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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:47:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.4 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of CentOS 5.4, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). Tagged by falko under centos, lamp, apache, php, mysql, ispconfig, postfix, bind, dovecot, quota,

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 4.8 i386) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:16:00 -0400

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix. Tagged by falko under postfix, mysql, courier, squirrelmail, amavisd, clamav, spamassassin, centos,

The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.8 Server i386 [ISPConfig 2] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:16:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 4.8 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). Tagged by falko under centos, server, lamp, apache, php, mysql, ispconfig, bind, ftp, dovecot, quota, firewall, postfix,

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.3 (LAMP) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:52:00 -0400

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. Tagged by falko under lamp, centos, apache, php, mysql, mod_php,

How To Install Qmailtoaster (CentOS 5.3) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:59:00 -0400

Qmailtoaster is a project that aims to make the installation of Qmail onto RPM based systems a snap. All of the packages are distributed in source RPMs so building the packages for your particular distro and architecture is as easy as running a script or a simple command for each package. The RPMs have all of the needed and commonly asked for patches included so you can have a mail server up and running in about an hour. When it's all complete, you'll have a full Qmail mail server installation ready for just about anything. I personally run Qmailtoaster servers for other companies and ISPs who have tens of thousands of users on their systems. Tagged by falko under qmail, qmailtoaster, mailserver, centos, linux,

The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:19:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.3 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. Tagged by falko under centos, server, ispconfig, lamp, apache, php, mysql, postfix, mydns, pureftpd, spamassassin, clamav,

Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions On Debian Lenny | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:48:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server on Debian Lenny. A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. This is handy if your client computers don't have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up multiple computers at the same time (e.g. in a large enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs. In this article I show how to configure a PXE server that allows you to boot multiple distributions (i386 and x86_64): Debian Lenny, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 10, CentOS 5.3, OpenSuSE 11.1, and Mandriva 2009.1. Tagged by falko under pxe, debian, lenny,

Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:39:00 -0400

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware. This saves money, and what is even more important, it's more secure. If the virtual machine of your DNS server gets hacked, it has no effect on your other virtual machines. Plus, you can move virtual machines from one Xen server to the next one. Tagged by falko under xen, centos, virtualization, paravirtualization, virtual machine,

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 5.3 x86_64) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix. Tagged by falko under centos, postfix, mysql, courier, squirrelmail, spamassassin, clamav,

The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:47:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.3 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). Tagged by falko under centos, server, lamp, ispconfig, php, mysql, apache, bind, proftpd, dovecot, postfix,

Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 5.2 Server | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:08:00 -0400

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 5.2 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V. Tagged by falko under kvm, centos, virtualization, lvm, virtual machine,

The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2 [ISPConfig 3] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:55:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. Tagged by falko under centos, ispconfig, lamp, server, php, mysql, postfix, mydns, pureftpd, spamassasin, clamav,

Managing OpenVZ With HyperVM On CentOS 5.2 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:32:00 -0500

HyperVM is a multi-platform, multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different virtual machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms. Currently it supports OpenVZ and Xen virtualization and is available for RHEL 4/5 as well as CentOS 4 and CentOS 5. This tutorial shows how to install it on a CentOS 5.2 server to control OpenVZ containers. I will also explain how to manage OpenVZ containers with HyperVM on a remote CentOS 5.2 server ("slave"). Tagged by falko under hypervm, openvz, centos, virtualization, virtual machine, control panel,

Managing OpenVZ With The Vtonf Control Panel On CentOS 5.2 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:17:00 -0500

Vtonf is a free web-based control panel (released under the GPL license) for managing virtual private servers (VPS) based on OpenVZ. It makes it very easy to create and manage OpenVZ VMs even for people with little technical knowledge. Right now, Vtonf is available only for RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS (support for Debian is planned), therefore I describe its installation and usage on a CentOS 5.2 server. Tagged by falko under vtonf, openvz, control panel, virtualization, centos, virtual machine, vm, vps,

Installing Xen On CentOS 5.2 (i386) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:46:00 -0500

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on a CentOS 5.2 system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called virtual machines or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware. This saves money, and what is even more important, it's more secure. If the virtual machine of your DNS server gets hacked, it has no effect on your other virtual machines. Plus, you can move virtual machines from one Xen server to the next one. Tagged by falko under xen, centos, virtualization, vm, vps, virtual machine, dom0, domu,

Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart And Novi | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:09:00 -0400

Kickstart allows you to do automatic Fedora/RedHat/CentOS installations. This is useful and time-saving if you have to deploy tens or hundreds of similar systems (e.g. workstations). Kickstart reads the installation settings from a Kickstart configuration file. The problem with Kickstart is that it usually uses the distribution's packages from the time the distribution was released, i.e., it does not consider updates which means you would have to update each system manually after the Kickstart installation. This guide explains how you can do up-to-date Kickstart installations with the help of a tool called novi. Tagged by falko under kickstart, fedora, novi,

Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.2 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:45:00 -0400

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license. Tagged by falko under openvz, centos, virtualization, vm, virtual machine,

How To Patch BIND9 Against DNS Cache Poisoning On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:53:00 -0400

Dan Kaminsky earlier this month announced a massive, multi-vendor issue with DNS that could allow attackers to compromise any name server - clients, too. These two articles explain how you can fix a BIND9 nameserver on Debian Etch and Fedora/CentOS so that it is not vulnerable anymore to DNS cache poisoning. Tagged by falko under bind, dns, cache, cache poisoning, vulnerability, patch, debian, centos, fedora,

Embedding Python In Apache2 With mod_python (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Mandriva, OpenSUSE) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:44:00 -0400

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 retain database connections and other data between hits and access to Apache internals. Tagged by falko under python, mod_python, apache, fedora, debian, ubuntu, centos, opensuse, mandriva,

Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:41:00 -0400

This document describes how to set up PHPlist on Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. This howto should also work for other distributions with little modifications. Taken from the phplist page: "phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed in the top open source projects for vitality score on Freshmeat." Tagged by falko under phplist, debian, ubuntu, fedora, centos, newsletter,