web-server

Website Partitioning and URL space.

My website is growing. I need to partition feature sets to different group of servers instead of having all features run on a single server copy. I have 8 identical servers in a Windows Network Load Balancing setup. The problem is: I need to keep the URL space the same. What would be a workable solution? I don't want to start new domain...

Not able to run ASP.NET web app using Development Server

My development machine (Vista) was working perfectly fine for over a year and then suddenly (without explicitly installing anything) I am unable to run the websites using ASP.NET development server. The development web server starts fine, but IE cannot display the page: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Firefox says ...

Can IIS serve Most Frequently Used static files from RAM?

Can I set up an IIS server so that it will cache the most frequently used static files (binary) from disk into RAM, and serve from RAM on request? Update: mod_mem_cache in Apache Caching Guide seems to be what I'm looking for. Any equivalent thing in IIS? Thanks. ...

ISAPI proxy authentication problem on IIS

Hi there, i’ve got an “public” IIS “in the front” and another “private” IIS “in the back” of an network. I’d like to proxy http requests through the “public” IIS to the “private” IIS – and using ISAPI-Rewrite ( Version 3.1.0.62 ) it almost works. The problem is the authentication – I configured the “public” IIS to enable anonymous acc...

Which should I create: an Apache server extension, or a server from scratch?

Briefly, I need to create a server whose back end queries information from another server. I'm wondering how others might approach this problem. Here's a longer description of the problem: I need to create a server (call this server Alpha) that makes requests to another server (call this server Omega) based on web pages that are reque...

What is the optimum duration for a web crawler to wait between repeated requests to a web server

Is there some standard time duration that a crawler must wait for between repeated hits to the same server...so as not to overburden the server. If not, any suggestions on what can be a good waiting period for the crawler to be considered polite. Does this value also vary from server to server... and if so how can one determine it. An...

C# Web Server: Implementing a Dynamic Language

I've just finished writing a web server in C#. Its pretty basic and only serves static content like html, xml, and images at the moment. I would like to implement a dynamic language, however. I'm trying to choose between one of the following: ASP.NET PHP Python I'd prefer to implement PHP or Python because I am much more familiar wit...

c code for web pages in rl-rtx

we have to work with RL-RTX (RTOS) in our project.in that we have to do some web pages.we have experience in building web pages in linux using "go-ahead webserver". can we code in c language and store that executable in .cgi extension and call from the browser? please tell us. ...

ASP.NET Development Web Server broke

I had VS 2005 with v2.0 of the framework. Then I installed NDoc recently and that supports only v1.1, so it installed v1.1 on top of v2.0. That is fine because both versions can co-exist but what it did was screw up some settings with: a) The web server that comes with ASP.NET, the one you run your web services on in debug mode. b) SQL...

Difference between serving single resource to many vs. many resources to many?

What's the performance difference between a web server serving the same file to 10 people vs. 10 different files to 10 different people? ...

How would you optimise/simulate 'random' loading of large image files?

We use large background images (hi-res photos, up to 700 KB) for our page design. It's part of the experience of the site that as you browse around, you see different images. At the moment a different (random) image is loaded on each page request, from a pool of ~15 images, which could grow over time. I'm looking for a sane way to opti...

Tips for developing a web server.

After doing some search here, I found next to no questions on developing a web server. I'm mainly going to be doing this for two reasons. As a side project and to learn more about developing a server program. This is not going to turn into a usable application, more of a learning tool So the questions are simple. Have you developed...

How to set the allowed url length for a nginx request (error code: 414, uri too large)

I am using Nginx in front of 10 mongrels. When I make a request with size > 2900 I get back an "error code 414: uri too large". Does anyone know the setting in the nginx conf file which determines the allowed uri length ? Thanks, Prakash Raman ...

Which is the most reliable web server to work with RoR in production or development?

Mongrel, Thin, Webrick, Passenger... Wich one is the most effective solution to put a RoR application in a production environment? Which one is the most flexible, and easier to install and setup under Windows for development environment? ...

How many connections/how much bandwidth can Apache handle?

This is a request for pointers to good documentation/good articles. I'm looking for information on how many connections an Apache server can reasonably handle, and potentially how to load balance between multiple servers. I've done Google searches but it's harder for beginners to judge what are good docs. ...

About keeping track of disk space in web server

Hi. May I ask is there any recommended tools for keeping track of the disk usage on a web server? And is there any special things that I may need to consider for choosing a tool for monitoring disk usage on a server? THanks ...

Resin Restarts when class files or Servlets are uploaded.

Hi. When we upload a .class file or a servlet to the server, the web server restarts. This does not happen when we upload a JSP. Is there a way to configure Resin so that it dynamically loads the class without restarting the web server? ...

list contents of on-line folder with restricted access (and how to prevent this)

Hi all: I restricted access to my Internet folder, e.g. http://www.my-domain/my_folder/my_sub_folder/ So that, for anybody access is denied (403 Forbidden message) If I provide someone with a direct link to one of the folder's files, it is possible to access it from anywhere on the Internet, e.g. http://www.my-domain/my_folder/my_s...

Should I place Jquery files on my web server or just refer to them via jquery.com in my PHP files, which is better?

When I use Jquery or its plugin, should I just add <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/jquery.validate.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Or should I download both files and upload both to my web serv...

Difference between application server and web server?

May I know the differences between application servers and web servers? Please list examples of each. ...