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Outgoing email errors
A couple of months ago some of our emails got hacked (they got hands on the passwords) and they sent out 1000+ spam emails from those specfic accounts to random adresses. Now months later after having the hack problem fixed, the email accounts still…

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How can I determine what hosting provider hosts a site?
Is there a service that will identify where a site is hosted (presumably by IP)?

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Does MX Record forward or redirect?
I have a simple question on how MX Records work. When I enter an external mail server address (e.g. to Google Suite/Mail) in my hosts control panel, do mail get redirected (meaning not saved first) or forwarded (saved, and then sent to Google)? If…

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What is the recommended partition setup for a web server?
I am going to be running a web server using Debian which has 2 x 4 TB (8 TB total) drives in RAID 1. This server will be used for running websites, email and file storage.
From doing my research I am still really confused on how to setup my…

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VirtualAlloc() failed: [0x00000008] Not enough storage is available to process this command
I keep getting the following error in my PHP error text for Xampp on Windows 10. Using WordPress as the CMS.
Feeling like I have tried everything but hoping there is at least one person here that can solve it.
I have tried changing the INI and…

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I have purchased a domain, what else do i need?
I have purchased the domain name.
To host my app (yet in development mode though), is it enough if i buy some web-space or do i need to buy an IP-ADDRESS.
user24240
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How to turn off a username and password prompt on an ASP web site hosted in IIS 6
Software developer here with very little networking experience looking for info on settings in IIS for hosting ASP.NET web apps...
We're self-hosting a website via an onsite web server (running Windows Server 2003) with IIS 6.0. Anytime someone…

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AWS - Redirect Naked Domain to WWW
I'm hosting a static website on AWS and want the naked domain to redirect to www.
For example, if the user enters example.com I want it to show as www.example.com.
I found this question which is the exact same question as mine, but I want to ask a…

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Strange 404 URL requests on my site
I recently launched a Django powered site and I have 404 error reporting on. I've been getting some strange URL requests, one every couple of days.
/renewPwd.php/
/index.php/
/mobile/
/m/
/admininstrator/
I find some of them very strange since I…

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/var/ or /srv/ for websites
I know it's not the first question on that subject but my purpose is slightly more specific.
I've read many discussions about it and what I understand is that semantically, according to FHS, websites should be kept in /srv directory. What I do not…

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Any good resources for setting up a webserver in Linux?
Are there any good resources (videos, ebooks, websites, etc) which allow you to self learn how to configure and manage:
Securing a server
Web Server (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, TomCat, etc)
Mail Server
DNS Server, etc
I have a dual Xeon workstation…

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Nginx reverse proxy making root webapp into custom path
I'm trying to setup multiple docker containers with the same image on a single machine and hosting all the application on the same domain separated by path. The purpose is to isolate each customers into it's own container. i.e. mydomain.com/aaa,…

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Route53 not resolving domain name to an ec2 instance
Elastic IP associated with an EC2 instance
I had made a transfer of domain name from one aws account to a another, the domain name worked with my previous account and it resolved to an S3 bucket before but after the transfer to an new account it…

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Nginx aliases and proxy_pass
I'm using nginx as web front-end and apache2 as web back-end. Apache runs several websites locally and nginx access them.
At the moment, different sub-domains are hosted, but I want to migrate them into a single one using…

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Disable https for a single file in apache
For a long time, I didn't use https on my linux server because I didn't find a decent CA that suits my needs. Now, Let's Encrypt (a new CA that provides free certificates) has launched their open beta so I got a certificate from them right away.
I…

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