I am following a tutorial on how to install WAMPserver and Wordpress on my Windows machine to kickstart my learning of CM systems and PHP. A crucial component won't install and I don't know nuthin' about how to fix the problem. [more inside]
posted by Foam Pants on Jul 21, 2009 - 6 answers

My new webserver doesn't have Coldfusion so I am hosting my .cfm pages on another server. Can I redirect traffic to these new addresses using a .htaccess file or do I have to have the software installed to even get a redirect on a .cfm page? How would you do it?
posted by Foam Pants on Jun 4, 2009 - 6 answers

Please help a noob with client-side SSL certificates. [more inside]
posted by banshee on May 15, 2009 - 6 answers

Why are some random automated messages suddenly not being delivered through our email server? [more inside]
posted by siclik on May 6, 2009 - 7 answers

Is there anyway with apache redirect's (mod_rewrite with a 301 rule) for the underlying web page to detect the redirect and run some JS or PHP (or anything really) to say, 'HEY USER!!! Ya you! Change your bookmarks please!'? [more inside]
posted by cayla on Apr 25, 2009 - 8 answers

I'd like to learn more about design patterns and designing a maintainable infrastructure for a J2EE web application. Do you have any book recommendations?
posted by smurdah on Apr 17, 2009 - 3 answers

How do I prevent Firefox from adding 'www' and '.com' to local URLs? [more inside]
posted by le morte de bea arthur on Jan 7, 2009 - 7 answers

I'm trying to figure out if a server I'm working on can withstand being linked to by very high traffic websites. Can anyone tell me the basic traffic characteristics of, say, a front page link from: Drudge Report, Yahoo! Buzz, Huffington Post, Slashdot, Reddit, or Digg? I'm using ab (ApacheBench) and I'd like to have some idea of how many requests, and at what level of concurrency, I should be trying to make this server capable of pushing out. Thanks! [more inside]
posted by evariste on Oct 24, 2008 - 5 answers

How do I get a vmware machine to mount a folder on it's host machine? [more inside]
posted by muddylemon on Sep 27, 2008 - 3 answers

VMWare Fusion as dev server: How can I set things up so I can access a web server running under the guest OS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) from the host machine? Bonus points if it can be done without plugging into an ethernet network. [more inside]
posted by weston on Sep 26, 2008 - 3 answers

Is there a simple way to use Apache's ProxyPass directive so that everything apart from a directory beneath the webroot gets passed on to another server? If not, can it be done another way? [more inside]
posted by holgate on Sep 14, 2008 - 3 answers

Apache2 security theory; mod_php versus CGI php and the use of suExec: What is the non-theoretical problem with running Apache2 with mod_php and thus without using suexec on a dedicated system? [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on Jun 10, 2008 - 7 answers

PHP gurus unite! Tell me why my PHP uploads always result in corrupt files and what I can do to fix it! [more inside]
posted by charlesroper on Mar 5, 2008 - 28 answers

We are moving our sites from a WAMP to a LAMP and one of the XML parser classes has gone all haywire. Eeep. [more inside]
posted by foxydot on Feb 26, 2008 - 9 answers

How can I run a web server on OS X without admin access? [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Feb 20, 2008 - 14 answers

Help me understand strange entries in web server log that look like spam attacks. [more inside]
posted by GregWithLime on Feb 2, 2008 - 6 answers

IIS 6.0 Replication/Failover Software Suggestion/Recommendations ? [more inside]
posted by hboogz on Jan 15, 2008 - 1 answer

MediaWiki install: Apache, MySQL, & PHP already on my machine? [more inside]
posted by jjsonp on Jan 4, 2008 - 5 answers

Is there a download manager (php preferably) that can generate "download tickets" for a file? [more inside]
posted by beelerspace on Sep 11, 2007 - 4 answers

What is wrong with our Windows 2003 webserver? The web pages it serves are usually (but not always) missing some of the HTML when viewed on other machines, playing havoc with the layout. What's going on? [more inside]
posted by jarsyl on Jul 20, 2007 - 8 answers

Website admin question: I want to put up a website with about 10000+ charts. I don't mind people copying images, but how can I protect against a site sucker barging in, scooping them up, and killing my bandwidth? I wish I could generate a bunch of static HTML pages with simple IMG tags, but I'm guessing this isn't possible. What might PHP have to offer for protecting my content from site suckers?
posted by calhound on Feb 26, 2007 - 11 answers

Is there a free or inexpensive package for self-hosting a bandwidth speed test on an IIS 6 server? [more inside]
posted by upc_head on Jan 31, 2007 - 1 answer

What kind of internet provider and other stuff do I need to run a website out of my apartment? [more inside]
posted by mrkohrea on Oct 25, 2006 - 14 answers

How to (gently) load-test my home server (linux, details inside) [more inside]
posted by primer_dimer on Sep 8, 2006 - 4 answers

