Questions tagged [web-hosting]
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Can email spoofing be prevented?
My wife's email account was hacked and the attacker got her address book. I don't know if the attack was on her local email client (Thunderbird running on Windows 7) or on the server (hosted at ...
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How can a computer with dynamic IP work as a webserver?
How can a computer with dynamic IP work as a WebServer?
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How to go to a website on a shared server by its ip address?
I have a few questions, please help:
Fist, I can access Google search just by typing http://74.125.224.211, because this is the IP address returned by nslookup.
However, I could not do so with the ...
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how to open fiddler saz files on mac or online?
a friend sent me a fiddler record for me to watch.
I have mac and the file he has sent is X.saz
I could install fiddler on mac. How can i open these files to watch?
online opening is good as well
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What actually is Amazon EC2's 'pay per hour' for on demand instances? [closed]
I'm thinking to host my ROR website on Amazon EC2. I wont be needing a S3 as of now.
But when I check the their pricing it's like
Micro - $0.020 per Hour
I don't get this per hour billing.My ...
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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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Is it possible to host plain HTML files in Google Apps?
I'd like to upload a handful of HTML files that I want to replace an existing Google Site.
I know I can edit the HTML for each page in Google Sites, but I can't just upload my HTML files or even copy-...
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Moving a file into a directory with over 7000 files
I'm on a GoDaddy shared hosting Linux server ("unlimited" hosting).
I have a folder with product images for an e-commerce store that contains over 7000 images.
GoDaddy told me I'm not allowed to ...
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Find out who is hosting a website given an ip address
Say I have an URL or an IP for a website.
Is there a way to tell who is hosting that site? Rackspace, Azure, Amazon etc?
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Hosting a web site at home: ISP Blocking port 80?
I presume this is a better place to put this rather than server fault.
I'm interested in setting up a small site to host at home as a "proof of concept" exercise, i.e. to prove that I know how to do ...
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Custom domain for Node.js hosted website on private network
I gave myself a learning assignment - create a nice website to be hosted from a Node.js server accessible to my home network. My base system is running Windows 7 and I want to give this website a ...
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Recommendations for hosting large videos [closed]
I recently created and put a 45-minute, 300 MB video file on my website and told a mailing list about it. Checking my site stats, I see that I've used 20% of my "unlimited" bandwidth for the month. ...
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My uncle is the family historian. We need to host about 5-15 TB of images and video. Any inexpensive ideas?
Basically we have hq scans of thousands of old family photos. Plus tons of family video. We want to host them where we can still have total control over the content and restrict access. I'm a php ...
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Server to Server transfer
I am currently trying to migrate my website from one host to a newer one. What FTP client allows direct server to server transfer without me physically downloading the files to my computer.
Any other ...
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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 Webdav loses connection each reboot?
Hostgator told me on a support call over a year ago that Windows 7 had issues with Webdav because of digest authentication. They also said that future versions of Windows would solve the problems with ...
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How can I host my website on Windows Vista at home computer?
Is it possible to host my website using my Windows Vista home computer?
I have a broadband Internet service.
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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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Which machine to get for a home server?
I want to have a server at home. Mainly for few projects, blog(wordpress) and maybe other web resources. I want to have it very low power consumable, so I am thinking getting Acer Aspire Revo 3600, ...
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Make IPv6 Server accessible for IPv4 Networks
Old Topic, but anyway:
I have a server at home, which is only accessible via IPv6. Would not be a problem, if there would be more networks around with IPv6 enabled, but currently even my University ...
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Is it possible to host a website in one server and host emails with this domain on another server?
I have 2 servers, one with hostgator and a second one which is much faster. I would like to use the server on Hostgator for Email and the other one (which is faster) for the website.
For what I've ...
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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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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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Are databases more expensive to host and serve than files? [closed]
I've observed a large percentage of hosts have very harsh limits on database space but generous limits on disk space.
100GB disk / 2 GB database seems quite common.
To me, this makes little sense ...
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How to create a local web host domain name for free
I have installed XAMPP, and my projects are saved in htdocs folder. When I view it in browser the URL identifies as http://localhost/example/index.php
How can I access it using a domain name of my ...
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Under ISPConfig 3 no account can login since resetting my MySQL root password
I am running ISPConfig 3 under CentOS and I had to manually reset my MySQL root account password yesterday. Since resetting the password I haven't been able to login to ISPConfig's web interface with ...
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Is editing “hosts” file in Windows necessary to host Apache Virtual Hosts?
