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Web page and website are related terms and sometimes people tend to use them interchangeably, but they are distinct from each other. The basic difference between a web page and a website is that a web page is a text document written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and is rendered by a web browser, whereas a website is a collection of related webpages having a specific address, called URL, on the Internet. This article is meant for explaining the important differences between web page and website. But, before going into the differences, let's have a basic overview of what ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to redirect the URLs or Domain to another address. This can be done by using the HTTP Redirection. The URL redirection is a popular technique to point one domain address to another domain address which we can achieve on Apache and Nginx both.Redirecting to an another DomainWe might face a situation in which, we have an established web-site and we need to change the domain for the site. Here, we cannot do this by deleting the older domain since this may cause breakage and disappearance of contents on the old domain is possible ... Read More

The WebSocket is a protocol which provides a way of creating web applications that supports real-time bi-directional communication between both clients and servers. WebSocket makes it much easier to develop these types of applications. Most modern browsers support WebSocket including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, and more and more server application frameworks are now supporting WebSocket as well.For a production environment, where multiple WebSocket servers are needed for getting a good performance and high availability of the website or application, a load balancing layer which understands the WebSocket protocol is required, NGINX supports the use of WebSocket from ... Read More

Apache is an open supply program on hand without cost. It runs on 67% of all web servers. It is speedy, risk-free, and comfortable. It may be extremely custom-made to satisfy the wants of many one-of-a-kind environments via utilizing extensions and modules.To install apache, use the following commands-$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2ctlapcahe2ctl is a front end to the Apache HyperText switch Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to aid an administrator to control the functioning of the Apache HTTP daemon. To get the more information about apache2 modules, use the following command – $ man ... Read More

HTTP state is a Python3 script that visualizes web curl(1) statistics. This script is written in a single file without a dependency. This article explains about How to Use http stat to Find out a Website’s PerformanceInstalling httpstatThere are two ways to install httpstat on Ubuntu as shown below−Download the script directly.Through Python pip.Installing from ScriptTo install httpstat from direct script, use the following command−$wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reorx/httpstat/master/httpstat.pyThe sample output should be like this −--2016-12-19 11:27:18-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reorx/httpstat/master/httpstat.py Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.100.133 Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.100.133|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 10577 (10K) [text/plain] Saving to: ‘httpstat.py’ httpstat.py ... Read More

Elasticsearch is an open source search engine that uses Apache Lucene as its engine and released under an Apache license. Elastic search provides a platform for distributed search and analysis of data in real time. Elasticsearch is the most popular for its ease of use, powerful features. Using elastic search you can easily search, explore and analyze your data with an HTTP web interface.FeaturesSome of the general features of Elasticsearch are as follows:Elasticsearch is scalable up to hundreds of servers and petabytes of structured and unstructured data.Elasticsearch can be used as a replacement of MongoDB and RavenDB document store.Elasticsearch is ... Read More

In this article, we will show you how to set up multiple SSL Certificates on a CentOS with Apache using a single IP address only. In general, a website administrator is restricted to use a single SSL Certificate per socket with an IP which will cost a lot of investment to the company. This restriction may lead them to buy multiple IP addresses for HTTP’s websites for their domain hosting or buy hardware that allows them to utilize multiple network adapters.This is allowed by an extension to the SSL protocol called Server Name Indication (SNI). Most current desktops and mobile ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to install and configure the Squid proxy server. A Squid proxy server is an open source and GPLD proxy with web cache. The Squid proxy server has various uses as we can speed up the web server by caching the repeated requests from the clients and we can use it for name server query. We can use it for looking at the network or a group of people for sharing the network resources.Squid proxy is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients which supports FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Squid can ... Read More

NGINX is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and a reverse proxy, also known as IMAP/POP3 proxy server. NGINX is famous for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. In this article, we will explain about ” Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices”.sysctl.conf is a simple file containing sysctl values to be read in and set by sysctl. To open sysctl.conf, use the following command –$ sudo vim /etc/sysctl.confThe sample output should be like this –## /etc/sysctl.conf - Configuration file for setting system variables # See /etc/sysctl.d/ for additional system variables. # See sysctl.conf (5) ... Read More

When we surf the Internet, a two-way communication takes place between our web browser (client) and a web server (server). To regulate this communication, there are some protocols among which the most common one is the HTTP protocol, where the browser sends an HTTP request to the server and then the server returns an HTTP response to the browser.On the basis of the type of response sent to the browser, we can classify the webpages into two categories: Static webpage and Dynamic webpage.Read through this article to find out more static and dynamic webpages and how they are different from ... Read More