Apache (HTTP Server) /əˈpætʃiː/ is a modular cross-platform web server software with a large variety of features(called modules) including SSL, compression, log, proxy and server-side programming language interfaces like Perl, Python, Tcl, and PHP.
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What measures should I take after I find one of my scripts being vulnerable?
I maintain a few PHP-based websites for a small company on a LAMP server. The scripts include CMS such as Joomla or Wordpress, as well as SilverStripe and Drupal installations.
A week ago, I found ...
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What VPS spec would I require to run WordPress [closed]
I am looking to move an existing WordPres website to a VPS. It will be a Debian (Minimal install) running ISPConfig3, Squirrel Mail, Apache 2. The wordpress site currently accepts 40-60 online ...
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Unable to view 2 local sites over network
I have 2 websites running on my local machine that I'd like to view from other machines on the same network.
For /etc/apache2/sites-available/site1.com:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ...
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Let apache run perlscripts that don't have an extension
I'd like to use perlscripts without their extension. f.e. "index" instead of "index.pl".
Changing the DefaultType-directive from text/plain to application/x-perl didn't do the trick. Instead of ...
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Huge difference between Facebook Ad Click figures and Apache log requests
We're running a facebook ad campaign for our business but there seems to be a huge discrepancy between the number of clicks registered and the number of requests made with "facebook.com" in the HTTP ...
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How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?
My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath).
I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly ...
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Applying domain name to a subfolder/path
I have a Linode instance of Ubuntu 10.4 using the LAMP stack to host an instance of Magento and a couple other things. I currently have megento set up at:
http://123.459.780.123/magento
When I ...
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Installing a PHP framework to a host without public_html or www folders (ftp is DocumentRoot)
I've developed a PHP framework that operates with the directory structure of
/
/classes/
/templates/
/.../
/www/ (public_html)
But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the ...
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Bizarre image loading problem from apache2
Users have complained a few times about seeing a bizarre set of pink or green stripes on our webpage. At first I thought there were a rash of video card outages, but then someone sent me a screenshot ...
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prevent hotlinking of off-site content?
I have a www.example.com site where I serve all static content (e.g. http.//www.example.com/image.jpg) off a CDN with URLs like http://static.example.com/image.jpg
An Apache 2 .htaccess rule ...
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Mod rewrite - redirecting url with certain parameter to new url
I need some help redirecting a url with particular parameter value to a new url. For example how can i redirect these two urls with id 123 and 345 to a new url?
Redirect
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redirect non-www to www while preserving protocol
I am aware of the fact that there are tons of questions in this section and in server fault dealing with re-directions from non-www to www URLs. But I couldn't find one dealing with this issue while ...
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How to force browsers to always reload xslt files?
Related: Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?
I'm building an xml page (on an apache2) that is supposed to be translated to xhtml by the browser, so my server also serves a ...
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How to restrict site access to all countries except mine with .htaccess?
I used this tool to download list in ".htaccess allow" format to allow traffic from my country and restrict all others but it's still accessible when visiting from bunch of foreign proxies.
I'm ...
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Should 304 Not Modified responses include the “Last Modified” header?
I've been using the most excellent http://redbot.org tool for testing have HTTP headers on my site correct (its custom code in PHP serving dynamic content - wanting to ensure it cached where possible ...
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Apache logs: “::1 … ”OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
Just looking at logs of a not-so-busy site on one of our Apache servers and notice tons of these in the log:
::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:40 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
::1 - - ...
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mod_rewrite works within directory not on root
I am having a problem with my RewriteRule for the querystring portion. What I am able to debug is that the rule is being triggered at least because the page "tags.php" is being rendered but without ...
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How can I test for a URLs existeance before redirecting to it?
I am using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect mobile users to my mobile site based on their http_user_agent. However not all pages have a mobile equivalent. Also mobile pages end in .html and "full" ...
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Hosting my own website on apache2, what information do I need from my domain registrar (bluehost)
I have lamp-server installed and am ready (and excited) to host a domain I purchased from bluehost on the server in my room. I have a few other things set up like openssh.
What information do I need ...
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Virtual hosting
I want to use domains like xxx.abc.domain.tld.
The xxx is my folder to access. I tried it with the rewrite rules, but I can't get it working, because I don't know how to get the part xxx from the ...
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last-modified/etags - to include or not?
Google's PageSpeed plugin suggests that a website should include Last-Modified and ETag headers:
Specify a cache validator "Resources that do not specify a cache
validator cannot be refreshed ...
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Optimal way to implement very big redirect list in Apache2
I have about 6000 URLs that need to be redirected after changing the CMS. All those URLs are stored in a DB table together with an ID that allows me to tell what is being referenced. Using this table ...
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Redirecting a CSS file based on .htaccess rules
I'm trying to hack the css files on OSTicket by replacing them with my own custom ones when a specific URL is accessed. The URL that is accessed for this example is ...
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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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htaccess code for maintenance page redirect
I set up a maintenance page that I could enable through an htaccess file. The html file is located in a folder called "maintenance".
The html file has some images in it. However, visitors to the page ...
