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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Separating static/uploaded content from the site
I have a site where I anticipate to have a large amount of users. I've heard that it is a good idea to separate user content (uploaded images) and place them on a separate static server where lighttpd ...
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Using mod_speling with multi-level htaccess and rewriterules
We recently switched formats for managing our 301s. For the most part, everything went well, but it seems to have stopped mod_speling from working properly. Here's what we changed:
old ...
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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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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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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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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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How can I rewrite a subdomain to go to a specific file in a specific folder?
I've done searching for my answer and have tested a few solutions, but nothing has worked so far.
I'm trying to get a URL like this http://baseball.sports.com to rewrite to ...
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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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.htaccess directory to subdomain
I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by .htaccess) to be used as the main page starting like http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html and turning into ...
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http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/ in Apache log?
I run a website, let's say www.example.com. On it I have a path and file, say www.example.com/path/file.html.
The Apache log lists GET requests like: GET /path/file.html HTTP/1.1
Which is correct, ...
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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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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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mod_rewrite problems - redirect subdomain to different domain
I must have a brain freeze as I can not get my rewrite rules working.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^otherdomain\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.otherdomain.com/ ...
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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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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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Links don't work on new server
I've recently moved from server with php4 to php5. Now I cant open content in my page. Links look like this "page.com/news-it-is-rainy-day-1.html". But when I try to open link I just get the archive ...
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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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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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.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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.htaccess rule to redirect from 404 to search results
When a user (or a bot) request on non existing page, I want to redirect him to the search results. I prefere to do it with the .htaccess file using something like:
ErrorDocument 404 ...
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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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missing configuration in apache to achive mutual SSL authentcaion [migrated]
After implementing a Mutual Certificate Authentication with OpenSSL and Apache Web Server on CentOS platform. I tried this scenario ( see this diagram ):
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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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Apache2: How to host apps at different ports with SSL?
I'm trying to achieve quite simple task actually.
I bind application to a port, I enable SSLEngine at each VirtualHost entry for that port. Everything works beside one thing: if you type url that ...
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htaccess rewrite rules converted to nginx not working?
I used this tool and converted my rules to Nginx. However one rule doesn't seem to be working.
My working .htaccess rules are:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/settings\.html$ ...
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Under an Xampp install, I modify the apache httpd-vhosts.conf file and then my Apache server will not start
I have read all the articles but still must be doing something wrong... I modified the httpd-vhosts.conf file to access the project I am working on... I have tried many different configurations and ...
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Is there a way to know if apache receives a request from a public IP not local to your country?
I'm looking for ways to know if an apache server receives a request , from another country (e.g germany) considering its a fair request (no spam , or proxies). I want it either to appear this as a ...
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Need some help on tomcat URL mod_rewrite or mod_jk
I am trying to remove the context name from the URL of my server.
Current URL - http://www.domainname.com/MyApp/
What I need to make is to make it available at - www.domainname.com/
So it is only ...
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sub folder non-www redirect
Is there a way to redirect a sub folder to non-www?
What i use is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
BUT this only ...
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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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mod rewrite doesn't work when i added multiple domains
i have redhat linux server and i was using /var/www/html to display my site.
By using the following directive rewrite mod was working fine.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Enable mod_rewrite ...
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clean urls issue using .htaccess in php project
I am working on a php laravel project. I am currently facing issues with .htaccess file. I have following .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
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how to fix .htaccess - redirect http://408.111.1111.domain.us/ to http://domain.us/index.php?w=408.111.1111
We want to use mod_rewrite and .htaccess to do a redirect. How do we redirect http://408.111.1111.domain.us/ and www.408.111.1111.domain.us/ to http://domain.us/index.php?w=408.111.1111 ? If the ...
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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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Apache Server - Wrong Certificate
At work we are moving a website from "outside" to "inside". Standard LAMP website (Apache, MySQL, PHP).
The issue I'm having is that it's serving up the wrong certificate.
https:/intranet - on my ...
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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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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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How can I diagnose an Internal Server Error?
I was trying to host a zend-framework project on new host provider.
After uploading everything and configuring the database connection I have encountered Internal Server Error message. My service ...
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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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Seeking htaccess help: Converting multiple subdomains (both http and https) to www.domain.com using .htaccess
I've been trying to get an answer to this question on other forums (the folks at SuperUser thought this was the place I needed to post) and via my connections, but I haven't gotten very far. Hopefully ...
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Best practices for streaming videos to a large concurrent user base?
What are the best ways to stream videos for a user base of more than 1000 users?
What among the below would be the best way to use?
An html tag to embed the video in the source element.
To use a ...
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Issues with timed out downloads via TomCat?
We get, in our opinion, a lot of failed download attempts and want to understand why.
We offer downloads via an email link (typical):
http://www.semanticdesigns.com/deliverEval/<productname>
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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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“File does not exist” in apache error log when mod_rewrite is using
I am getting below error in server log, when re-writing the urls.
[Fri Jan 25 11:32:57 2013] [error] [client ***IP***] File does not exist: ...
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Apache log naming conventions
I run 30+ sites out of my dedicated server (running CentOS). Some of these are subdomains. I currently use this pattern as a log file naming convention, in /etc/httpd/logs:
site_com-error_log
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codesniffer command not being recognized after several installs and upgrades
I've tried to install codesniffer using pear but my mac is not recognizing the phpcs command.
pear config
Configuration (channel pear.php.net):
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Auto-discover ...
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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 ...
