Refers to the software or hardware that make up a webserver, delivering content on a private or public website.
Questions tagged [web-server]
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What are the basics of running a Web Server?
This is a proposed Canonical Question about Beginning Web Server Administration.
Assuming that you are a beginning SysAd, are new to WebOps, or a small team with little or no experienced Web Server SysAd support (and cannot afford it right now),…
gWaldo
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Where should the web server root directory go in linux?
I see that Apache and Nginx both use var/www as their web root - but that directory is not covered in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. I also see some servers with the web root in the /home/username/www directory. So where does the web root go? Or…
Xeoncross
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Test a server for byte range support?
Podcasting with iTunes requires byte-range request support. I'm assisting someone who is having trouble getting their podcast accepted by Apple for inclusion in their iTunes store, and it was suggested that their web server is not currently…
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Site Goes Offline Every Day At Midnight - No One Knows Why
Seems every day a website I manage has been going online and offline between 12a and 12:25a. I have no idea what is causing the issue so I am seeking guidance on where to start. It is a Wordpress based site.
So here is what I DO know:
I have a…
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how do i set up a minimal webserver, that serves only one page on all requests?
A minimal webserver on port 80 would be
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80
but I would like to show only one page all the time called maintenance.html, no matter what page was requested.
The url in the browser should still stay the url, that the…
rubo77
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Http Request Hangs Client Side
We've run a website for several years with thousands of visitors. Very rarely the following problem happens to a certain group of users:
A certain user of that group makes a client side action on his browser (submits a form with POST) and waits for…
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Low cost single-board computer as a web server
I have been researching single-board computers for use as a low-end web server. I want to create some internal web sites that will not have too much traffic (~20 users, occasional use during the day). I have looked at the Arduino Ethernet,…
Jess
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How can I rate limit HTTP requests on port 80?
I have a very simple server running WAMP on a Windows machine, with PHP code which is a simple API for my clients that returns XML. The things is that the hardware is very modest, and if a user calls the link to the API and hits F5 many times (calls…
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Stats about server side languages, server technologies
where to find updated stats about what is the web using as servers (Windows Servers, *Nix/Apache etc) and what are the most popular (with stats and numbers) technologies used for server side programming (php vs asp.net vs python...) and data storing…
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How are your servers organized with respect to the web development process?
I am setting up some servers for website development. I want it to be organized in a fairly standard way. How do you organize your servers for development of relatively small websites, each with a little bit of unique code?
Some details I am…
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third level domain and debian
I have a very basic knowledge of how a web server works.
I wish to learn how to set a third level domains test1.mysite.tld such that it points to a web server subdirectory /var/www/test1/. (www.mysite.tld should keep to point to main directory). I…
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What are the advantages of using a WAS (Websphere Application Server)?
Websphere caused me only pain! A JBoss/Tomcat on Windows works 3000% faster than a WAS on a big pseries server.
Websphere is big, slow and expensive.
Do you know really advantages of using it?
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Centos random slow down
I have encountered this twice, the first time I thought it was just random stuff, so I put the investigation on hold until I encountered this again today.
Summary:
Centos 5.7, sendmail 8.13.8
High CPU usage by crond and sendmail (between 25% to…
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How to setup oracle pl/sql server on local machine?
Ok, so i have Oracle 10g XE running on my windows machine. It has stored pl/sql procedures which generate HTML pages. So I have my DAD configured to listen to localhost at port 80. So i can access those pages. What i need to know is how to open this…
user758411
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Why do HTTP servers not send a single file back when possible?
I'm wondering why HTTP servers do not pack a webpage request to a single file, which would then be read by the browser?
As far as I know, the amount of requests made for each webpage (CSS/JSS/images + HTML output) combined makes loading a webpage…
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