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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 there a way to have all virtual servers use the same SSL certificate without having multiple IPs?

Is there a way to have all virtual servers,in Apache, use the same SSL certificate without having multiple IPs? I know that you can use a certificate on one site, per port and per IP, but can I make it work if the sites are on multiple ports?
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url normalization on apache level

My problem is I need to implement URL normalization according to wikipedia. I see few ways how to do this. The first one is to do this on the level of web application, when unnormalized url is comming in, regex checks is normalization, and in case…
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iptables has port 80 open but nmap shows it closed

I'm having some troubles getting a Debian webserver to open up port 80 for HTTP traffic. In my iptables, I opened up port 80 using the following commands: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 80 -j…
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Port forwarding

I run a school network, and it has one ILS (library management system) server, and about 10 computer lab computers. The lab comps all run XP pro, and connect through a series of hubs -> a home-style router (dhcp server, dns server, pppoe…
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What is the best way to authenticate only certain computers/devices on a network for a web server?

Currently I'm trying to use Windows Firewall service and select 'only these accounts'...but that isn't working. Normal access to file shares works by selecting said accounts but not to the web server for some reason. Basically I have a POS app on…
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Wake on lan can public "random person" wake up my web server to view web page

Can i use Wake on Lan on a web server that is a sleep but when the public wants to view my web site it wakes the server up? As this is what i thought it was and was getting very excited but all i can find on the net is waking up a sleeping computer…
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Linux WebServer, folder by permission 755 not writeable

I run a new Linux web server ( Debian , Plesk ) I want to install some php application that need writeable folders, If I set the folder permission to 755 still web application can't write on folder, it just accept 777 mode, how can I configure…
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how nginx serves large files

We have a problem with loading a pdf file which is about 300KB size on our web page. The pdf is being served by nginx. Whenever I load the file, it shows an error saying Failed to open pdf document, but the size of the crashed file is only 32KB. I…
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Windows Web Server 2008 workgroup?

I've only used Windows Server Web edition in the context of a domain, but now I have a situation where a computer needs to run Windows Web Server, but that server is not part of a domain. I'm just curious and I can't find anything with a quick…
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How to block Spiders / Scrapers by REMOTE hostname / domain for all Virtual Hosts in Apache?

I've seen plenty of robot.txt stuff, and some mod-rewrite solutions that looked promising… but haven't been able to find a simple solution to block Spiders / Scrapers / whoever the hell I want to block… I'd rather do this by hostname / domain, as…
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What is the proper way to create virtual directories in Apache without using symlinks?

I am coming from IIS and setting up virtual directories there is so pleasantly easy. You just right-click and add a "virtual directory" pointing to any path you like. This relative path gets reflected through the browser when viewing the site. How…
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Linux - Date of the latest modified file in a folder

What I want to accomplish here is this: I have an apache website, and on that website, I want to display something like Latest website update: 01/12/2011 at 6h32 AM I had an idea on how to do this. I could write an hourly script that checks the…
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cPanel & DirectoryIndex - server default page showing for domain root

I'm pretty sure that I have a very trivial problem and that lots of you guys have answered this kind of question a thousand times. But I just can't find any of these answers. So here we go. I am managing a hosting account via cPanel. But for some…
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serving logs via HTTP

Here is what i am trying to achieve: I have a few Linux servers that have my web App deployed on. Currently my development team access the web app, run their test cases and then SSH into my Linux boxes to view or get the logs. I don't like them to…
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Dedicated Nginx server used for css/js/images is totally cool, yet images load slow. Why?

We have three dedicated servers at our company, one runs Nginx and acts as the web server (php), another handles MySQL and Memcached and the other is used to serve static files: css, js and images. All servers show up as performing great on New…
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