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A server which provides documents and applications through the http/https protocol

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What IP to listen on to see web server from outside LAN?

Okay, so I'm semi-new to networking and to back-end web development, and am learning Flask presently. I just turned on a basic little HTTP server on my laptop ("Hello World!") and am running it on ...
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Why can't I connect to my IIS server, running on my PC, via public static IP?

I know this topic is quite old, but, nevertheless, I am doing this in a first time and I have some troubles with it. I try to open public access to my sites, hosted on IIS 7.5 web server on my Windows ...
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Host your own website and dns server

I pay big money yearly for all of my website hosting, domain registrars, etc. My IP is dynamic and my provider allows different http ports. On my local webserver, I have access to my websites like ...
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How do I share files with a linux virtual machine from a Win 7 desktop

I have a Win7 deskptop (host) and want to run a linux virtual machine; but I want that linux virtual machine to be able to access a directory on the host machine (in this case, to serve a web ...
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How to expose machine via IP to outside network for server access?

I have an older PC that I stripped down and loaded Ubuntu on as I want it to function as a test serve for me to run concepts on for some personal projects. When up and running I can do a hostname -I ...
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Is a Reverse proxy works the same as like a CDN

I heard Facebook uses Content Delivery Network(cdn) for loading things faster. Think if I want to load an image, this time it loads from CDN. And it doesn't show the actual address of CDN. A reverse ...
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It's possible to have multiple physical servers behind one home router?

I have multiple Raspberry Pi at home and I would like to use them as web servers for some of my projects. I'm aware that I could host several sites on one Pi with virtual hosts, but I want just one on ...
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websvn garbles java source files

It appears to be attempting to interpolate Javadoc links into standard Java classes, among other things. The resultant output is fairly difficult to read. For instance, I am defining a Queue at one ...
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Is it possible to host my website with just an IPv6 without an IPv4?

Basically, here's my situation: I have an old laptop and want to use it to host a website on my home broadband, but my ISP only allows one static IPv4 address on the home connection. I don't want to ...
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Amazon EC2 AMI linux2 amazon-linux-extras basearch error

sudo amazon-linux-extras install Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name) File "/usr/...
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Why are PNG and TIFF formats treated differently than JPG and GIF by a webserver?

I observed that my web-browser kept download PNG and TIFF images, while happily displayed JPG and GIF when I clicked on a link to that image. Ex. http://somesite.com/image.<format> On closer ...
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how to redirect a url with port via htaccess

Im Trying to Redirect a Single url like http://tracker.niresh.co:12495/announce to http://tracker.niresh.co/announce.php How can i get it working through htaccess ?
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How is the HTTP version of a browser request and the HTTP version of a server response determined?

Can anyone verify if my assumptions are correct? I think most popular browser (Chrome, Firefox, ...) as a standard send requests with HTTP/1.1 in each request line. I think whether or not a HTTP/1.1 ...
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How to grant FTP access to just 1 directory (and its subdirectories) to an account

Is it possible to give someone FTP access to just one directory (and its subdirectories) and not all the directories of the webserver?
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XAMPP Apache Server on Windows 7 not working

I recently installed XAMPP on my laptop. It installed correctly but the Apache web server won't start - it's a problem with port 80. It's not caused by Skype, because I don't have it installed. I ...
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Why is an ASP.NET server running on localhost:8084?

While trying to kill a mono process, I ran ps -aux | grep mono. It came up with one entry that started yesterday and was run by the user www-data, and with the command /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/mono/4.5/...
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Getting through an ipv6 -only router with ipv4

My situation is the following, I have a website hosted on a linux machine(with apache2), unfortunately my router (unitymedia) provides only a port filtering for the IPv6 adresses, but no port ...
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SSH2 in Bitvise terminates unexpectedly

I'm trying to connect Bitvise with a cloud server to make some changes in my magneto website. When I click login it creates connection without any problem. But after a few seconds it terminates ...
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launchctl starts program but does not list pid

I have been troubleshooting this issue for a while now. Consulted the web, several stackexchange platforms and discussion forums. Here is my problem description: Usecase: I have naviserver installed ...
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Implementing fail2ban the correct way

I have a Django web app where people write comments and upvote/downvote others' comments. The webserver is gunicorn + nginx (reverse proxy). The db is postgresql. The db and web app reside in two ...
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Why does FTP work without the IIS service?

I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2. I just stopped IIS and tried using FTP—it worked! So, is FTP independent from IIS? How does it work if IIS is stopped?
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Windows 8 using as a webserver

I have a few hobby websites that I currently host on CentOS 6. Apache, mail serving, PHP, MySQL nothing special. In the past I used Windows XP to do this same task, for years, and I was OK. I ...
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Accessing HTTP server via Hamachi

I have two computers running Windows 7 Professional. Each is on a different network using NAT. Both are joined to the same Hamachi mesh network. Both machines can ping the other and browse the ...
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Using CentOS virtual box guest OS as a local web server

I've installed CentOS as a virtual box os under my osx host, and have been trying to use it as a local web server, but I've run into some problems. First, I want to establish that I've installed ...
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setup web server behind a router

I want to turn a laptop with a broken monitor into a home web server behind a wireless router (buffalo airstation). I removed all ubuntu gui packages and installed lighttpd. The laptop has a fixed ip ...
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How do I detect the browser from the server?

