The Apache HTTP Server is an Open Source Web server, which originated from a series of patches to the NCSA HTTPd. Apache is the world's most popular Web server, which is run on 54.90% of all Web servers according to the Netcraft survey conducted July 2010.
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URL without trailing slash makes Apache look in non-SSL DocumentRoot
I have configured a virtual host in Apache for serving content over SSL/TLS. Since I also want to allow other sites on my domain to use regular http, I have two document roots, one at /home/www/html ...
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Apache 2.4.2 on Windows reveals hidden files in web browser
Even though I have code to block access to hidden files in httpd.conf, the contents of a file such as .htaccess is visible in web browsers.
The same effect is present when running the server on ...
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Fastest way to redirect dead URLs to home page
A client of mine scrapped his entire wordpress site of many years for a custom CMS. The URL structures both use the /<post_title> format, so a pattern based .htaccess rule is out of the picture ...
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What is the best way to organise the /var/www directory? [closed]
I will soon be hosting around one hundred sites on a LAMP stack. I need to be able to keep my /var/www directory organised and scalable. What is the best way to organise this directory?
Here are some ...
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Getting the masked URL values in Mediawiki
I have successfully masked the URL in Mediawiki. By using the following scripts in .htaccess and localsettings.php files in Mediawiki, i.e.:
.htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
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Apache - directory browsing gives 404
With no .htaccess files and Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes followed by AllowOverride None in the vhost configuration, I'm getting 404 responses from directory listings. Are there some ...
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How to make POST request URI in REstler 3 API? [closed]
I'm using this great and flexible API " Restler 3
I was trying examples of the library until I got stucked at example 5 Routing and CRUD also , I couldn't understand how to make POST request !
well ...
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Setting up a LAMP VM server for Development and Testing?
Info: I would like to set up a VM server on my local computer which will serve pages in the exact same way as my current hosting (but only to me on my local computer). I currently pay a big web ...
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apache2 subdirectory access
I am setting up an apache server on my linux (debian) machine.
I am making a website, with sub directories that contains my css and image file.
Here is my config.
<Directory /var/www/*>
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REST webservice full implementation: server + client
I've spent a week reading about RESTful webservice and searching for a fully example to build my project above.
When I reach a fully understanding of the REST webservice, I couldn't find any full ...
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Configuring an Apache server to run Python
I currently have a website set up on an Apache server running on Redhat Linux, and am trying to configure it to be able to run Python scripts. Essentially, I want to allow Python to be executable, so ...
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Extensive GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1 requests
We are having extensive (thousands per minute) GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1 requests at our Linux server, causing traffic problems and slowing down access to the websites we host.
What does it stand for ...
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Redirect of www vs. “all works” [duplicate]
I was asked a question from a friend if he should redirect his-domain.com to www.his-domain.com.
I answered him that it seems more intuitive to just make both work. So if you enter by his-domain.com ...
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Managing Xampp on USB for Mac and Windows machines
I am working on some PHP projects (Wordpress mostly) with MySQL databases and primarily use my Windows Desktop to do the work on whilst running Xampp.
This all works great until I need to take my ...
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How to redirect IP to domain?
My IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is pointing to example.com at GoDaddy but I just noticed that when I type the IP in browser, it doesn't redirect to the website, how can do this? I am sure this will happen ...
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Virtual host in Apache Zend
I'd like to ask you if you can tell me why I can't get Vhost in Apache to work my Vhostconf is:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
ServerAdmin ...
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How can you find using apache logs who logged in your server?
I have a application that running on apache web server, is there any way under apache logs i can identify name / ip address of user who logged into the system.
And also the date / time of who last ...
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Plesk to Webmin - reconcile/unite vhosts setting from the former to the latter [CentOS 6.3]
So I decided to switch from Plesk to Webmin.
Normally in Plesk, when I add a new domain name, it would auto generate a document root under /var/www/vhosts/domain_name/
Now moving to Webmin, in a ...
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An apache injection attack?
I encountered a novel (to me anyway) form of injection attack in one of my
logs
login as <!--#exec cmd="ls .."-->
Which looks like someone it trying to trigger sever side includes on
an ...
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Issues with Apache and loading PHP files [ubuntu]
I just installed PHP and Apache2 on my laptop (ubuntu 12.04), but I can't get my PHP files to load. I have followed this tutorial: ...
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Move a website to subdomain while preserving (rewriting) URLs
I'm considering to move the (Confluence) wiki content of www.site.com to the subdomain wiki.site.com to make room for a well-designed landing page (Wordpress) which should take the wiki's place on ...
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Where does Apache get the 'last modifed' date for its automatic indexes?
I have a Solaris server running Apache, and I am using the following .htaccess to generate automatic indexes.
Options +Indexes
# SET INDEX OPTIONS
IndexOptions +NameWidth=*
Where does the "Last ...
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How to make client side and server side communicate? [closed]
I have apache installed, and I would like (using php/and or javascript, html) to do the following but I do not know how.
To send my client to the server a value x
The server to increase x by one and ...
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Force url to use www [duplicate]
I'm confused about how to force my url to use www in the address.
