Re: [users@httpd] Apache Performance Question

2015-07-23 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, There is a limit on the number of concurrent connections that Apache will serve. See if you can find the 'LogLevel' directive in your configuration and then set it to 'info'. Apache will then print warnings in your error log if you're reaching those limits.

Re: [users@httpd] apache suddenly wont start

2014-08-28 Thread Philip Wigg
On 27 August 2014 14:50, Matthew Smith chedders...@gmail.com wrote: I have the latest version. I have ColdFusion 11 installed. CF is working and it will start with CF. I made a change to allow override all and it wouldn't start. I changed it back and it still wont start so i dont think

[users@httpd] SSLRequire thread safety

2013-12-02 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, I'm going to use SSLRequire using the worker MPM. The docs say, The implementation of SSLRequire is not thread safe. Using SSLRequire inside .htaccess files on a threaded MPM may cause random crashes. Does this mean that I'm okay with threaded MPM if I'm only using SSLRequire inside

[users@httpd] Trusting a single certificate with SSLCACertificateFile.

2013-10-30 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, We want to set up SSL client authentication and we will only have a single client that we want to allow through to the website. Is it possible to allow just a single certificate to authenticate by just specifying that one cert in SSLCACertificateFile? i.e. without specifying the CA cert

Re: [users@httpd] Debugging mod_rewrite

2013-08-01 Thread Philip Wigg
On 1 August 2013 03:13, C. Benson Manica cbman...@gmail.com wrote: Apache creates the log file I specify, but logs nothing to it even when processing rewrite rules that I know work. What in the heck am I missing? Where do those config lines need to go? Are the working rewrite rules

Re: [users@httpd] Listen on one port, but act as if on another

2013-06-06 Thread Philip Wigg
It is possible that you are looking for:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#usecanonicalphysicalport On 3 June 2013 09:33, plot.lost plot.l...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to configure apache to listen on one port (for example, 450) but to act as if it is listening on a

Re: [users@httpd] Currently facing some reverse proxy issues

2013-04-10 Thread Philip Wigg
Try removing your ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives from inside Location directives and just put them directly inside your VirtualHost Then use them as detailed in the docs:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass i.e. something like:- ProxyPass

Re: [us...@httpd] How to block IP addresses to the whole server?

2010-03-16 Thread Philip Wigg
On 16 March 2010 15:31, Je suis la poubelle laps...@gmail.com wrote:     Thanks to all for your replies.  For the record, location is the best option for me.  This is the solution I use: edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to add the following section: Location /  Order Allow,Deny  Deny from

Re: [us...@httpd] Number of https virtual hosts support under v2.0.59

2010-03-12 Thread Philip Wigg
On 12 March 2010 16:43, Ruiyuan Jiang ruiyuan_ji...@liz.com wrote: Hi, Krist I tested with Apache 2.2.15 reverse proxy with two certs on the Apache, one is real cert and the other is self-signed. The configuration is virtualhosts for ssl. The results that I got are: On PC client:

Re: [us...@httpd] Worker inside ProxyPass

2010-03-11 Thread Philip Wigg
On 11 March 2010 11:28, Milan Tomic tomicmi...@yahoo.com wrote: I have in my htpd.conf: VirtualHost *:80 ProxyPass /Context1 ajp://localhost:8008/Context1 ProxyPass /Context2 ajp://localhost:8008/Context2 /VirtualHost if I say: JkMount /Context1 worker1 JkMount /Context2 worker2 Is

Re: [us...@httpd] Worker inside ProxyPass

2010-03-11 Thread Philip Wigg
Thank you very much for your help. My problem is that one Tomcat runs out of resources and then HTTPD also stop forwarding requests to other Tomcats. I'm using only ProxyPass, without JkMount: ProxyPass /Context1 ajp://localhost:8008/Context1 ProxyPass /Context2

Re: [us...@httpd] How to block IP addresses to the whole server?

