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Webserver
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12
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 12 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL
support.
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Networking,
Security
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Three ways to securely access remote internal networks and work from home
Remote access to a computer and internal network’s secured resources – all of it in a simple way that’s following well-known security’s best practices? Sounds impossible, but it’s not. How to achieve it explains Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo.
A computer network with a tight security should be separated from the outside world as much, as it’s possible. It’s often the case. Even if there is a over a dozen of devices(PCs), that play different parts assigned to them in terms of company’s infrastructure, usually there is one that separates them from others, a firewall and a router.
On the assumption that the company’s policy is not too strict we often have an free access to this kind of devices. It can be various internal services, databases, servers of whatever is necessary to run a current company. What if, after work, when we are home safe and sound, we still need to connect to one of those servers that are not accessible outside the internal network.
I’ll describe few ways to do it.
SSH ProxyCommand
The simplest and, as far as I reckon, the most often case is when just behind firewall there is a 2nd server accessible by SSH, but only for LAN users. It’s similar to the situation, where router does NAT, and server’s addresses behind him are from private address’ classes. Therefore, If we want to log in, we need to log in to the firewall first.
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Tricks
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NTFS Disk Recovery
Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop
constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot
a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be
read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully
to repair them.
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Virtualization,
openSuse
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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.2 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x
on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop
environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called
VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a
remote desktop connection, so there’s no need for the VirtualBox GUI.
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Mandriva,
MySQL,
PHP,
Webserver
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2010.0 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Linux,
Software
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Easily Install Windows Applications In Linux With Wine-doors
By now, you should have already heard of the popular Wine software that allows you to install Windows applications in Linux. There is also another paid application – CrossOver that utilities Wine and comes with a simplified GUI to help you get the job done easier. Now, here’s another software that is as powerful as Wine and as user-friendly as Crossover, and best of all, it is free.
Wine-Doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-Doors is built on top of the Wine package, and it provides a easy to use GUI with a one click access to download/install the most commonly used Windows app.
Download the installer file from the Wine-Doors download site. If you are using Ubuntu, download the deb file. Double click on the downloaded deb file to install it in your system.
Open the Wine-Doors application (Applications -> System Tools -> Wine Doors)
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Linux,
Ubuntu
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Installing Kernel Security Updates Without Reboot With Ksplice Uptrack On Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop
Ksplice Uptrack
is a subscription service that lets you apply 100% of the important
kernel security updates released by your Linux vendor without
rebooting. Ksplice Uptrack is freely available for the desktop versions
of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. This tutorial shows how
to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop.
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Apache,
Ubuntu
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be
downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to
upload and download files.
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Linux
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Install Multiple Linux Distributions Via PXE (The Easy Way)
The following script will set up a PXE config on your server, making
it possible to install major Linux distributions via netboot.
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KDE,
Software,
Ubuntu
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How to install KDE Software Compilation 4.4 from PPA in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4 on 9th feb 2010, “Caikaku”, bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE’s bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented. The KDE community would like to thank everybody who has helped to make this release possible.
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Debian
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How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny
Debian Etch is soon
to be unsupported by the Debian team, therefore all Debian Linux
Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny. I work for Netzen (an IT Support
company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the
past months, so I am providing this guide on how to upgrade Debian Etch
to Debian Lenny to the HowtoForge community.
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OpenOffice.org,
Ubuntu
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How To install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu
This tutorial will explain how to install latest version of openoffice in ubuntu
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Software,
Ubuntu
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Install Quantum GIS in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a cross-platform Geographic Information System (GIS). It offers support for vector and raster formats, including spatially enabled tables in PostgreSQL using PostGIS, common GIS vector formats such as Shapefiles, and geo-referenced rasters (TIFF, PNG, and GEOTIFF). Many plugins are available to dynamically add new functionality. Viewing of GRASS layers (vector and raster) is provided by a plugin. GRASS vector layers can be edited in QGIS.
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Samba,
Server
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Fedora 12 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Fedora 12 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.
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Apache,
Server,
Ubuntu,
Webserver
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How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2
on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over
HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for iSecure Sockets Layer/i and
is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications
over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the
transport layer end-to-end. We use the mod_ssl Apache module here to provide strong cryptography for Apache2 via SSL by the help of the Open Source SSL toolkit OpenSSL.
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