Category Archives: Linux
How To Upgrade Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) To Squeeze (Debian 6.0) On Xen VPS
How To Upgrade Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) To Squeeze (Debian 6.0) On Xen VPS This tutorial shows how to upgrade a Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) installation on a Xen based Virtual Private Server (VPS) to Squeeze (Debian 6.0) including kernel update, dependency based boot sequencing and conversion to UUIDs. If you do it the usual Debian way just with apt-get dist-upgrade you will most likely end up with an unbootable system. This is mainly because the update of grub fails. Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Ubuntu 10.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.10 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. Continue reading
Installing Nagios On Debian Lenny And Monitoring A Debian Lenny Server
Installing Nagios On Debian Lenny And Monitoring A Debian Lenny Server Nagios is a monitoring solution for complex IT infrastructures, Nagios is easy to implement and can be extended by custom-modules, called plugins. In this howto I explain howto install Nagios on a Debian Lenny host and make the configuration for it. Furthermore we are going to install a second Debian machine which we monitor with remote and local plugins. Continue reading
Setting Up An Android App Build Environment With Eclipse, Android SDK, PhoneGap (Debian Squeeze)
Setting Up An Android App Build Environment With Eclipse, Android SDK, PhoneGap (Debian Squeeze) This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on a Debian Squeeze desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device. PhoneGap allows you to develop your Android applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (e.g. with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery/jQTouch), and it will turn these web apps into native Android apps (in fact, PhoneGap supports multiple platforms such as Android, iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, so you can use the same sources to create apps for multiple platforms). Continue reading
Easy RoundCube (Over SSL) And Webmin With fail2ban For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze
Easy RoundCube (Over SSL) And Webmin With fail2ban For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze I prefer the RoundCube solution over the default in ISPConfig 3. I also find it useful to have the webmin installed in all my systems. In this post you can see a very fast way to have both of them installed, in companion with the great support of fail2ban. Finally I want to access all of them over SSL (even phpmyadmin — see the tip in the end). Continue reading
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Squeeze)
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Squeeze) This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server 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. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords. Continue reading
iRedMail 0.7.0: OpenSource Mail Server With Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, RoundCube (Debian Squeeze)
iRedMail 0.7.0: Open Source Mail Server With Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, RoundCube On Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple, painless and easy to use. Most components used in iRedMail are provided by Linux distributions officially. It means that iRedMail users can get software update support for as long as the the distribution is supported. iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. This tutorial shows how to use the OpenLDAP backend on Debian Squeeze. Continue reading
Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze
Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze 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 Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support. Continue reading
Qmail-Scanner With ClamAV And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu_
Qmail-Scanner With ClamAV And SpamAssassin On Ubuntu In continuation of my document http://www.howtoforge.com/qmail-openldap-on-ubuntu about setting up qmail-ldap on Ubuntu this document will help you to set up Qmail-Scanner with ClamAV antivirus and SpamAssassin spamfilter. Continue reading
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support. Continue reading
Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Fedora 13
Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Fedora 13 This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Fedora 13. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA. Continue reading
How To Compile Coloured rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat / Debian 6 Squeeze With ruTorrent
How To Compile Coloured rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat / Debian 6 Squeeze With ruTorrent rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system – contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the “screen” program provide you all the tools you need. In addition to the previous compilation guides of rTorrent, this one will also feature ruTorrent on a force Apache SSL connection with password protection. Continue reading
Installation Of PlaySMS And SMS Server Tools 3 On Debian Server
Installation Of PlaySMS And SMS Server Tools 3 On Debian Server This tutorial will show you how you can set up an SMS server on Debian with playsms and smstools. In my example I have used an old Nokia 5140i with a USB datacable. Continue reading
How To Install Railo 3.2 Under OpenSUSE 11.3 Running Apache2 Tomcat 6 Virtual Host
How To Install Railo 3.2 Under OpenSUSE 11.3 Running Apache2 Tomcat 6 Virtual Host Railo Server 3.2 Final (3.2.1.000) has been released. As you know Railo is an Open Source ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) engine. It is free and pretty fast. For the new 3.2 version railo stop running resin, but tomcat as the default web server. Instead of compile apache2 with tomcat 6 by yourself, the railo team had created the default installation script which help you setup railo on tomcat6 and using apache2 to connect to tomcat via mod_jk. Instead of using tomcat default webapps directory, we will modify the server.xml file and DocumentRoot will point back to default apache DocumentRoot directory defined under the virtual host configuration file. Continue reading
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.5 (LAMP)
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.5 (LAMP) LAMP is short for L inux, A pache, M ySQL, P HP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.5 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. Continue reading