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

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Deploying content to web server with rsync: permissions

I have a Ubuntu 10.04 server running nginx with nginx running as user nginx. I'm trying to deploy an Octopress-based site with rsync and have stumbled on what looks like a security dilemma. Obviously, the whole /srv/www/ directory should be readable…
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Centos 5.5 - run cgi scripts from multiple locations

I want to be able to run cgi scripts from other locations besides /var/www/cgi-bin, examples: /var/www/folder1/cgi-bin /var/www/folder2/cgi-bin /var/www/folder3/cgi-bin How do I go about configuring the server to do this? EDIT: This is to run cgi…
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IIS/ASP.NET performance incident - Perfmon Current Annonymous Users going through roof but Requests/sec low

Setup: ASP.NET 4.0 website on IIS 6.0 on Win 2003 64 bit, 8xCPUs, 16GB memory, separate SQL 2005 DB server. Had a serious slowdown today with any otherwise fairly well performing ASP.NET site. For a period of a couple of hours all page requests were…
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IIS 7.5 - Redirect webpage or default page

I have a website like so: http://website.com/path/default.html If I go to http://website.com I get the IIS 7 Welcome screen. If I go to http://website.com I would like to be redirected to http://website.com/path/default.html How do I go about…
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Why would someone be doing a GETfor mail.live.com against my domain?

Just today I've started to see in my web-server logs lines like this: IP_WITHHELD - - [19/Oct/2011:20:47:04 +0000] "GET /providers/bookings HTTP/1.1" 500 21975 "http://co111w.col111.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=554012541" "Mozilla/5.0…
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Ubuntu can only be accessed at *.local

I'm running a Ubuntu desktop OS as a Git and web server. The server is named bbtsrv03. Everything is setup perfectly, however the only way I can access this server from my local machine to get to Gitweb is to access it via bbtsrv03.local which is a…
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Viewing web server from an outside perspective

We host our own web server, and we're trying to see exactly what our clients are seeing for an error on the website. Reason being, being connected to the network, the domain resolves correctly, however, all of our clients are receiving a 404…
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A way to run more than one webserver on one virtual server

I know the following is impossible, but there should be a workaround. As I'm now having problems with my very-clickable application, (visits) (page views) (hits) (data) (~100 000 php page views every day) I decided to try HipHop-PHP, an…
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Apache logs 200 instead of 404

I've been getting the following in my apache access log: "GET /work//?module=www§ion=working=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..//proc/self/environ%0000 HTTP/1.1" 200 5187 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;…
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linux add python script to run as user

I have a Python script that is executed through PHP but the script runs under the user ubuntu. How do I change my Python script to run as the same user as my PHP script which is www-data? If this is not a safe way to do this, what would be? The…
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configuring nginx and tomcat together

I am trying to figure out exactly how to configure nginx and tomcat to work together correctly. Nginx has a worker connections setting and tomcat has max threads (assuming native apr connector for tomcat). Since nginx is connecting with HTTP/1.0 to…
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Install Gitorious -- Ubuntu server 11.04 -- Repository_Base_Path error

I followed this tutorial on installing gitorious http://coding-journal.com/installing-gitorious-on-ubuntu-11-04/ . I have never install ruby on rails or gitorious so my knowledge is new. I am getting an error after browsing to the domain that I…
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How can I auto-block IPs attacking my server?

It seems that some script kiddie started attacking one of my servers by trying to fetch all sorts of URLs that may be related to Wordpress vulnerabilities. I don't even have WP installed on the server, and all these cause is a bunch of 404…
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Apache2 'caching'/'keeping in memory' a static html page (is there anything to be gained?)

I'm running a site with a popular 99% static html page (1 MB) on Amazon EC2 micro instance which receives around 35,000 pageviews a day. The site is only changing once every 3-4 hours or so and it is already running mod_deflate getting the page size…
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Web infrastructure IIS 6 issues serving 1 particular site

I have an issue with a test environment running win 2k3 SP2 and IIS6 We have a number of development sites on the box, and several versions of the same site…
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