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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 13

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:32:25 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 13

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Fedora 13/CentOS 5.5 & Apache2)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:09:37 +0200

Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Fedora 13/CentOS 5.5 & Apache2)

This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Fedora 13 or CentOS 5.5 system (with Apache2). From the XCache project page: "XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load." It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.

Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Fedora 13 & Apache2)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:02:04 +0200

Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Fedora 13 & Apache2)

This guide explains how to integrate APC (Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Fedora 13 system (with Apache2). APC is a free and open PHP opcode cacher for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and XCache.

Fedora 13 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:19:08 +0200

Fedora 13 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 13 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.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:23:45 +0200

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.

Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:46:52 +0200

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.

Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:15:31 +0200

Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 13 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 13 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 13 x86_64)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:55:59 +0200

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 13 x86_64)

This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP)

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:54:11 +0200

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:02:34 +0200

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 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.

Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:10:21 +0200

Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 13 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Fedora 12

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:10:37 +0200

Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Fedora 12

This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Fedora 12 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails. FuzzyOCR tries to keep the system load low by scanning only mails that have not already been categorized as spam by SpamAssassin, thus avoiding unnecessary work.

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 13 i686 (GNOME)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:42:42 +0200

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 13 i686 (GNOME)

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 13 desktop (GNOME) 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.

How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:28:47 +0200

How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora

Ailurus is a small GPL application which helps install some nice software, clean yum cache, backup yum, etc. Currently Ailurus is available for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. This simple tutorial will explain how to install Ailurus, and how to solve the problems.

The Perfect Server - Fedora 13 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:18:16 +0200

The Perfect Server - Fedora 13 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 13 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.