I was wondering if it's possible to use Apache to request websites on a local network, with apache being the gateway so to speak? On my home network I currently have a Windows box running an ASP.NET site, it has to run under Windows/IIS, a server I'm not particularly fond of, but I can live with it... Alongside this I'm thinking about running an Apache server on a separate machine, for my PHP applications, as well as some other applications (e.g. Plex).o
Ideally I'd like to have Apache on port 80, listening for requests, and using the sort of functionality I have with a virtual hosts file to load content from another webserver on my network, that isn't directly accessible through it's own port. I know I could just run PHP under IIS, or move one server to another port, but there's no fun in that!
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Hi i am new to Web Services. Here is my doubt
1) If i am hosting my website then their should be a web server which should keep my website into that this also we are calling server..
2) If i want to run PHP Program in my local system i should use Local Server lie XAMPP this also we are calling server.
My doubt is for example in local system i have downloaded Xampp and i am running my server side program.. but after uploading into server how its working
also AWS, Proxy is which server???
All the servers are confusing a lot
Both web servers and local servers are just computers with software installed on them.
Not much more.
That said a web server is a computer that is connected to the internet and has some kind of a web server software installed on it.
The most common one is an HTTP server software that can serve web pages.
For example, Apache, Nginx are both HTTP servers that can serve both static and dynamic web pages to browser across the world.
Another web server can be FTP, IRC, NTP, SMTP/IMAP/POP3 (mail servers) are all web servers that just have different software installed on them and so they serve other purposes.
A local server is again a computer that serves a client within the local network or LAN.
That means that in most cases it will not be connected to the internet or if it does it will be protected with a password so not everybody can access its services.
It can act as a file server or LDAP server that are roles of a typical local server but it can also be a local web server that holds web-based application only for the local organization.
For example, a company will have a local web server with Salesforce installed on it to serve it's CRM needs.
To make a long story short both servers are just computers connected to a network. Local servers are connected to the LAN and Web Servers are connected to the WAN. Other than that it really depends on the software you install on them and the use you want to make of them.
If you need more clarification, leave a comment and I'll try to help.
I am running two raspberry pis as a webserver (assume it is production and dev-env). Since I am running this on my private DSL line I am running all machines behind a FritzBox router. The router can route traffic for port 80 and 443 only to one server behind the router.
So I want all traffic to be routed to my productive environment.
The question is whether lighttpd (on the productive server) can be used to serve the productive content and also route all requests to the dev environment to the second web server.
I assume mod_proxy will do exactly that job but I want to make sure that I am on the right path...
Appreciate any advise on that.
If you want some requests, e.g. to /dev/ to go to the dev-env web server, then, yes, you can run mod_proxy on the production server to handle all requests, and to act as reverse proxy to backend dev-env web server for request to /dev/...
First, I already searched stack overflow and followed the suggestions in previous answers, such as How do I connect to this localhost from another computer on the same network?
I have created a PHP/MySQL application for a client. The want to host it locally on that server.
The machine in question is running an application written in another langauge (I'm not sure which one) and running Tomcat on port 8080.
They also do not have separate staging/production environments, so this is not ideal.
Their other web application needs to remain running while I also port over the new app. I installed XAAMP onto their system and got the app running locally using Apache HTTP. However, they want other computers both within and outside their networks to be able to connect to the Windows server as well. They are already doing this for the previously created app that is running on Tomcat.
Ports 80 and 8080 are already being used, so the firewall was updated to allow my application to run on port 8086.
I used ipconfig to the find the local IPv, and then tried updating the http.conf and vhost file and am listening to the IP on port 8086. However, going to the IP/foldername doesn't resolve on another computer in the network. As a test, I also just typed in the IP of the windows machine, and it never resolves.
I generally don't implement of windows; until now, all of my production applications have run on some flavor of unix. Their other application is live and I don't want to disturb it. They access it by going to {servername}:8080. I tried server:8086 to see if my app could be accessed that way, but it can't.
I confirmed that localhost/foldername resolves.
Here are the exact steps that I have taken. I tried two different solutions.
