Forum: Server Management

Hello First off let me explain. I have a server running Apache on it called `chicken`. On this box I have an account that is called `huser`. `Huser` has a one way ssh key to another server called `dog`. I want to be able to click a button on a webpage on the `chicken` server and have a...

I was messing around with the httpd.conf file and other stuff and now when I try to access the server through "localhost" it downloads the file instead of processing it. It works fine with 127.0.0.1 . Please help. Thanks

I have a problem setting up my apache server. Lets say I have a directory (lets call it "protect"), and inside this directory I have a subdirectory ("unprotect"). A problem arises when I want to password protect the directory "protect" whilst leaving the sub-directory "unprotect" unprotected. ...

I've written my first JavaScript. Now I want to use one of those free web hosting sites. Is it as simple as uploading my script and giving out the url they give me? If if helps to know, there will be no data stored on the server, it's just a simple script I want the server to send to people. ...

I have a problem with my apache server, I am trying to create a password protected "htdocs" directory(as the DocumentRoot) and I want to create a non-password protected sub-directory. What happens is: The root directory requires a password as normal, The non-password protected directory...

Hi Guys, I am facing a problem in redirecting a old url to a new one. //this is the old url http://www.abc.com/department.asp?dept=Minimal%20cloth the new url should be http://www.abc.com/Minimal-cloth

I have a problem with my Apache When I am trying to connect to localhost or local IP of my machine I am getting an "Oops! This link appears to be broken" When inspecting the error log I seem to have had a lot of File does not exist: D:/wamp/www/announce errors and a few Client sent...

I run my organization's web site, which gets minimal traffic all year except for about 10 days a year, when we make announcements that a lot of people care about, so the traffic spikes. Most months we'll do 200-300 MB of bandwidth, but at the peaks we'll do 3-4 GB in a day. And most of that...

Hi We have a web portal that is going to be running under a subdomain (e.g. sub.domain.com) If the DNS A record of the parent domain (e.g. domain.com) was changed in error to point at the server IP address, as well as the subdomain A record, would you normally expect the entire contents of the...

I'm using Windows task manager to execute PHP scripts on schedule. To do this I'm using a simply BAT file to run the command. start C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5\php.exe C:\wamp\www\site\test.php arg1 arg2 To testing the cron job I have it updating a text file with the date / time. Running the...

Hi I currently have an .htaccess file and what it does is, when someone types the url http://example.com/username, it calls the user_profile.php page in the backend and shows the user's profile for the username supplied. The contents of the ,htaccess file is RewriteEngine On RewriteCond...

I've written a neat bunch of PHP scripts that create and manage a series of folders for users to access files "securely" with BASIC http auth on the Internet. It creates and manages the .htpasswd and the .htaccess files for each folder. Now I've found out that BASIC is not really all that secure...

Hi there, I used to hire at a webhosting where there was a public_html and private_html folder. What are the differences? And what are the benefits? I can guess it has something to do with access, but Google wasn't my friend :( Thanks, at least for reading

Greetings! I have a fairly typical WAMP development setup on my local machine, but want to get a remote server setup to test-drive my applications and give others' access. Ideally, I'm looking for access via SSH and the ability to use PHP/MySQL features that are often disabled on typical...

I have built some website for local people and received good accolade from them. I would build a site and then publish on their registered domain so they will view and make comment for change. This worked ok because the sites are new and do not have traffic in build stage. I now have opportunity...

I posted another thread in the PHP section here: http://webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=243764 I just realized that its probably not a PHP error, it's probably a server error. http://linksku.com/button.php is loading just fine but http://linksku.com/button.php?url=http://www.example.com...

Hi everyone !! I have a server runs streaming with lighttpd, here is the status legend . = connect, C = close, E = hard error r = read, R = read-POST, W = write, h = handle-request q = request-start, Q = request-end s = response-start, S = response-end 917 connections...

need to check availability and performance monitoring for website and web apps

I have an internal site at the following file path: /home/http/kbmls/ and since /home/http is the document root, the site is referenced as follows: http://bart.johnson.com/kbmls bart.johnson.com is my internal domain (locally resolved host). The default page is kbmlsLoader.py, which is...

I want to set up a backup server so that if my main server crashes, I still have another server to temporarily serve mirrored content.

How to control vistitor if I use password protected directories with htaccess?

From what I understand, if I go to Google, my computer sends signals to Google, telling it to send data back. If my internet speed is 10kb/s (which is obviously isn't) and Google is 100kb, how does Google know to transfer 10kb/s? I'm pretty sure my lines are physically capable of transferring much...

Okay, so basically I have this htaccess file which prevents images from being hotlinked and cached. However, I do want certain images to be cached (like the ones in the /images directory). So how do I get FilesMatch to work only within a particular directory (in this case, /pics)? Stuff from...

I have an .htaccess file which contains the following AcceptPathInfo On Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script py DirectoryIndex kbmlsLoader.py When I point my browser (on my desktop) to http://localhost/kbmls, kbmlsLoader.py is executed. But when I point my browser to...

I've been trying to get SSI's enable on a server I've been working on. It is an Ubuntu 10.10 Server running Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL. The default page loads correctly and soon I will need to deploy it with html includes available. No amount of configuration on my part has fixed this. These are my...