Hi, I am researching into the Mac Pro as my next PC (purpose is software dev with virtual test labs etc). I am thinking of running ESX on such a box. Is it possible to scrap the OS and deploy just the hypervisor? A colleague in my company says he runs VMWare Fusion on a Mac (not sure if it is t...

I am using Linux, and was wondering, if I could put LVM directly on a iSCSI target without a LUN?

I have a website where i most many of the programs i host, and im looking for alternatives for publishing ads. I know about google adsense. Requirements are: Control over the ads ( I was ability to block scammer ads, like make 1000$ from the beatch or magicly fix your computer). My site has ov...

I have a squid installation on a ubuntu machine with 100 ip's that I rent as proxies. Problem is, from time to time, squid stops accepting the usernames and passwords (ncsa auth). The server, works, squid is still running but does not recognize the usernames and passwords. It only happens 2-3 tim...

I'm trying to configure an Apache2 + FastCGI + PHP setup and am having some difficulty understanding the implications of some of the configuration. Things are up and running fine, I'm just trying to make sure that I'm getting the most out of it. Some preliminary information I followed the gui...

I'm a developer and I'm currently building a hosted ecommerce solution. One thing the software must do is email customers on behalf of the vendor. However, one of the business requirements is that we use the vendor's email server for all email communication. But since we can't have the web app...

We are looking to install most of the Exchange 2010 roles + App/Web Sharepoint 2010 Foundation roles on one Windows Server 2008R2 VM. The environment is rather small so scale shouldn't be a big issue (we can move/scale up if needed). Are there any technical limitations that may prevent this? Can...

I have an existing basic MRTG setup done using cfgmaker to monitor the traffic of our Cisco router. I'd like to add configuration sections to mrtg to have it monitor the CPU usage (min/avg/max if possible) and memory utilization of the router. I'm not quite sure where to start. Can somebody sho...

I'm trying to explore various virtualization architectures. The ideal 1-server architecture that I'm envisioning is a Linux distribution as the host OS running: 1 or 2 Windows Server guest OSes in VirtualBox HAProxy to load-balance between the two VMs How do I set up proper routing to the VMs...

My squid is shutting down quite frequently. I managed to find something in the logs but nothing to point me to something going wrong. Maybe someone else could read something from this: Aug 8 05:17:53 hostname squid[17932]: Squid Parent: child process 17934 started Aug 8 05:17:54 hostname squid...

There are many alternatives to Microsoft Active Directory (MS-AD) components/services/features, including MS domain controller (MS-DC), but all my searches end up, so far, with alternatives installable only on Linux. Seems like MS-AD is overkill for small 2-5 computers Windows infrastructure (an...

In executing the following command with appcmd: set config -section:system.webServer/handlers /"[name='FCGIEcho’,path='*.exe',verb='*']".ResponsebufferLimit:0 I get the error message: ERROR ( message:Malformed collection indexer; format is [@position,name='value', name2='value2',...]. The @p...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me fairly urgently. I've been trying to get me Centos server back up and running. I did a yum update yesterday which went as planned, but this morning I've found that httpd is dead (I'm guessing on logrotate). I can issue a "service httpd start" and it appears to...

Hello there. I'm a bit of a noob on setting up web servers, but I want to do it right. I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on a VPS and it's currently a fresh install, with a root user setup and SSH enabled. Aside from that, it's fresh. I'm looking to set it up as a webserver for a website project...

Hi I'm preparing a server setup for a dating website who need to be able to process around 5'000 - 10'000 req/sec to the main site. My idea was to do it this way: Server for static content (css, js, img) :: Varnish cache => nginx webserver Server for member photos :: [1] Varnish cache => [n...

I am going to be running a webapp [1] on a VirtualBox virtual machine, and I want to be able to access it (via a browser) from the host, and from another machine on the same network. (That is, on the host browser I type in 1.2.3.4:3000 and get the webapp, on the remote browser I type in 1.2.3.4:3...

Prior to upgrade, the network interfaces were configured with brex_ifconfig statements in rc.conf. After upgrade, this fails. If I log in locally, and do ifconfig from the command line, and then start by hand all the services that failed because they couldn't find a configured network interface,...

When certain individuals send me an email, I get the following error: This is a content alert notification message. The message indicated below is badly structured and could not be fully examined. Message Status : The message has been placed on HOLD - action required How do I ...

I've finished programming an entire social network to replace an old one with already 60,000 users, (well after 6 years),but it has 100-300 users on-line at some times. I was going to start putting different concerns on different dedicated servers. But with this whole cloud trend I think I might ...

Hi all, I am looking for recommendations for a DC in Prague, for hosting a virtualization solution (several hosts, a small SAN, switches, routers) about half a rack with ~20mbps traffic to start with. Does anyone know a suitable DC, or can advise against one maybe? I can see too many options, a...

