[us...@httpd] Re: Caching is serving up the wrong user content to some users who log in.

2010-06-21 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
user-specific content. It's not just your caching server, there are ISPs that will cache your pages that have no caching directives too, exposing sessions to other users who use the same ISP. We saw it on our website until we added the correct directives to block caching. Cheers, Nicholas She

[us...@httpd] Re: Internet Explorer 6

2010-05-12 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
6, so a mere 2% of our total users use IE6. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe

[us...@httpd] Re: SA punycode in apache2

2010-05-09 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
illa.org/listinfo Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd

[us...@httpd] Re: HTTPS only for login page (when apache front tomcat)

2010-04-22 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
. A large proportion of users use the same password for everything online. You don't want a login sniffed from your site to be used to breach the user's bank account. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-U

[us...@httpd] Dynamically tune MaxKeepAliveRequests?

2010-04-18 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
stop people from monopolizing their child, and to give other people a chance to connect. So is there any Apache module or settings which dynamically tune the KeepAlive settings based on the current load situation? Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock

[us...@httpd] Re: Preventing DoS attacks from single client host

2010-04-03 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
words, it's a DoS attack originating from a single client host. This is called 'slow loris' attack. That'll give you something to Google for :) Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support

[us...@httpd] Re: Apache 4.3 HTTP Server Configuration

2010-03-31 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ASF and companies producing our conferences, and spamassassin.org and myfaces.org, for historical reasons." Looks like they ripped the whole thing from Apache's site. They even reference this address: http://apache-project.webs.com/center.jpg I'm pretty sure Apache doesn't hos

[us...@httpd] Re: high load apache mpm configuration

2010-03-29 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
(this server will server reverse proxy requests). I intend to configure it for around 400 requests per second and i'm not sure if prefork will do. How many CPUs? How much RAM? Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To

[us...@httpd] Re: Safety access to Apache web page

2010-03-22 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
s the error log say? Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr..

[us...@httpd] Re: troubleshooting apache server

2010-01-30 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
n port 443 is working just fine. I can see your SugarCRM login page at https://fyrenice.com. There's nothing listening on port 80, though. You should check your Apache error log, and double check your port-forwarding configuration.

[us...@httpd] Re: troubleshooting apache server

2010-01-30 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
achine through my Linksys WRTP54G router. I can ssh in to my server no problem, but I can't access the admin pages for SugarCRM or for Mailman. Server running Windows? Go into the firewall settings and add entries to allow traffic on those ports from the Internet. Cheers, Nichol

[us...@httpd] Re: Runaway Apache Process

2010-01-28 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
#x27;s one hit every four minutes. From the log snippet posted, it seems to be a simple mixture of blogs and forums. Hardly supercomputer stuff. A slow single-core would serve it just fine. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The offi

[us...@httpd] Re: Runaway Apache Process

2010-01-26 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ts have to wait for the lock. Load skyrockets. Connect to MySQL when something like this happens and run SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST. Look for long-running queries. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support fo

[us...@httpd] Re: How to protect apache againg bench marking attack ?

2010-01-12 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
protection-in-mod.html Sounds very promising. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe,

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

2010-01-09 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
"s1" to your "server1" host definition. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.

[us...@httpd] Re: Request concurrency issue

2009-11-22 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Nicholas Sherlock wrote: Toomas Aas wrote: Say, I open a browser and enter request for http://mysite.com/LargeTextFile.txt The file begins to load in the browser window. While the file is loading, I open another browser tab and enter the same request there. The file in second tab doesn&#

[us...@httpd] Re: Request concurrency issue

2009-11-22 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
eaders are you sending? Check with something like the "Live HTTP Headers" plugin for Firefox. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apach

[us...@httpd] Re: Apace2 stops serving pages.

