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Is router compulsory to host a server at my home PC
I know the requirements for hosting though I have a doubt whether router is really needed?
Compulsory things are access to the Internet, a web server, static IP (I will use dynamic DNS services like ...
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Hosting my website (IIS) 2 routers & a VMware VM involved - how to setup?
I have a modem-router from my ISP (in UK) this is a Technicolor TG582n, and a D-Link DIR-615 router. These are connected via cable, cable ends in the 'Internet' port of D-Link.
I connect via Wi-Fi to ...
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What is the history behind the ~ in subdomains/university hosting for studuents?
What is the history behind the ~ in subdomains/university hosting for students? Why not subdomain.site.edu or site.edu/subdomain. Any particular reason the ~ was chosen and not something else?
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Plesk - Create domain when only adding subdomain
I think I'm answering my own question here, but... If I'm just adding a subdomain to Plesk (10.4.4) do I add the main domain and then add a subdomain or just add the subdomain? There's a chance that ...
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Why does my web hosting 'minify' and break my PHP files via ftp?
I use WinSCP as my ftp client. I have used it countless times on different web hosts via ftp without any problems....except my own web hosting.
The problem is that when I attempt to edit or upload a ...
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Staying anonymous while hosting your site?
I don't mean anonymous surfing. I mean hosting and having your own domain and such.
The reason is that my blog is about religious/political topics which may cause me trouble in the future.
This is ...
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DNS options for my local network
I have two domains services.xxxxxxx.com and www.xxxxxxxx.com being hosted on two different machines on my local network and rather than using port forwarding I would rather have all traffic for each ...
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How can I test if a server supports byte serving?
I have some mp3 files hosted on a server on a shared hosting account and I have trouble submitting my podcast feed to the iTunes store. Apple rejects the feed, because they say my episode files are ...
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Installing Wordpress in Apache
So, I've installed Wordpress in Apache and have it working, i.e. I can browse to it on my hosting server via localhost and it displays my blog, all good and well. But when (anyone) browses to it from ...
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Why does DNS return alternately old and new addresses when you change nameservers for a website move?
Registrars warn you that the process of moving a site (and changing nameservers to do so) can take up to 48 hours to propagate. That's one thing - but why in the process of propagation does it work ...
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What is the safest way to set up SQL Server for remote access?
I'd like to be able to make my dev database server accessible over the internet. I and half a dozen dev applications will be the only users. I have a hosting account that includes SQL Server, but I ...
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Cisco asa 5505 - can't browse locally hosted website by using it's domain name
I have the following:
- Domain with DNS record set to my Public IP
- Public IP, via Comcast Modem/Router Sending all web traffic to the Web Server (1st Network Card)
- I also Have Cisco ASA5505 after ...
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Need to split up packets and rebuild again at destination
Cant go into too much details here for various reasons but here's what I've got.
I've a host which replies to a terminal with a receipt containing info of what items have been purchased at the ...
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I can't seem to access my home web sever?
So I installed XAMPP and went to localhost on my web-browser and I get the XAMPP page, all seems well. I then went on no-ip and created a host: yoursite.no-ip.com. I went into my router settings to ...
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Leasing a server from 1and1; do I need to download remote desktop, or something to access the server?
I am completely new to this; in the past, I could make a simple site in Visual Studio and use ws_ftp to upload files to the server. But now, we're leasing our own server from 1and1, and here's what ...
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Can email signatures in Outlook be hosted externally?
My company have 10 or so sales reps that all need our email signature that is frequently updated - it contains things like our exhibition dates, any new products logo's we take on etc, so it's a big ...
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How to configure my hosting provider for email when DNS redirection already in place?
First of all I apologize for my poor understanding of network and I hope I used the correct terminology for everything:
I have bought a domain name with 1&1 to create an online shop, using ...
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Converting my PC to a server
I live in a university campus and luckly I have super fast internet in my room, with a static IP address.
I tried to setup XAMPP and by pointing to my IP address from anywhere I can access the ...
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What causes Wordpress/hosting "HTTP error name lookup timed out"?
My hosting company made some change in their hardware and now suddenly all wordpress sites hosted on that machine (some are mine, others aren't) are getting "HTTP errors" and "name lookup timed out" ...
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Is there a way I can connect to my computer through a domain or IP that bypasses a router? Similar to how Team Viewer does screen sharing?
So, I want to show some people a rails app I've been working on, And I can't get passed the firewall on the router (it's not mine / the ISP won't let us have access to it).
So, is there some sort ...
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Receiving and processing SMS messages through a script?
I am attempting to setup a system to receive and process SMS messages automatically. The system is intended for use in a context (an unfunded migrant workers' union in India) where both finances and ...
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Hosting several domains on one server using IIS 7
I have created several web sites inside IIS7 on my server. All of them use the same ip and port, but different host names. Currently I have set the host name to www.mydomain.com.
Now my question is, ...
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Hosting under Development Website in Visual Studio to show it to someone over Internet
I am new to this one; I am currently developing an application over .Net in visual studio 2010.
And I wish to show the ongoing work to my group partner... when I debug my project in visual studio it ...
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FTP to FTP - a running web site to a new VPS
I have a running web site, which get updated quite frequently with user's input, and because of the amount of people servicing, I decided to move to a more dedicated solution, so I got myself a VPS, ...
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How can I view different internally hosted websites, set up as virtual hosts?
