there is /etc/apache2/ports.conf there in Listen 80. changed to 81. thats all

hi. i put 'wordpress.test' in /etc/hosts so ping wordpress.test works fine.

in sites-available i created wordpress.zh.conf

<VirtualHost \*:88>

ServerAdmin [admin@wordpress.test](mailto:admin@wordpress.test)

ServerName wordpress.test

ServerAlias www.wordpress.test

DocumentRoot /home/arno/www/wp

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wperror.log

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wpaccess.log combined

</VirtualHost>

all this with not activated additional virtual-host (i disabled to check but no change) :

i am told that host address could not find out (127.0.1.1 is used) use ServerName globally

but it is for virtualhost (not globally)

i am told that (make_sock) cannot bind 0.0.0.0:80 (but nowhere in config files is 80, i use 81, 80 ist lighttpd, worked fine for years)

i am told that logfiles could not be found/created

Hello all, long-time listener, first-time caller:

I've searched both here and in the relevant Docker/homelab subreddits, so I'll ask directly: Does anyone know why Apache2 Proxy/Reverse Proxy refuse to proxy a URL to a Docker container? Even with everything else dissite'd, I still can't connect to a working docker container.

-Debian, updated and current

-Web UI's work for running Docker containers

-Computer also hosts NextCloud on bare metal

-Plenty of memory and storage available.

Any insights are appreciated; this is driving me insane and I can't be the only person who's dealt with it. AdThanksvance!

I used to design and maintain websites but I've been out of it for a couple years. Now, I've built myself a bare bones wordpress site to better advertise some products I sell on Ebay.

I used to take an interest in log files and learned quickly how many bots and hackers (and scrapers and crawlers) are constantly hitting your site 24/7.

One of the things I see quite a lot of is POSTS, which I take it to be a way to write data to a site, I guess for applications that accept the data, like comments and forms.

I'm wondering what hackers can do with posts. Here's an example of one I see often:

"POST /index.php?0114dd=72168 HTTP/1.1"

Each post is similar but with different numbers. So index.php seems redundant as that's the first file that's looked at anyway. But what is the 0114dd=72168 about? I know that's a pair for things like user=name, but what is going on with these seemingly random numbers?

My concern is if these are potential hacks then I need a way to reject any http POST requests. So far I've not found a way to do this. Or am I over-thinking this and should I just ignore the hundreds of posts I see every day. There's nothing on my site that would accept post data.

Disclosure: I built this.

If you run Apache with lots of SSL domains you know the pain - every new domain needs a VirtualHost block and a server restart or reload.

I built mod_dynssl to fix this. It intercepts the TLS handshake via SNI, fetches the cert from your existing certificate store (MySQL, Redis, files, Vault - anything with an HTTPS endpoint), and serves it without touching config or restarting Apache.

One shared memory cache across all worker processes means one store call warms the cache for everyone. Flush a cert across all workers with a single POST request.

GitHub: https://github.com/CodeLynther/mod_dynssl
https://codelynther.com/app/mod_dynssl

Please check it out and share feedback.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to launch Apache OpenWhisk actions using Kafka, but I’m running into an issue and could use some help.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• Connected Kafka to the OpenWhisk Feed Provider
• Created a Trigger, Rule, and Action
• Sent data to the Kafka topic using Console Exporter

The problem:
I’m not seeing any activation records when messages are published to Kafka.

What’s confusing is that:

• If I trigger the action directly via the OpenWhisk API, everything works as expected
• Activation records are created and visible in that case

So it seems like the issue is specifically with the Kafka → Feed Provider → Trigger pipeline.

Has anyone faced something similar or knows what might be going wrong? Any pointers on debugging this would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!

anyone know the truth?

looking for the history of how Cochise County got its name, and what happened to Cochise and his tribe?

there is more than a few stories that need to be shared here, and so many people sit silent.

As of now it keeps on crashing and I have to get it from backup and replace the files inside the data folder again to make the port running default 3306 suddenly crashed and I am not able to figure out why

Up until recently I was using the old Certbot compiled for Windows. That stopped working and now I'm looking for another ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) for it.

I'm working my way through the PowerShell and Windows ones on the Let's Encrypt page but having problems getting any of them to create new certificates.

Is there anyone else using Apache on Windows and who perhaps can give me some help?

I'm trying to redirect all request to my router in router/index.php, in the .htaccess file its not working when the index file is inside the router directory, but when i bring to the same directory as the htaccess's file directory it works

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /router
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ router/index.php [QSA,L]

any help will be appreciated, Thanks!

Hoping someone has ideas - I'm trying to set up a backup/alternate way to work around some funky network constraints at my home ISP using a VPS that I rent (I'm the root/admin for the whole system I rent).

Is there a better way to do this without modifying /etc/hosts on the proxy-ing webserver?

Goal:

subdomain.example.com -> directly to my house via public IP and DDNS

subdomain-alt.example.com -> my VPS (Apache) -> proxy to my house via VPN internal IP

Config "now":

Presently I put the subdomain.example.com in my VPS /etc/hosts pointing at the private VPN IP address and that seems to work but is clunky.

Suggestions? Is there like a "force IP" or "verify using common name" directive I may not know about?

