Questions tagged [webserver]
A server which provides documents and applications through the http/https protocol
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How do I get a static IP address for my teapot?
I maintain this teapot:
It returns a 418 error when it is pinged, and it is pinged regularly by people arriving from the relevant Wikipedia page. (For those interested, and there appear to be a few ...
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How do I get Apache to follow symlinks?
In my apache www folder (/var/www on ubuntu 10.10) I have:
mydir -> /home/user/mydir
(that I created with ln -s)
Now, if I want to see a listing of the files in mydir from the web, I have to ...
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Extremely simple web server for Windows? [closed]
A few years ago I used a super simple free web server for Windows.
The only thing you had to do was copy an exe to a dir, double-click that exe, and - voilá - that dir was now accessible over HTTP.
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Force Chrome to open URLs as URLs, instead of searching
I have a local Apache server running, which is defined through /etc/hosts as "apache". So I often open pages like:
http://apache/website/
Normally, this works fine. However, since I am using a more ...
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How do web-servers "listen" to IP addresses, interrupt or polling?
I'm trying to understand the lower details of web servers.
I am wondering if a server, say Apache, is continuously polling for new requests or If it works by some sort of interrupt system. If it is an ...
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Do servers hold one website only?
As from what I understand the DNS link the domain name with the IP address of the server the website is stored on, does that mean each server can only hold one website? If they don't, how does calling ...
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PID:4 using Port 80
I was trying to install Zend Server CE on my computer but when I got to the point were I need to choose the port for my Web Server it says: "Web Server Port: 80 Occupied". So I decided to check what ...
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Can I detect what webserver a website is using? [closed]
Is there any program or command that I can use to detect what webserver a website is using? With webserver I mean in software i.e. IIS 6, Apache or nginx.
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How to manually install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows?
How do I install Apache with PHP support and the MySQL server on Windows without using any ready-to-use packages like WAMPServer or XAMPP ?
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What makes a PC able to be a web server and what makes it unable?
I have a question about using a computer as a web server. Why can a certain computer be a web server? What features make it able to be a web server? Is there any case where a computer is unable to act ...
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How do I stop httpd running under Mac OS X (10.11) El Capitan Server?
I am using OS X El Capitan with the Server (app) configured to allow me VPN access to my home network. Unfortunately, the Server app has decided to start a bunch of httpd processes, which are now ...
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How can I set up a 'local' domain so that everyone on my local network can view a locally hosted site?
I want to set up MediaWiki on one of my home machines, and then have all requests made on the local network for 'wiki.home' or 'wiki.local' point to that box. I know that this can be done by editing ...
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Access internal IP using public IP
I have a DSL modem with a public IP address (201.206.x.x), and I have a web server in my internal network (192.168.0.50).
I set up the modem to forward requests to port 80 to my web server, so, if I ...
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How do CDN (Content Distribution Networks) work?
Taking Akamai as CDN. From what I understand, when a client requests a page, the request goes to Akamai central server, which then depending on the location of client, picks up an Akamai edge server ...
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The easiest way to serve a page to localhost on OS X
I have a page that I need to serve on localhost for the fonts to appear properly.
What is the easiest way to do this (on a Mac)?
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Is it possible to host a web server from behind a NAT
My PC is behind a NAT router that has a public IP address. If I want to host a website then I believe I need a domain name which I can purchase from some site which would pledge to resolve all DNS ...
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How can I pass my Windows credentials in cURL?
I'm writing a script that uses cURL to pull data from an internal web server. I can explicitly use --user combined with --ntlm and everything works well, but I can't get it to recognize whomever's ...
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Why does the percent sign in a URL cause an HTTP 400 Bad Request error?
I stumbled upon this by accident when mistyping the URL for a web page in my web browser.
Why does visiting http://example.com/% cause an HTTP 400 Bad Request error to be thrown? Is the server ...
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Is this an attack or something to be concerned about? Shellshock?
Saw this in the access.log on my test server :
173.45.100.18 - - [26/Sep/2014:07:09:53 +0200] "GET /cgi-bin/hi HTTP/1.0" 404 490 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \"cd /tmp;...
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Can a single server be associated with multiple domains?
If I own the x.x.x.x webserver, can I make two separate sites on x.x.x.x/one and x.x.x.x/two and give them two different domains?
How will it handle internal links in the case (es. x.x.x.x/one/foo/...
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How do I host multiple physical Web servers behind a single IP address?
I am running multiple web servers in my house, each of which is plugged into my router.
Server A Server B Server C
I currently can only use one server since my IP (xx.xxx.xx.xx) port 80 is pointing ...
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How do DNS servers work?
I know that a domain name is resolved by a DNS server to an IP address, which is then used to reach the requested server. I'm slightly embarrassed that I don't know some of the details of how this ...
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Implications of using a laptop always-on as a server
I assumed that there would be a lot of information on this on both the Web in general and on Superuser, but to my surprise I can't find direct answers to these questions about using a laptop as a ...
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Nginx: Serve static files out of a given directory - one level too deep
I'm pretty new to nginx configs. I'm having some difficulty with a pretty basic problem. I'd like to host some static files at /doc (index.html, some images, etc). The files are located in a directory ...
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How to send an HTTP request for a certain domain name to a specific IP address?
For testing purposes, is it possible to circumvent DNS and send an HTTP request for a certain domain name to a specific IP address?