2009-09-23 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ventually, the bad query times out and everything goes back to normal. On MySQL, this would be diagnosed with a quick "SHOW PROCESSLIST", I'm not sure about PostgreSQL though. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The of

[us...@httpd] Re: PHP5

2009-09-23 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Silvio Siefke wrote: Error: it comes a window what say "The requested operation has failed". No log entry. Check the "applications" section of the windows Event Viewer. Startup errors can end up there in some situations. Cheer

[us...@httpd] Re: Apache configuration for a high load

2009-09-05 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ze my configuration? 1000 hits per minute is not all that much, but your hardware plays a big role in choosing a good configuration. How much memory do you have available? What CPU are you running on? Cheers, Nicholas Sh

[us...@httpd] Re: Map every request to a single script

2009-08-15 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
location of your script. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsub

[us...@httpd] Re: New user/syntax error message

2009-08-12 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
g file. But got not change in outcome. It's also missing a slash after C: (what the heck generated that broken path?) LoadModule php5_module "C:/john/documents/php-5.2.10-Win32/php5apache2_2.dll" Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock --

[us...@httpd] Re: guidance on how to track down crazy apache processes

2009-08-12 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
rs is the maximum number of *spare* servers, that is, servers that are not serving clients but are instead sitting there doing nothing. MaxClients is the parameter which controls the maximum number of (busy or idle) Apache processes. Cheers, Nicholas She

[us...@httpd] Re: restrict access to files

2009-08-10 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
mation from their requests for images embedded in your webpages. For instance, I think one of the popular Norton security programs does this, many visitors probably don't even know it's on their computer. So if you solve your problem, those clients will never be able to see the im

[us...@httpd] Re: try

2009-08-09 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Check your mailreader. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-

[us...@httpd] Re: Don't require authentication on a subfolder

2009-08-01 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ive applies to the URL, and IS case-sensitive. In that case, "/public" and "/PUBLIC" are 2 different URLs. Ah, thanks for pointing that out! My only Windows Apache server is my development machine, but that little bit of information could be really c

[us...@httpd] Re: Low priced certificate?

2009-07-22 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
e. Your website will have carefully trained the user in advance to ignore all security warnings and accept the rogue certificate. What a waste of time. The only thing you're protecting against is a passive attacker. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock

[us...@httpd] Re: Low priced certificate?

2009-07-22 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
and not widely recognized, http://cacert.org/ Won't certificates signed by them be only useful for internally-deployed apps? They're not a trusted root on Windows so random browsers on the web will just get an "UNTRUSTED SITE! Get me out of here!" message. Cheer

[us...@httpd] Re: High load using memcache and 9G tmpfs

2009-07-20 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
d average of 2! I'm making do with a slow single-core machine at the moment, with a lot of very persistent site visitors, and our load average rarely drops below 50.. :). Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-

[us...@httpd] Re: High load using memcache and 9G tmpfs

2009-07-20 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
27;top' because it used almost no CPU time. I diagnosed the problem with 'iotop' - it gives per-process IO stats. This is probably not the same problem you're having, but iotop is still a useful tool to identify IO competition when you can&#

[us...@httpd] Strange behaviour from mod_cache

2009-07-20 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
-generated image pages all the time and I need to reduce bandwidth in this usecase. My Apache is: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i SVN/1.6.3 PHP/5.3.0 Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official

[us...@httpd] Re: Running php scripts outside of document root

2009-05-24 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ay be able to find ways to exploit it more easily. Being in the document root does not imply that people will be able to read your code. If they browse to the file, they'll just see the output from the script, not the source itself. Cheers, Nichola

[us...@httpd] Re: iFrame Injection Blocking

2009-05-24 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
will only block this _specific_ infection, and won't patch the gaping holes in your server that are letting it through in the first place. Secure your FTP credentials and update the PHP packages you are using. Cheers, Nicholas She

[us...@httpd] Re: iFrame Injection Blocking

2009-05-24 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
possibly assist in such a transaction? Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: us

[us...@httpd] Re: Remote Browsing of Other Ports than Port 80

2009-04-24 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ports 8080 or 8085. What's your firewall and routing configuration like? Have you opened and/or forwarded those extra ports? Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Pr

[us...@httpd] mod_cache sending document along with 304 Not Modified!