I have an old machine that I've converted into a web server. I'm wondering what the best way to make the websites viewable on the internal network, without using a proxy.
I experimented with BIND, ...
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How to host your own video and make an embedable link for viewing across the net
I want to host my own video, and then be able to view the video by having an embedable link
I dont know where to begin, so I need to know every little detail. For example, do i save the video file ...
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How to find out domain's email provider
I need to find out what provider is providing emails for a domain (like [email protected]). I know I can find the provider for hosting a domain but how can I find out about emails for a ...
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Web Hosting at home on Old Hardware [closed]
This is a re-make of this interesting question. I've rephrased it slightly to avoid pulling aggro and to provide some quality information, as I've pondered this before, but only JUST ran the numbers..
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Mac OS X - Web Sharing
I've enabled web sharing on my Mac OS X (via default Apache installation), and it gives me a web address that I (and supposedly other computers) can use to access my site.
However, when I try to ...
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what's a virtual dedicated host?
I understand what's a VPS, and what's a dedicated host.
But what's a virtual dedicated hosting??
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Web Server with Multiple Domains
I am running a Web Server which has single dynamic IP and many websites are running on several different ports. The server I am running are IIS7 and WAMP. I have around 5 websites in total running ...
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How to find a domain based on the IP address?
We were contacted by our ISP saying that one of our servers was issuing an attack on another computer.
May 23 14:11:35 wdc lfd[14308]: *Port Scan* detected from ***.***.***.***
(US/United States/-). ...
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Hosted Excel macro
What I have:
An Excel workbook that uses a VB macro to calculate the price of a product based on a complicated Bill of Material set of instructions.
How the workbook is designed:
The workbook has ...
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Is it possible to partially restrict FTP access to a site?
Is it possible to partially restrict FTP access to a site?
I have a website where I would like users to be able to edit and upload webpages. However, some pages should not be changed, e.g. the first ...
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How to display a mailbox as browsable website?
We have a company-wide mailing list that aggregates all its messages in one IMAP/POP3 mailbox. Now we would like to make the contents of this mailbox browsable as an internal website.
The goal is to ...
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Why already set NAT info in router but not working?
I'm using ADSL service from ISP. The ADSL modem has only 1 LAN port and that port is connected to my PC.
The LAN IP of my computer is 192.168.1.100, and I have apache running on localhost (127.0.0.1)...
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Running servers in the same room with a washing machine
Just moved into a place with a giant utility room. Was planning on sticking a couple of racks I use to host stuff in there but the washer / dryer is in there.
I've heard that the bleach used to wash ...
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Outlook doesn't get push emails from hosted exchange server
Somehow my outlook stopped getting push emails from the my provider of the hosted exchange server.
It happens on multiple computers and I can get the emails or synchronize the folders only by ...
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Back up website with Notepad++
I have a lot of files on my website right now, and I'd like to back them all up to my computer. I'm using Notepad++'s FTP plugin, and I was wondering if there was an easy way to mass backup everything,...
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How to create a "web-folder"?
How might I create a folder that automatically sychs with my website's directory?
I mean, how do I make a folder that has all of the stuff that's in my / directory?
Maybe a way to do it through FTP?
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Hosting online with xampp?
I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, because from what I've read, this should all be working.
What I've done:
Forwarded ports 80, 8080, and 443.
Changed the ServerName localhost:80 line in \...
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Subversion multi checkout post-commit hook?
The title must sound strange but I'm trying to achieve the following:
SVN repo location: /home/flx/svn/flxdev
SVN repo "flxdev" structure:
+ Project1
++ files
+ Project2
+ Project3
+ Project4
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'.htaccess' file Disappeared after i upload it to ftp on alwaysdata.com
I follow this article : deploying-django-at-alwaysdata-com
and i'm not successful now , look my site : http://zjm1126.alwaysdata.net/:
i think it is due to the '.htaccess' file , so i create it ...
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How to host a webserver through NAT?
I've come across many "How to host something while behind NAT" but none are like my situation (I knew how to host a server through a simple NAT anyway).
This is how my ISP works...
First, start off ...
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VPS system requirements for hosting SVN, Wordpress, and a Simple mail server
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I have been toying with the idea of trying out a VPS for hosting SVN repositories and Wordpress blogs for my fiancée and I. Additionally it would be nice to be able to set ...
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Android Application and Web Interface for the same
I have to develop an android application for my project. Also, i have to develop a web interface for the same. My present idea is to host the application at the google apps. I will be building the ...
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Browser not recognizing file
To start off I run Ubuntu 10.04 x64 with Windows XP SP3 in VirtualBox for Photoshop.
I created an image in Photoshop and saved it to a common NTFS partition (accessible to Ubuntu and WinXP). I used ...
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How to create my own Ubuntu package building/hosting like Launchpad PPA?
Launchpad is great though, but I'd like to know whether I can do it myself, because the network connection to Launchpad.net is too slow from China. (while this is not the only reason)
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Can I download all my received emails?
So, basically, what I want to somehow download all the emails that I have ever received. My email address is a custom one that I created on my own domain (that I bought from a hosting company).
Is ...
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Hosting games via UMTS surf stick
I've recently bought a UMTS surf stick from German ISP and cell phone carrier 1&1. I'd like to host games (Settlers) that require a direct connection to other players via TCP/IP.
I understand ...
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