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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install
Lighttpd on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and
MySQL support.
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 9:24am
Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (OpenSUSE 11.2)
This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator
into PHP5 and lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.2 system. From the eAccelerator
project page: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator,
optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of
PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the
overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes
scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces
server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 9:37am
The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.3 (GNOME)
This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.3
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the
best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:00am
Script For Automatically Setting Up A Perfect Server On OpenSUSE 11.3 And Installing ISPConfig 3
Here's a little script that automates the task of setting up a Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3],
and in the end it also installs ISPConfig 3.
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 9:46am
Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13
Nginx (pronounced
"engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx
is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and
low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx
on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL
support.
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 7:31am
Adding Custom Certificates To CIITIX-WiFi
CIITIX-WiFi is a turnkey solution to your WiFi
hotspot needs. Built onto the rock solid stable debian linux, setting up
a secure (TTLS) WiFi hotspot is just a minute away. This guide shows
how to set up an AAA server (authentication, authorization and
accounting) with CIITIX-WiFi. CIITIX-WiFi comes with certificates valid till 2020 but in case
someone want to use their own certificates this tutorial can come in
handy.
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 8:42am
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install
Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI)
and MySQL support.
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 8:52am
Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On CentOS 5.4
This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot
with Apache2 on a CentOS 5.4 system. With mod_chroot, you can run
Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less
vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in
Apache2 or your installed web applications.
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:29am
The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE
11.3 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs
and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI
support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users,
BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP,
Quota, Firewall, etc.
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:20am
How To Change The Date And Time From The Console
This short tutorial explains how you can modify your system date and
time from the console.
Sun, 07/18/2010 - 10:22am
The Perfect Desktop - Mandriva One 2010.1 Spring With GNOME
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One
2010.1 Spring desktop (with the GNOME desktop
environment) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop,
i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do
on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the
best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 9:09am
Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Ubuntu 10.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a
standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup,
every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol
and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 8:36am
The Perfect Server - Mandriva 2010.1 (Spring) Free (x86_64)
[ISPConfig 2]
This tutorial shows how to set up a Mandriva 2010.1 (Spring) Free
(x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters:
Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and
TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot
POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system
that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting
control panel ISPConfig
2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). This tutorial is
written for the 64-bit version of Mandriva 2010.1.
Wed, 07/14/2010 - 10:44am
How To Run Your Own Name Server With ISPConfig 3 And Fast Hosts
This tutorial shows how you can run your own name server for domains
that you register with fasthosts.com. Of course, this works with every
other
registrar as well, although the procedure might differ a little bit.
We
will use the ISPConfig 3 server as the primary name server and also
acting as the secondary. This may be suited best to a single server
setup. To do this, you need one server with ISPConfig 3 installed and a Fast hosts account.
Tue, 07/13/2010 - 9:05am
Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool
Some of you may know the commercial Flexnet Licencing Application
(©Macrovision). It's a client-server based solution for managing the
usage of socalled Flexnet-enabled applications. You can hold licenses of
more than one product on one license-server. As you typically have to
buy licenses and licenses can be expensive it would be nice to have a
monitoring solution, to see the utilization of the precious licenses,
wether they are underutilized (so money is wasted) or are always fully
utilized (so that you can suspect that sometimes people can not do their
work, or only delayed) which is also a waste of resources. As far as I know there are commercial applications for performing
such reports, but again you have to spent money. Why not build a simple
system yourself, which shows the actual and past usage in an "MRTG style"?
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 10:07am
Ghosting The Machine
This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting
one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a
desktop/server). You might have a small office where you customise one desktop
just how you like it and need to roll this out to N other PC's or
simply want a backup of a server or desktop to another machine or even
to an image file. The main tool here is netcat which is extremely powerful and has a
multitude of other great uses that won't be covered here.
Sun, 07/11/2010 - 9:31am
How To Make An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary,
Docky & Gloobus-Preview)
This article shows how you can change the appearance of your Ubuntu
10.04 desktop so that it resembles a Mac. This can be achieved with the
help of Elementary,
Docky, and Gloobus-Preview.
Elementary is a project that provides a popular icon set and GTK theme;
Docky is an interactive dock (like the one you know from a Mac) that
provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on
your computer, and more; and Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the
Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of
any kind of file or directory.
Fri, 07/09/2010 - 12:59am
Install Imule On Debian Lenny
When I write these lines, the latest
version of Imule is 1.4.6. But ... It relies on packages version
(libgcj10, libstdc++6) that are released with the unstable (sid)
version of Debian. So either you upgrade Debian to unstable version
or you choose a lower version of Imule. I chose the latter: to
install an old version of Imule. I tested few of them and 1.3.5 seems
to work quite well with Debian Lenny (stable).
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 8:33am
Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian
Lenny
This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver
(with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian
Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only
nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records
from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such
as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control
panel for PowerDNS.
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 8:36am
iRedOS-0.6.0: Open Source Mail Server With Postfix, Dovecot,
Amavisd, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, RoundCube
iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a Open Source
Mail Server solution in less than 2 minutes. iRedOS is a customized CentOS 5.5 distribution, where e unnecessary
packages were removed. It ships with the lastest version of iRedMail
(iredmail0.6.0); it lets you install iredmail more quickly and smooth.
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