All, I had a question on hosting.I have Pages that are written in php or JSP and is hosted on a server .And if a user enter say http://x.com in the browser, the main.php or main.asp page will be displayed.My question is there a way to hide the extensions.. Thanks........... ...
I'm building a VERY simple web hosting service that will cater to the ma and pa type small business. Now my dilemma is whether I should built it from scratch or use an existing CMS. The CMS needs to be customisable, as I wish to build my own client. I only want the user to have to put a title and content. Everything else will be hidde...
Title: Rotate Homepage Image (for website)- No longer works. I am a physicist/wildlife artist with a website (I created in 2002) to display & market my artwork. I have set it up with an underlying (homepage) image map - having links to: "tigers", "leopards", "birds", artist info, etc., with the overlying image changing (swapping out) ev...
I looked this up on Google, but wanted more opinions before I committed to either service. Has anyone had experience with either (or maybe both) services? Are there any advantages or disadvantages that stood out about either one? Particular areas of interest are: Security Stability Scalability. Price ...
If you are handling all your own licensing(working under a BizSpark license), is it possible run Windows on an EC2 instance marked for Linux/Unix? I am considering migrating a dedicated server I have to EC2 but was not able to find guidance on this. I have been told that you get complete control over the instance to install whatever ...
Forgive me if this is a stupid question. I am running XAMPP (lite) for developing my website. I can access it through http://localhost/mysite I wanted to view it on another computer (just for testing purposes), so I went to whatismyip.com, got my ip address, and tried to access the site from another computer using http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx...
I'm wanting to use DB4o on an asp.net MVC project i'm working on but wondering if anyone has got this working on shared hosting plan, have contacted discountasp and asked them and they said go to the forum as they were not sure if they supported it or not or any configuration that would be needed. but the forum wont let my post on becau...
I was developing a small WAMP web application on my laptop, where I have an instance of mySQL running and I chose InnoDB for my DB engine. After several weeks' development I wanted to make it available to the public and found out the database server provided by my web host does not support InnoDB, only MyISAM. The create-and-populate sc...
Hi all, I use windows XP and R for my desktop use. And a shared hosting account (at some company) for my web hosting needs. I wish to create an R web application and I understand that one such way is by using R with Apache through RApache , but since my current shared hosting plan doesn't allow me to install RApache I am a bit stuck. ...
If you are uploading something like Zend Framework using poor internet conneciton it may be problematic. I think the compression of the catalog is the best solution. But what compression system is the best for this task ? We are using PHP, of course. I have some ideas like PHP + exec + unrar and http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.compre...
I am a total newbie in servers/hosting etc, although I have some experience in programming in C,Java,etc. So excuse me if the question is 'absurd'. I recently bought service from a hosting site,namely this(hostmds). I have some code I've written in C++ and I want to run it in the hosting site. So my question is: Is this possible, or w...
Hello, I asked the following question on SuperUser.com and the question was closed. Maybe it should be asked on ServerFault.com. Not sure. But here it is on SO hoping it will get some traction. Hello, I have a wordpress website. It is NOT a wordpress.com website. This website is hosted at godaddy.com This weekend whenever I fired u...
I'm close to picking a Rails host. I think I need a VPS solution, because (1) my Rails app has gems and plugins that I need to install to get it working, and (2) I need an SMTP server to send emails from my rails app out to users. But then it occured to today... 1) Do I actually need VPS and root access to get my app up and running, ju...
Not a programming question, but a question which is uniquely important to programmers. Can anyone recommend a good Java Servlets/Mysql/Tomcat hosting provider. Cost and ease of setup is the main consideration as this is just a demo. ...
In this question a user replied that he was able to override the security settings on a shared host. I'm using the same host, but haven't been able to figure out how to change web.config to allow reflection. Is it a one-liner? I'm using MVC + Nhibernate in my project, but I can't even get an Mvc "new project" template site to work, I su...
I have a web site and a web service and I would like to host them somewhere. I need to use it mostly for testing and so that a some friends who are developing some applications to use the service have access to it. Also the service is using a MS SQL 2008 database. Could you suggest any good free or cheap web hosting service for this. I ...
On my site a user may upload a file (pic, zip, audio, video, whatever). He then may decide to replace it with a newer revision. This user may upload a file, make a post then decide to put up a new revision replacing the old (lets say its a large zip or tar.gz file). Theres a good chance people may be downloading it if he sent out an emai...
I am very interested in building a website using Clojure and Compojure, like so: http://briancarper.net/blog/deploying-clojure-websites However, due to my limited experience with the Java environment and Java culture, I am not sure where to begin when shopping for a web-hosting service. Do I simply need to find a service that gives me...
I would like to host a few 3rd party PHP scripts on a Windows server (running in VMware), so I am looking for a way to limit all the users to accessing their own directories (and subdirectories) and prevent them from executing anything on the machine. Port 25 is completely blocked and there is a very low limit on the number of external ...
Well, I know absolutely nothing about the subject, so I really need help. I currently have a website running on google app-engine (Java) and I can't get it to what I want because of app engine's limitations (no full text search mainly). The traffic is low, never reached 15% of the free quota (around 1500 daily pageviews). I also have...