Date: 11/11/05 (Apache)    Keywords: web, apache

November 7, 2005
-- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Apache Web server upped its market share yet again, crossing the 70 percent threshold last month, according to research firm Netcraft's (netcraft.com) November Web server survey.

http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/110705_Apache_Inches_Over_70_Percent_Mark.cfm

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/26819.html

Date: 10/19/05 (Apache)    Keywords: php, database, web, google, apache

Ok, i am a little new to apache, so go easy on me.

I have an database based website that uses id's to call each page e.g http://www.somesite.co.uk/index.php?id=1

now this i all very nice, but i find that url a little long for me, so i would like to be able to make it into something like http://www.somesite.co.uk/1

now i know this would have implications like if i wanted to sent to a folder past the root, like http://www.somesite.co.uk/images/1.jpg so it would have to have exceptions setup to.

now i have been told that this can be done with a mod_rewrite, but i have spend days pouring over documentation, google hits etc and i have yet to manage to do this. is there anyone out there who has a any clue's?

Thanks for any help

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/26263.html

Date: 10/06/05 (Apache)    Keywords: web, spam

Hi there. I'm hoping to get an idea about what recommendations I can get for stopping spam. Here's my idea:

Does anyone remember Earthlink's "verify" tool? An email is sent to an earthlink.net address, and the sender gets a response saying something to the effect of "thank you for your email, however we must verify your identity, please click here to enter your name and a message to send to the user. If you are approved, your email will be sent."

My hope is that I can find something that I can install on my web server, which currently has SpamAssassin, that will allow me to do this or something similar. I've surfed through and seen some info about certain tools that also help *filter* spam, but I'm hoping to find a way to, I guess, automate the administration of a whitelist of sorts.

Any advice? I'll be x-posting this in various communities and on my personal site.

Thanks :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/26049.html

Date: 08/10/05 (Apache)    Keywords: web, linux, apache

[Cross posted to apache, httpd, linux]

I've been given the assignment to setup dual web servers behind a ServerIron load balancer in an effort to improve the reliability of my company's website. Unfortunately, I have never done this before where I had to deal with https on redundant servers. My question may be quite simple, but I don't know the answer.

How do I get secure certificates for multiple servers with the same common name? Creating the CSR is the easy part, but last time I tried to get multiple certificates for the same common name, it failed as there was already one certificate created for that name.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/24184.html

Date: 01/13/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web

I'd thought I'd ask around, my users are having problems with \\tsclient\c\whatever being very slow, I'm not sure whether its "by design" or I have interfering stuff like antivirus scans etc going on, suffice to say it can take 1 minute or more just to display the content from any folder.

is there anything I can do to speed this up? otherwise users are currently using outlook web access just to transfer files around.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/32005.html

Date: 01/03/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: html, web, hosting, google

I need some iis help here. (or meta refresh/redirect?)

I'm not a web guy by trade, but this thing falls on my lap anyway.

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ok: I just did a domain transfer of mydomainB.com from some china registrar to godaddy.com

godaddy.com doesn't seem to have URL forwarding, only domain forwarding and A and Cnames, mx

(as opposed to the one i use for my own private domain www.domainbooking.com)

I just turned on domain forwarding to point to mydomainA.com/mywebsite but I'm not sure if it will corrupt the mx entries for mail. (which should point to mail.mydomainB.com , in turn A for mail.mydomainB.com = 12.34.56.78)

assuming it does and I reverse the domain forwarding.
then what I have is that my current A for www.mydomainA.com = 11.22.33.44
and my new A for www.mydomainB.com points to 11.22.33.44 as well

but they are supposed to be two distinct websites.

so I need to redirect by url? perhaps on my index.html. those that originate from www.mydomainA.com proceed to index1.html and those from www.mydomainB.com proceed to 11.22.33.44/mywebsite/index.html

I think this falls under the category of virtual hosting, i've been searching google for bit with not much luck.
I'm not sure host headers work for wan/internet domain names, and godaddy/A addressing doesn't quite allow you to specify port numbers either.

to add to the complication, the website is also hosting an exchange outloook mobile access site. so http://www.mydomainA.com/exchange should be accessible.

so how do I do this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/31972.html

Date: 01/03/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: asp, web

How do I instance an ASP2 application from a client machine from within the firewall? Despite that, I wrote it in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, whenever I attempt, it tried to read it as if I wrote it for .Net framework 1.1 and not 2.0. I am calling it over HTTP (i.e., HTTP://pjohnson/website1/default.aspx) where the application resides in a folder in WWWRoot.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/31562.html

Date: 01/10/06 (HTML Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Not sure how many people use Firefox or the Web Developer Extension, but it seems there is a conflict with it somewhere. I noticed that Firefox was not loading when I tried to launch a new instance, however the process was listed in the Task Manager [and using about 53,000 K of memory]. Clicking links in pages resulted in no response from Firefox as well. I asked a friend who also uses FF and we compared our extensions, the two that we both have in common are:

-Tabbrowser Prefrences 1.2.8.8
-Forecastfox 0.8.2.5

Not sure if it is a conflict with one of these extensions, or just a bug with the Web Developer extension. I disabled the Web Developer extension, and everything is back to normal. but I thought I'd let people know incase they are having similar issues :D

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2233650.html

Date: 01/18/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: xml, database, asp, web

I'm working on an ASP.Net page that will need to take information from a database, but the information needs to be multi-line, like a numbered list. How would I either store that or display that properly on the web page? Basically part of the output needs to look like this:

Performance Objectives
Participant will be able to:
1. Explain the value of standardizing and institutionalizing performance management across all of X
2. Describe the characteristics of a strong performance management culture
3. Explain how to use the tools and processes that will enable differentiation
4. Explain pay for performance and base salary administration

Any suggestions would be useful. I'm not sure how to integrate XML with this since this is so database driven. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/54950.html

Date: 01/16/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: xml, asp, web

My boss has given me the task of looking into developing a web form that apparently needs to be read by other programs using an XML feed. He suggested using InfoPath 2003, but I then said "Well, ASp.Net would probably be able to do it too." But looking into InfoPath it looks like it may be a good tool for the job. Has anyone had any experience with Infopath, especially vs Asp.Net? I mean I'm not looking to do the most work possible, but also I dont' want to build it in 1 only to have to rebuild it in another to make sure that it can do everything we need it to do. So if anyone has any experience using these tools it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/54390.html

Date: 01/09/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: xml, asp, web

I recently installed the new visual studio and I am having a bit of a hard time remembering everything I heard at the 2003 PDC about the new features I can use when doing C# development.

I do remeber the following few:
Generics --> has anyone tried this ? Seemed better than having to write your own custom class, is it ?
Parial classes -> omg I love this feature ! I love that the very boring generated code wont be in my file. I like my files nice and navigatable. YAY
The Xml editor is slightly better but doesnt seem blazing fast as promised.
Also I bet some people like not have to use a real web server to test asp pages.

Has anyone tried the team features ? How are they ? Should we get rid of Test Director ?

Thanks !

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/53224.html

Date: 01/09/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: web, apache

At my job we seem to not have the most competant IT department, so in my effort to help rather than criticize I'm looking into ways to help them out. One of the problems that they seem to have is that their web server (which I'm assuming has IIS 6, or maybe 5) will get bogged down to the point where it has to be rebooted. They host a mix of .NET and Frontpage pages. I seriously doubt that this is how things are "supposed" to be, because then Apache would have a great ace in the hole. Anyways since I'm not very good at server administration (and apparently neither are these guys) is there anything any of you can think of that would cause such problems? It seems like there's a problem with resources not being freed up or something along those lines. If anyone has any ideas/experiences with this it would be appreciated. Thank you.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/52938.html

Date: 01/03/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: asp, web

How do I instance an ASP2 application from a client machine from within the firewall? Despite that, I wrote it in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, whenever I attempt, it tried to read it as if I wrote it for .Net framework 1.1 and not 2.0. I am calling it over HTTP (i.e., HTTP://pjohnson/website1/default.aspx) where the application resides in a folder in WWWRoot.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/52694.html

Date: 12/08/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, asp, sql, web

hello all.. ok here's the story...

i know some basic asp .. i've edited a database driven website fro a while.
I'm no trying to create a new site .. thats also database driven.

How do i connect to the server in order to pull info from it?

I tried following the trail from the site i currently update but i'm not sure what i'm seeing here...

Anyone know how to connect an asp site to a sql 2003 database?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/51038.html

Date: 11/29/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: programming, sql, web

Ok this is a weird question that may not be appropriate here but here's my situation: I'll be getting a new computer for Xmas that will be a powerful machine that will be used for 2 primary functions: Programming and Gaming. Thing is that basically I do alot of web programming so I'm going to have VS 2003 and 2005, SQL Server (possibly 2000 AND 2005), and IIS. As you know gaming requires alot of system resources and memory and I don't want to have to go to task manager everytime I boot up to play a game to close off all the programming and server programs. So what I'm wondering is whether or not I should:

A: Set up 2 user accounts on my computer (this is an XP Pro machine) with one for programming and one for gaming that has a modified startup script to disable everything (which i have no experience in writing BTW). I also don't know if this would even free up all the memory that I'd want.

B: Install 2 instances of XP Pro and use a dual boot configuration with one config with all the server and programming tools and one without. HD space isnt' really an issue since I will have a 250 gig hard drive (and likely will be adding more at a later date.) However I'm not very experienced with this sort of setup. I do plan on installing Windows XP 64-bit as well, so I'd have to do the 2 32-bit installations first and then do the 64-bit one. I'm not very keen on dealing with multiple partitions for all my programs, especially if they can't talk to one another (although I bet there's tools that allow you to view on the parttions, like I said I don't have much experience with this.) I know the 64 will require its own partition.

