Nginx 404 page behavior
Mediocre Gopher asked: I have the following nginx server config: server { listen 80; server_name example.com root /server/root; index index.php; error_page 404 = /index.php; location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri …
Avoiding 502 Bad gateway in a round robin webserver process restart
Calvin Cheng asked: I have a load balancer/reverse proxy (either nginx or cherokee, does not matter which) deployed on my server and it points to multiple background webserver processes (either …
451 Temporary local – PHP Mailer
user1179459 asked: I am using phpmailer to do may emailing in the website, using SMTP auth. However recently i noticed that i gives me a error, SMTP Error: The following …
How does I/O performance on Intel E5 procs change with and without QPI
HikeOnPast asked: I am in the process of specifying a low-mid range server (which we will purchase multiples of). The application is essentially a software router, so it is very …
How visible is my /var/www to the outside world?
Chad Harrison asked: I suppose this is more of a house keeping question, but here it goes. If I create a backup file of my index.html called index.html.bak, is it …
Backup Plan for Server Down Time
Jacob Lamont asked: I am looking for a way to avoid as much actual downtime as possible (aren’t we all). We have experienced a good deal server overload/problems lately. Our …
My TTL changing over every packetand I don't know why
Burak Tamtürk asked: Recently I discovered that some pings sent to me were giving a TTL error. When someone pings my computer, it shows a different TTL value for every …
How to Limit the Damage of Domain Spoofing
Brent Arias asked: My e-mail account, for my privately run business which I’ll call “VeryCoolCompany”, is starting to receive bounce-backs for users who don’t exist, like these: [email protected] [email protected] In …
Disable https for certain path in nginx results in instance behind ELB going into redirect loop
numan asked: I am using elb terminated ssl. I want to force /product/performancesummaries/ to be HTTP only. Here is my current configuration that I am playing around with: user www-data; …
Deciphering continuing mpt2sas syslog messages
Chris Smith asked: Summary I have been getting these cryptic messages in syslog since I installed some new hardware and I can’t figure out what the problem is, if it’s …