For example, let's say you are building a website for example.com ...
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How to browse a website which allows directory browsing but has a default page?
There is a website which allows directory browsing; I know this for sure because I can browse directories where there is no default page.
There is a directory which I want to browse, but it instead ...
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Feeding contents of a text file as command to telnet
With the command telnet docs.python.org 80, I can do a manual HTTP request to http://docs.python.org/2/license.html, by typing the actual request.
Now, instead of typing it in live, I'd like to feed ...
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UFW Deny not really working
I tried to block an IP address from my server using the command:
sudo ufw deny from 15.15.15.51
I restarted the server and checked the rule with:
sudo ufw status -v
Which returned:
To ...
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Virtualbox: How to access web server on guest OS from the host OS?
After a lot of RTFM'ing and reading forums, I am still having problems and need some advice.
I use Virtualbox on Ubuntu and installed a Centos server as a guest. My problem is that I cannot access the ...
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How to allow other computers on the network to access my virtual web server?
I use Windows 7 as a host OS. I have Debian 6.0.4 installed on VirtualBox with lighttpd.
I can easily access the web server from my machine by typing http://localhost in the browser address panel ...
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Bare bones HTTP server for linux with resumable file downloads
I have a Windows user I want to share a large file with, they have Firefox with I understand supports resumable HTTP file downloads, and I have Ubuntu Linux, but limited disk space and such, so I don'...
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Is there any freeware for remote access via web browser? [closed]
I have a PC at home which I want to access from a web browser at school.
I looked for many software solutions but they had at least one of the following problems:
Not free
Need to install client ...
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Can I access a remote web server over an SSH connection?
I recently set up a remote server, which I have running the bare minimums currently. I set up OpenSSH and can access the machine through one of my domain names (using an A-type DNS record). I also ...
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Can a Telnet server detect the client being used through the protocol?
While web browsers send, among other things, the User-Agent string, does the Telnet protocol have a similar method of determining anything about the client connecting to it? OS? Specific Telnet client?...
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Can static websites be viewed without a server?
Really basic question, but I'm hoping to get some clarity here.
Let's say I have a static website with some html, some css and basic javascript. No web app to back it up. When testing the website ...
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How to have multiple servers on one IP address
I am having trouble figuring out how to have multiple servers (that do different things) on one IP address. I would like the subdomains to point to different applications. Let me give an example of ...
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Point dynamic IP address to domain automatically
I want to move all my projects from Shared Hosting to a personal server, basically a server in my home using my 200Mb Fiber connection.
The first problem I have is my dynamic IP address. It can ...
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IIS 7.5 Windows Authentication Not Working in Chrome
On a new installation of IIS 7.5 I have setup Windows Authentication on my Intranet.
The providers I have used are 'NTLM' and negotiate in that order.
This works fine in IE and Firefox but in chrome ...
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How can I make my home PC a web server?
I am running Apache Tomcat on my PC. My PC is connected to a router in my house and the router is connected to my ISP. Now I want to run a server on my PC so that my friend can view my site hosted on ...
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How to choose open port number?
I installed easyPHP and opened a port on my firewall so that other people can access to my webserver. The default port is 8888. But I am wondering how do you choose a port number? Is it really ...
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Do you need a static IP address to setup a Web Server?
I'm thinking of getting a virtual server with a Linux Debian operating system.
Now, does a Web server need a static IP address to register to the DNS server and point the location?
or how would you ...
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How can I get web server information about a page I'm viewing (e.g. Apache or IIS, Windows or UNIX)?
When I check pages for broken links using Xenu's Link Sleuth it usefully lists information about the web server, OS and PHP version
e.g.
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8j PHP5.2.9
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How to change listening port on webbserver IIS 7?
How do you change the port to which the webbserver IIS 7 is listening for incoming traffic to whatever portnumber?
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How can I open listen ports on an Amazon EC2 instance?
I'm using Amazon EC2 micro instance with Ubuntu 11.04 on it (official AMI by Canonical). I have created a new security group for this instance:
Inbound:
22 (SSH) 0.0.0.0/0
80 (HTTP) 0.0.0.0/0
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VPS compromised? Configured wrong?
I've been renting a VPS for half a year now (educational purposes) and I've been trying to learn as much as possible about keeping it secure.
Recently, it was compromised and I suspect that it has ...
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Running a web server with an encrypted file system (all or part of it)
I need a webserver (LAMP) running inside a virtual machine (#1) running as a service (#2) in headless mode (#3) with part or the whole file system encrypted (#4).
The virtual machine will be started ...
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How do I find out if I am behind a firewall?
OK, so I live in an apartment that offers me internet, but I have no idea through who, or what type. I have all of my computers running through my router, that is plugged into the Ethernet port in my ...
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How to set up multiple websites on a server with one static IP?
I have a server which has one static IP address (let's say it's x.x.x.x). How can I set up multiple websites on this server?
What I can think of is creating multiple website and publish them through ...
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Why does apache write its own process ID in httpd.pid?
I am new to Apache and debugging issues caused by it. I have come to understand that when Apache starts up, it writes its own process ID in httpd.pid in a human-readable format as explained here.
I ...
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How to connect to computer without a static IP?
Is it possible to connect to a computer without a static IP?
I used before a remote desktop software that allows this, but I now wanted to setup a PC to run like a web server, mostly for development....
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