I am trying to install a Centos 5.5 xen domU using this method: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU It suggests a kickstart config file served by the local apache. I managed to install it on a physical machine , but when I am trying the installation on a virtualbox instance (...

I am having a video streaming website. Which is using Open Source Streaming Server Red5. Is it possible some how to redirect the traffic for rtmp via Apache to the said Red5 server.

Hey Does nginx support ldap authentication? I have just migrated from apache and would like to move all of my authentications which are based on openldap and mod_auth_ldap to nginx. Let me know if that is possible. From this page listing all the modules nginx has, i don't see any mention about L...

I want to share my DSL connection with another computer in my home, I have the modem which has only one port, from where a cable comes out and goes into my computer's NIC. I also have an Ethernet switch having 5 ports. Pleas tell me what to do.

I have a server here on my home, that is accessed via Telnet by some friends(to test sources and to compile some programs when they don't have the compiler), then I have several Windows accounts registered, all with the respective documents folder(C:\Documents and Settings\%USER_NAME%). But they ...

I've found most website attacked by mass DDoS has spike increase in alexa rank. But how about the position in search engine?

Bifurcating the question [1] Can anybody share experience and/or links on running Samba Linux Active Directory Server, like in [2], on Windows workstation (like XP Pro)? What are pro and contra of using Cygwin vs. running Linux in virtual machine for this? jscott wrote in [1]: "Windows, specif...

is there a way to restart the config wizard which goes through the few first steps after you install snow leopard server. is there a way to get that wizard to force run it again at a later date rather than wiping and loading again? thanks.

Hi, I'm looking so migrate some websites to a new server. I have SSH access to the current one but only FTP access to the new one. How can I via Centos and SSH copy entire folders to the new server via FTP? I can log into the new server via the built in FTP client on Centos but I'm not sure of ...

Here's the question... Considering 192 trillion records, what should my considerations be? My main concern is speed. Here's the table... CREATE TABLE `ref` ( id INTEGER(13) AUTO_INCREMENT DEFAULT NOT NULL, rel_id INTEGER(13) NOT NULL, p1 INTEGER(13) NOT NULL, p2 INTEGER(13) DEFAULT NU...

I was looking for a light system developed in PHP and MySQL for equipment maintenance (preventive, scheduling, etc.). We already found http://www.maintenanceassistant.com/ but it needs Tomcat and I don't want to install Tomcat... We have very few equipments so there is no need for a SAP or sothi...

Need third party software solutions to configure, automated backup from one server to another and also to manage and catalog backups to DVD's and/or other removable media. To configure regular automated backups (with restore capacities) of the active directory services database, registry, boot f...

I have configured Sendmail to work with a smarthost by adding the following line to the configuration define('SMART_HOST', 'smtp.ISP.TLD')dnl and after that I issued make -C /etc/mail The mail log shows Aug 8 17:51:23 x3tech sendmail[10677]: o78FpM8q010677: from=XXXXXXXX, size=64, class=0...

I am trying to fix a lot of errros in our old website regarding thing with product pages having multiple URLs associated with a single product. I am hoping that I can use regular expressions in with a regular redirect 301 line but so far I cannot seem to get it to work. Here is what I am trying...

I have an intermittently occurring problem with my application. It is always under relatively high load (10-50 req/second). Most of the time it runs fantastic, with CPU < 10%. Occasionally (about once per week) it will suddenly ramp up to 100% CPU over the course of about 3 minutes and then...

In my DNS settings I have the following settings Priority Host Goes To TTL 10 mydomain.net ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 3600 20 mydomain.net ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 3600 20 mydomain.net ...

I'm helping a friend try and restore a SQL Server database. The hard drive crashed that had his Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 and databases on it. So far he has reinstalled Server 2003 Enterprise and has the MDF and LDF files from the database. How can I tell which updates were applied to the...

We are planning to use a Cisco ASA 5505 as a router in our company. So far we used opnvpn to connect our mobile clients to the company network. Our question is if Cisco ASA 5505 and openvpn work together? And does anyone have a link to an authoritative source which answers this question? Our...

hello, I got a new PC and a fresh Windows installation and like others I like to keep the installation as clean as possible. I mainly develop Asp.net and the web server that comes with VS2010 (Cassini?) is mostly just fine. Occasionally for some project I do need to have IIS so I mostly just in...

I am using open source streaming server Red5 on multiple servers. Which are running behind a bastion host. the world knows these sites as http://site1.mydomain.com http://site2.mydomain.com http://site3.mydomain.com http://site4.mydomain.com To reach the front end server is using Apache Rever...

How can I get a list of the nodes (servers) monitored by HP Openview, either from the gui or from the Openview host server? The nodes are listed on the gui but I can not see how to list all of them: the paste-to-clipboard menu item is greyed out. There are several hundred nodes so writing them d...

I am on ubuntu 10.04, somehow I deleted all the files in /usr/lib/apache2/modules, is there a way I can get them back or set it to default installation?

