[us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Mohammed obaidan
Hi, I think I found what I am looking for. Here is a list of such software 1. Apache Console 2. Netloony 3. Webmin (Already mentioned) I got these software from this webpage

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread rui fernandes
Hi Eric, I read the doc and doesn't look bad. I'll give a try and tell you about after. Many thanks. Rui 2009/2/16 Eric Covener : > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, rui fernandes > wrote: >> Ok Eric, >> >> I have no logs to give you ( I really don't know what you want to be logged). >> >> I w

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Mohammed obaidan" > Apache is not for web server admins. what about developers? What about home > servers? What about users that needs a certain web application on their > intranet? do they need to be web server admins to use Apache? certainly not. I am not an Apache admin, but a developer

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Mohammed obaidan
Hi, Wow that is a very technical and helpful post. I think the tool should be flexible Because Apache is flexible. Regarding maintaining a web server with multiple configuration, I think the tool should handle every configuration as a separate item. This will ease things. Regarding that some con

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Mohammed obaidan once stated: > Hi, > > Apache is not for web server admins. what about developers? What about home > servers? What about users that needs a certain web application on their > intranet? do they need to be web server admins to use Apache? certainly no

[us...@httpd] How can I secure my DB credentials on a shared host?

2009-02-16 Thread Sean DeNigris
Hello list! I have an account on a shared host running Apache 1.3.37. I want to secure the DB credentials for my php scripts. I read an article suggesting to add an Include to httpd.conf and set the include file permissions to root-only. However, I'm on a shared host and have no access t

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Mohammed obaidan
Hi, Apache is not for web server admins. what about developers? What about home servers? What about users that needs a certain web application on their intranet? do they need to be web server admins to use Apache? certainly not. Most of the posts here suggests that people here are Apache admins a

[us...@httpd] Serving ClearCase dynamic view content

2009-02-16 Thread ChocMonk
Hi I'm trying to setup httpd so it serves up content from an IBM Rational ClearCase dynamic view. On Windows I use an "Alias /view/ "M:/someccview/" and I can browse and retreive content using "http://host/view/";. Now, when I try the simlar setup on SLES 10, Apache (apache2-2.2.11-1.2) and every

Re: [us...@httpd] Error log entries about CGI script

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:53:13 -0800 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Karel Kubat >> wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Kevin, >> > >> > On Feb 16, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Kevin O'Gorm

Re: [us...@httpd] Error log entries about CGI script

2009-02-16 Thread Nick Kew
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:53:13 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Karel Kubat > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Kevin, > > > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > >> The entries look like this > >> [Mon Feb 16

Re: [us...@httpd] Error log entries about CGI script

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Karel Kubat wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Kevin, >> >> On Feb 16, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> The entries look like this >>> [Mon Feb 16 07:53:53 2009] [

[us...@httpd] mod_cache parameters conditional?

2009-02-16 Thread Anthony J. Biacco
Anybody know a way to make the CacheIgnoreQueryString parameter conditional? For 1 URL I have the query string changes the output, for the other, it does not, so I'd like to turn CacheIgnoreQueryString on for that URL so I only have 1 cached version instead of 1 for every string. Can I use a rewri

Re: [us...@httpd] Error log entries about CGI script

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Karel Kubat wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin, > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> The entries look like this >> [Mon Feb 16 07:53:53 2009] [error] [client 74.6.22.153] client denied >> by server configuratio

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread John Hudak
I apologize...I didn't mean to hijack this thread by stating a personal perception. Should have confined my comments to technical contributions. I guess my point is that in designing any interface, one must consider the complexities (e.g. the numerous interactions possible with the variables) of t

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Octavian Râsnita
I think that we should not discourage anyone that wants to create such a tool. It can be used by beginners that learn how to configure the server with a GUI, then find how the httpd.conf is created, but this only if that tool can do absolutely everything a text editor can do. If that tool can'

RE: [us...@httpd] Problems with redirects...

