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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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Permissions for user on linux machine to host website

I have root access to my hosted machine. I have created a user account 'abcd' and the user's directory is: /home/abcd/public_html In httpd.conf i have: ServerName abcd.mysite.com DocumentRoot …
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List directory contents on website hosted by LiteSpeed

I have a website (say www.example.com) being hosted on a LiteSpeed webserver. I've created a directory at www.example.com/media but I'm unable to list the contents and get a 404 error. How can I fix this?
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Webserver backup through SSH and Linux Live!

Yesterday my dedicated webserver crashed due to hardware failure. It has been replaced with another server by Leaseweb. It's the same specs but another server so it needs to be re-installed. That means I have to make some backups before it's…
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IIS6 logging is overloading my servers

We have a major issue with our load balance web servers. If we have IIS logging turned on for our biggest websites, it bogs the servers down so much that most of our requests timeout. As soon as I turn the logging off, the server run fine again.…
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HTTP 404 Checking Service

I'm looking for an online service that crawls your site reliably and reports back on HTTP 404s, Page not Found errors. I don't want to install any software but just get an e-mail when a 404 is present on a couple of sites without trawling through…
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Where does the line lie between a computer and a server?

I could turn my mac into an FTP server, a file sharing server and a music sharing server. From where I am standing, this doesn't look like it's an actual server; or is it? A server to me is a "box" with no screen, and sits on a shelf, generally…
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Network config for several vbox guests serving through one public IP

Hey, I have a Debian Squeeze host with three Lenny VM's on VirtualBox. formerly each system had its own public IP and the guests were just bridged but now on a new box I will only get one physical IP and I do not know how to setup the network. The…
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How to setup a domain name on my EC2 server

I bought a domain from whois.com and I am trying to set it up on my Amazon EC2 instance. I have Apache installed on it. I saw these two related questions here and here but could still use some hand holding given this is my first time trying to set…
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Mac OS X Server 10.5.8, no Web sharing option

Can someone help me with this: We own a Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 but I also can't find the Web sharing option. Someone else asked the same question, but they had it solved because the option was found. But when I open Server Preferences or Server…
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Load balancing a simple website (Apache)

I have two webservers colocated in the same place. Currently only 1 is active and it hosts a online forum, but it's biggest use by far is serving large binary files to a couple hundred thousand people and responding to automated update checks. …
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How to redirect request for any host to my hostname within a local network

I have a local wireless network running. It is not connected to the internet and it has a webserver (lighttpd) running on 192.168.0.1 This webserver has a website running on it. I want to know how can I redirect the user to "192.168.0.1" whenever he…
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Administering forums on servers, seeing weird attacks

I'm not sure ServerFault is the correct place for such a question: please redirect if another StackExchange site is more appropriate but I think this is the "most correct" one. On one of the server I'm the admin for, there's a forum. The server…
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nginx as load balancer to nginx webservers

I am trying to set up a software based load balancer with nginx. Before I install heartbeat and pacemaker, I have created a CentOS virtual machine and installed nginx on it (lb-01), which will serve as my load balancer. I have also created another…
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subversion: enforce TLS

I am running subversion on a Debian Squeeze system with Apache2 and mod_dav for viewing the contents with a webbrowser. I want to enforce the usage of TLS, so that the login data and the SVN contents cannot be read from the connection. I have tried…
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Centos 5.5 - Memory used by Apache

I have a cloud CentOS 5.5 server running Apache. I notice that my memory is very low: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 496 484 12 0 15 266 -/+…
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