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Is there a modern (eg NoSQL) web analytics solution based on log files?
I have been using Awstats for many years to process my log files. But I am missing many possibilities (like cross-domain reports) and I hate being stuck with extra fields I created years ago. ...
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Webserver timing out
I was working with my website yesterday when I was at home using my web address. Yesterday I installed Wordpress and it seemed to work.
When I got to work today, I tried opening my website, and now ...
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SetEnv directive not working for localhost VirtualHost but works for other VirtualHost
I have two virtual hosts declared: localhost and test.
Both use the SetEnv directive and point to the same DocumentRoot:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
DocumentRoot ...
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Can I dynamically set the SSLInsecureRenegotiation Directive?
We're running Apache 2.2.22 with OpenSSL 0.98, one of our Citrix NetScaler Hosts cannot send a client certificate after handshaking SSL as we have to set SSLInsecureRenegotiation off as a security ...
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Apr_sockaddr_info_get() Failed
Today while trying to start apache server I received an error:
Apr_sockaddr_info_get() Failed
I would like to get opinions / answers to resolve this issue.
I would like to know what exactly is ...
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.htaccess file ignored on Ubuntu Apache 2 server
I'm having a problem with an .htaccess file on a newly installed Ubuntu server running Apache2.
The .htaccess file in the directory where the WordPress files are located isn't being take into account ...
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SSL Certificate is Untrusted… sometimes
Web Designer I'm working with signed up a new client that needed an SSL certificate. We went to namecheap.com and purchased on from Comodo. Got all the needed files and set it up in ISPConfig.
To ...
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How many connection can my website have? [closed]
As the traffic increased my website hangs quite regularly. The page visit is now averaging 50k per day.
The static page loads fine, but when the page has mysql request it takes too much time to ...
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How to set htaccess working on opensuse for codeigniter project
I'm trying to have htaccess work on codeigniter project but the module is not working and I don't know how to enable rewrite module. To have read the htaccess. The OS is Opensuse 12.2.
I have this ...
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Problem with missing JSON functions on PHP 5.2.6 / Plesk 8.4
I have a vserver running openSuse 10.3, Apache 2 and Plesk 8.4. I can update/upgrade neither, as it is apparently not recommended to upgrade openSuse 10.3 (and an update to the EOL 10.4 does not seem ...
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How to properly deny Railo directory access through Apache
I've been battle tested on this and failed to achieve my goal which is to deny all access to all directories except the Public directory and only allow access to all all other directories with ...
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htaccess preventing sqlite database being downloaded
I have a VPS, running apache2 on Debian 6.
Created a file called .htaccess on the web root, which included:
<Files ~ "\.db$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
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Why isn't my PHP file running?
I recently installed Apache and later installed PHP too.
When I browse to http://localhost/index.html it displays the default Apache page "it works".
But when i try to run ...
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GWT “Big traffic change for top URL”
I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors ...
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How to 301 redirct all incoming requests to a domain to another domain?
I have a WordPress blog running on an Apache2 server currently that I need to completely move to a new domain name.
http://www.somesite.com/ to http://www.someothersite.com
I need all requests to ...
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Purposes and priorities of Apache conf files
I've installed an Apache2 server on a Linux Box (Ubuntu 10.04 TLS) and am trying to setup some virtual host and proxies. There is some stuff in the apache2.conf, an empty httpd.conf (which was used ...
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Automatic redirection from http to https with .htaccess authentication in virtual hosting
Hi I have configured Virtual host on apache with .htaccess authentication with SSL. It's working fine when I typed url https://www.example.com:9004/test.php but when I typed ...
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Is it possible to use two different ErrorDocuments for different paths of a website?
I currently run PmWiki at mydomain.com/pmwiki. I have a 404 page and .htaccess set up in my site's document root for 404 pages regarding anything that doesn't have to do with my wiki. By default, ...
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Custom 505 and SEO
There is a PHP project that sometimes throws 500 errors, I'm making a customized 500 page so that people realize we are monitoring this event and we will fix the issues.
My question is related to SEO
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Configure apache to make local website available for external people
I would like to make my local website (running on a virtual CentOs machine) accessible for my mate who is also working on the website.
I have created a new line in my router config to forward all ...
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Weird unexpected image compression on a web server running Apache on Ubuntu?
I have a weird problem on my production web server running Apache on Ubuntu: it compresses my images thereby dramatically lowering their quality!
Actually I have two virtual hosts running, each ...
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Can't Get a Virtual Host to Work
I can't get a specific virtual host to work. This is the first part of my httpd-vhosts.conf file:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Volumes/Data ...
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Apache - Reverse proxy
I am using Apache 2 and using the below virtual host definition in httpd.conf file
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName localhost
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/stackoverflow/
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How can I bypass modules in apache?
I have an apache server running on an embedded device that serves webpages to clients using a bunch of custom modules.
I'm now trying to load some webpages from the device using ...
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Is it possible to stream music/video from an Apache server?
I'm just starting to get into setting up a server. I've set up a basic Apache server to access some songs and movies. When I click one of the songs though, nothing happens. When I click one of the ...
