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• Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 10.04

  (Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:31:31 +0200)

  Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 10.04

  This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 10.04. 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...

• Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu

  (Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:17:47 +0200)

  Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu

  This guide will help you easily set up a email server On Ubuntu using Qmail as MTA, OpenLDAP as a back-end for users, and Courier IMAP for IMAP server.

• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring (LAMP)

  (Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:11:35 +0200)

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring (LAMP)

  LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Mandriva 2010.1 Spring server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

• vtiger Installation On CentOS 5.x

  (Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:38:20 +0200)

  vtiger Installation On CentOS 5.x

  vtiger is the CRM / complete tracking solution I have looked for and needed for 10 years!!! An all-in-one tracking everything organic package that ties everything together - because every task has many things associated with it, and vtiger works the way people think.

• How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 10.04

  (Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:11:55 +0200)

  How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 10.04

  This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 10.04. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

• ISPConfig3 - DNS Templates

  (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:07:11 +0200)

  ISPConfig3 - DNS Templates

  This article explains how you can use the DNS Templates in ISPConfig3 to allow layman to enter domain data without any previous knowledge on the subject.

• How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 11.3

  (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:47:52 +0200)

  How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 11.3

  This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 11.3. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

• Installing Liferay 6.0.5 Community Edition Bundled With Tomcat On Ubuntu 10.04

  (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:29:24 +0200)

  Installing Liferay 6.0.5 Community Edition Bundled With Tomcat On Ubuntu 10.04

  Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. Get the benefits of packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution.

• Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 13

  (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:32:25 +0200)

  Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 13

  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 this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

• Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Fedora 13/CentOS 5.5 & Apache2)

  (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:09:37 +0200)

  Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Fedora 13/CentOS 5.5 & Apache2)

  This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Fedora 13 or CentOS 5.5 system (with Apache2). From the XCache project page: "XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load." It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.

• How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Debian Lenny

  (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:41:35 +0200)

  How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Debian Lenny

  This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server...

• Mandriva 2010.1 Spring Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:16:29 +0200)

  Mandriva 2010.1 Spring Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Mandriva 2010.1 Spring 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.

• How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04

  (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:55:47 +0200)

  How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04

  This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Ubuntu 10.04 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Ubuntu 10.04). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers. USB-over-IP can be useful for virtual machines, for example, that don't have access to the host...

• Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Fedora 13 & Apache2)

  (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:02:04 +0200)

  Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Fedora 13 & Apache2)

  This guide explains how to integrate APC (Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Fedora 13 system (with Apache2). 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.

• Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

  (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:28:04 +0200)

  Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

  This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. AoE stands for "ATA over Ethernet" and is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows AoE initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) AoE target using normal ethernet cabling. "Remote" in this case means "inside the same LAN" because AoE is not routable outside a LAN (this is a major difference compared to iSCSI). To the...