SuPHP On Fedora 7 Or CentOS 5 With ISPConfig

Posted by suvi under CentOS, Fedora, PHP, Software

This document describes how to set up suPHP on Fedora 7 or CentOS 5 with ISPConfig.
It rests upon parts of the howto How
To Set Up suPHP On A Debian Etch Based ISPConfig Server
from Hans.

The resulting system will support suPHP with ISPConfig.

This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical
backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web.

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Installing Simple Invoices On Debian Etch

Posted by suvi under Debian, Software

This tutorial describes how to install Simple Invoices
on a Debian Etch server. Simple Invoices is a web-based, basic
invoicing system that lets you create and manage your invoices, export
them as PDF or Excel files, email them to your customers, etc. It is
intended for small businesses/organizations and home users.

This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

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Fine-tune RSS feeds with ListGarden

Posted by suvi under Free tools, Tricks

Most Web publishing systems on the market can automatically generate RSS feeds, but there are situations where you might want to have fine-grained control over your RSS feeds. For example, you might want to provide alternative RSS item descriptions, or to manually select which RSS items to publish.

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How-To: create a self-signed certificate

Posted by suvi under Debian, Security, Server

This tutorial will explain how to create a self-signed certificate that you will be able to use with apache in order to provide ssl support.

A self signed certificate won’t provide as much security guarantees than a CA-signed certificate, but at least you will be able to use encrypted connection to your server.

In order to be able to create a certificate, you need to install openssl package:

Read more at Debuntu 

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How To Install Sun Java SE 6 JDK and NetBeans 5.5.1 - Fedora 7

Posted by suvi under Fedora, Software

This tutorial shows how to install Sun Java JDK and NetBeans IDE on
the fresh Fedora 7 installation. The readers I had in mind when
assembling this are the people who are anxious to start using NetBEans
and Sun’s Java SE on their newly installed Fedora systems. Some of the
bits and pieces on the topics I found on the Internet are assembled
into this tutorial in order to make it as comprehensive as possible. I
tried to follow the HowToForge document format. I have not tried this
on the x64 architecture, but it should be very similar. I would welcome
any feedback on that.

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P2V: How To Make a Physical Linux Box Into a Virtual Machine

Posted by suvi under Linux, Virtualization

Over the last four days, I’ve been exploring how to convert physical
Linux boxes into virtual machines. VMWare has a tool
for doing P2V conversions, as they’re called, but as far as I can
tell it only works for Windows physical machines and for converting
various flavors of virtual machines into others.

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Securing SSH Using Denyhosts

Posted by suvi under Security, Server, Ubuntu

SSH is a great way to remotely administer a server. However, it still has a number of issues when you open it up to the world. The server and client communications are secure but that doesn’t mean the hosts involved are. Opening an SSH service to the world allows for brute force attacks and means that the carbon interface is still the weakest link.

There are some very simple steps you can take to really harden remote access over SSH, especially if you can’t simply tie the service down to a limited number of source ports.

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Logitech MX Revolution’s Special Buttons On Fedora 7

Posted by suvi under Fedora

This document describes how to enable and configure the Logitech MX Revolution’s special buttons on Fedora 7.

This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot
of other documents in the web.

This document comes without warranty of any kind! I want to say that this is not the only way of setting up such a
system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that
this will work for you!

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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Etch)

Posted by suvi under Debian, Multimedia

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Open Source Security, Part 2: 10 Great Apps

Posted by suvi under Security

Open source security products do not generally carry the same following as their business suite and operating system brethren. However, the same reasons for supporting open source products in general also apply to open source security applications.

Open source security applications are free, or at least much less costly than their proprietary counterparts. Even when the cost of paid support is factored in, they provide much more bang for the buck.

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Building a modern IT infrastructure for a small company (10 clients) with a sub-$3,000 budget

Posted by suvi under Tricks

No way! That’s impossible.” Well, actually it’s not.
Using Open Source technology, it’s actually possible to create a
competitive IT infrastructure at very low costs. Not only does Open
Source software enable you to create more customized solutions to
better fit your needs, but it also means that you can spend your budget
on hardware - not software.
Last month I was asked by a company to figure out how to ‘modernize
their IT infrastructure with a minimal (almost non-existing) budget.

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Troubleshooting Linux Audio, Part 3a

Posted by suvi under Linux, Multimedia

At last we reach the final installment of this series, the question
& answer stage in which we’ll consider some of the common problems
encountered with audio and MIDI on Linux, along with some common and
perhaps not-so-common solutions to those problems. We’ve looked at some
indispensable items for your Linux system troubleshooting toolkit, now
let’s see how they are applied.

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Turn Apache into a collaborative authoring platform with mod_dav

Posted by suvi under Apache, Networking, Server

Ever thought about how
nice it would be if you could edit the files stored on your Web server
directly without the cumbersome download-edit-upload routine? Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(WebDAV) is the way to do it. A WebDAV server works like a file server
that uses HTTP as the underlying protocol. It facilitates collaborative
editing and versioning. If you manage a Web server or an enterprise
document management system, where different authors need to edit

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Virtual Machine Replication & Failover with VMWare Server & Debian Etch (4.0)

Posted by suvi under Debian, Virtualization

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to create
a highly available VMware Server environment on a Debian Etch system.
With this tutorial, you will be able to create Virtual Machines that
will be available on multiple systems with failover/failback
capabilities.

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Howto Setup Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse in Ubuntu

Posted by suvi under Desktop, Ubuntu

If you have a Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse here is the procedure to follow howto setup in ubuntu

We need the MAC address (e.g. 00:00:00:00:00) of the mouse and keyboard.You can use KEYBOARD_ADDR and MOUSE_ADDR where you should find the addresses for the keyboard and mouse respectively. Press the button on the mouse that makes it visible to be found by the computer. Do the same for the keyboard. Now open a terminal window and run the following command

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