Using a lightweight server that does basic serving of pages and doesn't have a api call for browser detection (like in ASP.NET, for example). What is the best way to go about finding what browser the ...
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TOR hidden service - PHP or CGI - what is safely?

I want to setup TOR Onion hidden service with non-static pages. What should I use: Php or CGI? What is more safely? I don't want to reveal IP of machine - I live in China and I afraid goverment. I ...
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Trigger shell script execution by a POST request

There is a CentOS 7 machine and a BASH script in it. This script is being executed either by Cron scheduler or manually when I log on to the server via SSH. I would like to trigger script execution ...
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Images Stuck on Server

I've run into a strange problem with images being "stuck" on the server. The problem began when I uploaded an updated picture via FTP (I use Cyberduck for Mac) to override the picture. This didn't ...
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Is my understanding of the WSGI path correct

My past web application experience is limited to a few Apache+PHP experiments. Starting from this background I've been reading up on using Python for REST services, and this is my current ...
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Apache is slower on other computers on local area network than on localhost

I have few computers connected into network. There's a server inside that network which hosts WAMP (Windows + Apache + PHP + MySQL). There is Windows 7 x32 Pro installed on it. I can ping that server ...
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When using Google Apps, what is the best way to configure additional domains?

Presently, I have it set up like below. I'll put my question first, then you can see my configuration below. So how I have it set up, all my mail from my other domains is forwarded to my main domain,...
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Does a web server use a different port transport data?

Say I have a web server process listens to Port 80. When a client visits this site, will the server pick up a new port to establish connection for data transferring, or just use Port 80? Use default ...
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How does client - web server mechanism of check for latest modified date work?

I know that a web browser check if a resource is modified/expired within a given timestamp to decide if downloading such resource or not. So, here come two questions: i) generally speaking how ...
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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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I have deleted All Files in server Still Site is working?

I have deleted all Files in Server using both Cpanel File Manger . But still Site is Running . What will be the reason? . I have cleared all cache. I am having 2 servers '.com' and other one is '....
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How to run php script (via web server) as different user under Mac OS X

I'm trying to call an executable from a PHP script that needs to be run as a different user (NOT root) than the web server normally runs as. I thought it should be sufficient to just set the setuid ...
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Is there a way to download parts of the content of a zip file?

If there is a big zip file uploaded on a server, and all you need is some of it's content, is there a way to open it, and choose what you want to download?
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Recommended Personal Web Servers [closed]

I'm looking for a Personal web server to host very light traffic meant for home use only. What is your take on personal web servers that meet some or most of the criteria below? Free/Open source ...
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Forward port 80 on a Linksys WRT54GL to port 80 of a single IP on the local network

I have a Linksys WRT54GL router and a home network of two PCs. What I want is one of the PCs to be a web server visible from the world on my static IP. It is a WindowsXP PC with IIS 5.1 setup and ...
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FTP Server - Do you really need it? [closed]

I am going to ask what some might think as a silly question. When you think of any client - Browser, FTP, VPN, you automatically think/know that it must connect to a server. I am running a CentOS ...
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Make Ubuntu Server Accessible to the Internet

I have just installed the latest version of Ubuntu server, php, Apache, Shorewall and MySQL. The problem is that I can't access the website from other computers. I read that to fix that I need to ...
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Apparently random encoded URL requests [closed]

I've been receiving tons of weirdly encoded strings as URL requests on my webserver. I tried decoding them but wasn't able to. Here are a few samples: 184.146.170.127 - - [10/Sep/2019:17:22:54 +0000] ...
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how to shut down a server from the webinterface

I want to be able to shutdown my server remotely by clicking on a button on a web page. The server runs Ubuntu 14.04.1 64 Bit and a python web application. I have not decided which yet, but it will be ...
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How do I locate php.ini?

I installed php on the server and php_info(); displays: Configuration File (php.ini) Path /home/gmcnulty/php However, I don't see anything there nor do I see any php directory? How do I ...
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What is the simplest web server I can operate which also allows configuring mime-types?

I would like a dead-simple web/file server (ideally, something no more complicated than "run this command with these flags") which also allows specifying mime-types based on file extensions. Something ...
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Puppet Master and Puppet Server Confusion (What is the difference?)

I recently started learning puppet after I joined my organisation a month ago. My organisation uses puppet 3 and is in the phase of moving to puppet 4. I am currently playing with puppet 3.8. Though ...
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Why is allowing root login via FTP( on cPanel) a considerable security risk?

I find it very convenient to administer my whole server by logging in as root. However, CSF tells me that it is a "considerable risk" to allow login to FTP via root, and other websites I googled ...
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Multiple web servers behind one public IP

Long time reader first time poster (he he). So here's my dilemma. I'm hosting 3 sites at home for some friends, nothing big, all just wordpress sites. Running them in VMWare Workstation. Got a ton of ...
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Should web servers be run by a special user?

I'm pretty beginner-level at Linux, and one thing I've always wondered was whether things like Nginx / uWSGI (for a Django project) should be run under a user that was created for that purpose, or ...
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