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Questions tagged [web-server]

Refers to the software or hardware that make up a webserver, delivering content on a private or public website.

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Is it necessary to have a server in China?

Our servers are in London, UK on rackspace cloud. We have most resources on the rackspace CDN which improves speeds to most countries around the world. We are now selling our product in China. I will have up to 500,000 Chinese school children using…
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nginx can't bind to port 80..Nothing running on port 80

I'm trying to setup nginx on Ubuntu 11.04. I have followed the roughly the directions found here: http://library.linode.com/frameworks/sinatra/debian-6-squeeze . I know it is for Debian, but I basically took those steps and then googled "How to do x…
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A simple webserver that serves HTML files

I am having a bunch of HTML files getting generated everytime when I run a periodic task in my server. All I want to do is to display the index.html through a webserver. All the links in the index file are linked within that directory. How to do…
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Somebody eating all our bandwidth, what should I do?

OK, this is frustrating, my site got thousands of page views/connections in the last 3 days and finally we ran out of monthly bandwidth. We bought more bandwidth and closed the site for maintenance. We checked the logs and found a responsible IP and…
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Need suggestions for a R/W distributed file system for a webserver cluster running Apache+PHP

In the last few months, I've been trying to find the best way to share the content of multiple websites across multiple web servers (12+) all running Apache+PHP. One of the biggest challenge I face is that we need to be able to read and write to the…
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Site Goes Offline Every Day At Midnight - No One Knows Why

Seems every day a website I manage has been going online and offline between 12a and 12:25a. I have no idea what is causing the issue so I am seeking guidance on where to start. It is a Wordpress based site. So here is what I DO know: I have a…
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Software Versioning Software

I am looking for a small software versioning (changelog) and bug submission system with a web-frontend. The features I only need is a change-log where users can see what they can expect and a tiny bug-submission system. I don't need the many…
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DDoS Protection Services - are they good enough?

first of all, I understand that it's better to have DDoS protections on data center level. But our DC is not ready to provide good quality of protection. So we thinking about using some external DDoS protections service. I have googled several,…
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How to update a live webserver?

I'm in the process of setting up a webserver and I was wondering what the best practice method of updating the website it contains would be. I'm aware that I should have some sort of 'test' server running in parallel so that changes can be tried…
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Spiceworks versus Request Tracker?

We currently utilize Request Tracker for help desk ticketing, we utilize Spiceworks for asset inventorying. I am pondering whether it might be worthwhile to move from RT to Spiceworks for help desk as well. Has anyone used both systems and can…
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yum list installed including version of all installed packages CentOS 5.4

I have a list of packages installed with yum on CentOS 5.4 [root@server ~]# yum list installed ... Installed Packages GConf2.x86_64 2.14.0-9.el5 installed ImageMagick.x86_64 6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1 …
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How does a web server/the http protocol handle version control and compression?

When a client browser requests a file from the web server, I know that some kind of check is performed, because the files needed to serve the web page may already be cached by the web browser. So, if a file exists in the cache, no files are sent.…
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Compress and host large amounts of static HTML

I currently run a small website which is being used to host large amounts of (generated) static HTML. The problem is that disk space is limited, and the HTML is growing by 1GB a week. (The files are grouped into directories, with around 500 files…
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Powershell import-module webadministration

Every time I execute this command invoke-command -computername REMOTEPC -scriptblock { import-module WebAdministration; new-item "$env:systemdrive\inetpub\testsite" -type directory; New-WebSite -Name TestSite -Port 81 -PhysicalPath…
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How can I get HAProxy backends to include a path

When using HAProxy for virtual hosting, I can see how to use the Host from the header at the front end to decide what backend to route to. However, is it possible to make the back end be a URL which includes a path (not unlike what you would do with…
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