I'm learning how to host websites on a small server at home. I followed some tutorials where they said you had to edit the "hosts" file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) and add the following:
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Can't install Git in Godaddy web hosting
I am hosting a website in Godaddy web hosting. I want to install Git. I am using SSH to connect to my site. I find this link from Godaddy How to install Git in Linux web hosting. I followed their ...
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How to link an html page on Apache to a domain name?
I just registered a domain name via godaddy.com. Is there some help for a beginner somewhere on how to serve my website on the domain.
To begin with, I want to set it up to display an HTML page ...
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How to use a different private port to a public port? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is port forwarding and what is it used for?
HI,
I would like to serve a webpage using port 80 publically but privately on my LAN it's available on port 90, now is it ...
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I want to host my website from home but my public IP merely loads up my DSL modem's admin screen? How to fix?
Network topography:
Internet === Verizon DSL Modem === Time Capsule Router === Mac Mini web server
I go to icanhazip.com and grab my public IP address. I throw it into a web browser and get...my ...
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DNS does not resolve
I have a domain name that I have added as an add-on domain on another primary domain that I own.
I have changed the nameservers with the domain name registrar 5 days ago and a whois search shows that ...
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How to use Cloudflare for a subdomain (of a domain I own)? Website hosted on Namecheap shared servers
I have a website on a Namecheap shared hosting server and I’d like to use Cloudflare (free tier) for it. The main content of the website is on a subdomain. Root domain has just a dummy landing page. I ...
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How to host a website from my own PC [closed]
I want to host my website from my own PC.
I have biought a unique IP address, but I don't know how to create DNS entries or how to create name server.
How can I proceed?
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How do I force a rebuild on OpenShift?
I want to force a clean rebuild of my OpenShift application. The issue is npm is having problems so it can't run gunt successfully.
I don't want to delete the whole application because my Domain is ...
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Do I need a separate hosting plan for each domain if I want the sites responsive?
I have a few new domains that I want to reserve. When a user goes to any of those URLs I want the action to, somehow, redirect the user to a primary site that I already have a hosting plan for. And ...
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How safe is my private DokuWiki hosted on a web server?
I used to use xampp for self hosting a private wiki, but found the hassle of having to start the server, then stop the server really tiring. My next option has been to host a DokuWiki installation on ...
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How can I force Internet Download Manager to intercept Mega's downlod process?
I want to download a file from Mega through my own download manager not Mega's download manager. I tried many times with available options in Internet Download Manager and can't get Internet Download ...
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Two domains that point to the same IP have different outputs?
I have two domains registered with godaddy.com, lets just call them domainone.example and domaintwo.example.
I also have one hosting account with godaddy.com that I set up with my purchase of ...
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How do I find out what HTTP headers are being used to download a file without access to the web server?
If I do not have access to the web server configuration files, how would I know what HTTP headers are being used to download files?
I am talking about files that are downloaded by the browser, not ...
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What would be the total expenses of running an in-home web server? [closed]
I have several hosting accounts with companies, and plan to keep them. However, I would like to try my hand at creating my own home web-server, both for fun and for the learning experience. I would ...
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Personal Web Servers
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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How to test hosting before picking one?
I'm looking for fast and cheap hosting at the moment and I don't want to rely on users opinions only (many if not most of them are sponsored by, or are actually from, the companies themselves anyway).
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How to deploy a Java web application?
I have developed a Java Web Application and I want to show it to my client by hosting it on a server.
I tried to run it on my localpc through web-browser and it worked fine. I gave the hostname as "...
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How to host website from my home ADSL?
I knew that I can use DynDNS to setup a hosting which will access my home adsl for hosting a website.
I entered there but couldn't figure out how to setup this in steps, I registered a host name but ...
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GoDaddy Lost My DNS Settings: What to do?
My MX records point to Google Apps and my mail was working perfectly for 2 years or more. Then the other day it stopped working. I managed to figure out that it was a DNS problem and reset my MX ...
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For cloud machine is it a good practice to reboot periodically?
As a desktop Windows user one often find better performance if one reboot it after using if for a long periold of time. Is it also the case for virtual machine in th cloud, like EC2, Azure, or VPS?
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using a static ip address when accessing internet through wireless (wifi)
I have got a static ip address for lease from my ISP. So the requests for that ip address is forwarded to the modem in my house. from here it is connected to other devices through wifi. On one o the ...
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Do I need to purchase a Positive SSL while buying a domain?
I am new to creating and hosting websites and want to clear a few things about buying domain names and SSL certificates.
I created my website using Hugo Academic and now I want to deploy it. In their ...
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How to make Nginx server available on public IP
I am trying to run a small website from my home WiFi, so I set up a reverse Nginx proxy from localhost:8000 to port 93.
I am wondering how this server can be accessible from my public ip address ...
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