2009-04-23 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
de, because the custom header "X-CS-Caught-Late: yes" is not in the response. Why is this happening? You can try it out on my live server, using the same URL as I did. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To

[us...@httpd] Re: PHP script as Apache filter or "callback"

2009-03-14 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
fore any script in the directory you set it for is run. It will only work for documents which PHP is set to parse, of course, so it won't help out for requests for other objects like images. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock -

[us...@httpd] Re: questions on TCP connections and Sessions

2009-02-23 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
e versa. If the client closes the connection, the proxy disconnects from the web server, and vice versa. The only thing that the proxy gets to see is the call to "CONNECT", everything else it cannot view because it is encrypted and it does not have the

[us...@httpd] Re: optimizing apache web server

2009-02-10 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ld cause a site slowdown even with low CPU usage. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.

[us...@httpd] Re: How can i monitor Apache

2009-02-04 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
too. I could find plenty of solutions which could profile a given PHP file for me if I manually run it as a test. But I'm far more interested in the actual stats observed with real data on the live server. Cheers, Nicholas She

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-02-03 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
orked much better. I have had good luck with: http://www.dyndns.com/ We've already established that his domain name is correctly resolving to his IP address. If his IP address is dynamic he may also want to look into a dynamic DNS solution. Cheers, Nichola

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-02-02 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
efused" as of now - what's the exact configuration that you have for your port forwarding? To have the domain name resolve to your local IP address on your network, you'll need to add it as an entry in your HOST file.

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-02-01 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
, that's the wrong tab. You want the settings in "Applications and Gaming". The first page there is "Single port forwarding". Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-02-01 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ss of the router) and "Subnet mask". Your computer needs to be configured to have the same subnet mask. Use the same IP address as the router, but change the last digit to something else, (like 40), so that you aren't in con

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-02-01 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
to be in. It is configured from the TCP/IP settings for your network adapter. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.htm

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-02-01 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
from outside your network? One thing is I am not understanding the "your host" does this mean "me" as in my computer or the ISPs computer where the names server is? I was talking about your computer, the one that Apa

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-01-31 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Nicholas Sherlock wrote: Michael Rogers wrote: HI! For the last 6 months I have fiddled around trying to make Apache connect to the web or the web connect to Apache. It does just fine on my home network when I type in localhost! But if I type in www.michaelsrogers.com <h

[us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe

2009-01-31 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
it doesn't know which one is which by default). This is called "port forwarding". Your router manual or Google will tell you more, or poke around in the administration panel for it. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock -

[us...@httpd] Re: can a proxy helps to get an IP of another coubtry ?

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
J. Bakshi wrote: Nicholas Sherlock wrote: If you were running a SOCKS proxy in Germany, you could use that successfully (I presume that the transfer happens over HTTPS). Not sure how to accomplish the task with Apache. Thanks Nicholas, I can install the proxy on my dedicated linux server in

[us...@httpd] Re: can a proxy helps to get an IP of another coubtry ?

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ver HTTPS). Not sure how to accomplish the task with Apache. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.

[us...@httpd] Re: mod_headers: Don't add a header if it is already present

2009-01-10 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Nicholas Sherlock wrote: However, some new pages I am now developing are cache-aware, and supply their own Cache-Control headers which should not include the "private" modifier. Is it possible for mod_headers to not create this header if the response (from PHP) already includes a Cac

[us...@httpd] mod_headers: Don't add a header if it is already present

2009-01-10 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
eaders to not create this header if the response (from PHP) already includes a Cache-Control header? I could not work anything out with the conditional controls that the documentation mentions for the 'Header' directive, but perhaps I&#

[us...@httpd] Re: Apache 2.2.4 caching problem

2008-12-21 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
e), it just presents a window where you can examine every request along with the request and response headers. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://h

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Expected load

2008-12-07 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Nicholas Sherlock wrote: I've recently set up a 32-bit Apache 2.2 server on Ubuntu sitting on an Amazon small instance (1.7GB of memory, single core, 1.2GHz Opteron equivalent). While re-reading my post I noticed that I have no clear idea about the performance metrics that I am tryi

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Expected load

2008-12-07 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
ion: StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients 120 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 We also have these settings enabled: KeepAlive On KeepAliveTimeout 15 MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 Timeout 300 Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock - The offi