It seems that the server is limited at ~32720 sockets... I have tried every known variable change to raise up this limit. But the server stay limited at 32720 opened socket, even if there is still 4Go of free memory and 80% of idle cpu... Here's the configuration ~# ulimit -a core file size ...

Ok, so i'm going to set up a new webserver which should be able to be scaled horizontally should the need arise and am currently unsure how to divide up the available RAM amongst the different daemons that i intend to run. NGINX <- memcached <-> Apache ^ ...

I have a FreeBSD machine that I want to also run Windows 2008 on. The machine is currently a file server, which is a role it will need to keep. All of the disks are formatted as BSD FFS and can't be reformatted. There are two approaches I have in mind, but I'm not sure if either is possible. 1) ...

Is their away to achieve the same effect as MultiViews does (ie 'example.com/page' points to 'example.com/page.php') using another setting in the .htaccess file? Either through mod_rewrite or another way? The hosting I'm using does not allow MultiViews.

I have an index.html in public/ that should be loading by default but instead I get a 404 error when I try to access http://example.com/ The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved. This has something to do with nginx and un...

To clarify, I do not wish to limit the number of simultaneous connections, nor do I want to limit the number of HTTP requests. I only want to limit the number of NEW connections per IP. I want to do this because most web crawlers do not have keep-alive functionality and thus they open a new conn...

I have AllowOverride All in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. I added .htaccess with the following code. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] Without this htaccess, I am able to see the web page. but after adding this I am ...

Sorry to ask a n00by question, but do awesome documents describing the first steps with a Debian vServer exist out there in the interwebz? Any kind of tutorial-like documentation for bloody beginners would also suffice. Thanks a ton in advance!

We currently have an SBS machine which also contains Exchange. The thing is, the machine is SLOW beyond pain so we want to reclaim it and host exchange on a virtual instance on a different machine (a proper server). Now, we talked with the local reseller and have acquired all the needed licen...

Okay, I'm on CentOS 5.3 and I'm running an nginx/php/mysql server stack with FastCGI. One of my Twitter apps requires PHP to connect to the Twitter API, which uses OAuth. So I installed the OAuth module with PECL and confirmed that oauth.so was compiled in /usr/lib/php/modules and extension=oauth...

Current Network Senario: 3 WAN connections and Routers (one is a wirless router) 4 Switches (8 ports each) 25 computers 1 Windows server (which is being set up in a test environment) I have 3 WAN connections in the same premises and hence 3 different networks, now I want to join all 3 network...

I'm currently testing iSCSI with Intel Pro 1000 PT DualPort adapter. The performance is pretty well but is it possible to combine both ethernet ports to have a true 2Gbit link for the boot device? Intel documentation doesn't explain this.

Hi guys the entire 2003 server has several websites on the zone that works great! the new one from today is working only on XP and not on 7 or vista any ideas?

I need to replace an IIS FTP server that uses AD accounts for consultants to transfer files to an organization. I would like to slowly migrate away from these AD accounts for security reasons. Whats a good FTPd for Windows that supports: Existing AD credentials (Including user@domain, domain\...

I have found next instruction on how to do that Install packages. Code: sudo apt-get install x11vnc vnc-java Set up a password for clients. Code: x11vnc -storepasswd Open up ports 5800 and 5900 on your firewall Run the terminal command: x11vnc -forever -usepw -httpdir /usr/share/vnc-java/ -htt...

I have Hyper-V installed on a Windows 2008 R2 system. I have 4 IPs and they are assigned as such: the Host machine has one I had 3 VMs with Windows Server 2003 that each took one. I deleted one VM and remade it because I had made the hard drive too small. After the install of Windows Server 2...

I need an mail server running on my web server that will just route email through other email servers. Exchange requires Active Directories which just complicates an otherwise simple setup. What are your recommendations for a self contained windows mail server?

I'm looking for a mail server that will sit on my web server and just route email through other mail servers. Exchange requires a domain and Active Directories and that just complicates an otherwise simple web server setup. What are your recommendations for a simple MTA for Windows 2008?

I need to setup an ubuntu VM as a local webserver. I want to use samba to provide some DNS support. The box is accessable from the browser using the NET-BIOS name 'my.box'. However when I try a subdomain 'something.my.box' no ip is resolved. I don't have a clue about windows networking. I used...

I'm going to add a SSD drives to my ZFS storages as a cache. Anyone has any experience with this? What if cache device dies, will the any data be affected?

Just wondering if anyone could help me, I'm onsite today with the software technician and his piece of "software" is having problems running. The setup is Windows Server Standard SP2, and when he tries to open his .exe the error says: The application has failed to start because its side-by-sid...

i have sent two messages, one from the local server, one from the production environment. the message from the local server goes through, but the production message does not. both messages are identical in content. logs on server show both messages as accepted. here are the pcap files: (local su...