Questions tagged [server-administration]

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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…
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How do I keep my Django server running even after I close my ssh session?

I figured out how to run my Django application via sudo python /home/david/myproject/manage.py runserver 68.164.125.221:80. However, after I quit terminal, the server stops running. I tried to run this process in the background, but the server just…
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Benefits of ServerAdmin Directive in Apache2

How exactly can the ServerAdmin directive in Apache2 be useful? The Apache2 documentation reads: The ServerAdmin sets the contact address that the server includes in any error messages it returns to the client. But whenever I get a 404 Error back,…
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Notify Operator if ANY step in job fails

Can I (How do I) configure Sql Server 2008 to notify an operator if any step in the Job fails? I have a Sql Server job with several steps to update data from multiple different sources, followed by one final step which performs several calculations…
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MySQL Workbench: Cannot export a database

I am encountering a problem concerning the export of a database. First of all, I have to clarify that I am using MySQL Workbench 5.2.47. The procedure that I followed so far is the following: I followed the instructions of…
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‘ls’ terminated by signal 13 when using find command

so I'm attempting to run a script which searches the contents of df -h for a directory that exceeds threshold, and basically run a find command on that directory to get the top ten largest files, then stop running find. However, when it gives the…
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How to determine the size of a Full-Text Index on SQL Server 2008 R2?

I have a SQL 2008 R2 database with some tables on it having some of those tables a Full-Text Index defined. I'd like to know how to determine the size of the index of a specific table, in order to control and predict it's growth. Is there a way of…
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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…
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wsadmin + jython restart WAS appserver

Is it possible to stop/start WAS appserver using wsadmin (jacl/jython). I want to detele all caches on profile and then restart WAS appserver. I'm using wsadmin as standalone.
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How to launch an amazon ec2 instance inside VPC using Chef?

This is a question primarily about Chef. When looking into controlling nodes inside Amazon VPC with Chef, I run into some difficulties, mainly that a node that does not have an external IP address is not easily reachable by chef. I went through the…
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Can I safely enable HTTP/2 on a server shared with non-SSL/TLS websites?

I manage a server (hosted VPS) that we use as a shared hosting environment for sites we build for our clients. All new sites we build going forward will be running on HTTPS, but most of the older sites are not configured to support HTTPS. We'll…
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Docker and php-cli

I have installed PHP 7 (php-fpm and php-cli) and my app is working fine with new PHP, but tests (phpunit) don't because some extensions aren't updated yet. So I'm thinking to use/create some docker container with PHP 5.6 that would replace my…
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Is there a way to retrieve EAR from IBM Websphere Application Server Admin Console?

just wondering if we can retrieve the EAR file of an application that was already installed on Websphere Application Server.
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Setting up CDN in a linux server

I'm trying to set up a CDN for my website. I've hosted it in my virtual server on Digital Ocean but I can't find an howto for configuring all the necessary. Have anyone some suggestions?
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Make node.js app work on ubuntu server

I've created a very simple node application, and it works perfectly on my local environment. the app is listening to port 8000 like: var app = express(); // ... some codes in between ... app.listen(8000); and on my local environment I can access to…
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