2010-03-11 Thread Philip Wigg
On 11 March 2010 14:42, Je suis la poubelle laps...@gmail.com wrote: By going down all those conf files and reading from the web, I understand that I could write deny from a.b.c.d inside every Directory ... section I could find in order to block access to IP address a.b.c.d  

Re: [us...@httpd] rewrite rule

2010-03-11 Thread Philip Wigg
On 11 March 2010 15:56, Richard Schoenig richard_schoe...@picis.com wrote: So here is the issue I am having now I have separate servers I am trying to set this rule up on so that if a n=1 or an n=2 it accesses server 1, and if an n=3 then it accesses server 2 The rules I have setup are on

Re: [us...@httpd] RE: mod_proxy_balancer back end status check

2010-03-10 Thread Philip Wigg
On 9 March 2010 23:01, Edward Quick edward.qu...@igindex.co.uk wrote: Further testing showed this succeeded when the server was busy. The balancer marked the member's status as Err. However later after firing continuous requests, the backend ran out of memory, causing it to return a 500, and

Re: [us...@httpd] myriads of access to unknown pages on my server bring my server down (DOS?)

2010-03-10 Thread Philip Wigg
On 10 March 2010 13:34, peter pilsl pi...@goldfisch.at wrote: My apache was slowing down big time today morning and when I looked at the logs I realized that I've approx 10 page-requests per second from various ip's to pages that are not hosted on my server. example: buzzurl.jp

Re: [us...@httpd] How can I configure setting a Header in httpd.conf based on content type?

2010-03-10 Thread Philip Wigg
On 10 March 2010 15:03, Baljeet Nijjhar baljeet.nijj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'd like to try and configure the following outcomes in my httpd.conf: a) for static images, stylesheets, javascript, Cache-Control:max-age 3600 and Expires: + 3600. This I can easily do by using the ExpiresByType

Re: [us...@httpd] Avoid endless loop of mod_rewrite

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Wigg
On 9 March 2010 07:57, Michael Menegakis arx...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Philip Wigg p...@philipwigg.co.uk wrote: On 8 March 2010 05:17, Michael Menegakis arx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all A rule is in place that that rewrites domains to www.domains In one particular

Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancing issue.

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Wigg
On 8 March 2010 22:24, afrodom erakovic.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am hew to Apache HTTP, so I have one problem to conceive. May I somehow (is it possible) to use Apache server to redirect a request to appropriate application server (like JBoss), based on some information carried in the

Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancing issue.

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Wigg
I was wondering, may I somehow implement some business logic inside apache, and read each user request, which will carry the information (inside request), upon what will be decide to what server it should be redirected? Normally you would 'carry the information' inside the URI. For example,

Re: [us...@httpd] Load balancing issue.

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, thanks on your direction. Somehow my idea solution is probably the most resolvable by SOAP messages. I would appreciate, if you can redirect to some good article about just failover, in the sense that,ONLY when main server goes down, a request to be redirected to another one in cluster.

Re: [us...@httpd] Avoid endless loop of mod_rewrite

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Wigg
It goes into an infinite loop again. I believe the root is forcing a rule by 'inherit'. If I understand you correctly, you don't have access to the main httpd configuration file. If there's a rewrite in that file which is redirecting your site from domain.com to www.domain.com then I can't

Re: [us...@httpd] mpm_worker and mod_ssl: requirements to OpenSSL

2010-03-09 Thread Philip Wigg
I want to set up a httpd with a worker MPM and mod_ssl. My question is - will I need a threadsafe build of OpenSSL to have mod_ssl function correctly? I couldn't find this documented. (if it is and I just missed it, please point me into the right direction) I think the particular versions

Re: [us...@httpd] can .htaccess make url better ?

2010-03-08 Thread Philip Wigg
On 8 March 2010 18:56, Jonathan Zuckerman j.zucker...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Rich, and anybody else who knows about this, what you've just said touches on a question I've been wondering about: a few folks at work have always told me that .htaccess was a really slow way to load configuration

Re: [us...@httpd] RE: Question about HTTPS without SSL???

