webserver

Why is “fork” needed by socat when connecting to a web server?

房东的猫 提交于 2019-12-20 10:29:15
问题 I am trying to understand tcp connections between a browser and a web server. I have a web server running on my local machine, and can browse to it just fine, as expected, using localhost:3000 or 127.0.0.1:3000. (I am running "rails s"and WEBrick.) I wanted to put a software intermediary between the browser and the web server, and so began experimenting with socat. The following works just fine: socat TCP-LISTEN:8080,fork TCP:localhost:3000 I can browse to localhost:8080 and things work as

What is “Reverse Proxy” and “Load Balancing” in Nginx / Web server terms?

房东的猫 提交于 2019-12-20 10:04:48
问题 These are two phrases I hear about very often, mainly associated with Nginx. Can someone give me a laymans defintion? 回答1: Definitions are often difficult to understand. I guess you just need some explanation for their use case. A short explanation is: load balancing is one of the functionalities of reverse proxy, and reverse proxy is one of the softwares that can do load balancing. And a long explanation is given below. For example a service of your company has customers in UK and German.

Configuring nginx to return a 404 when a URL matches a pattern

纵饮孤独 提交于 2019-12-20 09:32:22
问题 I want nginx to return a 404 code when it receives a request which matches a pattern, e.g., /test/* . How can I configure nginx to do that? 回答1: location /test/ { return 404; } 回答2: Need to add "^~" to give this match a higher priority than regex location blocks. location ^~ /test/ { return 404; } Otherwise you will be in some tricky situation. For example, if you have another location block such as location ~ \.php$ { ... } and someone sends a request to http://your_domain.com/test/bad.php,

Tomcat is web server or application server? [closed]

痞子三分冷 提交于 2019-12-20 08:26:52
问题 Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 7 years ago . Is Tomcat a web server or an application server? 回答1: Tomcat is a web server (can handle HTTP requests/responses) and web container (implements Java Servlet API, also called servletcontainer) in one. Some may call it an application server, but it is definitely not an fullfledged Java EE application server (it

Serving Images with on-the-fly resize

浪尽此生 提交于 2019-12-20 08:07:10
问题 my company has recently started to get problems with the image handling for our websites. We have several websites (adult entertainment) that display images like dvd covers, snapshots and similar. We have about 100'000 movies and for each movie we have an average of 30 snapshots + covers. Almost every image has an additional version with blurring and overlay for non-members, this results in about 50 images per movie or a total of 5 million base images. Each of the images is available in

Filling html forms with mysql data using php coming up null

旧街凉风 提交于 2019-12-20 07:51:16
问题 I am trying to fill a html form with data being received out of my mysql database. However I cannot set the forms to display on-load the variables being extracted from the database. I would like the form on-load to hold the data last entered into the forms which have been added to the database previously. $query = "SELECT FROM character_tbl WHERE character_player ='".$_SESSION["user"]."' character_tbl"; $result = mysql_query($query); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $name = $row[

PHP for iPad, or other solutions

Deadly 提交于 2019-12-20 06:48:29
问题 Here's a tricky one. I'm developing a web app for iPads that will be installed as kiosks. The app is essentially a quiz. Wont need to store data in a database, but will need to process data from 1 page to another page (from questions page to results page). Original solution was simple PHP. I have now been informed that wi-fi/3g will be unavailable to the kiosks, so they wont have access to the webserver w/ php that has been working like a charm. App needs to be browser-based. Looked around

What is the easiest way to have a local LAMP installation for web development on mac OS X?

拟墨画扇 提交于 2019-12-20 06:14:46
问题 I'm new to mac os x. In the Windows XP world, there are packages available, like easyPHP, wampserver, uniformserver, that enable you to have a local webserver complete with php, mysql configured via an automatic installer. Really handy. I need the same on my new mac. I know mac os x comes with a local webserver. Is this already with php, mysql preinstalled? I'd like to have you guys advise on the easiest way to have this local lamp so that i can continue developing on this nice and shiny

running and deploying servlet with eclipse and tomcat 7

十年热恋 提交于 2019-12-20 04:24:36
问题 I created a test project based on Tomcat HelloWorld Servlet with Eclipse and tried to run it from Eclipse as is with Tomcat 7, which I have configured to run on 127.0.0.1 - but I get Page cannot be found at 127.0.0.1/helloworld/HelloWorld I also tried exporting as war file and deploying it to the (otherwise working) Tomcat server running as a Windows service - and deployed with the Tomcat Application Manager - manifest.mf and the classes are nicely copied to tomcat/webapps/helloworld, but

How to download a file to server PHP?

跟風遠走 提交于 2019-12-20 04:18:12
问题 Is it possible with PHP script to have the script download a file on a remote server to my web server? I have my own webserver and domain. I want to put a php script on that domain, that will download a file from a remote server onto my server's filesystem. Is this possible? -Jim 回答1: Sure, you'll need write permissions somewhere on the file system (where you want to save this file), file_get_contents can take a URL as its argument, you just need to write the resulting string to a new file I