I am probably completely wrong but what seems as the standard way to point a domain to a site is very insecure.

Say your domain is regestered with Company A and your site is hosted through Company B.

The steps to set it all up are usually:

• Login to Company A and set the DNS record for my-domain.com to point to ns1.company-b.com and ns2.company-b.com
• Login to Company B and add my-domain.com to your account and set up an A record.

But how does Company B know that you are authorized to set up an A record? Just because the domain is using their DNS server? Isn't it possible that someone else who is a customer of Company B is really the owner of the domain and they are the ones that pointed it to Company B's DNS servers -- And since you are also a customer of Company B you can just hijack the domain?

This may not be possible, if so, what is preventing something like this from happening?

I installed node.js with these commands:

$ sudo git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joyent/node.git
$ cd node
$ export JOBS=2
$ sudo mkdir ~/local
$ sudo ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH

It executed without error. Not sure how to confirm that node.js is actually installed though.

I then tried to install node package manager with the following commands:

$ sudo git clone http://github.com/isaacs/npm.git
$ cd npm
$ sudo make install

The last command had a lot of output but the last few lines were:

make[1]: Entering directory `/var/www/node/npm'

node cli.js install https://github.com/isaacs/ronnjs/tarball/master

bash: node: command not found

make[1]: *** [node_modules/ronn] Error 127

make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/www/node/npm'

make: *** [man/man3/author.3] Error 2

npm does not get installed, but the directory is there. Not sure what I need to do?

I have a PHP script that uses cURL to load a file from another server.

The file is about 24MB. I understand why the script itself loading the file would take a bit to execute, however any request to the site while the script it running will hault until the script finishes.

This did not happen on our old shared server with the same script. The new server is a cloud server. I took it up to 10 nodes (6Ghz dedicated cpu, 3760MB ram, 2500GB bandwidth) and it had no effect on this issue.

I don't mind the script itself taking a long time to execute since it is going to be an automated task for a data feed. I can't have the whole site locking up while it runs though.

Any ideas why this could be happening?

Update it looks like this is only happening locally. If I try to load the site on a separate computer while the script is running it works as expected.

I have ServerA and ServerB, ServerB was created from a snapshot of ServerA.

I want to be able to make changes (configurations, installed programs, files, db changes, etc.) on ServerA and then push those changes to ServerB when I am ready.

From ServerA I run this command:

rsync -avz -e ssh root@ServerB:/

The first thing I am told is:

Warning: the RSA host key for 'ServerB' differs from the key for the IP address '216.119.xxx.xxx' Offending key for IP in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1 Matching host key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:2 Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

I type in yes and hit return. I am prompted for root@ServerB's password, then it lists several files and finishes with this:

sent 7821 bytes received 1616926 bytes 47094.12 bytes/sec total size is 140739067508690 speedup is 86622143.33 rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at main.c(1526) [generator=3.0.7]

But it did not sync.

I specifically put a file at /var/www/sync_test_file on ServerA and afterwards (I am expecting the file to now be on ServerB but) there is no such file in ServerB

Am I doing something wrong? Also, today is my first time ever using rsync.

I have a folder on my server called john. Inside this folder is an application I am working on.

I have a self signed cert installed.

if I go to https://mydomain.com/john/signin it works.

I have an .htaccess that redirects all request that don't begin with either the words john or julian to /john:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(john|julian).*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ john/$1 [L]

Now if I go to a non SSL page like http://mydomain.com/about the page http://mydomain.com/john/about is loaded (the URL is not redirected).

However if I go to an ssl page like https://mydomain.com/signin I get a "404 Not found" error.

Any idea what would cause this?

Possible Duplicate:
What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?

Why do we prepend our URLs with "www", isn't http:// enough? Its clearly not necessarily because it is omissible.

However there is a particular circumstance where the use of "www" breaks the URL, when there is a subdomain.

Almost everytime I tell a non technical person to go to a url like blog.stackoverflow.com they try to go to www.blog.stackoverflow.com because they think all URLs start with "www." and get confused when it doesn't work.

Is there a technical reason for the "www" or was it just invented for semantical reasons?

Is there anything being done to address this or is it considered a non issue?

Everything I find seems to be about created a custom 404 page.

That is not what I am trying to do.

If I want to block access to a page I can do this in htaccess:

RewriteRule pattern - [F]

However, "Forbidden" hints that the page does exists. I want the page to appear to not even exist. So I would like to give a 404 error instead of a 403. Then have it render whatever 404 page would render if the resource really wasn't there.

How can I do that?

I know to change an owner you put

chown user:group file 

but what if I want to see who owns a file?

The issue I am having is I created a user at /var/www/new-user but when he uploads new files to there, they can't be viewed. I think I have to change the owner or group to www-data. Not positive.

I already have a user at /var/www/john that works fine. I thought I set the new on up the same. I wanted to compare mine and see whats different.

I have a Ubuntu LAMP site hosted at vps.net.

I have a directory called john that is accessible via mysite.com/john I would like it instead to be accessed via john.mysite.com

My site root is /var/www and this directory is at /var/www/john

What do I need to do to make this happen?

If I have 2 domains, altoonadesign.com and programming-perils.com that are both pointed to the same server.

How can I make programming-perils site root the blog folder on the real site root. and disallow access to the blog folder from altoonadesign.com using .htaccess?

We currently have our website hosted by a small company that is actually a reseller for Rackspace.

They act as our server administrators. They configured the servers, handle the backups, if there is a problem, we call them and they fix it.

We are growing and want to move away from our shared server to either a cloud or dedicated server. I am thinking cloud myself but I am open to either.

