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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 12 x86_64) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:11:00 -0500

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 Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords. Tagged by falko under postfix, mysql, fedora, courier, squirrelmail, spamassassin, clamav, amavisd,

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:19:00 -0500

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 12 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, 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 Fedora 12, 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 fedora, ispconfig, lamp, apache, php, mysql, bind, postfix, dovecot, quota, proftpd,

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:36:00 -0500

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 12 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Tagged by falko under fedora, desktop, gnome, skype, flash, adobe, virtualbox, googleearth,

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:15:00 -0500

This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 12 server (x86_64) 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 fedora, ispconfig, lamp, apache, php, mysql, postfix, quota, pureftpd, courier, mydns,

How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Fedora 11 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:06:00 -0400

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Fedora 11. 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. Tagged by falko under apache, mod_fcgid, php, fedora, fastcgi,

Boot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:40:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with netboot.me. All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. netboot.me allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu. netboot.me provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy. Tagged by falko under netboot.me, gpxe, linux, network boot,

Boot Linux Over HTTP With boot.kernel.org (BKO) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:06:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with boot.kernel.org (BKO). All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. BKO allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora. BKO provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy. Tagged by falko under bko, boot.kernel.org, gpxe, linux, boot,

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:32:00 -0400

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on a Fedora 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support. Tagged by falko under cherokee, php, mysql, fedora, fastcgi,

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:45:00 -0400

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. Tagged by falko under pureftpd, ftp, mysql, fedora, quota, bandwidth,

Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:47:00 -0400

Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size). This guide shows how you can install Sugar (the Strawberry release which is based on Fedora 11) on a USB stick. Tagged by falko under sugar, usb, olpc, sgar on a stick,

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Fedora 11 Server | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:49:00 -0400

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Fedora 11 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI. Tagged by falko under virtualbox, virtual machine, vboxheadless, fedora, virtualization,

Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On A Fedora 11 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:21:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a Fedora 11 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show how to set up VirtualBox 3.0 from the precompiled binaries. Tagged by falko under virtualbox, fedora, virtualization, virtual machine,

Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 11 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:27:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 11 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. Tagged by falko under compiz, compiz fusion, fedora, gnome, nvidia, 3d,

Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 11 Server | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:10:00 -0400

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 11 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, fedora, virtualization, virtual machine,

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 11 (GNOME) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:06:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 11 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Tagged by falko under fedora, desktop, gnome, flash, adobe, skype, googleearth, virtualbox, codecs,

The Perfect Server - Fedora 11 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:00:00 -0400

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 11 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, 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 Fedora 11, 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 fedora, server, lamp, ispconfig, apache, php, mysql, postfix, bind, quota, dovecot, python, ruby, webdav,

Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Fedora 10 (Initiator And Target) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:36:00 -0400

This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Fedora 10. 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 AoE initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive. Tagged by falko under aoe, ata over ethernet, fedora, san,

Using iSCSI On Fedora 10 (Initiator And Target) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:57:00 -0400

This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Fedora 10. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive. Tagged by falko under iscsi, fedora, storage, san,

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,

Installing MyDNS & MyDNSConfig 3 On Fedora 10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:54:00 -0400

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig 3 on Fedora 10. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. MyDNSConfig is an easy to use web-based interface to MyDNS. MyDNSConfig can create all types of DNS records that are available in MyDNS and adds features like user management and access privileges. Tagged by falko under mydns, mydnsconfig, fedora, mysql, dns, nameserver,