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Ubuntu vs Debian for server
What would be a better choice for a web server, Debian or Ubuntu?
I mainly use Python & PostgreSQL with Nginx and sometimes PHP & MySQL.
What are pros/cons of each?
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How can I start the python SimpleHTTPServer on port 80?
I am using this command on Ubuntu but it is starting on port 8080 and I don't have another server running so I'd like it to start on port 80. I saw ways that you could set up a bash script to do ...
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How do I create web pages in my home directory and have the web server serve them in my web browser?
I have recently installed the Apache web browser in my Debian Squeeze (using command tasksel and selecting [ ] Web server). Now I get it to start via sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start and then I go to my ...
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Does fail2ban offer any additional protection to SSH if password login is already turned off?
I’m setting up a Debian VPS on Linode to use as a public web server, and I’m following their security suggestions.
The last suggestion they make is to install fail2ban, to avoid dictionary attacks on ...
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Why is lighttpd saying “unknown config-key: accesslog.filename”?
I have created a simply vhost on Lighttpd web server and put these lines on the .conf file.
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
accesslog.filename = ...
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Openstack for home cloud hosting
I am experimenting with a couple of technologies that I soon may have to use at work. So for now, I was thinking about duplicating the environment which I may have to create for my office at home so ...
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Quick way to host a webserver on localhost
I'd like to make the contents of a folder available at http://localhost:PORT/, temporarily. A very basic http server.
I already know about,
$ python -m SimpleHttpServer
or ( this seems like the ...
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Help me choose the right distribution for learning and hosting web apps
I'm coming to Linux from the Windows world, and I want to learns the ins and outs of the system in order to make it my primary day to day work and hosting environment.
I'm pretty much a complete ...
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Installing Debian without GUI for a web server
I'm unfamiliar with Debian (obviously), so I downloaded the live ISO thinking it might help me out. From the live GUI, I doubled click on the install icon on the desktop and proceeded - it gave me a ...
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How do I fix the error 403 I am getting with XAMPP while I am using mod_userdir?
I am running Arch Linux and I decided to use XAMPP so I can create and test web pages. Anyway, I followed the instructions given in the site and extracted it to /opt/lampp and I also uncommented the ...
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How to host an intranet website inaccessible outside the LAN?
I am a Linux/Unix noob, so please bear with me. Here is my situation:
I have a server (Debian Squeeze) on a LAN. I have installed Nginx web server on it. The server has Internet access to download ...
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How to configure permissions to allow apache to securely have access to a file in a shared environment?
This is a follow up question from my previous, but I felt it might be more Linux based.
http://serverfault.com/questions/414207/how-to-set-linux-permissions-to-allow-apache-to-have-access-to-a-file
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Give permission to view files
I am new with servers and I started learning about Cloud servers. My server has Debian.
I installed apache, php, and vsftpd and I added users with adduser <user>.
Then I gave permission:
ln ...
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How to configure permissions to allow gedit, apache, and an IDE play together?
I'm using plain Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 and installed my lamp stack using lamp-server. I am trying to use Netbeans as my IDE.
Currently, all virtual hosts are being run from /var/www/vhostname -- but as ...
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Getting started with Slackware as a web server
I'm wondering what would be the path for an Arch user to get into slackware hosted on a VPS intended to use as a web server?
I like the approach that Slackware takes (like Arch), and the fact that so ...
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Installing php-cgi under Ubuntu for Cherokee web server
I have set up Cherokee web server on my server, and want to enable PHP and MySQL support for applications like Wordpress and phpBB.
I have tried running these commands:
sudo apt-get install php5 ...
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How to access web server running on Palm Pre from another machine?
I have a Palm Pre, and I've installed my webserver on it, it listens on port 8080. It works, when I open 192.168.1.104:8080 on the Pre's browser (that's the IP address of the device, I've failed with ...
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Creating a public document directory for a normal user
We usually see personal web pages like http://a-site.com/~someone/, in this case, "someone" is a user of "a-site". How to enable this by default, so whenever we add a new user "foo", then ...
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Moving a root directory to a separate partition
I'd like to create a new partition and move the contents of the /var directory to it for the security reason of having /var/www and other subdirectories "mounted" with nosuid, noexec, and nodev ...
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Linux program running on Ubuntu machine but not on Unix webserver
I've downloaded the command-line program "Whitaker's Words" which was available for Linux as well as Windows etc.
There is a main program named words. I tried to execute it on my Ubuntu (11.10) ...
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How can I secure an OpenBSD-based Apache webserver?
I have an OpenBSD server that has a running webserver (the built-in apache web srv).
How can I harden this setup? I want to only server static html files, no php, no sql.
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Linux advice for datalogging machine
I've been asked whats the cheapest/easiest/most reliable way to use Linux as a webserver/mysql DB machine. Is it going to be buying a really old PC and putting Linux on it or what i'd rather do is get ...
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Run an application under Tomcat
I have an application that needs to run under Tomcat.
I have installed Tomcat but I don't know where can I put the directory of the project.
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“error: no such device” at boot in Ubuntu Server 11.10 with Raid1
I have a configuration of 4 HDD's as Raid1 2 pairs of 2 HDD's. First Raid1 pair is for system, so I just made an 40GB space for swap, and the rest of it for the root, the second pair of Raid1 is for ...
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Trying to create tunnel to mysql through SSH
Im in a bit of a bind here. I have a client that want's me to set up his website, but he runs the server w/ SSH and CentOS 6.2 as it's OS.
