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help for shared web hosting in lan

I have this senario and what i am doing is. Emulating Web hosting service and Internet (in LAN) I have Linux Server which is in private LAN network and other clients in other Lan network connected ...
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SSL handshake failure with Shibboleth

I am using Shibboleth for single user authentication and it needs a ssl configuration which facilitates the user authentication process. Before it was working fine but now I am facing a SSL handshake ...
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How can I block a specific URL on a DD-WRT router?

I've been looking everywhere for this. Does anyone know how to block a specific URL on a DD-WRT router? For example, I want to block website.com/whatever but not website.com, blah.website.com, or ...
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How can I enable URL rewriting on a DD-WRT router?

I would like to be able to add a parameter to certain URL requests that go through my DD-WRT router. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to force safe search in Google, which means I have to ...
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How can I permanently remove a web browser's SSL warning for HTTPS sites that fail to identify themselves correctly?

I'm using Firefox and Google Chrome under Ubuntu 10.04, and get these warnings: I want to add the site's certificate to "somewhere", so that the browser doesn't show SSL cert errors when visiting ...
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Web based voice chat application

I'm looking for a simple server-webclient voice chat software, but yet I only saw "voxli" and it's down. Is there any such software which could be run on a linux based server (raspberrypi actually)? ...
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Has the Unix Philosophy been abandoned in web application design?

The Unix Philosophy encourages the use of small, generically reusable cooperating programs that collaborate with forms of inter-process communication like pipes, fifos, sockets, as opposed to shared ...
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Xen is unable to use URL's to install CentOS

I can't seem to use URL's when using the netinstall for CentOS, I'm installing CentOS on a Xen VPS. I keep getting this error in the terminal window, when I use the URL: ...
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Compress online videos directly with ffmpeg

Can we compress an online video with an http url using ffmpeg directly? If possible please give me a command that can compress online video directly & save on my PC. I am using Ubuntu.
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Need advice for tools to use in everyday workflow [closed]

I am an open source web developer that has decided to transition away from using the Microsoft stack as the center of my everyday workflow and dive into Linux for my primary workstation. As I am new ...
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Getting a website's ip with 'host'?

Why is it that when I run the command host examplewebsite.com it gives me website's ip, but for some websites, when I type that IP address into the address bar and hit enter, it shows me a 404 page? ...
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How to scan websites that are not available [closed]

I noticed that my cable provider isn't allowing me to access certain websites. At first I thought it was just my system, but after checking several other devices (Windows and iPad), I noticed it ...
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Download from dynamically changing urls via script

I want to write a script to download all Walter Lewin lectures from this page in wmv format: http://videolectures.net/mit801f99_physics_classical_mechanics/ However the links to the wmv file for ...
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Online grep exercises?

Are there any online grep tutorials that would feature some online tool for performing exercises? For example, having some predefined text sample and being told what patterns to find and so forth? It ...
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How to use linux tools to verify a site's authenticity

When I go to certain websites where it's important for me to know that I'm connected securely, certain browsers will say that the site failed the authenticity check. Firefox won't say anything, but ...
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Downloading DeviantArt : Favourites, Groups, Gallery…

Is there any command-line Linux tool for downloading user favourites (including subfolders), selected users galleries, groups ? (Preferably with ability to run in incremental mode, to update rip from ...
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Is there a light HTTP proxy I can run without root privileges?

I am on a network where outgoing port 8080 is blocked on most machines (i.e. I cannot access services on port 8080). Some of the machines on the network however do not have this restriction. I would ...
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Download tool needed — with custom headers, resume, retry, custom filename output, and dynamic redirection

Simple problem -- I need a download manager, console, GUI, does not matter. The catch is in the features: custom header -- I have to pass a cookie in order to download (authorization) resume -- so ...
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Proxy software that will decide where to send requests for linux

Does anyone know of some proxy software that is easy to configure thus.... User makes a request Request is sent to clear internet. If website can not be found. i.e. is Blocked by ISP (China) then ...
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How to cache all internet downloads

I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04. How would I go about caching all downloads? And if Linux does not have this built in, then what are good tools for this? Please note that this isn't a browser ...
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command line friendly search engine, for use with Links

Are there any search engines that are friendly enough to be used in Links? Perhaps a google proxy that has no clutter, I find that Google takes a lot of navigating through the mass of links before ...
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Does anybody here have experience in automating some tasks in web applications using curl?