2009-02-16 Thread Ken Morley
Bob: Thanks for the excellent advice. That resolved the issue. I was mistakenly thinking that the RewriteCond did all of the matching. I forgot about matching within the RewriteRule itself. Thanks again! Ken Morley -Original Message- From: Bob Ionescu [mailto:bobsie...@googlemail.co

Re: [us...@httpd] Problems with redirects...

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Ionescu
2009/2/16 Ken Morley : > Our httpd.conf file contains: > ># Redirects to accomodate PDA's and other tiny screens... >RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "BlackBerry" [NC] >RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.saddlebrook\.com$ [NC] >RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.saddlebrook.com/pda [L,R] > > T

[us...@httpd] Apache/2.2.9, RH Enterprise, mod_rewrite, RewriteRule not working as expected

2009-02-16 Thread Denise Mangano
Hello, I am having some difficulties with the Rewrites in my apache config. I've been at this for a couple of weeks now and I admit I am having a very difficult time with the syntax. I've read the mod_rewrite documentation as well as the URL rewriting guide, but nothing I try seems to be working.

[us...@httpd] Problems with redirects...

2009-02-16 Thread Ken Morley
I'm trying to get our Apache web server to detect and redirect incoming requests from BlackBerry PDAs to a version of the site designed for tiny screens. The URL for the PDA site is identical to the main site, but with "/pda" appended. Our httpd.conf file contains: # Redirects to accomodate

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Krist van Besien
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Peter Schober wrote: > It's certainly not for me. But other than stating the reasons why I > think this is not practical and helpful in the real world, why should > I try to convice others to /not/ write duch a thing? Because "some > things should not be easy"?

Re: [us...@httpd] port 80 + 8080 + SSL (443)

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Covener
> > ServerName www.example.com > DocumentRoot /var/secwww > in addition to Karel' response, you do need mod_ssl directives to actually service SSL on this port. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com - The official User-To-User s

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, rui fernandes wrote: > Ok Eric, > > I have no logs to give you ( I really don't know what you want to be logged). > > I will give you an example (value Mérida): > > http://apacheserver/myapp?param=M%C3%A9rida > > (UTF-8 url encoded) Goes bad! (I don't want to go b

Re: [us...@httpd] mod_authnz_ldap and UTF-8

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Marc Patermann wrote: > Hi, > > Marc Patermann schrieb: > >> How do I get authentication with umlauts to work? >> Is AuthLDAPCharsetConfig the way to go? >> Why does it seg fault then, what do I have to put in charset.conv? > > No hints anyone? :( This a fringe o

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Peter Schober
* Glen Barber [2009-02-16 18:10]: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM, John Hudak wrote: > > DITTO!!! > > In the 'bad old days' of computing, everything was based on a text file. It > > forces one to really understand what is behind the changes. I for one do > > not subscribe to the 'dumbing dow

Re: [us...@httpd] mod_authnz_ldap and UTF-8

2009-02-16 Thread Marc Patermann
Hi, Marc Patermann schrieb: How do I get authentication with umlauts to work? Is AuthLDAPCharsetConfig the way to go? Why does it seg fault then, what do I have to put in charset.conv? No hints anyone? :( Marc - The officia

[us...@httpd] how do I redirect wsdl calls to local disk

2009-02-16 Thread Jones Scott - sjones
I am using apache in our DMZ. It is using mod_jk to redirect all calls to JBoss 4.0.2 I need to redirect the product/1.0?wsdl requests to stay on the apache server. What is the best approach to do this *** The informa

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM, John Hudak wrote: > DITTO!!! > In the 'bad old days' of computing, everything was based on a text file. It > forces one to really understand what is behind the changes. I for one do > not subscribe to the 'dumbing down' of operating systems and certain > applica

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread John Hudak
DITTO!!! In the 'bad old days' of computing, everything was based on a text file. It forces one to really understand what is behind the changes. I for one do not subscribe to the 'dumbing down' of operating systems and certain application via lots of window forms If it were easy, any primate

[us...@httpd] Re: mod_rails: Strange, strange problem

2009-02-16 Thread jimhoskins
I am also experiencing this problem with mod_rails/passenger. It appears that something is putting a line break after one of the headers (content-type in my case), and so any headers after that are treated as content. This problem does not appear when using mongrel/webrick/thin on the same server

