Questions tagged [webserver]
A web server is a program that responds to network requests over the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
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Host two separate web servers on the same IP
I currently have a Ubuntu web server with Apache setup and running wonderfully, I want to do two things, I want to setup two more boxes which would be on the same WAN address but of course have ...
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How can I host my own website
I have bought a domain lets say it example.com, I also own an Ubuntu 10.04 machine which I would like to use it to serve my personal website. I have deployed the website on my local machine and its ...
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How to access/view local web server via public IP?
Good day everyone. I'm running an Ubuntu desktop 22.04. I'm new to linux world for about a month or so.
I already configure my router for port forwarding.
When I was developing this web app in windows,...
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How to show a non-interactive X session for displaying and periodically reload a webpage?
I have I all-in-one-pc running a webserver. As its display is constantly on, I was wondering how I could use it to display a website in parallel, e.g. the webserver's status page https://localhost/my/...
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How to assign correct permissions to both webserver and svn users?
I've an issue with files ownerships.
I have a drupal website and the "files" folder needs to be owned by "www-data" in order to let the users to upload files with php.
However I'm now using svn and ...
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Crashed my server, how do I find out what happened?
From a remote machine, I ran 100 concurrent requests against my Ubuntu VPS
ab -n 100 -c 100 http://...
And, as I suspected, the server "crashed". I can still ping it, and it responds very quickly (~...
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Apache2 won't start - no listening sockets available - ubuntu 14.04
I'm having some problems with apache2 on Xubuntu 14.04. This all happened after a complete bios failure on the motherboard (now flashed to latest version - so far so good) though it may not be related....
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How would I broadcast a subdomain/virtual name on a local server with people connected to the same network
I have a server connected to the router which has ubuntu 12.04. It is has apache/mysql/php all installed ready to go. the folder structure is like this:
/var/www -- this isnt the root
-/libs
-/logs
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How to create a web interface for my Python script? [closed]
I have a computer in my university office, with Ubuntu on it, ssh running, and Python. I'm connecting on it myself using ssh to run Python programs and see the output. Only command-line output, ...
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how to config htaccess file after enabling mod_rewrite module?
I already install apache2 then i enable the mod_rewrite module like this:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
after enabling i am confused about these lines, i can't understand what to do with them, as far as i ...
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Cpanel like platform
I'm looking for a automated point-and-click hosting platform like Cpanel. Is any free and open source platform and which of them do you thing is the best? I prefer to be free of charge.
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What Updated Web Cache Servers are available (Caching HTTP Proxy)
I am going to install Ubuntu 11.10 Server (And soon 12.04 Server) and wanted to know what Web Cache servers (Caching HTTP proxy) come with Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 to improve performance and reduce ...
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Chrome mistakenly downloads localhost/wordpress pages, but Firefox doesn't
I have Wordpress installed at http://localhost/wordpress
When I try and view a page in Chrome, it downloads the PHP file rather than showing the page. When I view in Firefox, everything works fine.
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How to change the port which Wekan uses?
By default, Wekan uses :8080 (the same port is used by, for instance, Syncthing). When changing this port according to the wiki instructions:
snap set wekan port='3001'
systemctl restart snap.wekan....
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Diff between backups: see permissions, group and owner and sym link differences
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Using only the command line, is it possible to tell if a rsync backup (on a NAS) and the original folder tree (on a web server) are exactly the same? I mean in terms of file sizes, ...
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Web server on local network
I have problem accessing (one of my) web server from my local network.
I have a (Ubuntu) computer that that acts as router, web server etc. That works well, I can access the web server both ...
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Streaming a webcam video to a web-page
I need software which is able to capture images from a webcam and stream them to a web-page.
I already tried a webcam-server, but it uses java applet on the client side for retrieving pictures, which ...
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How do I establish an FTP connection from Windows to Ubuntu Server?
I have a LAMP web-server on Ubuntu 11.10, working perfectly. But now I want to develop my website from a Windows 7 system in the same network.
I want to set up an FTP connection to Ubuntu so I can ...
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Why does my server only uses 3GB of memory
The server has 24 GB of memory and 4 quad-core cpu's.
It runs a busy website on apache/MySQL/php and sometimes gives a message that the server load is too high. When I look at the logs it never uses ...
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how to browse to a local web site from my ubuntu desktop
I run a web server just on my local network on a Windows XP machine using IIS. The main app I created keeps track of all my bookmarks so that no matter which computer I'm using in my home, I have ...
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MySQL (InnoDB) shutsdown same time every day
Ok so recently pushed a large update to my project onto my Ubuntu 14 server.
Up until now it's been stable however since the push at exactly 00:36 GMT each day mysql is killed!! Not ideal as we need ...
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Website is not loading index.php and showing index of folder
As you can see my website has an index.php file but it is not opening it by default.
I have edited /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf. Here is the file's content:
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
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I uninstalled my apache2 from Ubuntu, now I am unable to reinstall it
I Uninstall my apach2 from Ubuntu because it looks not working now I tried to install it again with the command sudo apt install apache2
and I can see the below errors
E: Failed to fetch http://...
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How can I gzip my web directories?
I would like to make a compressed file of my web sites folder and send it to a backups folder, and I can't seem to find anything specific on google.
My web folder is: /home/user/public_html/mydomain....
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Disable public access to my apache2 server
I've just installed apache2 on my Ubuntu 14.04
My server is now accessible from anywhere if the right IP was provided. I want to disable that so that only users within my local network would be able ...
