Forum: Server Management

I have an account with fasthosts, and wish to have a login page which uses SSL. I have created a folder called 'SecureSSLSpace' using the fasthosts 'dashboard'. As advised by them, I uploaded a folder of the same name using FTP to my site (www.quizhat.com). In my limited understanding the URL...

Hello everyone, i run the website www.mietregal24.de Currently, i am bugfixing some issues and have been up all night and day. I just noticed that my commercial flyer refers the user to www.mietregal24.de/verkauf Unfortunatly, i am currently unable to open the link without entering the...

Hi, I've used my mac as a testing server running php and mysql for years, but for a number of reasons I want to change that now. Among them is the fact that I've never been able to get sendmail and imagemagick working on it (there are several other reasons too... The poor old girl's about 7 years...

Hey guys, well, I am new to this site as well as to creating an online website. Now, I have acquired a website from webhostinghub.com and gone through the entire activation process. Now I want to upload my .jpg and .htm files onto the website. I am using "FileZilla" to upload my files. Once it...

Is it possible to do a mod_rewrite from one url to another without changing what appears in the address bar (ie., I want the base domain to remain static, even though what is being served comes form a different server)? Example: Source URL is http://domain1.com/news Target URL is...

Hey everyone. I have built multitudes of websites and webservers but am new to building SSL enabled ones. A few months ago, I successfully built my first SSL website for work. Today I go to access the website and, after prompting to accept the certificate as per normal, a login box pops up and does...

I installed a drop down menu i found, and it works great, but on some pages it doesnt drop down. Like for the pages that are /something/something But i dont have directories for them, its all done in a .htaccess file. Any ideas of how to get around it.

i am using wamp on my local machine in the .htaccess file i have the following RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / Options +FollowSymLinks ErrorDocument 400 http://localhost/badrequest.html ErrorDocument 403 http://localhost/forbidden.html ErrorDocument 404 http://localhost/pagenotfound.html

Hello, I'm not too sure this is the right forum section for this, since this is regarding managing the Web site hosted on a shared server. A web site I manage was just hacked today by having the .htaccess file completely rewritten and the home page had a HUGE string of characters in php tags...

Does anyone have any resources or personal experience that gives benchmarks on the performance penalty of using .htaccess files for server configuration changes over directly placing them in the httpd.conf file? And if possible at what size does the htaccess file have to reach to achieve such a...

How may i manage to write http://www.site.com/about-us.php as http://www.site.com/en/about-us.html by using .htaccess rewrite utility?

Hi there, I'm looking for a cheap (and quick to install) server monitoring solution. What I'm interested in is to track the load and especially the disk usage as I'm sick of logging in to my couple of webservers every day just to make sure the disk doesn't run full and crashes my web server....

I'm using a rewrite to direct whole root domain to another domain. Though I use some rules to stop a subdomain from being redirected also. One problem I'm having is setting this to stop 2 subdomains from redirecting rather than just one. Here is the code I'm using. Options +FollowSymLinks ...

Hello, I have a. .htacces file with the following rule: RewriteRule ^({5})$ dir/myfile.inc.php?profile=$1 What it does is checks the URL and if the link looks like:

Hi everyone, I have a vps running with webmin with two domain names and one ip and I want to point each of the domains to different folders.. here's the instructions I followed: ■Go to your Webmin control panel. ■Upgrade to the latest version of webmin (required if you are running a...

Hey. I am having some proplems with my mysql server on Ubuntu 10. For some reason, the people behind the server can't get their conf files to work. There is a smart setting in the my.conf file where you can set the user to use when running the server, but changing this user from mysql to another,...

i have tried htaccess creators, but nothing is working i want to make it if the url contains a dash (last character) ex: http://site.com/a3s- to redirect to a file preview.php?id=a3s

Hi, what is wrong with my htaccess code below. I want my user/fast-login.html and password-recovery.html to be open in https. When i entered the link https://www.mysite.com/user/fast-login.html, it automatically changes the link into http. Same thing happen with my password recovery page. Any...

We've been attacked by a spammer who identified a security hole in our content management system and has been dropping tens of thousands of spam comments on us in the last couple of weeks. We've traced the offending IP to Altushost, but unbelievably, they tell me their Terms of Use policy...

How to create dynamic Subdomain in .htaccess file? Can any one help me how to write Rewrite Rule for it ? when user open www.example.com then open index.php if user open www.username.example.com then open profile.php (with user name record) Thanks

I'm trying to track down a problem related to Internet Explorer where one of our sites requests files from another one of our sites on a different domain. In Internet Explorer (version 8), we see a privacy icon on the bottom (eye with a red circle & slash). Internet Explorer says it is blocking...

Hi All, i am desperatly looking for some help with mod rewrites, i have set up my site to show "tidy urls" which are virtual urls they dont exist, i want to now redirect these urls to the actual url which is valid :) if that makes sence? i have a db of 100,000 plus products all using one...

I use .htaccess to add "www." to the front of the domain name if it is not present, via: # Add a leading www to domain if one is missing. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 How could I go about changing the rule so that it does not add the...

I have been building my clients site, thinking they were going to register a linux server, but instead they purchased a Microsoft server so I cant use Apache and need to use IIS. I though have never used IIS before, and now I need to change their site over. I set up the website so a single page...