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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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What is the best Linux distro for a php web server?

We are planning to upgrade our hardware and at the same time we plan to reinstall all our web server from a fresh OS. Currently our web server is running on CentOS 4.7 on a dedicated server. We are using Apache, Mysql, PHP, SVN, FTP and all the…
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My browser will not display http://[sub.]example.com

When I go to http://sub.example.com in my browser I get a "connection refused" message or an "invalid certificate" error but I don't even want to connect over https. As far as I know: The web server is configured correctly for sub.example.com TCP…
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Is Page-Loading Time Relevant?

Take this (ServerFault) page for instance. It has about 20 elements. When the last of these has loaded, the page is deemed "loaded"--but not before. This is certainly the protocol used by our testing service (which is among the small group of…
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Why are concurrent downloads faster

Many download managers like this, this and this support downloading a file over multiple parallel connections, one per thread. The concept is that each connection will download one part of the file separately. For example if there are 5 connections,…
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Nginx + PHP-FPM URI alias and multiple php directories

I am trying to configure Nginx to host multiple PHP based apps in two different directories in the same domain. The outcome I'm trying to get to is: http://webserver.local/ > app served from /path/to/website http://webserver.local/app > app served…
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Can I safely remove all mail services from CentOS?

I've inherited 3 legacy shared servers all running CentOS. We no longer offer any email subscriptions from our servers and have migrated everyone to cloud services. These servers host about 60 WordPress sites each. Across the 3 servers I have the…
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Help putting together a server for Routing/Firewall/VPN purposes

we're currently in the process of putting together our own server Firewall/Router. We were going to use a dedicated solution from someone like Juniper or Watchguard, but it is going to be a lot more cost-effective if we use a server machine we were…
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Make Yum recognize that httpd24-httpd (from SCL) provides the webserver virtual package

I've recently discovered software collections and understand how they allow me to install multiple versions of software by introducing a namespace for each collection. On Enterprise Linux, this is neat because I'll be able to keep the the regular…
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Bash commands run at terminal but not in Jenkins/Bash Script

I'm using Jenkins to build and deploy HTML documentation to a local Apache web server for our devs to use. When I run the commands in the terminal, everything installs properly (Proving the server is setup properly). However, when run the same…
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Would you install phpmyadmin on a production web server?

I have been playing around with phpMyAdmin and I do think that it is a good tool, but I have read a lot on the internet about security holes. Would you recomend installing/using phpMyAdmin on a prduction webserver? I figure that if I only allow…
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Why does chrome show a very long 'blocking' time (sometimes) when loading static files from Jetty 9

I'm seeing some strange behavior from Chrome when loading web resources from a Jetty 9.2.3 instance I'm setting up. In particular, I see some requests returning quickly, while others take a very long time, with Chrome reporting the time to be…
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Using App Pool Identity vs Local Account in IIS

I am supposed to harden web applications we have developed in our company.I decided to create separate application pool for each web site for this purpose. My question is whether using Application pool identity is more secure or using a separate…
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Best way to redirect pages on an apache/centos web server

I have a centos 6.5 web server running 2 websites off 1 ip address by using virtual hosts. domain1.com and domain2.com - both hosted on the same web server above. I need to redirect about 40 pages from domain1 to domain2, "for…
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Error connecting to MS SQL from one server but not the other

We got a MS SQL server and two web site servers. I'm in the process of moving all the sites from one of the web site servers to the new one. My asp.net sites are not able to connect to the external ms sql server after I've moved them to the new…
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appcmd command to set anonymous authentication on a folder under a Web Application

I would like to run a command to set up anonymous authentication on a folder under a Web Application on IIS. I would like the particular folder to be the only thing affected. I don't want to change the anonymous authentication for the entire Web…
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