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A server which provides documents and applications through the http/https protocol

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How do I get a static IP address for my teapot?

I maintain this teapot: It returns a 418 error when it is pinged, and it is pinged regularly by people arriving from the relevant Wikipedia page. (For those interested, and there appear to be a few of you, the relevent story is here) It sits on a…
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How do I get Apache to follow symlinks?

In my apache www folder (/var/www on ubuntu 10.10) I have: mydir -> /home/user/mydir (that I created with ln -s) Now, if I want to see a listing of the files in mydir from the web, I have to give apache the directive FollowSymLinks, right? But…
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Extremely simple web server for Windows?

A few years ago I used a super simple free web server for Windows. The only thing you had to do was copy an exe to a dir, double-click that exe, and - voilá - that dir was now accessible over HTTP. The only problem is that I can't find that little…
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How do web-servers "listen" to IP addresses, interrupt or polling?

I'm trying to understand the lower details of web servers. I am wondering if a server, say Apache, is continuously polling for new requests or If it works by some sort of interrupt system. If it is an interrupt, what is sparking the interrupt, is it…
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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 recent Chrome browser, at odd moments the browser…
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Do servers hold one website only?

As from what I understand the DNS link the domain name with the IP address of the server the website is stored on, does that mean each server can only hold one website? If they don't, how does calling the server's IP address know which website I…
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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 is using Port 80 with CMD by typing: "netstat -o…
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Can I detect what webserver a website is using?

Is there any program or command that I can use to detect what webserver a website is using? With webserver I mean in software i.e. IIS 6, Apache or nginx.
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How to manually install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows?

How do I install Apache with PHP support and the MySQL server on Windows without using any ready-to-use packages like WAMPServer or XAMPP ?
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What makes a PC able to be a web server and what makes it unable?

I have a question about using a computer as a web server. Why can a certain computer be a web server? What features make it able to be a web server? Is there any case where a computer is unable to act as a web server?
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How do I stop httpd running under Mac OS X (10.11) El Capitan Server?

I am using OS X El Capitan with the Server (app) configured to allow me VPN access to my home network. Unfortunately, the Server app has decided to start a bunch of httpd processes, which are now listening on ports 80, 443 and others, even though…
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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 access 201.206.x.x from outside my network, it…
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How do CDN (Content Distribution Networks) work?

Taking Akamai as CDN. From what I understand, when a client requests a page, the request goes to Akamai central server, which then depending on the location of client, picks up an Akamai edge server and subsequent requests from client goes directly…
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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 each /etc/hosts file individually, but I want…
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The easiest way to serve a page to localhost on OS X

I have a page that I need to serve on localhost for the fonts to appear properly. What is the easiest way to do this (on a Mac)?
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