Questions tagged [webserver]
A server which provides documents and applications through the http/https protocol
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Is it possible to host a web server from behind a NAT
My PC is behind a NAT router that has a public IP address. If I want to host a website then I believe I need a domain name which I can purchase from some site which would pledge to resolve all DNS ...
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Port Forwarding not working in DSL Router
I am using BSNL BroadBand connection and a DSL Router is provided that can act as a Default Gateway to many wireless devices. One such device is my server. I have bought a static ip on lease. So that ...
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Force Chrome to open URLs as URLs, instead of searching
I have a local Apache server running, which is defined through /etc/hosts as "apache". So I often open pages like:
http://apache/website/
Normally, this works fine. However, since I am using a more ...
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PID:4 using Port 80
I was trying to install Zend Server CE on my computer but when I got to the point were I need to choose the port for my Web Server it says: "Web Server Port: 80 Occupied". So I decided to check what ...
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How do DNS servers work?
I know that a domain name is resolved by a DNS server to an IP address, which is then used to reach the requested server. I'm slightly embarrassed that I don't know some of the details of how this ...
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How do I host multiple physical Web servers behind a single IP address?
I am running multiple web servers in my house, each of which is plugged into my router.
Server A Server B Server C
I currently can only use one server since my IP (xx.xxx.xx.xx) port 80 is pointing ...
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How can I make my home PC a web server?
I am running Apache Tomcat on my PC. My PC is connected to a router in my house and the router is connected to my ISP. Now I want to run a server on my PC so that my friend can view my site hosted on ...
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Apache is slower on other computers on local area network than on localhost
I have few computers connected into network. There's a server inside that network which hosts WAMP (Windows + Apache + PHP + MySQL). There is Windows 7 x32 Pro installed on it. I can ping that server ...
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How can I set up a 'local' domain so that everyone on my local network can view a locally hosted site?
I want to set up MediaWiki on one of my home machines, and then have all requests made on the local network for 'wiki.home' or 'wiki.local' point to that box. I know that this can be done by editing ...
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Access internal IP using public IP
I have a DSL modem with a public IP address (201.206.x.x), and I have a web server in my internal network (192.168.0.50).
I set up the modem to forward requests to port 80 to my web server, so, if I ...
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How to send an HTTP request for a certain domain name to a specific IP address?
For testing purposes, is it possible to circumvent DNS and send an HTTP request for a certain domain name to a specific IP address?
For example, let's say you are building a website for example.com ...
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Feeding contents of a text file as command to telnet
With the command telnet docs.python.org 80, I can do a manual HTTP request to http://docs.python.org/2/license.html, by typing the actual request.
Now, instead of typing it in live, I'd like to feed ...
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Can I serve a website on any port I want to?
I am building a web-server. Can I send web documents through any port I like, or are there limitations?
If so, what are they?
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How do I check the checksum of a download and why should I?
My memory isn't great but I think five or six years ago, when I downloaded some package, there was never a checksum line under the download icon on the webpage. And no instructions to "check the ...
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linux setting a server to static ip and server name
I have written an app which will run on a server. I have little experience with network configuration and such things.
Now I have set-up the server and everything works how I want however I want 2 ...
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