Questions tagged [web-applications]
371 questions
30
votes
6 answers
Why do 'hackers' setup bots repeatedly fill out web forms?
There is something I don't get, one of my web apps has a small form that allows you to enter you name and email address to "subscribe" to a user list for a site I maintain. The site is very low traffic, and only useful to a very small number of…

EJB
- 1,329
- 5
- 16
- 23
20
votes
14 answers
Should I force my users to change passwords every n days/weeks/month?
Question says it all. We are designing a system where security is very important. One of the ideas someone had was to force users to change passwords every 3 months. My take on this is that while its more secure because the password changes often it…

Iznogood
- 320
- 3
- 12
20
votes
18 answers
What are some good web based trouble ticket systems?
I'm looking for a trouble ticket system so that I can track issues for various customers. I used one before at my previous employer but it wasn't anything too great. I'm wondering which ones you would recommend and what other features that I might…

kovert
- 437
- 3
- 8
19
votes
8 answers
Software http load balancer?
Right now we only have one back-end server per site/web service. I'd be interested to hear people's experiences with various load balancer apps (something that runs on Linux).
What would you recommend?

Mark Renouf
- 1,373
- 2
- 16
- 22
15
votes
6 answers
Who is responsible for maintaining IIS for web apps?
IIS/Web Applications has been a tricky issue in the shops I've worked in over time.
On one hand, IIS is a service built into the server (by in large) and is typically the responsibility of the server administrators to maintain and configure. When an…

Dillie-O
- 521
- 8
- 15
14
votes
3 answers
What are perfect unix permissions for usual web project directories?
What are the perfect minimal permissions in octal format for the followings in a web application written?
A directory where user uploaded static files (images/swf/js files) will reside
A directory where admin uploaded static files (images/swf/js…

user893730
- 624
- 2
- 12
- 20
14
votes
8 answers
Is using integrated security (SSPI) for accessing SQL Server better for web applications?
When deploying web applications (.net) to a production environment, is it better to use integrated security or does it even matter?
It seems to me that if a hacker breaks the web server, it won't really matter as they can easily impersonate the…

NotMe
- 3,772
- 7
- 31
- 43
14
votes
7 answers
How do I set up a web server out of my home?
I want to run a web server from home, so my family, and clients can see what I am doing. It would not run a large load, at most 2 or 3 users at a time.
I would like to know how to do it with a Windows machine running IIS.
I have a router from my…

David Basarab
- 1,157
- 5
- 16
- 20
12
votes
1 answer
Reverse proxy application and its static files with Nginx
I am trying to do something that seems to me very simple but I must be stupid or miss something very obvious because I cannot figure it out.
I want to access the multiple web applications running on my server with a unique prefix for each one of…

aallrd
- 291
- 1
- 2
- 5
12
votes
2 answers
improve our deployment strategy
We have an ecommerce app that we develop at our company. Its a reasonably standard LAMP application that we have been developing on and off for about 3 years. We develop the application on a testing domain, here we add new features and fix bugs etc.…

robjmills
- 990
- 9
- 26
11
votes
1 answer
Restart a single tomcat 7 webapp at a specific time?
Tomcat 7 is running on a Windows System. I need to restart one of the deployed web applications each day at a specific time.
Is there an option to do that via script or (even better) does tomcat offer a feature to do so?
Is it possible to use Curl…

jalu
- 113
- 1
- 1
- 6
11
votes
2 answers
What is a secure and user-friendly way to provide only a few users access to web app on Amazon EC2?
Situation
We have a web app hosted on Amazon EC2. It's intended to be used only by a few users in a company.
How we're dealing with this
We share the (Elastic) IP address of the instance with the users.
We add each user's IP address to the security…

m01010011
- 211
- 1
- 4
10
votes
10 answers
How do you deploy your .NET Web Application? (Recommendations, please!)
We've recently upgraded our ASP.NET Website to a Web Application and we're shocked by the sudden leap in difficulty when deploying it. Considering how common a task this must be, I was wondering what plug-ins/software people use to deploy a rapidly…

Django Reinhardt
- 2,286
- 3
- 38
- 58
9
votes
2 answers
Tomcat 9 - catalina.out log file missing and console printouts are not shown anywhere
Tomcat9 deployed on Ubuntu 18.04. This issue ONLY applies to Tomcat version 9. There is a catalina.date.log file present in the logs folder but it does NOT show any console printouts from our web applications.
I've set the ConsoleHandler level to…

Lucian
- 93
- 1
- 1
- 4
9
votes
4 answers
Equivalent of phpMyAdmin for MSSQL?
Is there any webinterface for administrating MSSQL similar to phpMyAdmin (for MySQL)?
I want a self-service setup where developers can create a database through webinterface and upload/download backups of the database without local access.
I've…

Tedd Hansen
- 674
- 5
- 8
- 17