2010-03-05 Thread Philip Wigg
On 5 March 2010 08:00, Francisco Javier Morales López de Gamarra fmorales_...@hotmail.com wrote: Because . could I try to use a ErrorDocument or Redirect 302 directive for inform that the page is not available and that try woth no ssl address? It's not possible because the SSL

Re: [us...@httpd] Cannot download files over SSL in Internet Explorer - where is Cache-Control: no-cache header being set?

2010-03-05 Thread Philip Wigg
On 4 March 2010 18:35, Baljeet Nijjhar baljeet.nijj...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi i dont think there is anything in front. There is some communication with Oracle WebGate and Oracle Identity and Access Manager but nothing that obviously sets these headers on the response once it leaves the

Re: [us...@httpd] Cannot download files over SSL in Internet Explorer - where is Cache-Control: no-cache header being set?

2010-03-05 Thread Philip Wigg
Directory 'in the mix'. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Philip Wigg p...@philipwigg.co.uk wrote: On 4 March 2010 18:35, Baljeet Nijjhar baljeet.nijj...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi i dont think there is anything in front. There is some communication with Oracle WebGate and Oracle Identity

Re: [us...@httpd] Virtual hosting problem

2010-03-05 Thread Philip Wigg
On 5 March 2010 15:53, Sean H. for...@dezynworks.com wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with virtual hosting. This isn't the first time I've set up a virtual host, but I've apparently wandered into unfamiliar territory. Here are the relevant host definitions: VirtualHost 63.134.253.113:80    

Re: [us...@httpd] Cannot download files over SSL in Internet Explorer - where is Cache-Control: no-cache header being set?

2010-03-04 Thread Philip Wigg
On 4 March 2010 12:31, Baljeet Nijjhar baljeet.nijj...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi I am having trouble downloading files over SSL in Internet Explorer. After some digging, I believe this is because a Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP header is being added by my Oracle Apache 2 HTTP proxy server to the

Re: [us...@httpd] Cannot download files over SSL in Internet Explorer - where is Cache-Control: no-cache header being set?

2010-03-04 Thread Philip Wigg
Sounds strange. Do you have anything else modifying the HTTP response headers in front of your web servers, for example, a load-balancer? Just in case you have an F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator, there is a known issue regarding this (needs login):-

Re: [us...@httpd] which cache is faster ?

2010-03-03 Thread Philip Wigg
On 3 March 2010 14:12, Sachin Gopal gopalsac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On a production machine we want to deploy caching where users would be around 300. Which cache is faster and why ? Mod_mem_cache or mod_disk_cache. There's a good explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of both here:-

Re: [us...@httpd] How to force CRLF on non .txt files when directory browsing?

2010-02-12 Thread Philip Wigg
On 9 February 2010 19:51, Jonathon Veencamp jdveenc...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think it's a poor editting thing.  I think this is the difference between Unix and Windows and CR/LF on Windows versus LF on Linux.  The HTTP server is adding CR/LF to .txt files to display them correctly in the

Re: [us...@httpd] How to check that mod_deflate is enable ?

2010-02-05 Thread Philip Wigg
This experiment does not affect other sites running here and log analysis is easy also. After restarting the apache I have visited some of the pages from that side but no more difference in the log . mod_deflate won't automatically start putting entries in your current access logs. Read the

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache Redirection Issue + + for Encoding/Decoding

2010-02-05 Thread Philip Wigg
Kidly let me know what should i do to preserve the URL format which i send to Apache for redirection. I'm not totally sure, but I think what you might be looking for is the 'B' flag for mod_rewrite. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html Search for 'escape backreferences'. So

Re: [us...@httpd] How to check that mod_deflate is enable ?