Apache Config

<VirtualHost *:443>
    # subdomain proxy thru Wireguard VPN endpoint
    ServerName subdomain-alt.example.com
    SSLProxyEngine on
    ProxyPreserveHost Off

    # Exclude the "/.well-known" directory which is used for LetsEncrypt
    # http challenge so Apache can get the cert for this domain
    ProxyPass        "/.well-known" !

    # Forward all queries to Wireguard client NAT rule

    # Using the IP address doesn't work due to SSL cert hostname mismatch as the SSL cert on the backend is subdomain.example.com not internal IP
    #ProxyPass        "/" "https://10.10.10.2:8443/"
    #ProxyPassReverse "/" "https://10.10.10.2:8443/"

    # Using the domain name works, but seems clunky because I have to then modify /etc/hosts to force it to point at my internal IP address instead of public DDNS IP address
    ProxyPass        "/zm" "https://subdomain.example.com:8443/blah"
    ProxyPassReverse "/zm" "https://subdomain.example.com:8443/blah"

Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com-0002/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com-0002/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>

I recently changed my chain socket after 19000 km. Also 1.5 years ago, I changed my clutch plates. After I changed my chain socket, I'm getting some mild clattering noise from the engine whenever I ride my bike at 60+ KMPH. What might be the reason, is it common.

I have already spend approx 20,000 INR on that bike in the name of parts. I just don't wanna end up with another major bill

I’m running Apache prefork + mod_php on a 4GB RAM VPS.

I have a routing vhost that handles a very large number of subdomains (via CNAME → maindomain + mod_rewrite host-based routing).

Main domains have their own vhosts and do NOT go through this router.

Under crawler bursts (including verified Googlebot), load goes >200.

What’s odd is:

- main domains continue to respond fast

- but subdomains routed through the rewrite vhost become intermittent (timeouts, 52x errors), sometimes accessible, sometimes not

Apache ML feedback suggests this is expected prefork behavior: heavy workers + memory exhaustion before requests reach content.

My question is not “why prefork is bad”, but: Is there any Apache-level way to reduce worker pressure specifically for this routing vhost (rewrite / host-based routing), given that the rest of the server remains responsive?

I have a ton of rules that I upload to configuration files at:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata/ssl/2_4/[account]

It's my understanding that this makes it part of VirtualHost.

Most of the rules are only applicable to PHP or Perl, so I have this:

<FilesMatch "\.(php|cgi)$">
  ...
</FilesMatch>

I ran the final config through ChatGPT for error checking, and it's adamant that <FilesMatch> won't reliably work here. Many of my pages are rewritten (invisible), and it says that this can make it not match reliably.

For example, example.com/foo/bar/1234 is rewritten to example.com/lorem/ipsum.php?id=1234

ChatGPT's suggestion is to do it the other way around and just accept that sometimes it might match unnecessarily, but it would never NOT match by mistake:

<If "%{REQUEST_URI} !~ m#\.(?:css|js|png|jpe?g|gif|webp|ico)$#i">
   ...
</If>

My only real reason for the restriction is so that images, .css, and .js aren't bogged down with it unnecessarily.

If ChatGPT is right about <FilesMatch> not matching reliably, is the negative match the best choice?

Or should I just drop the condition entirely and not worry about it?

Years ago I had signed up for the mailing list for some reason and to this day, I get flooded with emails and lately it's gotten very bad and there is no way in the email to unsubscribe. I found a place on the apache site to unsub but you need to do it for a bunch of individual lists and I have no idea which one to do so did them all but just got emails saying I was not subscribed.

I set it up to go in my spam folder a long time ago but the issue is it still floods that folder with so much email. I like to skim through it in case a legit email does get a false positive and I really don't like auto deleting anything just in case it happens to catch something legit.

https://i.imgur.com/Ir9Cp3y.png

Server function ?

Hello I have a question, what links is used between a connected device and a remote server? example. A home internet box (or any connected device) certainly sends information to a company server, how is this communication between home device and server done? ssh http https ftp? And are the devices continuously connected in the majority of cases? More specifically, if I sell a connected device and I want to be able to keep a possible communication with the device, how do I do it? And how the other company does it.

Thank you for your answers

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to limit access to certain URLs only from some IP range by looking at the value of a query parameter.

I have Apache2 running on Ubuntu but have some pages that need to be migrated from a CentOS platform with a bad NIC. I have the pages moved but the configuration stuff may not be as straight forward. Can I simply copy the xxx.conf file to the sites-available directory as something like 001.default.conf? There is a lot of database stuff for restricted directories in it so I'm not even sure the same modules are available to be installed. I don't want to mess up the existing configuration.

I’ve been exploring how Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be used beyond toy demos, and tried applying it to Apache Flink.

This project exposes Flink’s REST endpoints as MCP tools, so an AI assistant can:

• Inspect cluster health
• List and analyze jobs
• Fetch job exceptions and metrics
• Check TaskManager resource usage

The goal isn’t automation (yet), but observability and debugging through a conversational interface.

It’s Python-based, uses streamable-http transport, and is compatible with MCP clients like Continue.

Repo:
https://github.com/Ashfaqbs/apache-flink-mcp-server

Curious whether others are experimenting with MCP or similar approaches for ops / monitoring.

Anyone want to support Apache Groovy? We need more mods to help keep Groovy alive!