The current company doesn't seem to want to offer us anything more than a shared hosting plan.

I looked into cloud solutions at vps.net, with them I would have to be the server administrator myself.

I am the website programmer but administering the server is outside my comfort zone.

vps.net does have a $99/month plan for Pro-Active Managed Support but I am not sure if this is the equivalent on a server admin that is there when you need them.

We could hire someone in house, but I think that would be overkill for our needs.

I am not exactly sure what we need, I do know we need as close to 100% uptime as we possible can. and we need the ability to add/remove/change the server configuration/software/etc. when needed (though changes shouldn't be very often once everything is setup right).

Can someone point me in the right direction? What do other companies do?

If I have multiple domains pointing to the same site.

If I have a domain called admin-domain.com

I only want to allow admin-domain.com/admin/

But disallow anything-else.com/admin/

Also this needs to be done with .htaccess

Also there is no actual admin directory, but there are many urls like ...com/admin/products/edit/54 because I am using the CakePHP framework which already uses htaccess for url's like this. I just want to limit admin access to 1 domain.

I have a server that has 2 domains pointing to it domain1.com and domain2.com.

They both use the same name servers: dns1.vps.net and dns2.vps.net.

When I run cat resolv.conf

This is its contents:

# Automatically generated by OnApp (2.0.rc5.i)    
domain
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

What should actually be in here?

EDIT

I asked this question

They told me to look at my /var/log/mail.log and that it was probably because my resolv.conf was not configured right.

In the log it says:

Feb 10 18:01:02 my-domain sm-msp-queue[7933]: unable to qualify my own domain name (my-domain) -- using short name

I think this is why the server lags for about 60 seconds every time I try to send email from PHP.

On my new vps.net server .htaccess does not work. mod_rewrite is what the .htaccess is trying to do.

These are the steps I have done so far:

Added:

<Directory "/var/www/*">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

To /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Restart apache. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

No luck.

Verified the .htaccess is actually there, it is.

Verified my apache2.conf has the line AccessFileName .htaccess, it does.

Edited /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Changed:

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride None
       Order allow,deny
       allow from all
</Directory>

to:

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       allow from all
</Directory>

Restart apache. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

No luck.

Do not know what to try next?

I have a bash script on a ubuntu 10.4 machine. It is shared and I can access it from my win7 machine with \\LINUX-SERVER\bash_repo\make-live

However when I do, windows tries to open it. This is not what I want. I want to tell ubuntu to execute it.

I am actually hoping to be able to build a GUI app on windows where the user clicks a button and it tells the bash script on the ubuntu machine to execute.

Is any of this possible?

I am trying to setup a testing server for web development. I have never done this before nor have I ever used svn before.

When I go to http://linux-server/ from any computer on my network it takes me to the /var/www path my linux machine.

I am using svn to backup everything inside /var/www

currently my svn repository is located at /usr/local/svn/svn_repo

if I run:

$ svn list -v -R file:///usr/local/svn/svn_repo

it outputs:

 11 root                  Jun 17 17:03 ./
  1 root                  May 25 14:05 branches/
  1 root                  May 25 14:05 tags/
 11 root                  Jun 17 17:03 trunk/
 11 root                  Jun 17 17:03 trunk/www/
 11 root             2525 Jun 17 17:03 trunk/www/index.php
  4 root                  May 25 16:48 trunk/www/test/
  4 root              105 May 25 16:48 trunk/www/test/index.php

Where trunk/www/ is the same as /var/www on the system.

But I want to be able to access my repository from another machine on the network. Something like http://linux-server/svn

Maybe I am thinking about this wrong but it seems to me like in order to do that, I would need to move the repository to /var/www/svn/ directory. But then wouldn't the repository be backing up itself? or is it OK as long as I never call:

svn add /var/www/svn

I am a little confused.

My website is altoonadesign.com if you type it directly in your browser it takes you to the correct site. However if you do a search for "altoona design" and click on the link to my site you get redirected to a malicious site.

I tried this in google on chrome and in bing on IE. on different computers always with the same results. typing in the url directly takes you to my real site, clicking the link in the search results redirects you to the malicious site.

I am not sure how this is happening, how to undo it, or how to prevent it in the future?

update

clicking the link from here takes you to the malicious site too, so it seems clicking a link is what does it, but typing it in directly doesn't redirect you... how is that?

I have vsftpd installed on ubuntu. I added a new created a new user and set the users home path to /var/www so I can ftp with that user directly to that location. And that all works, I can now FTP with the user I created directly to that location. However I whenever I ftp, I have no permissions to change anything. How can I change that?

Thanks!!

UPDATE

OK, I set my user as the owner and confirmed the ownership. I even chmod the directory and its contents to 777 and verified that. I can make any change I want locally however I cannot make any changes via ftp. when using filezilla i get Critical file transfer error I also get an error when trying to modify a file with dreamweaver via ftp.

I am new to linux so I don't have any idea what is going on.

I have apache installed on my ubuntu machine. you can access the server from other machines with http://linux-server The local path on the machine is /var/www I have installed vsftpd on the machine as well so I can ftp to the server from another machine with ftp://linux-server however it takes me to /home/myUserName I want the ftp to take me to the same place as the http. So how can I change the FTP path?

Thanks!

I am new to linux. I do not have any knowledge on how to do anything on linux. I just got a new machine and successfully installed ubuntu onto it. The first thing I want to do is join the domain the rest of the computers are on. How do I do that. I tried googling it but all the results assume some sort of linux knowledge and I have none.