So say that you are running out of resources and can’t buy a new Ethernet card for the system, or there’s not enough slots for another one. No problem, whatever the reason, we can assign two or more IP addresses to our linux box using only one NIC.
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This guide explains how to integrate APC
(Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Fedora 9 system.
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.
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This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Fedora 9 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 [...]
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 9 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Installing a new theme on your Linux desktop can bring your system uniqueness, make it easier to see, or maybe boost your productivity. Whatever your reason it seems like a lot of people have found downloading and installing themes from the internet the easiest way to get apply new themes. Most distribution offer at least [...]
In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban
on a Fedora 9 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts
to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds
failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host,
fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP [...]
This tutorial explains how to install Hamachi
on a Fedora 9 server. Hamachi is a is a VPN service that easily sets up
in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business
network, anywhere there’s an Internet connection.
It works with your existing firewall, and requires no additional
configuration. Hamachi is the first networking application to deliver
an unprecedented [...]
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Fedora 9 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 lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. [...]
Ocassionally, servers need to be retasked for various reasons. It has always been a challenge when
the server has a
distribution other than what I need. I
do not want to drive to the data center to swap CDs around, so
I decided to see if there was a way [...]
This tutorial explains how to install Django
on a Fedora 9 server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop
Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I
will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.
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Looking for up-to-date Fedora DVD images? Want to change the default software selection?Or just fancy a new Linux project? Neil Bothwick shows you how to remaster Fedora with your own customisations — read on for all the details…
There is nothing magic about distro installation discs - they are basically a program and a bunch of [...]
I am pretty sure most of you
guys have hard about the Vulnerability in BIND. Dan Kaminsky earlier this month
announced a massive, multi-vendor issue with DNS that could allow attackers to
compromise any name server - clients, too. I thought I would share with you all
one of the quickest solutions systems [...]
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 [...]
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a popular technology for modern voice communications. Many organizations have replaced their analog or proprietary digital telephone systems with VoIP-based solutions. This allows the consolidation of telephone services into an existing IP infrastructure. In addition, using IP to host voice services lets the organization leverage existing expertise–while [...]
This tutorial shows how to install and use mod_python
on various distributions (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Mandriva,
OpenSUSE) with Apache2. mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the
Python interpreter within the server. It allows you to write web-based
applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional
CGI and will have access to advanced features such as ability to [...]