Forum: Server Management

I have a quick question that I believe fits into this category of the forums. Within the next couple weeks, I am going to be getting my web server up and running, but I've read so much about a residential isp plan not allowing you to run a server off of it. I was wondering what are some good isp's...

I am struggling to work out why URL rewriting is not functioning properly. # .htaccess file for Smartest installations that use Apache # Auto generated by Smartest on Dec 11th, 2011 at 08:04 am. No further automated modifications will take place on this file. php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off ...

A few questions about homepage redirects: I want my homepage to always be http://www.mydomain.com/ I've had the following code in my htaccess for awhile in order to make sure that http://www.mydomain.com/index.html is redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/ (at least I think that's what it's...

I recently set up a server(using XAMPP) on a Windows based PC. I was importing my website (from Dropbox) and everything seemed to be fine. I only store the core site files in Dropbox and so in order to restore the user data from my site I exported my database and also zipped any user...

I currently have a computer i use as a web server to process a lot of data. It is running windows 7 using Apache, PHP, Mysql. My system actually accepts no external traffic, it is really just a series of cron jobs and tasks managing my companies stock and customer record data. On average...

First off I don't know where on the forum, I should be posting this. I think that the .htaccess file would be my best chance to do this. So please be kind. i want to post a link for users to click www.blahblah.com/product.php?ID=18502 i would like it to detect mobile and instead take them...

I'm using .htaccess to protect directories from access for the first time, and something is happening that I don't understand. The change I made is very simple: I added the following .htaccess file to several subdirectories in my document root: <Files *> Deny from all </Files> This should...

Hi. Firstly, i would like to know how to duplicate files on a server using a script. So for example, i would like to push a button, which starts the script, which then copies files from one folder to another new folder. Secondly i would like to know if it is possible to create a new...

What you think about the credit card data USB model device? You have to use this types of model devices...what are the benefits present in the devices....reply the best messages

Hi all, I am trying to create a passworded folder on my web server using Apache .htaccess and .htpasswd. I just keep getting the prompt to log in and when I put in the user name and password I specified in those files, my login always returns unsuccessful. Here are the contents of the files....

I'm just recovering from reformatting my computer and it turns out I forgot to backup my backups, and the inevitable happened. I accidentally overwrote my .htaccess file which for the life of me I can't recreate it. I use ?p= to dictate what to display in the page and I used rewrite to mask...

I'm new to creating websites, and I'm the kind of person who learns best by just jumping in and handling the unknown issues as they come. Lucky for me I hit one strait away. I went ahead and decided to get a domain (because they are pretty cheap so why not) and just get strait to things. The way I...

I am working on a project with a colleague who is in another country. She has downloaded all files of her site onto her hosts server. What she wants me to do is access CSS files and change the look and feel of her site to her company branding. I have the FTP details and Control Panel details to...

Hi, I was wondering what is necessary to host my own website, specifically, whether or not it is cost effective. Thanks

Hey guys, I have been in the process of setting up a mail server on ubuntu and have got everything working apart from the SMTP authentication to send mail out. The server is running postfix with a mysql database. Now, the errors im getting are all SASL authentication errors and i cant understand...

I need to manage languages in a website, and this is the structure of the URL: www.mysite.com/en/displaylist www.mysite.com/fr/displaylist I want to rewrite the URL so that the language is not in the URL path, and sending it as a GET variable, like this: www.mysite.com/displaylist?lang=en...

Suggest some server management software to make better result on server load.... And share the features as well along on the software....

Hi, I'm used to working on a Apache2 server where I could use htaccess to set up things such as custom error pages and am trying to apply the same practice with a web.config file on IIS7. I think the problem is my lack of understanding of IIS7 setup in general. I have a server set up using...

I've got a site with a temporary redirect to a directory on my site while we get a new host set up. www.travelproductsinc.com redirects to mysite/tpi/index.html (a landing page). My problem is that links to internal pages on the old site break. Ex: google link:...

Hi all, I currently run a small IRC server (irc.website.com). irc.website.com resolves to 10.20.30.40. The IRC server has the following stuff in it (/home/website): ircd/ logs/ public_html/ services/ passwd (linked in .htaccess)

I'm a novice web designer and I want to leverage browser caching to increase page speed, but I haven't found many tutorials online that a beginner like me can understand and that really tell me exactly how to do it. I have many images on my website and I want the pages to load faster and I want...

I have a page called site.com/directorylist.php and I'd like users to be able to access it with site.com/directory/ or site.com/directory. I imagine that would be done in .htaccess, but just how is a mystery to me and google searches all reference far more complex tasks with regular expressions...

Hi, I'm working with Magento and I tried to install the Campaign Monitor extension, but that didn’t work. Got the error: Now, the webshop and plesk is not working anymore! Got this message when i go to plesk: something to do with the mysql server?

This link: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#include shows that apache allows files to be included in it's configure files, but it did not work when I tried it in .htaccess. Does anyone know if it's supposed to? In one site I put this in .htaccess: Include...

I've set up a SVN repo and use it with web addresses. Somehow over the last month I've made an Apache conf change and the address isn't protected. Any recommendations on what would override and undo permissions? Thank you for any pointers! #httpd.conf: <Location /svn> DAV svn ...