Web server can refer to either the hardware (the computer) or the software (the computer application) that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet.
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How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
I want to stop having to use sudo everytime I work in /var/www. How can I do that? I simply want to put all of my sites into this directory and work with them without too much pain.
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How to setup a Git server? [duplicate]
I am trying to setup a Git server could. Can anyone tell me how to set up a Git server, so that client machines can connect to that server and make use of Git version control for their projects... ...
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Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to “/var/www”?
Having installed the web server is there a simple way to set a user able to use the graphic interface to copy files and directories to the local web server /var/www
I gave myself administrative ...
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What is the best way to add files to a website on a LAMP Server?
I have just installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 with a LAMP setup. I want to host a website there but I'm not sure which is the best way to get/edit my files on the server. Googling provides many options ...
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How To Auto Add To /etc/resolv.conf? [duplicate]
On Ubuntu 10.04 Server, you can edit a file and it will automatically add a nameserver to the /etc/resolv.conf on boot. Unfortunately, Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop does not have this feature that I'm aware ...
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How to install updates via command line?
Good day,
When I log into my web server via SSH I see the information:
88 packages can be updated.
80 updates are security updates
I tried apt-get update then apt-get upgrade but each time I log ...
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Remote administration of a server?
I'm going to install a ubuntu server to provide email, ftp and maybe webserver services too.
I dont want to install a gui for the server, but I'd like to administrate it remotely.
I was thinking in ...
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Custom Apache 404 page
I want to customise the 404 page of my Apache Webserver on Ubuntu to something other than the general:
Not Found
The requested URL /***** was not found on this server.
...
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Can I use a desktop install as a server?
I'm new to Linux and Ubuntu is my first distribution. I have chosen Ubuntu because I want to learn more about Linux.
I'm under time constraints and need to setup a server as soon as possible. I have ...
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Recommended workflows for Apache virtual hosts?
I do a lot of local web development work on my Ubuntu machine, and I'm constantly setting up virtual hosts in Apache. I don't need to do hard core server management, but I am getting tired of the ...
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2answers
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How to make Jetty webserver listen on port 80?
I would like to use Jetty as a webserver.
I have edited the configuration file at /etc/default/jetty and set:
# change to 0 to allow Jetty start
NO_START=0
# Listen to connections from this ...
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Is it easy to install Apache web server on Ubuntu desktop?
So I have decided to build a Ubuntu computer, for now I am going to dual boot with Win7, and then install apache web server. Figured I would give the whole web thing a try.
Did some searching but ...
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Recommendation of web server admin control panel (free, open source, deb package)?
I'm looking for:
a safe/secure web admin control panel for a web server
preferably free and open source
in official repositories or at least with regular updates and an easy way to update to newer ...
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1answer
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How do I access Ubuntu server running in VirtualBox from outside
I have installed Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS on my laptop via VirtualBox.
I have installed LAMP,OpenSSH, Mail server.
As I logged in, I ran ifconfig. It gave me the inet address as 192.168.0.3
So, this ...
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“allrequestsallowed.com”… Hack attempt?
I have many attempts on my (small, personal and absolutely unimportant) web server, and apache and fail2ban usually do their job right. But there's a log entry that worries me:
xx.yy.www.zzz - - ...
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1answer
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If a company is using ubuntu on its servers/dektops, does it have to pay?
a friend of my friend has started a small firm and given me the responsibility to erect all the IT infrastructure required? I'm basically a windows guy that too on the developer side. But recently I ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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How do I set up an Ubuntu server as a secondary DNS
The company I now work for specializes in web development. They are currently selling clients packages where they develop web applications for them to help automate certain business tasks for them. ...
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2answers
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How to get apache to serve a site via VirtualBox?
This tutorial taught me how to create an Ubuntu Server (12.10, 64-bit) VM in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host machine, install Apache and have it serve a site from a dummy domain accessible via the host ...
5
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Benefits of using Squid proxy in Ubuntu Server
What are some of the benefits of installing Squid Proxy in an Ubuntu Server that is sharing its Internet connection to a group of PCs in a LAN.
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1answer
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How to install icinga on Ubuntu 12.04 & Monitor remote host?
How to install latest icinga & icinga-web on Ubuntu Server 12.04 & How to monitor remote hosts ?
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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 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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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 I can turn off unknown webserver (Apache probably)?
I want to start XAMPP Apache server but it terminal it says that another web server daemon is already running. So I want to find out how to turn off it or so.
When I go to localhost I get following ...
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2answers
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My user can't upload files to folders owned by www-data
I think I have screwed up my permissions in Ubuntu.
I am using my server to run PHP. I recently ran across a problem where PHP could not create directories in the var/www-directory, so I searched ...
3
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1answer
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Renaming localhost
By default 127.0.0.1 has the localhost alias.
I found several approaches to changing it to a different string, but what is the standard, effective and safe best-practice way of doing it?
Can I give ...
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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 ...
3
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1answer
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How can I host a website in a virtual machine?
Before you shoot this down, please let me explain what I mean....
I am running Windows, I also have a virtual machine installed that is running Ubuntu. I want to set up a website on Ubuntu (the ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 have no knowledge about .net though my friend is quite good in ...
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HTTP(S) based file server
I've got a server running Ubuntu 10.04. I've already gotten openssh for ssh and sftp on it.
I've been looking for a web-based (http, or preferably https) file server, perhaps a web-front-end to an ...
3
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1answer
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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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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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2answers
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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 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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1answer
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Ubuntu 12.04 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot() Keep user jailed
Before you close this out to repetition, I have been researching all of the proposed solutions to this bug and so far I have been unable to keep a FTP user jailed to their website directory. While I ...
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1answer
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Is LAMP strictly for development purposes? [closed]
So basically, is LAMP strictly for development purposes or is it fine for production websites as well? I ask this because I have recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows and if LAMP is anything like ...
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What is “GFI WebMonitor Secure Download”? and how to disable it?
Please help me to disable it! it offends me while downloading via Web browsers.
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1answer
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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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How do I copy files that need root access with scp?
I have an Ubuntu server to which I am connecting using SSH.
I need to upload files from my machine into /var/www/ on the server, the files in /var/www/ are owned by root.
Using PuTTY, after I log ...
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4answers
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How to know what program is listening on a given port?
I suspect a program is listening on port 8000 on my machine.
When I run the following command, I get that error:
> python -m SimpleHTTPServer
# Lots of python error
socket.error: [Errno 98] ...
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How do i set up a webcam server for HTTP?
There used to be a package webcam-server, but it is no longer there. I would like to be able to view the picture from a Logitech USB webcam in a browser in a different computer in the same network. 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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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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Best solution for a team home server
I created a home server with Ubuntu 12.04 Server (using an old Netbook with an Atom CPU and 512Mb). The idea is just to be used for a small team (maximum 10 persons) that will have constant access by ...
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2answers
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Creating a Web Server [closed]
Here's my problem in a nutshell:
I have been given an old computer (Windows 2000 for now) and I need to install an Ubuntu OS (I'm thinking about Ubuntu Server), Moodle and perhaps a website.
After ...
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Change XAMPP's htdocs web root folder to another one
I'm trying to change the XAMPP's web root default directory /opt/lampp/htocs to another one like /home/me/Dropbox/public_html without success.
I've edited the file /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf
# old ...