Solution 1, using How do I connect to this localhost from another computer on the same network? as a guide:
Make sure firewall allows port 8086 access
I modified the C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file to include a virtual host for the application:
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/{foldername}"
ServerName dispatchserver
Went to the Windows host file located at \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and added the following:
192.xxx.x.xx dispatchserver
From a computer outside the network, tried to go to the following URLs (non resolved):
http://192.xxx.x.xx
http://192.xxx.x.xx:8086/
http://192.xxx.x.xx/foldername
http://dispatchserver
http://dispatchserver/foldername
Since they didn't work, I tried a solution using this older stack overflow answer: Accessing localhost (xampp) from another computer over LAN network - how to?
Made sure firewall allows port 8086 access
XAMPP control panel > Config > Service and Port Settings > Apache > Changed main port to 8086.
XAMPP control panel > Apache > Config > http.conf
Searched for "Listen 80" and replaced with Listen 8086
Right above that, added Listen 192.xxx.x.xx:8086 (I used the IPv4, but don't want to include full address for security reasons). I added this line with hashtag at first (#192.xxx.x.xx:8086) and then without hastag after that didn't work (192.xxx.x.xx:8086).
Searched for and set this up as the directory statement:
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
Restart Apache
What steps can I take to allow the new webapplication I installed via XAMPP to be accessible to other computers?
In that case it's a little different if you want to web enable this. You need to set up your router to port forward to your server (app)so that the other network can reach it from the internet. Your router blocks incoming requests by default so a port forwarding rule using the port you mentioned will work. You should also put your server computer (the one with the app) on a static ip address to make things easier. Then for the user to see your app you need to give them the ip address of your internet connection (seen via sites like ipchicken.com) and the port number in the url.
Normally you just need to open the ports in the windows firewall on both computers (inbound and outbound) for the ports your application is using and then connect to the other machine via ip address and port number if they are on the same network.
I am new website servers and hosting and just after some help clearing some stuff up.
Firstly if I use a website server on my computer ie. IIS is that the same as using a web host such as host puppa? and if so does that mean I don't need to use a web hosting company?
Secondly what hosting/ server do i need to use to run SQL and MySQL in my website?
Is there any good tutorials that run through all of this stuff for beginners as I am quite confused?
IIS is a web server such as apache or nginx. It's a Microsoft product and supports ASP.NET pages.
You can use it instead of a web host, but you have to make sure that your computer is reachable from the internet if you want global access. There is also some setting for what interface and port you want IIS to listen on, that should be set to your external IP address and port 80 for HTTP.
If you are behind a router with NAT, you have to use port forwarding to redirect port 80 requests to the router into your IIS.
As SQL server you can use Microsoft SQL Express or MySQL for example.
Personally, I use WAMP on Windows machines, which gives me everything I need: Apache, MySQL and PHP.
Furter reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/177129/beginner-geek-how-to-host-your-own-website-on-windows-wamp/ (wamp only, but I mentioned alternative applications above)
Edit 1: If your ISP gives you dynamic IP addresses (which is the common) you have to use some kind of dynamic DNS updating, you IP address might change.
Also, of course, if you shut your PC down, the site goes down as well.
Can you have two separate apache servers running on the same system in parallel, as long as they make use of different ports?
I have a system I need to install JIRA on, but the system is already in-use and running an Apache server for a separate project. The JIRA installer comes with a pre-configured apache tomcat server. If I just installed JIRA, would I run into a problem from the pre-existing apache server?
If you’re asking about running two Apache Tomcat instances, then this is not a problem. Moreover you can share the same CATALINA_HOME between many separate instances of Tomcat, each with own CATALINA_BASE. I’m often running separate Tomcat instance per application on production servers. See this init script for a hint about parameters.
But if you’re asking about running Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat on the same server, then it’s a little bit trickier. Commonly used approach is to use a web server (Apache HTTP, nginx, …) as a reverse proxy in front of Tomcat. Then many applications can run under the same port and IP address. In case of Apache HTTP Server, see mod_proxy_ajp.
Apache HTTPD and Tomcat are 2 different servers. Also, JIRA doesn't run on port 80 so in this case there will not be a conflict for port numbers. If you want to expose your JIRA on port 80, you can use mod_proxy for the Apache HTTPD to relay the requests to the actual port JIRA is running on, so that it is transparent to the user.
So basically: Yes, you can run both Apache HTTPD and Apache Tomcat on the same machine if not using the same port.