to crash-test a Java app?

The situation is rather simple: to reproduce failures which had happened in a recent outage, I'd like to deliberately fail DNS resolution in JVM's in: Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: ...domain.name... at…
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Manually running rsnapshot

this is my first post here. I have configured rsnapshot for backing up remote hosts. Some of them are working fine and for some of them in the morning, I am having email with some error code 255. I want to run rsnapshot only for these problematic…
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How to config Ngnix to achieve any possible website error for testing

I'm developing a website using Django framework and Nginx. Would like to create a false system error and observer how my system responds. This is a nice article however this only create false Error 502 only. I would like to test other error…
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Manually trigger file write failures

We're building a custom software program (Java + Spring.io) that writes audit trails to a log file (using logback). When a user takes an action in the system, an auditing entry is logged. This works. To be extra-100%-super-duper sure no events are…
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Auto test framework for server deployment

I deploy Linux servers all the time and would like to test each installation. Like a system test. For applications there a numerous of test frameworks, but I can't find anything for testing the a server installation. To be more specific: Using…
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Reliable UK/EU ICMP Targets for Periodic Routing/Connectivity Tests?

I need to test routing between my United States datacenters and United Kingdom and Mainland Europe ISPs. This is used to distinguish between general transcontinental routing issues and specific application issues and local network issues. In the US,…
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