server-administration

Advantage 8.1 vs 7.1

I am in the process of upgrading a few in-house applications from ADS7.1 to 8.1. I was told a while back that there are changes in return values of the avg() function as well as some division calculations, but I cannot find any documentation on these changes. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or have a link that explains the detail...

How can I capture the output of remote commands then issue more remote commands?

Hi, I am running a script where it login to a server then executes the command "passwd -n 0 -x 99999 -i -1 debug" for removing ageing of the debug user. If the user debug is not present then I want to create the user debug, change the password it, and then execute the above command for ageing. How can I do? Regards, vasistha ...

Should all sites use SSL by default

We are in the process of moving our web architecture to a new environment. Included are dozens of different sites ranging from almost completely static to dynamic sites requiring authentication and containing sensitive content. Our web server admins have (without any input from the development team) decided to make it a standard in the n...

Installing Libraries on a Server

I'm fairly noob at the using the terminal and doing server administration. I recently "inherited" a Twitter app, and I need to install a Python OAuth library: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_libraries#python Unfortunately, I'm pretty much clueless about how to: download a library to the server installing the library on the server ...

Nginx 502 Bad Gateway error ONLY in Firefox

I am running a website locally, all the traffic is routed through NGinx which then dispatches requests to PHP pages to Apache and serves static files. Works perfectly in Chrome, Safari, IE, etc. However, whenever I open the website in Firefox I get the following error: 502 Bad Gateway nginx/0.7.65 If I clear out cache and cookies, a...