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Questions tagged [hosting]

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What Can Be Done To Secure Ubuntu Server?

I have a project to secure Ubuntu Server as much as I can. The server is a web hosting server. The server will be running LAMP , Mail , and DNS.
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How to setup a machine to host my websites to the world - with my own url?

I have been playing around with my blog, alot. I have couple of old computers laying around i want to put to use. I was wondering if there is a way to setup a server, then will be linked to a url that i buy and server pages and maybe even install…
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How to flush DNS in Ubuntu 13.10?

We recently moved our website to a new server. But after changing the NS (name server) records, I can't access my website. The hosting provider said we need to flush the DNS settings in order to see the new website. I searched relating to this but I…
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How to host a website from my local machine?

I understand that this is very commonly asked question. I too found tons of related thread but trying their solution didnt work for me. So i decided to ask it again. Problem I would like to host my website from my laptop (on temporary basis. Once…
Gaurav Gupta
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How can I host my own website

I have bought a domain lets say it example.com, I also own an Ubuntu 10.04 machine which I would like to use it to serve my personal website. I have deployed the website on my local machine and its set with a static IP address which I can access…
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I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 LAMP server. Where do I best create folders to put my websites?

I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 LAMP server. The only (in addition to all the standard technical users created by installation) user is "administrator" (should I create more?). I doubt it is correct to place public websites to…
Ivan
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How do I install and use Apache?

I have downloaded ubuntu Desktop. I want to create a web server to host Test Web Sites to show my potential clients. Any suggestions, tips, or good direction for me? My plan is to download Apache and just work through it. I would greatly appreciate…
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Any apps for hosting a terminal app as a website?

I'm building a command line utility and one of my clients (who's not so computer savvy) wants to have access to it. I was wondering, is there anything available that would let me redirect stdin/stout for a terminal app to a port as a website? This…
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Trouble hosting a Minecraft server

I've been trying to host a Minecraft server for some time now. I'm practically a complete beginner with Linux thus far, so you may have to explain things to me a bit. I was able to host servers on Windows in the past with relative ease. I'm hosting…
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How can I self-host Ubuntu One?

The Ubuntu One service is closing and being open sourced: Additionally, we continue to believe in the Ubuntu One file services, the quality of the code, and the user experience, so will release the code as open source software to give others an…
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Setting up Ubuntu web server?

I've just purchased a cloud VPS and installed Ubuntu Server 13.04 on it and that is pretty much all of my Linux knowledge. Can someone point me to the best up to date tutorial on setting up Ubuntu Web Server? I need the standard stuff: LAMP FTP…
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How to create a simple hosting server?

In our university we want to create simple web hosting for our students. Our web hosting is supposed to provide following features: Every student has it's own folder where he can upload his website One web site per user Each student has a limit of…
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I don't have the ssh-copy-id command (windows client)

I'm following this guide to set up an RSA key pair with my VPS. I'm using my Windows PC to follow through with the first part of the guide, and ssh-copy-id does not exist in the command prompt (neither does cat) - meaning I can't send the public key…
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Setting up /etc/hosts on a server for web.example.com and example.com

I have a domain example.com and a server named web. The webserver is running Apache2. Currently the server responds to requests to web.example.com. However, I want it to respond to requests to example.com. In order to get this to work, I added the…
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Public key authentication unsupported by web host. Method to avoid entering password?

Unfortunately, my web hosting plan does not allow public key authentication. Apparently, this method is available to VPS and dedicated server customers only. I've backed up my Ubuntu 11.10 machine using Deja-Dup and I'm sending the backed up files…
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