Re: [us...@httpd] Error log entries about CGI script

2009-02-16 Thread Karel Kubat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin, On Feb 16, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: The entries look like this [Mon Feb 16 07:53:53 2009] [error] [client 74.6.22.153] client denied by server configuration: /usr/htdocs/10 The corresponding access log entries are like this:

[us...@httpd] [HTTP] Random errors

2009-02-16 Thread Andrew Hole
Hi guys! We are getting randomly a lot of different errors when we try to acess to our website. Sometimes everything works fine and sometimes it doesn't. http 400 - bad request http 504 - gateway time out sometimes appears on browser the following message: "Your browser sent a request that this

[us...@httpd] Error log entries about CGI script

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Running apache 2.2.10 on gentoo linux, with a python CGI script, I'm getting error-log entries although the script runs just fine. The entries look like this [Mon Feb 16 07:53:53 2009] [error] [client 74.6.22.153] client denied by server configuration: /usr/htdocs/10 The corresponding access log

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread rui fernandes
Ok Eric, I have no logs to give you ( I really don't know what you want to be logged). I will give you an example (value Mérida): http://apacheserver/myapp?param=M%C3%A9rida (UTF-8 url encoded) Goes bad! (I don't want to go bad). Meaning bad that the tomcat cluster translates into wrong/strange

Re: [us...@httpd] My apache server stopped doing CGI

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Bruno - e-comBR wrote: > 2009/2/16 André Warnier : >> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> [...] >> You're not saying what version of Apache you are running, but you could look >> up the "ScriptLog" directive. That will leave a larger log of what happens >> when your script i

Re: [us...@httpd] port 80 + 8080 + SSL (443)

2009-02-16 Thread Karel Kubat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kurt, On Feb 16, 2009, at 4:22 PM, KURT PETERS wrote: 192.168.1.40:8080> ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias LOCALNAME DocumentRoot /var/www NameVirtualHost 172.20.30.40:443 NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.40:443 ServerName www.example.com Docu

Re: [us...@httpd] port 80 + 8080 + SSL (443)

2009-02-16 Thread edwardspl
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Re: [us...@httpd] port 80 + 8080 + SSL (443)

2009-02-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.02.09 08:22, KURT PETERS wrote: > I would like to set up my server to respond with the same website for > incoming requests to both port 80 and 8080, but a different virtual server > for 443. I set up something like below, but it seems like overkill. > Listen 80 > Listen 8080 > Listen 443 >

[us...@httpd] port 80 + 8080 + SSL (443)

2009-02-16 Thread KURT PETERS
I would like to set up my server to respond with the same website for incoming requests to both port 80 and 8080, but a different virtual server for 443. I set up something like below, but it seems like overkill. Listen 80 Listen 8080 Listen 443 NameVirtualHost 172.20.30.40:80 NameVirtu

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, rui fernandes wrote: > in schema: > > me -- url with values encoded in utf-8 --> tomcat nodes (ok) > me -- url with values encoded in iso... --> apache ---> tomcat nodes (ok) > me -- url with values encoded in utf8 ---> apache --> tomcat nodes (bad) > > I want thi

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: GUI for configuring Apache httpd by editing httpd.conf

2009-02-16 Thread Krist van Besien
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mohammed obaidan wrote: > Since Apache is used on more UNIX machines than Windows machines, it > seems that the audience here are Linux users and are willing to edit > the file by a text editor without any helping tool. I find the fact that apache is configured

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread rui fernandes
in schema: me -- url with values encoded in utf-8 --> tomcat nodes (ok) me -- url with values encoded in iso... --> apache ---> tomcat nodes (ok) me -- url with values encoded in utf8 ---> apache --> tomcat nodes (bad) I want this last one to be ok! any ideas? 2009/2/16 rui fernandes : > Hi Er

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread rui fernandes
Hi Eric, Thanks for the answer. I am using mod_jk and redirecting everything to be handled by the tomcat remote servers (apache 2.2 is purely doing load balancing for the two tomcat nodes of the cluster). If I call directly my tomcat cluster nodes I have to call with values url encoded in utf-8 w

