webserver

Why I see another web site at my https addres?

Can anybody explain why I see another web site at my http secure address. I don't have a certificate. I can manage files from folder httpsdocs but cannot access them from web. Also httpsdocs is empty. https://www.innovacube.com/ And base of my problem is Google indexes my https domain but I cannot denny Google Bot. ...

Perl max execution time on webserver

How can I set the execution time of a perl skript on a webserver. Is this analog to php in the php.ini "max_execution_time" or is there another way? ...

Which technology should be used for serving large number of static files?

My main aim is to serve large number of XML files ( > 1bn each <1kb) via web server. Files can be considered as staic as those will be modified by external code, in relatively very low frequency (about 50k updates per day). Files will be requested in high frequency (>30 req/sec). Current suggestion from my team is to create a dedicated ...

suppose GMail has issues, what would Google do?

Today if i login into g-mail.after 3-4 days also i could see my account without logout. If everybody in this world do same thing,maintaining connections in a pool becomes difficult(may be because of Memory constraints).So if an account is idle after 2-3 days i think it is better to disconnect (disconnected one can be used for new connect...

C/C++ CGI on Embedded device, POST, GET, LOGIN?

Hi all, I have here a small embedded device with uClinux. There is a Boa web-server, that supports CGI scripts. I need to make basic dynamic pages. Requirements GET method for navigation POST method for forms LOGIN for authentication I found this page http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html There is described how to implemen...

Changing the Application Path in IIS Developer Express

Is it possible to run IIS Express (Beta from WebMatrix) with a path other than /? There's no documentation so I've copied the default "applicationHost.config" and made the following change to the application path and virtual directory: <site name="WebSite1" id="1" serverAutoStart="true"> <application path="/x"> <virtualDirectory ...

How do I setup WebDeploy on Windows 2003 / IIS6?

Webdeploy is an alternative to WebDav, FTP, and FrontPage extensions. It also acts as an alternative to DFS for replicating websites. I found instructions for configuring Windows 2008, but I'm unclear how to set up 2003 especially when multiple sites / IP Addresses are present. ...

How do I serve and log my current directory with a python web server?

I need to create a webserver that will respond to GET requests by serving pages from a specified folder, as well as log the pages the user is GETting, and the IP of the user. The main trouble comes from me not knowing how to serve the directory listing to the user when overriding the do_GET method. Here is my code so far: #!/usr/bin/...

Ubuntu www-data write and FTP write at the same time

I'm running an Ubuntu 10 web server and have my websites in the /var/www/<user> folder. The owner and group of the files and folders was <user>. This was fine using FTP, however when WordPress tried to access the filesystem it couldn't (as in Apache couldn't). So I changed the permissions of the folder and files to have the Owner as <use...

How to check if background thread is still running (on IIS 7.0)

Context: .Net 3.5, ASP.Net MVC 2.0, on shared IIS 7.0 (integrated mode). I plan to use cache-event trick to create a background "process" that shall download pages over the internet and update local database. I plan to create a background thread, and then check if that thread is still alive (using cache-event trick). If thread dies, r...

nginx and apache web servers

This question is not nginx vs apache. I am more interested in the architectural advantages of NGinx over Apache. As I was able to understand - nginx is an asynchronous, event-driven, web-server which outperforms Apache by a huge margin. Why is this? Where does Apache fall behind? ...

HTTP Webserver with FCGI written in Python?

For a project i need a python webserver (can use C modules if necessary). The basic http server from the runtime is way to simple - at least i need FCGI compatibility for some legacy modules. Is there any other standalone server which is not totally connected to a certain framework like the Zope Webserver? Performance is not really im...

Running lighttpd as a Windows service

Is there any up to date guide on running lighttpd as a Windows service? By googling I've found this forum post from 4 years ago, I just want to be sure there isn't anything more up-to-date or any gotchas I should be aware of, before I spend too much time yak shaving ...

Significance of /dev/null in Web Servers?

Recently I've heard a bit about the implementation (or rather, use of) /dev/null in Mongrel2, as well as other projects. However, I've never seen it explained what this actually means. What does this mean, and why is it good for scalability (as I've seen it be claimed)? ...

Which webserver I should use for a pylons website?

I'm building a website with pylons. When I develop it, I use paster serve to start the built-in web server. But now, I want to publish it to a standalone server, which web server I should use? I hope it robust and has hign performance. ...

Silverlight SSL and WebService

I have recently modified my web service in IIS7 to use SSL. To do this, I have created a self signed certificate and applied that to my web service. I then added https bindings to my site in IIS. I have changed my clientaccesspolicy.xml file to allow https -> <domain uri="https://*" /> Whenever I try to call my service from my SL sit...

how to install blackberry application from my webserver to blackberry mobile

Hi I developed blackberry application. i have the myapp.cod, myapp.jad, myapp.jar and myapp.alx file. I want to install my application from my server to blackberry mobile. What are files are need to the web server. i created the link like http://myserver.com/blackberry/myapp.cod. Buy i cant download and install using this link. It sho...

Is it better practice to add the file extension to an "href" value?

If I have a very simple http directory: default.html info.html contact.html etc... Should default.html link to the other files in the directory, I've always been able to simply use an anchor tag thus: <a href="contact" target="_self">Contact me!</a> Will this always work, assuming that there is only one file in the directory wi...

remote object Url

Hi, Someone know waht this address means ? i know that is somthing with remote object tcp://cikpfdb.cik.ff.com:8095/DataLoaderRemoteObject thanks ...

How can I find where a cached file is being served from?

When I visit a particular site on my laptop through my tethered phone's 3G, I keep getting served a certain broken javascript file. However when I do a force refresh on the page (Ctrl+F5) the most recent copy of the file is served up correctly, so clearly the old javascript file is being cached somewhere (probably on my phone providers p...