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Problem downloading Rapidshare file (URL encoding)
I installed Plowshare knowing that it can download rapidshare files from terminal, but if there are any parentheses () or brackets [] in the link then it can't download the link.
Can this problem be ...
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File permissions to let web application write files
I installed osCommerce using these instructions. During the initial run, I was asked to point at the MySQL database it should use and set up admin accounts. But to save the settings, it needed to ...
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Is it necessary to activate automatic reboot for unattended upgrade on a webserver?
I’m running a Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS web server. My apps run with docker.
Is it necessary to activate automatic reboot for unattended upgrade on a web server by setting Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-...
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Switching to apache user
Why I can switch to apache user using
su -s /bin/bash apache
But It's not permitted to do that using
sudo su apache
What's the difference between these commands?
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Chrome loads my local hosted website as https instead of http resulting an error (started happening after an ubuntu update)
I have a local wordpress project i am working on, and usually open my website by typing example.dev in the url bar, and my website i am working on displays properly.
I apt-get update and apt-get ...
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How to create an alias for an ip address on a network on ubuntu?
I created a nodejs service (webserver) on a LAN. Now people can only access by typing an IP. We want to type an alias such as "webserver" on the browser instead.
Is this something to set up ...
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Failed to listen on 127.0.0.1:80 (reason: Permission denied) PhpStorm Xdebug
I have been using phpstorm to develop PHP applications in windows. I shifted to Ubuntu because a friend suggested. I recently configured Xdebug with PHPStorm, but I am unable to try it because it is ...
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Storing website files in /usr/share/www/ instead of /var/www/ [closed]
I have just seen the /var/ directory being defined as:
Multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files. A memory-based file system is sometimes mounted at /var.
Whereas /usr/ has been ...
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How do I use .NET on Ubuntu Server?
I have been running a webserver on my Ubuntu server. Now my friend wants me to also run .NET on my server.
How do I run .NET on it? I know nothing about .NET, though my friend is quite good at it.
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Javascript is not loading
Hey,
I've got a problem with JavaScript under Ubuntu, that drives me crazy.
I'm using Gedit for my web sites since I'm an Ubuntu user. When I start a new website I create (usually with the gnome ...
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How can I get Apache to stop showing files and directories on the web page?
I am building an Apache server to work as a http file directory for an application. All is done and working except I can't seem to hide the directories seen when inputting the IP address into a web ...
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Problem running CURL with the dns option
I'm using curl for a while now to debug my non-prod web services.
When I'm using the --dns-servers option, I always receive an error that this feature was not found:
curl --dns-servers ...
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How can I enable encrypted HTTPS for Nginx web server using Let's Encrypt?
As the question asks, for Ubuntu 18.04 how can I effectively enable encrypted HTTPS on the Nginx web server? Specifically, i need to use Let's Encrypt to install free TLS/SSL certificates to enable ...
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How do I install and set up Apache 2
How can I install Apache2, php, mysql and set it up with virtual hosts and preferably Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, and then proceed to install Wordpress on it?
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Apache2 not displaying any messages on restart
When I use the following command to restart apache2 service apache2 restart.
I would usually get the output * Restarting web server apache2 or if there are any errors with it would show the errors. I ...
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Where to find default/ test page for Apache2
I have a VPS running Ubuntu 13.10 and has an Apache2 website, and whenever I go to the VPS's IP http://5.231.37.8 ,I get the default/test page for Apache instead of my website located in /var/www.
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Moving a LAMP set up from 32 bit to 64 bit
I have setup an Ubuntu server 10.10 32bit on an old Dell D610 Laptop for testing.
I have the latest PHP, MySQL and Apache with Wordpress installed.
After the testing is over and once I finish adding ...
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Ubuntu chroot “No such file or directory”
I have a web application where I create some folders on my server and put executables there. Then I try to run them with chroot but I get a message that access is denied there.
I tried chmod -R 777 ...
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How to give directory and file permissions to a web server
I'm a Linux newbie. I'm doing a project that uses the gosmore routing engine. In one of my email to the developer about a certain problem, he replied to me that to solve the problem:
"I think you ...
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Nginx Can't Purge On Ubuntu 16.04
i want to reinstall nginx and i get this error when purge or install.
sudo service nginx start
Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with
error code. See "systemctl status ...
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Notepad++ NppFTP alternative in linux
I know there are questions about notepad++ here but mine is a bit different. I am developing a website and with the NppFTP plugin in Notepad++ I am able to directly connect to the server that contains ...
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Help needed to fix security issues discovered using Nikto on Ubuntu server 12.10
What can be done to mitigate theses security issues found by Nikto on all our Ubuntu servers version 12.10?
OSVDB-2799: /cgi-915/dose.pl?daily&somefile.txt&|ls|: DailyDose 1.1 is vulnerable ...
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ubuntu hang out with this message :blocked for more than 120 seconds
I'm running a virtualMachine on ESXi -- Ubuntu as a webserver -- (apache2 with nginx as his proxy, php, mysql) and services keeps hanging/freezing causing the whole server to be unresponsive. It's not ...
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How to make an Ubuntu Server system accessible over the Internet?
I just installed ubuntu server 12.04 on my office pc with:
Open SSH
DNS
LAMP
I also have following installed and configured:
webmin
PHPmyadmin
proftp
I have set my IP to static in interfaces by ...
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Setting up my www directory correctly
I'm quite new to Ubuntu and Linux in general.
I need to create a my www directory (in /home) and set the permissions/ownership correctly so that any new files and directories created by myself (via ...
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