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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 a reasonable number of users who can connect to a server at the same time?

I have a server which allows only 2 connection at the same time. This can be a pain as you can't login if you are third. In another instance (if I remember correctly), the maximum allowed was 5 users. Does allowing more users to simultaneously…
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How to configure Apache to act as an SSL proxy to an application server?

I have one physical server that runs: an Apache (httpd) server another web server (let's say Tomcat for sake of argument) on port 1234 Can I configure the Apache server to act as a proxy for SSL traffic, while keeping the application server…
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Webmin Cluster Copy Protocol

Just toying with a clustered server farm for fun (as you do) and experimenting with Webmin and its 'clustered' modules. It has a feature that can copy files from one server to another on a repeating basis. Does this feature/module use cron jobs and…
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Website Recommendations

I would like advice in starting a new website that will be relatively high volume. Will need a database. I want a system that will grow with volume by adding hardware. What would be the recommendation for database, operating system, and…
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Can access website publically but not from machine on same network?

This problem has only started to happen over the past few days, and nothing has changed (that I am aware of) so struggling to see what has happened. I have a network setup that all run off the same router. One of the machines on that network is used…
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When to expand a web server's unshared connection?

We have a 3 mbps by 3 mbps dedicated, unshared pipe that hosts a web server, mail server, and VoIP/web browsing traffic for 8 employees. The web server hosts a few different sites that average about 250,000 page views total per month, with something…
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Delete specific PHP sessions

I'm using PHP sessions as the focus for a user system on a website. As an admin of the site I would like to delete specific sessions to force users to logout. Or at least delete all the sessions so everyone has to login again (e.g. a major site…
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How to detect and ban attacking ips using php

I have a web hosting that does not allow to edit iptables. From to time I have light (about 300 requests/sec) DoS attacks (usually not distributed). I decided to write a PHP script that will block those ips. First I tried to store all requests for…
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Enabling gzip compression in apache2 web server

I am trying to enable the zgip compression in apache2 web server, a quick googling helped me to fetch some instructions and I got to know that I need to edit httpd.conf which is inside /etc/apache2/ but my ubuntu 10.04 server doesnt have any content…
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How is a User Agent passed along from a load balancer?

I have an application that sits behind an F5 load balancer. The application needs to be aware of the User Agent and IP address of the inital request. For example: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1;…
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Performance implications of multiple Virtual Hosts in Apache?

The suspicion may be completely inaccurate, but my guts tell me running multiple ServerName site.domain [...]-statements on the same Apache server (same ip) means somewhere a "match" has to be made. Let's look at two…
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Network communication between dedicated web and database server

We're at the juncture (I can even say, right time) that we need to separate our database server apart from our application web server. This we arrived at after careful & thorough monitoring of the server (load average, CPU usage, etc.) itself. When…
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Share common web application code to many web servers

What is the best way to share common web application code to many web servers? For example, I have a directory containing web application written in PHP. Now, I have multiple machines that will serve same content, each runs a webserver, load…
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web server: REST API "forwarder"

We have a REST API in our application, however we do not wish to put the server which provides this API in a web-accessible location. I would like to install something in a web-accessible server which would forward the calls to my server. Ideally…
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Application Server vs. Web Server?

I asked my teacher in class that Java Server Faces will work on Apache Tomcat. But he then corrected me saying that Tomcat is a Web Server not an Application Server, hence it will not run Java Server Faces. My question is what is the difference…
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