I am completely new to Akamai. I have a .vbs file, which get served by Akamai. Recently operation team put restriction in .vbs, so now it is getting blocked. Is there a way to get this file served directly from web server and bypass Akamai?
I am not sure if that's possible. Even if you add few rules in akamai configuration and bypass akamai for .vbs extension, request will still have to go through akamai servers. Best option is to give it a try in Akamai staging env or contact akamai support.
If this file is updated frequently and should not be cached at all, then the best option would be to setup Akamai configuration to have this file as no-store, or if you need only specific requestors to be able to reach your own infra, behind Akamai, then bypass the Akamai cache. Still it will go through Akamai.
If the issue is going through Akamai, your only solution is to have another hostname not on Akamai to reach this file OR to know what is the server on your infra, which hosts this file and modify your host file to request this server directly. Issue is that the whole site will be served from your infra and not benefit of Akamai.
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I use Cloudflare as a DNS server for my website.
for example, I defined www.mydomain.com, landing.mydomain.com to point to a Google Cloud CDN storage bucket IP in which I serve my static landing files.
the problem is when I deploy a new version of my code on that bucket, even after time passes more than the cache TTL of that bucket, I see my old landing on my domains, specifically on my www subdomain.
when I use another DNS server like DNSimple, the problem resolves.
I think the problem is with the Cloudflare caching system.
I went to the Caching part of my domain’s configurations in the Cloudflare panel, purged entire caches, and set the Development mode “ON” and also set the “Always Online” part “OFF”.
but the problem remains.
I’d be very delighted If anybody could tell me what should I do to get rid of the cache!
Is it possible to host mysite.com/ from ec2 and mysite.com/logo.gif from cloudfront?
No, you won't be able to make the part of the URL after the domain name influence the DNS lookup for mysite.com. However, if you're willing to settle for something like "images.mysite.com/logo.gif", you can easily resolve images.mysite.com to your CloudFront distribution using a CNAME.
You could also configure the web server on your EC2 instance to redirect or proxy to CloudFront - but then your server is still getting hit every time that resource is loaded, which eliminates most of the benefit to using a CDN in the first place.
In a way, you can. You would need to use a reverse proxy on your web server at mysite.com.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy
To agree with David (above), you can set up a DNS CNAME for your CloudFront distribution, but the best you could do would be a subdomain of your site. It's a better way to do things anyway, if you follow Yahoo! or Google website performance guidelines.
developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html
our hosting account is set up with the domain www.nashman.ca, and our application is at www.nashman.ca/hub. We have another domain that forwards to www.nashman.ca/hub and that's hub.mhn.co. The problem i'm having with this is that the forwarded domain adds on the /hub whenever you navigate to another page from hub.mhn.co, so the domain shows as hub.mhn.co/hub/admin when you're in the admin area, for example. I need the domain to stay consistent, and never show that folder name, because its breaking some of the javascript I use. What is the best way to set this up?
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I've been doing some reading about URL Rewriting, and looking into it - my hosting provider supports the IIS7 URL Rewrite module. All the tutorials I've found so far detail how to set up rules using the IIS config tools, but I don't have access to them. Is there a way to do it by editing my web.config in my apps root directory? And will this solve my issue?
Is the default page for hub.mhn.co using a redirect to www.nashman.ca? If so, what is happening is that the forwarding software basically returns a new URI that the browser requests, and the new URI will replace the old one in the browser window and thus in all future requests. You're probably redirecting to ~/hub/ (the hub subdirectory of the site root) which will result in the browser requesting a new URI that keeps the domain name but tacks on the subdirectory.
If you have direct control over the DNS and your webservers, you can use the DNS configuration to direct a request for the hub.mhn.co domain directly to the /hub subdirectory of your webserver. That way, the browser never knows that hub.mhn.co is actually www.nashman.ca/hub/. You might have to direct to an alternate port on the webserver and map that port to the subdirectory, depending on your DNS software (IIRC, most can deal with ipaddress/subdir routes, but some can only handle routing to ipaddress:port).
If your IT department does not have direct control/ownership over your DNS routing, or your exact hosting environment, you are more or less at the mercy of your hosting provider. They may be able to set up their environment to do the same thing, or not; all you can do is ask.
EDIT: Basically you have two options left if you're hosting remotely and can't use their DNS to reroute silently.
First option: clone (copy all files from) the web layer of nashman.ca/hub as hub.mhn.co under a different root space in your hosting environment (try to keep any hooks to service-layer code over at nashman so you don't have to copy the whole vertical slice). If you must also keep the UI under the /hub/ subdirectory, you're repeating code, but you may be able to mitigate this with deploy scripts that will allow you to deploy one local copy of your codebase to various locations. This may also cost more as your hosting environment is now hosting two non-trivial sites.
Second option: host the site and/or resolve the calls on your own hardware. As long as you have a public, static IP address through your ISP, you can provide a DNS server that will be the "authoritative" server for nashman.ca and hub.mhn.co domains. Your ISP or a third party domain name registry can provide a "pass-down" route to get requests from the TLD servers down to you. Then, you can route requests to whatever IP address, port and/or subfolder you like; that can be a remote webhosting provider (as long as they don't mind JUST hosting your site) or your own webservers. This will require the hardware, and a static IP from your ISP. If you lose power to this server, your site will be unreachable until power's restored. If the IP address of your DNS server changes, your site will be unaccessible by DNS until the server that routes requests to you updates its routing table with the new IP (which can be up to 24 hours).
I want to create a blog for an e-commerce website, but due to data security reasons I don't want to host the blog on the same machine as the website is hosted on. Is there a way to
host it on a separate machine using the sub-domain of blog.domain.com but have it be accessible via the url www.domain.com/blog.
My reasoning is that the content will help with seo better if it uses the same domain.
I was thinking about using mod_rewrite but I'm not sure if it would allow page retrieval from a different website.
It is possible to use the Apache module mod_proxy to make the contents of a server appear to be hosted on another server, and therefore appear to be hosted under a different domain. You might like to take a read of this page which details the Apache configuration directives needed to get it up and running. If that doesn't offer enough options for setting it up how you want it, then you could investigate the "force proxy" option in mod_rewrite, which allows you to send certain rewritten requests through mod_proxy to do the proxying.
i have one dedicated server and one shared hosting server.
i download and put both cgi proxy script in /cgi-bin/
these two files are identical.
on both servers, i checked that there is no cookies recorded by cgiproxy. virgin.
URL flags are all same.
i navigate to myspace.com
Behavior Difference:
dedicated server's cgi proxy
redirects to google.com
shared server's cgi proxy
successfully loads myspace.com
I suspect something wrong with the dedicated server's settings? But what could be wrong or different from the shared hosting ?
Since you've now posted multiple questions about your server being blocked by other web sites, I would guess there's a good chance your server is in a netblock with a bad reputation for abuse.