GorillaApe's questions

First of all after much pain i figured out how to make it work in Apache 2.4 windowz. Here is my configuration that seems to work successfully for git clone and push and everything.

Problem
First of all my configuration works. There is a "Require all denied" at / directory. I want only git functionality and nothing else.

Example Request from a git client

192.168.100.252 - - [07/Oct/2012:04:44:51 +0300] "GET /git/simple/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1" 200 264`

Error caused by that Request

[Sun Oct 07 04:44:51.903334 2012] [authz_core:error] [pid 6988:tid 956] [client 192.168.100.252:13493] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: C:/git-server/web/simple

There isnt any error at gitclient everything works fine but i get this at error log. Is there any solution for this error to not appear?I worry about log size.

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot  "C:\git-server\web"
    ServerName git.****censored****
    DirectoryIndex index.php

    SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT c:/git-server/repositories
    SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
    SetEnv REMOTE_USER=$REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER
    ScriptAlias /git/ "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe/"


    <LocationMatch "^/.*/git-receive-pack$">
        Options +ExecCGI
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName intranet
        AuthUserFile "C:/git-server/config/users"
        Require valid-user
    </LocationMatch>
    <Directory />
        Options All
        Require all denied
    </Directory>
    <Directory  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\libexec\git-core">
        Options +ExecCGI
        Options All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>    

</VirtualHost>

We have a website at a hosting provider. The strange thing is that pages seem to be cached somehow by the server.Even asp.net pages...

So when i update the application , or i delete everything aspx pages still work like they were there,even i clean browser cache.I get outdated pages randomly.Only workaround is to use a proxy server .If you make a request from another ip then most of the time it gets refreshed..Something this is boring as i keep getting error when there isnt one.Any idea of any workaround and how can it be by ip ?

There is a server that is used from 4:30 am in the morning until ~ 22:00.

Should it be turned off? I think that it is a server and that it won't have a problem to stay on, but serious professors are telling me that it is dangerous and that HD can fail within 2 years. The server owner believes that his old server running from 1995 without backup and a single hard disk (if the hard disk fails he is screwed) had no problem because he used to turn it off at nights.

What do you believe for this?

Now it has a RAID 1 array, external hard disk backup, and serveral full hard disk backups on DVD and over the internet.

Although i can telnet the AIX server from the local network , i cant get access to it via the internet.. Itsnt a firewall/router issue 100% as trying on other computers worked great... AIX is version 4.5 i think... around 1995.
Any ideas guys??

I dont know if this is the right place to ask the question.

A friend of mine assigned me to create a web application for the company(warehouse) he works in order clients place orders etc.

The software is a COBOL program over 25 years old running on a 15 years old computer.

Because the computer has single disk and has a strange type of disk he takes backups at tape. There are about 400 cobol programs. However the computer now is ok.

But cause of the single disk and that the computer is old he wants to upgrade it. The 10 people who use the programs in the company connect via terminal from windows to the AIX server with cobol programs.

The computer still works great after 15 years with no problem!

The question after this long introduction is:... He want to buy a computer with high integrity that wont cause a damage..

However i am wondering if we should buy something like this: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/tower/x3200m3/index.html

not because that the software is demanding( a 133 celeron would do the job i believe!) but because it has high quality parts..

I believe that it is extravagant to buy such a computer but i dont know if a custom rig with high quality parts (those that i can find) would be better.

Also we need a second pc for the webserver.. The uplink is 2mbps enough for the simple web interface and few concurrent clients i believe!

So to sum up...

What specifications are recommended? Also is it better to use a seperate pc for webserver and "cobol server" ?

I am struggling to achieve this simple thing...

I have some static pages which should be like
www.domain.com/profile etc.. The problem is how to write the rewrite rules in order to ..

There would be some fixed rewrites like /home

I want every file that exists not to be rewritten www.domain.com/test.php should go to test.php

Lastly if it is not found i want it to be redirected to static.php?_.....

RewriteRule ^/home/?$ /index.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1     

This works ok but if i type index.php or test.php or even the mach from other redirection it gets me in static.php... Please help!

I setup a virtual host and put in htaccess some rewrite rules... But they dont work.. Only the rules in virtual host config work.. What am i doing wrong?

.htaccess

setEnv TZ Europe/Athens
Options +FollowSymLinks

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

php_value max_execution_time 600
php_value max_input_time 600
php_value upload_max_filesize 10M
php_value post_max_size 16M
php_value memory_limit 200M
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 21600
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off


    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/home/?$ /index.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/press/([0-9]+)?$ /press.php?__i18n_language=$1&id=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/profile/(.+)?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&tag=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/links/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&tag=links [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/corporate/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&tag=corporate [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/products/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&tag=products [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/products/(.+)?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&tag=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/press/?$ /press.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/sitemap/?$ /sitemap.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/financial/?$ /financial.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/contact/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&tag=contact [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+)/newsletter/?$ /newsletter.php?__i18n_language=$1 [L]

Virtual Host file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName dev.skiandboard.gr

    DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\ski\content"
    <Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>






    ErrorLog "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\ski\error.log"

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

RewriteEngine On



RewriteRule ^/(.+)/cat/(.+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /category.php?__i18n_language=$1&category_tag=$2&page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/cat/(.+)?$ /category.php?__i18n_language=$1&category_tag=$2&page=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/prd/?$ /product.php?__i18n_language=$1&product_tag=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/static/(.+)/?$ /static.php?__i18n_language=$1&page_tag=$2 [L]



</VirtualHost>