Sorry if this is really "out there" or inappropriate for this community. If someone knows a more appropriate one please let me know. I just figured since there appears to be a decent number of intelligent computer users here that perhaps there'd be someone here who could help me as well. Thanks alot.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/49429.html

Date: 11/21/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, web

I'm working on grabbing data from a database and putting it into a DataGridView. My program starts off with 1 DGV, and I want the program to then go to another page that has 3 DGVs on it, all referencing the "id" field from the previous form. Thing is I don't know how I can grab the id value from the DGV. I cant' find a .SelectedValue or .Value of the selected cell.. also this isnt' for a web form, so I don't think I can just do the hyperlink column with a query string on the end of it/passed value. Does anyone know of a way to grab the value of a selected cell? thanks.

EDIT: Nevermind.. I figured it out. Its DataGridView.CurrentCell.Value

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/48644.html

Date: 01/17/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, web

I am trying to rewrite this fairly simple web site to make it use DIVs instead of tables. The main page is basically about 10 very large images placed one after another, and the user has to scroll to the right to view them all. How would I use CSS to make it so every image is on the same line without using the NOBR tag? should each image be in its own div? do i use float: left?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1045324.html

Date: 01/17/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, programming, mysql, database, sql, java, postgresql, web, apache

I need some advice in regard to which language to use for developing a dynamic website. My wife and I are thinking about creating a LMAO website, which will allow people to organize various LMAO projects. The website will allow users to register, log in, create projects, join projects, upload pictures, and so on. It's not terribly large project, but still pretty complicated for people who haven't done any web development and little programming in general.

The first problem is deciding upon a language to use. The site will, at least in the beginning, run on our server at home, which is FreeBSD running Apache2 (or anything else we want, to be honest. I'm not giving up FreeBSD, though!). It looks like all major languages in the field, including PERL, Ruby (and Ruby on Rails), Python, and PHP work well with Apache, so that shouldn't be a problem. For the database back-end, we'll be using PostgreSQL or MySQL (if we have to), both of which are widely supported as well.

My wife doesn't have much experience in programming, so for her it will be new experience one way or the other. I have some, but still little. The only language I'm familiar with and can actually write something useful in is Common Lisp. There exists mod_lisp and a couple of web development frameworks, TBNL and UnCommon Web, but the process seems hacky -- from what I can tell -- unless one uses a commercial CL implementations that cost a lot.

I've looked briefly at Python and Ruby, as well as asked for opinions from various groups of people (programmers who prefer Lisp, Ruby, or Python), but it's all still looks like mambo-jumbo to me. The only thing they agree on is that one should refrain from using PHP for anything non-trivial, so I'm inclined to believe that. As far as PERL is concerned, I've always had a distaste for it, so am not all that keen on using it.

Could anyone recommend one of these language, or perhaps another one, that would be suitable for our needs? I've pretty much made up my mind in regards to PHP and PERL, so I'm not looking for a debate about why they're good. I also wish to stay away from Windows-based and Java-based solutions.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1045210.html

Date: 01/12/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

I'm the webmaster for my local city government. Because it's a government site, we have to have something that's W3C complaint, or "handicap accessible," if you will. Right now there's a text-only version of the site. However, it's horribly out of date, and quite frankly, it's a pain in the ass. What'd love to be able to do is just modify the main site, cityoffrederick.com, to be complaint, and then can the text-only site.

I've done a lot of reading up on making websites w3c complaint (alt tags for images, good color contrast, etc.), but I guess I'm still not sure exactly what I'm getting into. The site doesn't have a lot of pictures, the design is really very basic, and I use Dreamweaver MX. The layout is done in tables, and I have no idea if that messes up accessiblity or not.

So, my question is, based on what I have to work with, does it make sense to go through and modify each page (there's hundreds of 'em), OR would that be SO much work (or so out of reach based on the current design) that I might as well revise the text-only site and keep that going? I don't mind a lot of "one-time" work to bring the main site up to speed if it means getting rid of the text-only. I guess I'm just not entirely sure whether that's possible with the curent layout and all the tables.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1042058.html

Date: 01/11/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, java, web, hosting

I'm looking for some really good web design books. I've been spending some time at the bookstores lately looking through what they have, and there seem to be a lot of books out there, but I'm not sure which ones are good and which ones aren't. What I'm looking for are some in depth CSS, PHP, and Javascript books that are thorough and easy to understand. I'm also open to any other books you guys could suggest to help improve my skills. I can't afford to take classes right now, and I really learn best on my own so, I figured this would be a good way to go. Also, any good websites out there are fine too.

Now onto the second question.. and I'm sure it's been asked several times so, thanks for any responses.

I'm currently set up with web hosting through Aussiehosts. I've been there for about 3 years now, and when I first got set up I was really pleased with it. I pay about $38 a year for 200MB of disk space (which I'm currently using about 477MB). The company was recently bought out, and I have not been happy with it lately. Email is my biggest problem. Half the time I can't even login to my email, and then when I do I can't actually send any emails. I'm considering moving elsewhere, but I have NO IDEA what some good, affordable web hosts are. I found this one by way of a friend. I've been looking around at different companies, but they all seem to be kind of expensive. I'd like to stay somewhere near that price range, but I'd also like to have more disk space which means I'll need to pay more. So, any suggestions?

Thanks for all your help guys!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1041405.html