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Wigg
many many thanks for your kind attention and solution. It helped me. Is there any way to check the deflate is operational ? Also trying reading the mod_deflate documentation:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html There you will see examples of how to configure a mod_deflate

Re: [us...@httpd] Help needed to set correct permissions

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Wigg
I'm running a default httpd install from the yum repository (Fedora 12). The user and group that starts the httpd process is apache (default configuration in httpd.conf). The default page is located in /var/www/html/ I have a few users on this box for whom I need to setup virtual hosts and

Re: [us...@httpd] Help needed to set correct permissions

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Wigg
First of all, you're top posting. Google that to see why that's a bad thing if you don't know what it means. You need to set your /home/somebody/www directory to readable and executable by the 'apache' user:- chmod g+rx /home/somebody/www and then the files in that directory should be

Re: [us...@httpd] Help needed to set correct permissions

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Wigg
On 4 February 2010 14:34, Perl Whore whorep...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still getting the permission error. [Thu Feb 04 06:47:11 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied [Thu Feb 04 07:29:05 2010] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] (13)Permission denied: access to /test.htm

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache 2.2: mod_proxy_balancer does not work as documented?

2010-01-14 Thread Philip Wigg
2010/1/14 Francis GALIEGUE f...@one2team.com: Hello everyone, For a production platform, we have plans to migrate to Apache 2.2, using mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer instead of mod_jk. Unfortunately, while the single Tomcat below case works with no problem, the balancer does not work

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: SSLProxyEngine config help

2009-12-18 Thread Philip Wigg
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Todd Volkert tvolk...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, hopefully I'm not missing something stupid again...  I'm trying to enable the SSL proxy engine for use in one of my virtual hosts, and though it seems to accept my SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile upon startup, I get

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: Enabling SSL on VirtualHosts Revisited

2009-12-18 Thread Philip Wigg
Possibly the information you need is here:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html When adding a name-based Virtual Host the... Main host goes away If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server, you must also create a VirtualHost block for the existing host. The

[us...@httpd] Help with redirects and port-forwarding.

2009-12-16 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, I'm using Apache/1.3.36 and I don't have any room to change the version at the moment. I have a separate Virtual Host listening on port 8001:- VirtualHost *:8001 DocumentRoot /opt/apache_1.3.36/htdocs ServerName www.example.co.uk ErrorLog /var/log/http/example_error_log

Re: [us...@httpd] Help with redirects and port-forwarding.

2009-12-16 Thread Philip Wigg
What happens if you just replace you last RewriteRule by     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.co.uk/portal [R=301] By doing the [R=301], you are forcing a 301 response back to the browser anyway, so you might as well make it explicit, and it should not add any extra overhead.

Re: [us...@httpd] about ServerLimit and ThreadLimit

2009-12-14 Thread Philip Wigg
On the documentation of Apache2.2 ServerLimit is a hard limit on the number of active child processes, and must be greater than or equal to the MaxClients directive divided by the ThreadsPerChild directive. ThreadLimit is a hard limit of the number of server threads, and must be greater than

Re: [us...@httpd] about ServerLimit and ThreadLimit

2009-12-14 Thread Philip Wigg
I got prefork.c. Can you drive me I'm afraid I can't drive you, you'll have to read the documentation about the process models. Here's a good start:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mpm.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html It might be that switching to the worker MPM is what

Re: [us...@httpd] CGI Apache Directive: LimitRequestLine

2009-11-25 Thread Philip Wigg
However, the problem we have stumbled onto is the maximum size of the query string that we can use... this is limited to 8190 bytes... I believe this is a Directive constraint in Apache called: LimitRequestLine We understand that there isn't such a limit using a post request but before we

Re: [us...@httpd] CGI Apache Directive: LimitRequestLine

2009-11-25 Thread Philip Wigg
Alas that isn't possible... there is a constraint in Apache that limits this to 8190... see following help text from Apache: snip Default: places 8190 in the edit field and Bytes in the first drop-down menu. Maximum: places 8190 in the edit field and Bytes in the first drop-down menu.

