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Ubuntu 11.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured...

Installing OpenVZ + Management Of VMs Through ISPConfig 3 (Debian 6.0) This tutorial describes the installation of an OpenVZ host server to manage virtual machines from within the ISPConfig 3 hosting control panel. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualization technology for Linux servers, similar to...

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.1 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.1 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL...

Running TYPO3 4.6 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a TYPO3 (version 4.6) web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP...

Web Filtering On Squid 3 With QuintoLabs Content Security 1.4 And Windows Active Directory Integration This HOWTO will show you how to set up a Squid proxy server deployed on CentOS or RedHat 6 Linux with...

Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10) This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE  managers. I will install Enlightenment on a...

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1 Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can...

Installing iRedMail And Mailman On Debian Squeeze I’m a big fan of iRedMail, which is basically a packaged version of Postfix and the other bits that make Postfix cool, like Spamassassin, greylisting and an LDAP or MySql back-end. One thing I wanted with iRedMail...

Configuring CAS On Ubuntu For Two-Factor Authentication With WiKID Single sign-on is a great technology. Requiring users to login to multiple applications is huge hassle, encourages password reuse and simple passwords. Security needs to focus on usability. If you can make...

The Perfect Server – CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel...

How To Install RoundCube 0.7 For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze This will guide you thru the installation of the latest stable version of RoundCube (currently version 0.7) and get it to work together with ISPConfig 3. This guide should work for...

The Perfect Server – CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.1 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel...

SQUID Proxy On RHEL5/CentOS – Everything That You Should Know About [Part 1] The main feature or duty of a proxy server could be a gateway that receives HTTP requests from clients and forwards the request to the destination and relays the...

Setting Up Unison File Synchronization Between Two Servers On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Ubuntu 11.10 servers with Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, but the big difference is that it...

Finding Out Package Dependencies With apt-rdepends On Debian/Ubuntu Sometimes you need to find out all the dependencies of a package. This tutorial explains how to use apt-rdepends to recursively list all dependencies of a Debian/Ubuntu package. . Read the rest at howtoforge.net. ...

Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 12 (GNOME 2) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint 12 Lisa desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can...

Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 12 (GNOME 2) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint 12 Lisa desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can...

PDNSD HowTo – A DNS Caching Personal Server (Fedora 16) PDNSD is a non authoritative caching DNS server. It maintains a disk cache of the queries that your system performs and subsequent queries will be faster from the cache....

Running Joomla 1.7 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Joomla 1.7 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux...

Running Joomla 1.7 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Joomla 1.7 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux...

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 6.0 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support. . Read...

The Perfect Desktop – Pinguy OS 11.10 (Beta) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Pinguy OS desktop 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...

vsftpd: Local And Virtual Users With Bash Scripts For User Maintainance (CentOS 6.0) vsftpd is the most popular FTP server in the Linux world and is secure and fast. Recently I had to configure a FTP server quickly onto a CentOS server setup...

How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME) This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a trusted...

Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Squeeze (Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/MySQL) This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard, a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Squeeze mailserver. Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new...

Install GNOME 3 (With Mint GNOME Shell Extensions) Or Mate On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) This tutorial shows you how you can install the GNOME 3 desktop on Ubuntu 11.10 with the shell extensions that are used in the Linux Mint 12 release...

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.7 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.7 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL...

Mounting Remote Directories With SSHFS On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial explains how you can mount a directory from a remote server on the local server securely using SSHFS. SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a filesystem that serves files/directories securely...

Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD This article is about how to create a DVD image of the Ubuntu distribution on your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Remastersys. Remastersys allows you...

Simple Bash Script To Work As A Daemon If you need some snippets or codes to run for ever, but not more that one instance, you need to rapidly check the code, or script and if it has died! It’s the time...

Enabling Compiz On Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). Xubuntu uses...

Running Contao 2.10.2 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Contao 2.10.2 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux...

The Perfect Server – OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig...

Indicate Mail Accounts On Your Desktop (Ubuntu) This article is about how to get informed about new mails without actually opening your mail client using a handy indication tool called popper. Popper is silently running in the background and gives you a notice when...

The Perfect Desktop – Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do...

Install Memcached And PHP5-MemCached Module On Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) “Memcached is free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.” This article is going...

Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 11.10 Server Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tools that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: “But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why...

Stronghenge Application Firewall Stronghenge is an Out-of-Band Application Firewall that can inspect both HTTP and HTTPS traffic for attacks against your web applications. Since Stronghenge’s detection engine is based off of the most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide, Snort, it’s easy to start...

The Perfect Desktop – OpenSUSE 12.1 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 desktop 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...

Running Mailman On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 The Mailman package from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories comes with a configuration for Apache, but not for nginx. This tutorial shows how you can use the Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 Mailman package in an nginx vhost....

The Perfect Server – OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3] This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP,...

How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server) This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.4 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 12.1. . Read the rest at howtoforge.net. ...

Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 11.10 This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 11.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a ...

Enabling Compiz On A Fedora 16 GNOME Classic Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Fedora 16 GNOME classic desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here)....

Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11) This article is about how to back up your files with the file based back-up program duplicity’s Graphical User Interface déjà dup. I have tried the tutorial on the Linux Mint 11 distribution,...

How To Password-Protect Directories With mod_auth_mysql On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze) This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_auth_mysql on Apache2 on a Debian Squeeze server. It is an alternative to the plain-text password files...

Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 11.4 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on OpenSUSE 11.4. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline...

The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 16 i686 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 16 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...

Enabling Compiz Fusion On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Unity desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion...

How To Upgrade From Fedora 15 To Fedora 16 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15 system to Fedora 16. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations. . Read the rest at howtoforge.net. ...