Now, I'm trying to add the sql server on Mysql Workbench for ...
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How to add another domain to my chrooted named server
Firstly I successfully have a domain working in a chroot named. There are files in /var/named/chroot/var/named called mydomain.com.db and named.local and named.root.
Also in /var/named/chroot/etc ...
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Specific directory permission for one user using sftp
My web server structure looks like this:
/Home/User/Public_Html/Website_one
/Website_two
/Website_three/Directory_one
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How to access my Mageia web server VirtualBox guest from my host system web browser?
I have installed and setup a guest Mageia 2 on VirtualBox which I plan to use as a development web server. My host is Windows 7 (64-bit) and I want to access the web sites from this host web browser.
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Simplest way to set up multiple subdomains to separate VMs running on single host
Problem:
I´m planning to set up several virtualized centos, rhel or ubuntu guest machines on a single centos host server (most likely using KVM). Each guest VM is running an instance of a webapp + ...
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netcat in shell script giving invalid connection
I have a shell script that uses netcat to listen to localhost on port 1111 for web requests. Every time I try accessing localhost:1111/index.html for example I get:
invalid connection to [127.0.0.1] ...
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How can I monitor the load of a php script on a server?
We've got a website on our dedicated server which seems to be causing problems.
Recently it has been crashing our dedicated server - it's very annoying. It will crash at random times. The tech ...
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Permission Advice for Webserver
The Linux box I'm managing is used mainly as a web server. The owner of a site wants to give a new user access to the site so that they can do some work on it. I've created the user account (vinod) ...
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Fedora 15 doesn't automatically launch the browser when server starts up?
When I start up the ring jetty server, Fedora 15 doesn't launch the browser as it does in Fedora 14. Instead, it launches a new window in which I couldn't see the address bar and other stuff. ...
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How do you write test cases for a web server that uses posix sockets? [closed]
I know how to test it experimentally by running the program, but ideally I would like to test each function I write as I write it. Usually I can't test my functions until I write a whole bunch of ...
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redirect web server with no-ip and port forwarding in livebox
I want my Apache web server running on a Livebox (home router appliance running Linux) to be accessible from the Internet (WAN).
I installed and configured the application noip2 on my Ubuntu PC. ...
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Web front-end to find/grep/ack
In my lab, we are trying to build a web that allows the user to enter queries for find, ack, grep on a specific directory. The web would return an HTML with a table of a list of clickable files (click ...
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Cannot Access Webpage from Outside LAN
I have a CentOS 6.0 web server running httpd, mysql, php, and Joomla 2.5. It has a static, public IP address. I can access the webpage (which is the Joomla management console) by IP address perfectly ...
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Owner & Group setting for OpenCart install on CentOS 6.3
I'm setting up a development server on a HP microserver with CentOS 6.3. I'm relatively new to Linux and have ran into some issues/confusion. I have the server fully setup/updated with yum. It's a ...
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Is there a way to find out which webpages are being accessed by clients on a UNIX webserver?
My web server is running CentOS and every time a certain page is accessed on my forum, httpd locks up and I can never seem to pinpoint the exact file.
Is there any way to view the pages that ...
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Problem with bash script executed from website
I have just begun writing scripts in bash and I am putting some of them on my web server (whihc is located on my virtual Debian 6.0.4 machine).
I have installed lighttpd on this machine.and when I ...
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What can I use to monitor and log incoming/outgoing traffic to/from remote hosts?
I run a web server (Debian Squeeze on a VPS), and the graphs provided by the hosting company show consistently that around twice as much traffic is incoming to the server compared to the outgoing ...
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How to start a webserver with systemd?
I copied this this file (vokabel_daemon.service)
[Unit]
Description=Start vokabeltrainer daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/home/mm/lib/vokabeltrainer/box_vokabeltrainer.pl daemon ...
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Backup from remote server
I'm a novice so go easy. :) If it makes a difference I'm using Ubuntu/Debian machines.
I want to back up our dedicated web server to a local location in-house. This is for many reasons - I know that ...
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How to “get” a HTTPS website running?
I have a website serving several pages that can be reachable via HTTP.
How can I make these sites available via standard HTTPS? (not self-signed). What are the steps? (go to a CA, and then?)
Can ...
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How to “set” this home network mesh up
I don't know much about networking security other than keeping unused ports closed is good. This is what I'm trying to accomplish:
I need to be able to keep my server (the dotted line) with limited ...
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Run a simple http server locally on a non-80 port
I have access to a Linux server with a non-root user. What I need is to run a simple, HTTP server that will not listen to port 80, but to a different port.
I'm looking for the most easiest and ...
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Partitioning for Web Servers
I was curious what some general best practices are in relation to partitioning for a new Linux VM that will be used as a web server? Are there certain guides that should be consulted or followed? ...
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Where does my web server serve files from?
I want to put files on my Arch Linux file server so that others can download them via HTTP. Where under /var should they be placed?
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Apache 403 Forbidden on sub folders?
I can view all files in the root directory (/var/www) but as soon as i enter a sub directory (eg /var/www/test) i get a 403 Forbidden error. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.01.
Have tried searching for ...
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Which is better for product level web server: RHEL/Ubuntu Server/Debian/CentOS
We are planning to setup a linux based web hosting solution, which should include an HTTP server, SMTP server, mongoDB and Java. We want to understand which distribution is better for this purpose.
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