I have some "corporative" systems I have to use at work. Some of them are terrible, with frames, pop-ups and such. I was thinking about automating some stuff using curl or something like that. I need ...
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CentOs Unable to load pages that are on server

I am having a little difficulty accessing pages that are on my server. Under /var/www/html/ I have an index.html page, and when I try to access it from chrome, it times out. The permissions on html/ ...
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Execute remote script with local parameter value

How can I automatize this task? 1) You are at A. 2) You ssh into B. 3) You run a script at B, that needs a parameter known at A. First, I thought perhaps I could send the value when I opened the ...
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Is encrypting your web browsing via SSH to localhost useful?

For example, if I did an ssh -X to localhost and invoked Firefox, would that be enough to be considered safe browsing, like if done on some public wifi?
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personal document management system

I'm looking for a personal document management system that would: track changes in documents in a configured directory tree save new files to a content repository (thus allowing of their versioning) ...
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Virtual hosting a tomcat webapp in Apache on RHEL 5.0

I am in a hosting fix! I have developed a web app for my organisation that allows sharing, interacting, etc. I want to DEPLOY IT ON LAN. BUT... I don't want the end user to type: ...
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Use cookies in curl to set language

I need to curl | grep some data from a webpage but after setting language to English. In a browser, I can do this by clicking on a link. I first get the SelectCulture page and save the cookie in a ...
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Is there a way to have a web browser while no KDE or GNOME is installed? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: install firefox in ubuntu-server edition I'm running an ubuntu machine (server actually) that does not have any user interface installed, only a command line. I was ...
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How to download an entire directory from a webserver?

I want to download the contents of this page for study purposes. How can I download only this directory?
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Is there a web site to search in the file contents of default installations of different linux distributions?

The text string "Network services, Internet style" is found in the first line of the file /etc/services on a computer running Ubuntu 11.04 erik@laptop:~$ head -1 /etc/services # Network services, ...
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Is using cookies from a web-browser a sane rationale for desktop application development?

I am looking at making an application that would make OpenID authentication with desktop clients easy. The rationale is to steal the cookies from the web-browser, so as to avoid having to hard-code ...
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WebGUI for Virtualization?

Are there any virtualizations that can be accessed via a WebGUI too? I mean the administration part is enough on a terminal, but we need a virtualization/webgui solution for "customers". So that ...
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Browser-based front-end to linux

I'd like to ask if anything like this exists. A browser-based tool for looking at a Linux system, managing it, and helping newbies diagnose problems. What I'm thinking of is something like this : ...
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How to change the default web page in Linux Mint 12

I need help with Linux Mint 12. I am trying to change the default web page, so that people using guest-session will open a specific web page instead of Linux Mint's corny default site. Also, please ...
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What command line tools are available for testing Web Service? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Does anybody here have experience in automating some tasks in web applications using curl? There are a number of GUI based tools to test Web Service (e.g. soapUI) Is ...
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How to monitor incoming http requests

How can I monitor incoming HTTP requests to port 80? I have set up web hosting on my local machine using DynDNS and Nginx. I wanted to know how many request are made on my server every day. Currently ...
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Permissions of webserver's root directory

I've had this issue on several setups, and I'm unsure of how to handle it. At first, all of /var is owned by root:root. Clearly I don't want the web directory to be owned by root, so I do chown ...
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HTML5 on OpenBSD?

What do I need to install/configure to make an HTML5 such as Youtube's alternate player page work? Install a browser that's supporting it by default, or I have to do other things to?
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is there anything like this web browser in the debian/ubuntu repositories?

It's been a while since my web-browsing has really suited me. What I would really like is: A javascript-enabled web browser with a tab-based browsing system that can be controlled simultaneously ...
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How to work around missing 'last-modified' headers?

I'm running wget like this: wget --mirror --adjust-extension --convert-links --no-cookies http://tshepang.net -o log-main I get a bunch of these messages: Last-modified header missing -- ...
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Are there any apps that will post to multiple social networking accounts at once?

I currently use Ping.fm to post to multiple social networks at once, but it's been irritating me for a while and I'm thinking of writing a tool to replace it for myself. But I figure it's possible ...
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A tool for checking broken web links

Please recommend a tool that checks for broken links on a web site. not required, but would be nice to have: checks standards-compliance of the HTML, CSS, Javascript, ... displays permanent ...