Uniform Resource Locators are a generic scheme for specifying the location of resources. They are most commonly used for identifying locations on the Internet (such as webpages and email addresses) but can be used to reference almost anything.
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Apache not finding file from URL request
I'm trying to access a file from my localhost via
http://localhost/profile-pics/default.jpg
however apache keeps saying that the url doesn't exists 404. How can I configure apache to find my file? My directory is as follows…
Dr.Knowitall
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How to hide query string in url?
The below is the .htaccess code which is causing the rewrite in URL,
RewriteRule ^24-(.+)~(.+)\.html$ gallery_catagory.php?gallnm=$1&GalleryID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [nc]
but still I can see the query string appended after .html? for each page.
How…
user151172
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cpanel cron job not working
I have created a cron job in cpanel. The result is this:
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/wget http://example.com/facturi-restante/cron
The problem is that is not working. Can anyone give me a hint why please?
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What's behind a URL?
What are the parts that make up a url? I'm kinda confused about how a "url" works. I understand it's a "path" to a location on the internet, but what do they mean?
For example: serverfault.com
serverfault is in relation I assume the name of the page…
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Which DNS record type points at the directory where the website resides?
A server can host multiple websites.
For example let the server'S IP be 111.222.333.444
Then one website could reside at 11.222.333.444/example1 and another at 11.222.333.444/example2 directory
If you dig the a DNS record of those two, you will…
HelloWorld
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An optimal way of nginx rewrite rule building for pretty URL
The webpage is accessed in the following way:
`example.com/` or `example.com/?site=website`
In this example, I'm accessing the websites located on example.com domain.
Could anyone suggest an optimal way of rewriting rules, so the above would be…
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How can I access a URL through it's IP address?
http://example.com has the IP address 93.184.216.34.
From what I've read about IP addreses and ports, this leads me to believe that appending the port 80 to the end of it (93.184.216.34:80) should also load the same page. However instead it gives me…
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url forwarding in nginx
First time using nginx. I want to forward any incoming request which looks like this: https://www.example.com/elasticsearch to http://localhost:9200 with nginx. I wrote following in my nginx config in the http tag.
server {
listen 3333;
…
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Can you identify the hostname of machine where a webpage is hosted?
At my company, there is an internal cgi script that I regularly use. Is there any way I can identify the hostname of that machine by just the url? Unfortunately, the hostname is not within the url. What I want to do after is to access that machine…
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