apache-config

How to support "AddType x-mapp-php5 .php" on my development machine

My ISP requires me to put the following in my .htaccess files: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php But that breaks my development machine. I don't really understand what that directive is for, but I'm sick of commenting it out for dev, and uncommenting it whenever I need to upload a new version. Is there some way of supporting it in dev? ...

Apache loading queue problems

Hello guys, I now have 8GB of ram in my server, so bare that in-mind when making recommendations on how much to up settings. Basically, Apache won't concurrently load more than one page at a time. What the hell could be causing this? This causes real problems when I execute a page that takes a long time to load, no other pages will loa...

Necessary to set ServerSignature and ServerTokens apache config options with Rails apps?

I came across something in one of my rails books that said I should set ServerSignature Off ServerTokens Prod to disable apache from showing server information in production when the app screws up. Is this necessary? The only error message I see in prod is the standard Rails production error message. I never see any server informat...

Have a script to handle http errors.

I would like to have pretty 404 pages, as well as other error pages. I redirected all the errors (400, 401, 403, 404, 500, 502, 504) to my error.php. Apache provides a lot of information in $_SERVER variable. Do you know if there is good a ready script I can use for my error pages? ...

Setting error log filename in apache to include current date

Hi, I'm trying to have apache create a new error log file every day, based on the current date. The default error log filename is something like this: ErrorLog "/logs/error.log" and I want it to be something like: ErrorLog "/logs/error_$year$month$day.log" Any ideas? ...

How can I differentiate mobile users, and why has this not worked?

I have a main site and a mobile site, and am looking at having Apache redirect users based on their reported user-agent as the next step up in providing a better mobile experience. E.g. a user who visits http://jonathanscorner.com/spectacles/ is redirected to http://jonathanscorner.mobi/?url=/spectacles/. At present what I have tried in ...

Apache Port Proxy

I have a non-Apache server listening to port 8001 and Apache listening port 80. I want a certain virtual domain to actually be served by the non-Apache server over port 80. Example Servername mysite.com # Forward this on to the server on port 8001 I thought I could do this with mod_proxy and ProxyPass with something like this. ...

Configure Apache to use different Unix User Accounts (www-data) per Site.

An Apache 2.x Webserver with default configurations from the ubuntu/debian repositories will use the www-data unix account for apache2 processes handling web requests. Assuming that apache is serving two different sites (domain1.com and domain2.com), is it possible for apache to use unix user www-data1 when handling requests to domain1.c...

Apache & JBoss use port 80 at the same time

I have both Apache 2 and JBoss 4.2.3 on the same machine and would like both of them to use port 80. There are several ways I see people doing this mod_jk, mod_proxy, but I'm not sure which one is the best. I don't need any load balancing, but I do need HTTPS. ...

Apache RewriteRule

Hi , I have an encoding problem, using the Apache rewrite rule below: RewriteRule ^/somethingx/somethingy/somethingx_somethingz(.*) /somethingx/somethingy/somethingx_somethingy/$1 [L,R=301] The Rewrite rule works fine but except it is encoding '?' characters in the request as '%3f' characters in the response. Does anyone know why th...

How can I configure Apache to map /talk.html?id=77 to the file that is called talk.html?id=77 ?

I have a web application of a conference that has been closed years ago. There is no real need for the application to be running any more so I'd like to create static pages from the dynamically generated pages. I ran wget http://site.name.org/ and now I have bunch of files called talk.html?id=77 with numbers from 1-300 How can I co...

Php session files have different owners

i have a problem with my session files... if i go to my site directly (www.example.com) then php session files owner is www-data:www-data but if i go do the site via www.example.com/index.php then the owner of the session files is ftp:www-data and the resulting problem is when i want to start the session but the session file allready ex...

Is it possible to have htaccess if else type rewrite conditions and rewrite rules?

I am trying to write an htaccess file that essentially does this: if(requested file == "some-file.php" || requested file == "some-file2.php" || requested file == "some-file3.php") then Rewrite to redirector.php?uri=some-file.php <- substitute requested file without passing any parameters else // existing rewrite conditions from silve...

apache: cgi links lead to a "you have chosen to open foo.cgi", although scriptalias is set

Following this guide on CentOS 5.2, just getting nagios set up for the first time. The main page shows up just fine, but when I try to view any of the pages that should be generated by a cgi process, firefox prompts me to save the .cgi instead, so apache's obviously not understanding that it needs to run the cgi and get back some html f...

How can I alias one directory to my filesystem and a subdirectory of that to a WSGI file in Apache?

I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy to apache/mod_wsgi and Django. Currently everything is working fine with / aliasing my wsgi file, and /media aliasing my media directory. However, I want to set it up so that /media/foo/bar also aliases my wsgi file such that /media/foo/example.txt will serve example.txt with apache, but /media/foo/bar/...

PHPIniDir broken under windows 7?

I had a server running on a windows xp machine using apache2 with php and mysql. I've recently upgraded to windows 7 and have been having trouble getting it to work. Apache works fine and php works, but I can't seem to get it to work with a php.ini file. When I set PHPIniDir to a directory with a php.ini file, the Apache service does NO...

display image form other sever and path display on browser should be mine server

I want to show some images from other sites but i want my own servers url without storing at my end. in code i write like this <img src="http://image.com/ab.gif"/&gt; but on bowser source display as <img src="http://mysite.com/ab.gif"/&gt; ...

Subversion (Svn) Propfind 405 error

I am brand new to subversion and have been told that this is the best thing since sliced bread. I have tried google and I am just drawing blanks on what is wrong and have tried multiple different suggestions. I get the following error The Location information has been specified incorrectly. svn: Propfind of '/svn': 405 Method not all...

What is the mac equivalent of "/etc/apache2/sites-available" ?

I am installing Koha from source. Generic unix directions indicate the following step after sudo make install sudo ln -s /etc/koha/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha huh? My apache2 directory contains no sites-available, only /private/etc/apache2/extra /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf /private/etc/apache2/magic /private...

Is it possible to have a php file in apache operate without an extension?

I have a file http://www.www.com/somefile.php I would like to be able to get to the same file by going to http://www.www.com/somefile But I still need http://www.www.com/directory to open the file http://www.www.com/directory/index.php if, in fact, directory is a directory. This is a typical LAMP setup with Red Hat and Apa...