New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
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 [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
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 [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
LAMP is short for bL/binux, bA/bpache, bM/bySQL, bP/bHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an
OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
Link to the original site
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
eBox Platform is an open source small business server that allows you to manage
all your services like firewall, DHCP, DNS, VPN, proxy, IDS, mail, file and printer
sharing, VoIP, IM and much more. These functionalities are tightly integrated,
automating most tasks, avoiding mistakes and saving time [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed
There are many guides found on the net describing Kerrighed and how to set it up using Ubuntu and others. However, to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a step by step guide specifically designed for [...]
This tutorial was written for the Debian Lenny distribution and
supposes that the user has knowledge about what load balancing is and
some basic skills of Linux, our two load balancers consist out of 2
machines that monitor each other [heartbeat], if the master stops
responding the secondary one [Backup] will take the master role [Backup
-> Master].
Read more at [...]
If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem
already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS
system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails
trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain
to detect which of the sites is vulnerable [...]
About this tutorial.
This tutorial was designed for someone setting up their 1st Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) – Subversion server. When I first started with Subversion, I became very frustrated with the many tutorials that were vague on the key part of what I was installing… Subversion! I included some “ease of use” packages for us [...]
FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on a Debian Lenny server.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will [...]
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address [...]
OpenSSH is the implementation of the SSH protocol. OpenSSH is recommended for remote login, making backups, remote file transfer via scp or sftp, and much more. SSH is perfect to keep confidentiality and integrity for data exchanged between two networks and systems. However, the main advantage is server authentication, through the use of public key [...]
This tutorial covers the setup of PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd on Debian (lenny) with imap, mysql, mysqli, sqlite3, ImageMagick and mycrypt support.
For this tutorial I will assume you are logged in as root this is not advised.
First we need to install the webserver:
aptitude install lighttpd
Now we install the packages needed for mysql and mysqli support. You will [...]
iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a
full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since iRedMail 0.5,
it supports Debian 5.0.1 and Ubuntu 8.04 & Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386
and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for
storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate [...]
Apache is one of the most popular web servers available. And most Apache installations are running on Linux servers. Anyone running Linux will tell you that the operating system (be it on a server or desktop) enjoys a level of security many operating systems do not enjoy. But does that mean you can just install [...]
This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy
and heartbeat on Debian Lenny. The load balancer sits between the user
and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same
content. Not only does the load balancer distribute the requests to the
two backend Apache servers, it also [...]