Does anyone have any experience implementing Pound or any other linux-based reverse proxy system? I'm trying to solve a "my website is getting pwnt by traffic!" solution by this weekend.
posted by SpecialK on Sep 4, 2006 - 3 answers

Adding a searchable "store locations" to your website. [more inside]
posted by mrzarquon on Jul 19, 2006 - 4 answers

I need help on learning fancy new web coding techniques [more inside]
posted by forforf on Apr 14, 2006 - 13 answers

I work for a small production company, and we’re looking for a server-side “client-login” solution to reside on our web server for customers to preview rough-cuts and miscellaneous files. [more inside]
posted by dvottero on Mar 7, 2006 - 11 answers

I'm a web server admin and have a university faculty member that wants to do a research project that would involve recording (on a per-user basis) the links clicked on a web site they have created. Suggestions??? [more inside]
posted by spock on Feb 17, 2006 - 10 answers

How can my little wiki survive slashdotting? If it were just static pages, I could figure out how to colocate, but what to do about collaborative content? [more inside]
posted by rwhe on Feb 1, 2006 - 12 answers

What are these __utma/b/z cookies that are suddenly spewing from all sorts of websites? [more inside]
posted by intermod on Nov 20, 2005 - 9 answers

Routers: This may seem rather silly to some folks, but I need a little help in figuring out what my network problem is. (I tried to google around, but i am not even sure what the term is that I should be searching for) The problem is, I am hosting my own web-server and MySQL DB for development purposes, and I have a domain name that points to it. When I am outside my own network I can hit my URL just fine. But when I inside my network, it always try to go to the routers configuration page. Any ideas as how to make sure the router is forwarding the ports correctly INSIDE my network?
posted by countzen on Sep 7, 2005 - 7 answers

Installing PHP package Ming on Debian Sarge? (kernel 2.4.29) I'm getting compilation problems when I'm rebuilding php and I'm a n00b. Can I get some help? [more inside]
posted by Stynxno on Aug 11, 2005 - 4 answers

I've just learnt (after an afternoon of struggling) that Apache's mod_write module doesn't work for embedded media, like a video in object tags. The best response I could get to my problem was "You'll gonna need a more sophisticated solution.". Well thanks. Any pointers? [more inside]
posted by handybitesize on Jul 21, 2005 - 5 answers

I build websites. One of them runs very, very slowly, but only on the client's server. I'm pretty sure it's because their server needs more memory. But I'm a mediocre sysadmin, and I want to be absolutely certain I know what I'm talking about before I blame the hardware for what could be a problem with my software. Help reassure me that I'm not insane. [more inside]
posted by ook on Jul 13, 2005 - 14 answers

Why would requests for other websites show up in my web server's access log, and does it indicate that there's a vulnerability in my server? [more inside]
posted by jacobm on Jun 12, 2005 - 14 answers

Someone has been repeatedly trying to hack into my website. I'm on a windows box, running ASP and an Access Database. [more inside]
posted by quibx on May 9, 2005 - 10 answers

Q for the webserver admin folks out there. I have a few web pages which are dead (old, retired, moved, etc). As a courtesy to some folks who were still linking to them (some dynamically generated javascript) I just left the files in place, but made them into tiny text files, preventing 404s and hanging pages. The question: which is better for the server (cheaper, less intensive) in this case? Serve up a tiny (or blank) text file - or - just delete the files and return 404s to all requests? [more inside]
posted by kokogiak on Apr 27, 2005 - 6 answers

I have run into an unpleasant Apache concurrency problem, whereby the ongoing download of a large file spontaneously and silently hangs ~90 seconds after another request to the server is made. Error logging set at the highest level reveals nothing. Any idea what may be causing this? (Apache/2.0.52, Win2K Professional) [more inside]
posted by Danelope on Mar 10, 2005 - 16 answers

I'm looking for a way to automatically back-up specified directories to a web server under Windows XP. [more inside]
posted by billybunny on Mar 7, 2005 - 3 answers

I'm trying to setup Firefox to stream MP3 files from my webserver rather than download them first. I know about creating an .m3u file with a link to the mp3 to do this but does anyone know an easier way, I'm not going to create .m3u files for 90,000 songs.
posted by Cosine on Jan 27, 2005 - 7 answers

I have a webserver colocated in Los Angeles, where I live. I am moving to New York in a few months and I'm wondering if I should take the server with me. I have a ridiculously great deal at my current facility. How big of a deal is it to have a server in colocation in a far away location? (The server has RAID 1 and hot-swap drives, if that helps.)
posted by 4easypayments on Apr 6, 2004 - 4 answers

What is an easy-to-install fairly secure Windows-based Webserver that I can use to show some static pages (so, no scripting needed) in an intranet. Non-IIS.
posted by vacapinta on Mar 11, 2004 - 20 answers