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread john . enevoldson
Hi, Yes indeed, it was the zoom setting on firefox which was the problem. View zoom reset didn't help but selecting zoom out did the trick. Thanks everyone for your help ! Best regards, John. From:

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:05 AM, rui fernandes wrote: > Hi, > > Just in case people didn't paid attention to the first message, I was > hoping someone knew the answer to this simple apache (2.2) > configuration problem (uri encoding in utf-8 and not in iso..). It's not simple. IMO It didn't incl

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread Krist van Besien
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I wasn't so clear - the difference is in font size not file size. That is probably your firefox remembering that you once zoomed in on that page on that server... Choose view-zoom-reset from the menu. Krist -- krist.vanbes...@gmail.com kr...@v

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Bruno - e-comBR wrote: >> Look for the differences. Also check whether there are any stylesheets >> referenced in the page. If so, "wget" them too. For all returned documents, >> verify that they come in correctly (no HTTP errors). If necessary, repeat >> for embe

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread Bruno - e-comBR
2009/2/16 : > Hi, > > I wasn't so clear - the difference is in font size not file size. > > I've checked the output using wget -SO- and it is identical from both > servers which makes me more > confused. I've cleared the cache on the browser but still get the same > effect. > > Any more ideas ? >

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread john . enevoldson
Hi, I wasn't so clear - the difference is in font size not file size. I've checked the output using wget -SO- and it is identical from both servers which makes me more confused. I've cleared the cache on the browser but still get the same effect. Any more ideas ? Best regards, John.

[us...@httpd] Re: problem with url encoding for apache server as load balancing server

2009-02-16 Thread rui fernandes
Hi, Just in case people didn't paid attention to the first message, I was hoping someone knew the answer to this simple apache (2.2) configuration problem (uri encoding in utf-8 and not in iso..). Thanks, Rui 2009/2/13 rui fernandes : > I have a Tomcat cluster with an Apache Server as load balan

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread André Warnier
john.enevold...@pulsen.se wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone can give me some clues as to why the following could occur: A simple html page looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers. The servers are copies and should have identical configurations (I have checked and this does inde

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread Bruno - e-comBR
2009/2/16 Karel Kubat : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi John, > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:38 PM, john.enevold...@pulsen.se wrote: > >> A simple html page looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 >> servers. The servers >> are copies and should have identical conf

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread André Warnier
john.enevold...@pulsen.se wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone can give me some clues as to why the following could occur: A simple html page looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers. The servers are copies and should have identical configurations (I have checked and this does inde

Re: [us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread Karel Kubat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:38 PM, john.enevold...@pulsen.se wrote: A simple html page looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers. The servers are copies and should have identical configurations (I have checked and this d

[us...@httpd] Same htlml looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers

2009-02-16 Thread john . enevoldson
Hi, I wonder if anyone can give me some clues as to why the following could occur: A simple html page looks different when coming from 2 different apache2 servers. The servers are copies and should have identical configurations (I have checked and this does indeed seem to be the case). The diff

Re: [us...@httpd] My apache server stopped doing CGI

2009-02-16 Thread Bruno - e-comBR
2009/2/16 André Warnier : > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > [...] > You're not saying what version of Apache you are running, but you could look > up the "ScriptLog" directive. That will leave a larger log of what happens > when your script is called. > Don't leave this activated in normal times, because

Re: [us...@httpd] My apache server stopped doing CGI

2009-02-16 Thread André Warnier
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] You're not saying what version of Apache you are running, but you could look up the "ScriptLog" directive. That will leave a larger log of what happens when your script is called. Don't leave this activated in normal times, because it is very heavy on the server (we

Re: [us...@httpd] My apache server stopped doing CGI

2009-02-16 Thread Karel Kubat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kevin, On Feb 16, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: The logs are not much help. The access log shows that the request got an error code, 64.166.164.49 - - [15/Feb/2009:15:46:32 -0800] "GET /hex-bin/board HTTP/1.1" 500 542 OK.. so a HTTP