Questions tagged [web-applications]

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Is there an app/script I can deploy to enable my users to change their own LDAP passwords?

I've recently enabled LDAP based authentication on my domain. This has allowed us to use a single set of credentials to administer the blog, the forum and the wiki. Unfortunately, this has come at the cost of users being able to change their own…
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Simple document/file management software

I'm looking for a simple way to share documents/files with other people via a web-based interface. The requirements are the following: runs on Linux web-based download/upload versioning basic authorization (users/groups) free The enduser-visible…
user51326
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smallest footprint for Web Application server?

There are times when you need to spare hardware resources (either to keep using legacy hardware, to play the embedded card, or just to be efficient because a large footprint is trashing CPU caches, leading to unacceptable levels of idle-states). In…
edgardodelamanta
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What database app is best for including in a distributable app?

MySQL versus SQLite, for example? I understand that MySQL is harder to setup and configure... Would SQLite or another db be better suited in this regard?
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How to setup a user account for a web application

What are the main guidelines to setting up a user account on a Linux machine for a web app? In my case it is a Rails application that does file management. First thing I can think of is to limit access rights to only the directories it needs. But…
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What is the harm in giving developers read access to application server application event logs?

I am a developer working on an ASP.NET application. The application writes logging messages to the Windows event log - a custom application log just for this application. However, I do not have any access to testing or staging web/application…
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High load without explanation

I have a very high load on my machine and don't know what is responsible or how to find out. On the machine runs a jboss appserver and mysql. Here is a top from the user at peak time: top - 16:23:01 up 101 days, 6:50, 1 user, load average: 23.42,…
Sebastian
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Tomcat deployment overwrites context.xml

I'm pretty new to Tomcat in general, so please point out if got anything wrong. My question is regarding updates to already deployed apps, using the Tomcat manager. But first thing first. I'm using the META-INF/Context.xml for storing connection…
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What is a good web interface for remote linux load monitoring?

I'm looking for some type of remote linux monitoring software that you can view using a web interface. And I'm not just looking for the basic load information. I'm also looking for process information, similar to the info that you get from TOP. Like…
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Graceful maintenance of web applications

I asked this question on Stack Overflow and got some good responses. A couple of SO members mentioned I should ask it here also to see what the SysAdmin perspective on this is. So here goes: I live in Australia (though this is probably true for most…
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Server crashed - corporate web application is down - considering moving to an online host - any suggestions?

I'm in a mess here. For a couple of years we've been running our own custom made application on a local server in our office. The servers had its well bad days and good days now and then - however the server literally died a couple of days ago -…
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How do we create fail-over DNS for web services?

I am trying to setup a completely failsafe DNS system. Our web application serving infrastructure is sound with multiple failover servers but DNS is a weak-point for us. We currently tell our domain registrar to use our hosting providers…
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How to configure streamlit to serve an app to www?

streamlit app is running in a centOS stream 8 virtual machine. Access from intranet is fine but fails with "streamlit please wait.. page" when accessed from www via subDomain.companyDomain.com Tested R shiny app and a static page from same virtual…
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TomEE redeploy webapp forcefully

In tomee i have a webapp which is deployed from the context XML file. TomEE\conf\Catalina\localhost\test.xml with contents: Now i have some leaks in this web…
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Azure ARM Template - Folder Location App Setting

I'm trying to specify an app setting in my ARM template that points to a specific folder location where the web application I'm deploying should store log files, ex: D:\folder\logs. When I specify the folder location though it complains about the…