I have a .htaccess code like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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Speed up XHR requests [closed]
I have a Yii project (PHP framework) running on Apache2, where I use AngularJS for the front-end. I have some AJAX requests, but they are kind of slow... sometimes it reaches 2.5 sec.
I'd like to ...
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Set the “servername” directive globally to suppress this message
I am setting up PHP for the first time and I am getting this error from the Apache server:
Set the "servername" directive globally to suppress this message.
This is the content of my httpd.conf ...
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Internet Explorer receives 403 Error when viewing dev environment SSL test certificate (using MAMP)
I've been developing a site with MAMP which has a handy way of generating (obviously) unverified SSL certificates for testing purposes.
All was well when testing with Chrome, Firefox, Safari you ...
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/var and /var/www permissions
The mode for both these directories is 755. I'd like to restrict permissions to 754. But if I do so, I'm thinking the apache www-data instance won't be able to access the directories to serve the ...
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mod_jk status page “Client Errors”
I have been examining the information displayed in the mod_jk status page for a server instance and there is a column for each worker titled "CE" which the key states is a count of "Client Errors". I ...
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Setup basic proxypass in Apache
I have a web application that communicates to a web service deployed on the same server. The web app was written with Tibco General Interface and works well only when it is running locally on the ...
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Redirecting previous domain subfolder links
I've recently bought a domain that was unregistered. After looking in Google webmaster tools, Google is trying to crawl random pages that don't exist. Turns out it did have a previous owner.
The ...
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Best practices for serving multiple sites with Apache2 [closed]
I have a server with a number of virtual hosts. Over the last couple of years I have continually been improving on most parts of serving these sites, everything from how and where to do logging, how ...
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What are the most commonly used and basic Apache htaccess redirects?
This question is here so we can offer users who are looking for information on how to make one or more common or basic redirects in Apache using the htaccess file. All future questions pertaining to ...
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Rewrite rule for 403
I have a .htacces file
In this file when file or directory does not found it redirects to index.php.
My code is as below
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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Can I redirect the http request towards an old folder to the homepage using .htaccess file?
I have to following situation: I had an old blog that was made using Joomla (this blog was indexed well enough by search engines). For some problems I delete it and I have create it again using ...
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How can I block a user agent from all sites on my server? [closed]
For the last few days, I've been suffering from what appears to be a (presumably inadvertent) DDOS attack. I've been getting so many requests from an agent identifying as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ...
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SSPI Apache2.2 Windows Authentication
I am trying to set up seamless authentication on windows for my intranet site, using SSPI on Apache 2.2 and windows 2008 server. I have installed mod_auth_sspi.so in apache/bin. I have also added the ...
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Login Prompts in mod_auth_sspi showing up for aliased sites only
I've been trying to figure this out off and on for a few days now, and I think I just have a fundamental lack of understanding :)
I have Apache2 running in a windows environment serving up our ...
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Turning off Webalizer and/or AW Stats
On our dedicated server, we have AW Stats and Webalizer both running.
I see I can turn them off in WHM.
We use Google Analytics, but also AW Stats sometimes. We never use Webzlier. My question is: ...
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htaccess doesnt work in subfolder
I'm using xampp with apache on my windows machine.
My directory structure is:
C:/xampp/htdocs
---------------/Sync
--------------------/ProtectedFolderA
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How to get rid of this webpage that has a redirect loop?
I'm having an RnD in my local machine. My local dev is working fine with Apache until I decided to add Nginx. The error is the following one:
This webpage has a redirect loop
Error 310 ...
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URL rewrite with mod_rewrite
I have rewrite rule in parent directory which rewrites URL:
From example.com/index.php?id=test&cat=category
To example.com/index?test&cat=category
Here is my .htaccess file:
Options ...
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How can I force a VirtualHost in Apache to not listen for undefined subdomains on 443?
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs
SSLEngine on
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Show Cloudflare requests in apache log
I have a number of sites using cloudflare as a CDN with the apache mod_cloudflare installed to restore original visitor IPs to my server logs.
Does anyone know of a way I can make the logs identify ...
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I want to use gzip compression in Apache
I want to enable gzip compression for acethehimalaya.com. Can anybody please tell me what is the best way of achieving compression in an Apache Webserver?
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Handling APACHE file caching
I have used .htaccess to cache images, css and javascript files on my server for up to a month. My problem is that some users get updates that I made recently and all works normally while some user ...
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Spiders crawling broken links
Tl:Dr
Unknown bot crawling the same broken (HTTP 400) URL over and over again. Different User Agent and different country of origin.
The Problem
It seems at least once a week we're getting a big ...
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Change name of audio file for download
I have some mp3 files which are named "my-audio.mp3" but now the client wants the visitor to be able to download and save these files to their desktop. He doesn't like the name with the hyphen and ...
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Apache Virtual Host different depending on client ip?
What I'm trying to accomplish is:
1. A person, with IP 192.168.1.5 loads my webserver (192.168.1.2) and reaches htdocs/
2. Another person, with ip 192.168.1.6 does the same request, and reaches ...
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making www.foo.com go to srv5.bar.net/~foo
What I need accomplished is when a person out there in internet-land types in www.foo.com they are actually getting served content from srv5.bar.net/~foo
I have root access to both the nameserver ( ...