Re: [us...@httpd] RewriteRule help please

2009-11-23 Thread Philip Wigg
I have the following rewrite rule .. RewriteRule products/specials(.*)(.*) /products/index.php?view=specials$1=$2 [L] http://www.mysite.com/products/specialsfilter=20 -- http://www.mysite.com/products/index.php?view=specialsfilter=20= The problem is the trailing '=' I have also tried

Re: [us...@httpd] RewriteRule help please

2009-11-23 Thread Philip Wigg
RewriteRule products/specials(.*) /products/index.php?view=specials$1=$2 [L] The rewritten url is close but still has the trailing '='. What you've put there is different to what I suggested, since you've kept the =$2 at the end. I still have a feeling this won't be totally what you need

Re: [us...@httpd] ProxyHTMLURLMap issues ... resent .. surely somebody can help with this

2009-11-19 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, What version of mod_proxy_html are you using? You must have more code than you posted or are you using an old version of mod_proxy_html? In the distribution I have, there's a file called proxy_html.conf which contains all the following example configuration. Do you not have this in yours?

Re: [us...@httpd] how to install gcc required for apache 2.2 on RHEL 4

2009-11-19 Thread Philip Wigg
I am installing Apache web server 2.2.14 on RHEL 4. When I am running configure command in the apache, it is throwing error “No c++ compiler found”. This isn't an Apache question but anyway, you probably just need to type 'up2date gcc'. Unless there's a reason why you want to install Apache

Re: [us...@httpd] Question about redirects using RewriteMatch

2009-11-19 Thread Philip Wigg
2009/11/19 Diego, Emil edi...@exchange.sba.miami.edu: There are some sections of the site that I wanted to setup aliases for so when you browse to www.bus.miami.edu/businessmiami/, www.bus.miami.edu/inthenews/ and www.bus.miami.edu/embapr/ you automatically get redirected to the specified

Re: [us...@httpd] pdf report generation - content type text/html

2009-11-16 Thread Philip Wigg
I tried all possibilities but no luck yet. I just realized this morning that the OS patch level on Test and Prod servers are different. Test reports are working but not the Prod, may be due to fact that Test servers have LATEST PATCH LEVEL??? Is it possible??? Please let me know. It's quite

Re: [us...@httpd] Redirect ANY request to one page

2009-11-14 Thread Philip Wigg
Hi, Try using mod_rewrite. This configuration should work... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/park.html$ RewriteRule (.*) /park.html [L, R] This redirects any request except park.html. Note that if park.html contains an image, css, or whatever, it's important to also have a

Re: [us...@httpd] SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

2009-11-13 Thread Philip Wigg
NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.47:443 NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.129:443 You can't use name based virtual hosting with SSL. Try these lines out. You need to make sure you have a Listen directive for those IP/port combinations though. Cheers, Phil.

Re: [us...@httpd] rewrite not working inside alias

2009-11-11 Thread Philip Wigg
I think you need to look at:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase Or just put the rewrite httpd.conf, you don't seem to require an .htaccess? - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache

Re: [us...@httpd] Cant make apache listen on an IP address and port

2009-11-11 Thread Philip Wigg
(99)Cannot assign requested address: make_sock: could not bind to address 213.49.146.24:8080 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs What could be the trouble? The server must actually have 213.49.146.24 as it's IP address. Is that the case here? It's no good just

Re: [us...@httpd] Failed to connect

2009-11-03 Thread Philip Wigg
When I try the access using http://localhost:23456; I get a web page display It works. Is there a way of telling the browser or apache to use this port by default? When you connect using a URL like http:/www.example.com or http://localhost, your browser will use port 80 to connect as this is

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache Proxy data delay question

2009-09-23 Thread Philip Wigg
Any helpful hint would be greatly appreciated. Or suggestion where to get the help I need when nobody can help me here. What versions of Apache and Linux are you running? What are the SSL options you've replaced with '...' in the snippet you posted? Is it only using SSL that you see delays? Do