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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Best way to protect public facing development environments?
We're in the process of setting up individualized dev environments for our developers. All of our developers are remote and we don't have a VPN or anything to bring this in house.
But here's the ...
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Do Dynamic Subdomains Harm SEO or not?
I am establishing a new website for just resumes, and I structured my htaccess as to provide dynamic subdomains as:
marketing.resumedomain.org/index.html
sales.resumedomain.org/index.html
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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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How should incorrectly encoded URLs be handled?
Just recently noticed that some sites link with the URL incorrectly percent-encoded, to which my server (LAMP) responds with a 404 Not Found.
For example, for a URL of mine like this:
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Properly force SSL with .htaccess, no double authentication
I'm trying to force SSL with .htaccess on a shared host. This means there I only have access to .htaccess and not the vhosts config. I know you can put a rule in the VirtualHost config file to force ...
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Apache KeepAlive - why should I ever need it?
I've read several blogs about turning KeepAlive off in apache. When I had it turned on, and a spike in traffic, people started timing out, or had to wait +10 seconds for a page load. However, when I ...
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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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How does the web server choose between unicode and utf-8 for accented characters?
I have a web server with my ISP which replaces accented characters in URLs with their unicode values: for instance é (eacute) is translated to %e9 (dec 233).
For testing locally I use EasyPHP which ...
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How to write a generic .htaccess file rule, regarding RewriteBase
The following rule in my .htaccess works just fine for routing calls to index.php:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
However, this does not ...
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XAMPP - Unable to serve files larger than ~30MB
I'm developing a site locally with XAMPP on Windows 7, and as far as media is concerned, I'm unable to play media files that are larger than 30MB or so. Both video and audio files (MP4 and MP3 ...
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How do I normalise a URL from a folder to a subdomain?
I have a mybb forum hosted at a folder inside my site, which can also be accessed via a subdomain.
I would like to configure it so that if someone would enter the folder it would automatically be ...
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Can I skip the PEM pass phrase question when I restart the webserver?
After buying a multi-domain SSL certificate I have started testing it with the Nginx webserver (following documentation in their SSL wiki page).
Everything is fine, it works and I get a green ...
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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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How to implement user-friendly paths in PHP without creating a file or directory for each page?
NOTE: My terminology may not be entirely correct. I believe StackExchange does something like what I am asking, in case this can make things clearer.
Using PHP on Apache, I would like to handle URLs ...
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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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Good Book for Managing a Linux Web Server?
I'm being thrust into the role of managing my own web server. I will have access to some managed support, but I need a comprehensive resource I can turn to that covers: command line basics, apache and ...
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Configure Apache HTTP 2.2 for PUT method
I've written code for file upload and download using HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse class in C# with Apache 2.2 as a web server. In code I'm using request.method = "PUT".
I want to config my http ...
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Enable gzip compression on Bluehost?
My website is loading large (~3mb) SVG file with jQuery. It takes quite a while therefore I decided to enable gzip compression.
I have a hosting account with Bluehost which supports custom .htaccess ...
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using .htaccess to redirect .asp to .php?
Ahoy all! I've been racking my brain with this one.
I basically just converted all of my pages from ASP code to PHP code. Kept the same filenames.
So, here is the htaccess code I have so far, but ...
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Redirect Permanent and https
I just set up HTTPS on my server, and I have an issue with redirect permanent.
Example http://domain.com/index.html it redirect me to http://www.domain.comindex.html
The / (tail ending slash) is ...
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Rewrite for robots.txt and favicon.ico
I have setup some rules in which subdomains (my users) will default to where I have located the robots.txt, favicon.ico, and crossdomain.xml
therefore if a user creates a site say
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subdomains apache rewrite rules
Let's say I have my web folder as public_html. In there I have a sub folder. I can view the folder at:
www.mydomain.com/sub & mydomain.com/sub
What I want is:
sub.mydomain.com
This will show ...
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Track down segmentation faults in PHP? [closed]
I'm looking for a relatively painless way to track down segmentation faults in PHP (as reported in the Apache error log). This is my LAMP setup at the moment:
Linux: OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64
Apache: ...
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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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Apache utf-8 characters in filename
I can't figure it why I can't open files (photos as a start) that contain utf-8 characters in their file name.
