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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Ruby on Rails setup broken after OS update. Mongrel might be failing to start [migrated]
So there's this installation on a virtual server, administered by Plesk, running CentOS. The OS has been automatically updated recently - this broke a custom ruby installation. I haven't set up 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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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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Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots
I have a site that, for regulatory reasons, may not be indexed or searched automatically. This means that we need to keep all robots away and prevent them from spidering the site.
Obviously we've had ...
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Apache Reverse Proxy
I would like to host 2 Joomla! websites on separate machines using XAMPP with Apache. I need to make sure it is configured the correct way but I am not sure if I understand how it is to be written in ...
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Question about mod_rewrite rule for redirecting failing pages
I'm setting up a mod_rewrite rule that redirects failing pages to a custom Page Not Found page. This is with WordPress. I've used a online tutorial at the Apache and so far my rules look like this:
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Best practices for serving multiple sites with Apache2
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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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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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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How do I hide the port in my URL?
What am I missing? If I go to mysite.com:9999 I get my site, but not mysite.com Obviously the users shouldn't need to type in the port, so what do I need to do? I'm not really trying to hide the ...
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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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Have UserDir enabled but also want to rewrite url if called differently
I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache the directives for UserDir as follows
UserDir disabled root
UserDir public_html
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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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Help with Apache mod_rewrite rules
I want to change some legacy URL's like this:
/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=600
to this:
/news/story/600/
This is what I have tried:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond ...
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Apache rewrite rule that matches a specific query string
I need to rewrite a specific wordpress url to a 404 error:
?page_id=15 => 404
How can I match the query string? Apparently Apache doesn't feed that to the rewrite mod...
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How do I get rid of the “www” with mod_rewrite?
I want to get rid of the "www" in front of my domain, and I'm trying the following, but it's not working:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_POST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) ...
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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 do I set up an `A record`?
I have Apache installed on an EC2 instance (with an Elastic IP). I successfully used NameCheap's DNS tool to configure routing of www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com traffic.
If I have a web ...
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Apache Rewrite to folder no longer working after server upgrade [closed]
The following were both working perfectly for the last 2 years but after a server upgrade the first, with an extra folder is no longer working:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mayoaccommodation\.com$ ...
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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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How to remove a file from url using mod_rewrite
I want http://www.foo.com/ to internally point to /var/www/home.php and http://www.foo.com/home.php to be redirected to http://www.foo.com/.
Thus, I would like to fix the old ...
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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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SVN Checkout folder as local webroot
I have XAMPP installed and running. I have an SVN working directory (WD) on my local that checks out from the repository. I set up a virtual host in xampp to point to my WD, but my browser (FF) gives ...
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Replace 404 with 301 to other subdomain
We have two main subdomains on our site: www.example.edu and php.example.edu. Virtually all of our content is on www.example.edu, but there are a few standalone apps hosted on php.example.edu. ...
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Disallow all user agents except one using .htaccess?
I've been struggling to get this .htaccess working. The aim is to disallow all user agents besides my app. The app sends a GET request with a user agent of lets say 'AcmeUpdater'.
Whenever I try to ...
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getting 500 intenal error when setting 301 redirect using .htaccess
I am trying to use a 301 redirect to direct users and bots to my new site but when I put the .htaccess live i keep getting a 500 internal error shown.
The site is actually a subdomain which i want ...
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Error 500 on phpMyAdmin via https from “self-signed certificate”?
I have used Cpanel to generate and install a self-signed certificate for HTTPS and now that I have installed phpMyAdmin once I access phpMyAdmin via HTTPS it throws out an error 500 message.
Why is ...
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SocialEngine Installation Error 500 (Step 3)
I'm trying to install SocialEngine (clean install, empty database, legal license key) but I ran into this error message 500 at Step 3 of the installation:
Step 3: Setting up MySQL Database
MySQLi ...
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Apache rewrite returns error 500
I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with this .htaccess rewrite:
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /test/site/
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10
RewriteCond ...
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Hosting an apache server from my mac
I created a website with PHP and JS. I want to send my IP address to a friend who is in another state and let him see it. My site is loaded by xampp. How could I do this?
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Handling request after installing MAMP (no DNS setup yet)
I've just installed MAMP on my mac machine and checked the server is working by looking at localhost. I looked up my IP address by ifconfig. When I use another machine, I still can't get connected to ...
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How to organize /var/www/ for multiple users and vhosts in apache
I've been creating new directories for each site in the var folder like this:
/var/www -- localhost -- owned by localuser:www-data (+setuid/setguid)
/var/www-somesite -- somesite.com, ...
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Apache Virtual Host does not work
I've problems setting up a virtual host on windows7, so that I can develop multiple pages on my localhost.
To set up the virtual Host, I've edited 3 Files:
httpd-vhosts.conf in apache\conf\extra
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Mod Rewrite question
Is there a way to rewrite
http://localhost/embed/player.swf?file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yKDhm4_-90
to something smaller?
or is there a way to change this into
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tomcat serving static content with directory listings
I have tomcat 7 configured to serve static contents from a directory:
<Host appBase="webapps" name="localhost">
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<Context docBase="/var/projectA/static" path="/projectA/" />
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xampp not working with DynDNS
My setup consists of:
a XAMPP 1.7.7 installation, with Apache configured to listen to port 8080
dyn.com to make the projects accessible from the web ( 8080 shows up as 'open' when checking with ...
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Is it dangerous to keep Thumbs.db on a web server?
Windows Thumbs.db system files that are in most of folders were uploaded with all other files from the localhost to the server.
Is it dangerous, if you forget to delete them on the server?
I am on ...
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Where is my Tomcat running on my virtual server?
According to what I know; Apache and Tomcat are listing on different ports by default. If I have both of them running locally then:
localhost -> Apache home page (port 80)
localhost:8080" -> Tomcat ...
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how can i let my friends visit my webserver?
How do I make it so that my friends can visit my localhost website by typing in my IP address into their browser address bar?
I'm using XAMPP what steps do i need to take etc.
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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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htaccess - “detect” url and redirect
Idea is:
if URL = "http:/localhost/site/"
else if URL = "http:/localhost/site"
redirect to
"http:/localhost/site/index.html"
Can this be done with .htaccess / Apache mod_rewrite and how?
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Apache2 virtual host localhost doesn't render CSS when offline because of absolute path
I'm running apache2 on a local server. I use no-ip.com to route DNS to that server through my cable modem. While disconnected from the web and working on localhost my web pages don't render the CSS ...
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Congifuring Red5 Server to run on localhost
I just installed the red5 rtmp server on my machine and tried to run the demo. The only thing that i see is "connecting to server" but it never gets connected. I have gone through most of the ...
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NginX redirect to PHP file if image does not exist on file server
This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx ...
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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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Apache http.conf allow intranet
what would be the correct config to allow only authenticated users and the intranet (without need for a password) in apache?
This does not request a password and without the "satisfy any" intranet ...
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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 ...
