Boris Guéry's questions

For local test, I'm using Charles proxy, for those who don't know about it is a tool to debug HTTP requests. It can be configured to act as a proxy and intercept requests/responses and is able to do several things with it, like the most important for me, "remap" a domain to another.

It means that when I want set up the proxy on my mobile device and try to access a.domain.tld and b.domain.tld I can configure Charles to redirect transparently data to c.domain.tld and d.domain.tld.

This is what I want to do with Apache (preferably) (but suggestion are welcome).

I know a little about mod_proxy but I couldn't find any similar example, I bet I can do something with it while playing around with the rewrite mod, but I'm sure there is a simple thing to do.

What I want to do:

• Configure a vhost within apache called proxy.domain.tld
• It will act as any proxy except for the domain a.domain.tld and b.domain.tld for which it will target c.domain.tld and d.domain.tld respectively instead.

Any advices?

Is there a way to redirect an user depending on is browser locale ?

For instance, I'd like to redirect to a page called index.en.html all users who doesn't have their browser locale set to French.

Could I do this with Apache and .htaccess ?

we have mac os x server which isn't connected to the internet, but it's hosting some collaborative tools which is used internaly only (lan).

Some of those tools send notifications, but our mail server is outside this lan.

I'm using linux as my desktop, and i'd like to be a relay to let the server able to send mail outside.

I'd like to limit realying only from local network and to everywhere.

I took in consideration that my computer will be needed to relay e-mail. And down times are in mind.

Thanks !

For an ad agency, I need to find a good storage company.

There are some things to take in considerations :

• Support for different OS (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Xp/Vista) (if it matters)
• Internal/External systems (through internet or with dedicated servers)
• Redundancy (save on more than one disk and backups)
• Quick transfer
• Automation

Files to be backuped will mainly be PSD, AI files, and documents.

What should i need to know to choose a good provider ?

Any advises (if you know some to compare) (France)

Thanks.

EDIT :

Capicity is about ±2.5Tb

Budget is unknown, and open.

I need to put a website on windows server IIS, i'd like to use basic authentification like i'd do with Apache, with the .htaccess / .htpasswd

I read here & there, that i could do this through the admin tabs of IIS, but i'm not the administrator, and i only have ftp access. It seems to be a 'web.config' file where i could do this.

Is there a way to set up such things within a config file ?

I'm not used to work with IIS...

I checked out my apache logs, and, whooooaaa, there are a lot of bots trying to exploit phpmyadmin. The first thing i did was to change the directory name to something more obscure.

But, are there any other tips to secure phpmyadmin?

(The database itself is only available from the local network)

For my work, I need to set up an event website. The site will be up to 2 or 3 months during the campaign.

The site needs to be stable and have high availability, especially during the rush hours.

The site will probably not make use of server side scripts or databases, but it will contain animated flash content.

The visitors will come on the website directly by typing the url (from printed ads) and from web ads on high traffic websites (journals).

• How do you handle this kind of set up?
• How do you estimate the traffic?
• How do you use this estimation to set up apache and which options will vary?
• Is there something else I need to think about?

Thank you.

I've some basic skills with apache confs, but I never had to set up such website. Btw, I am a programmer not a sysadmin.

For some usrs, i'm installing a Debian 5.0 on their laptops. And when the system starts, they are scared of all the 'hacking-like' codes that the system notices.

It is useful for me, but not for them.

So my question is how can i hide those notices ? and replace them by spinner, or any progress bar.

I would have liked to do Windows XP like starting.

Any ideas ?

Well,

I know how to do virtual hosts, but on windows it looks harder to get what i want to.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/domaindev_com/public"
    ServerName domaindev.com
    ServerAlias *.domaindev.com
    ErrorLog "logs/domaindev_com-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/domaindev_com-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

And my hosts file:

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

127.0.0.1      localhost
192.168.0.1    domaindev.com
192.168.0.1    www.domaindev.com

C:\Documents and Settings\B>ping domaindev.com

Pinging domaindev.com [192.168.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\B>ping www.domaindev.com

Pinging www.domaindev.com [192.168.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

So it looks like it works. But when i try to use the www.domaindev.com in my browser i get a time out or a dns failure...

Any ideas ? Is the ServerAlias option wrong ?

EDIT: Only the domaindev.com is working