For example, I have the following photo: José-Antonio.jpg , the browser outputs it as ...
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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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How do sites avoid SEO issues and legalities with subdomain unique ids?
I was looking through a few websites recently and noticed a trend I'm not sure I understand. Sites are creating unique referral URLs for customers in the form of: http://customname.site.com
(If ...
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Subdomain In Addon Domain Is Not Working
I added a new addon domain to my cPanel hosting. With the new added addon domain, I try to make some subdomain of it. But, the subdomain is not working like subfolder does.
This is my situation:
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The concept of virtual host and DNS
I have a dedicated server and a mydomain.com (bought from a hosting company). I want to host a website from my dedicated server with the domain mydomain.com i.e. when I enter mydomain.com from browser ...
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URL rewriting via forward proxy
I have an app that runs inside my firewall and talks out to multiple end points via HTTP/HTTPS on a non-standard port e.g. http://endpoint1.domain.com:7171, http://endpoint2.domain.com:7171
What I ...
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Difficulty enabling caching on inherited site
I have been asked to work on a corporate website a previous employee had created.
The site is on shared GoDaddy hosting. One of the first things I noticed (after the 140KB JPEG on the front page, ...
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Transferring local site to shared hosting
I'm looking to setup a simple online text processing tool similar to the Clang demo. The processing program itself is a C++ program which I can modify to provide the desired output I need. Since I use ...
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Use different document root for subfolder of URL
I have an php application that uses an MVC framework.
Lets say it lives here http://domain.com on the web and here /srv/www/domain.com on my server.
I want http://domain.com/blog to use a wordpress ...
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Looking for a step by step guide to URL re-writing with mod_rewrite and other methods
I'm looking for step by step resource about how to rewrite URLs and have a few specific questions.
I've read the documentation on mod_rewrite in Apache, but I still find myself a little lost.
If ...
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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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Setting file permissions on linux to allow PHP to write to a directory
I have a website built with Codeigniter and hosted on a Linux box.
I am trying to follow "best practices" when it comes to my file permission settings, but I'm not sure if I completely understand the ...
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404 working only with wrong extension
My 404 .htaccess works very well when I put a wrong extension at it in place of .php.
Unfortunately the 404 does not work when I put a wrong name with .php.
This is my .htaccess code:
<Files ~ ...
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How can I make my binary file is served as binary and not text when user choose “Save Linked File As…” in Safari?
I'm serving a binary file (.IPA) with Ubuntu/Apache 2.2.
When I have chosen Save Linked File As... in Safari, it says it's text file. And it guides me to add .txt extension. However it does not add ...
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How do I differentiate 404 messaging with no dynamic language ability on the web server?
Depending on the type of page visited (for example, “static” content vs. product page), we have a requirement to show different error messaging when the page requested is not found. Given that we are ...
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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 ( ...
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Reading apache logs is there a way i can know of concurnent users limit?
I want to know on a analysis layer from apache logs which can tell me if the # of concurrent logins (using same username) has exceeded e.g more then 4.
Is such a thing can be automated or it requires ...
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How to get rid of crawling errors due to the URL Encoded Slashes (%2F) problem in Apache
The Google web crawler has indexed a whole set of URLs with encoded slashes (%2F) for our site. I assume it has picked up the pages from our XML sitemap file. The problem is that the live pages will ...
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Password protect an alias virtual directory
I have a main domain being hosted through CPanel. I also have a sub-domain that I would like to appear as a path under the main domain instead of as a sub-domain. So I have:
http://example.com/ ...
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Apache, www-data and custom user permission
I'm running an ubuntu server with apache and I have web directory which is owned by the user www-data and the group www-data. WordPress works great in this directory. It can auto update and I can ...
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.htaccess URL rewrite
I used to have a rewrite rule to
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]
Now, I have to change to
RewriteRule ...
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How to configure apache to allow access to subdomain on my local ip address
I would like to have others inside my local network access resources on my computer at outsideprojects.192.168.0.10. I am running Apache and have a virtual host configured so I can access it at ...
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How can i check how many users can visit my website at the same time?
i have my website on a shared webhosting account.
I would like to check how many people can visit my site at the same time without the server slowing down or crashing.
I don't have SSH, if that makes ...
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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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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 ...
