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Posted in October 24th, 2011
The Perfect Server – CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.7
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…
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Posted in October 21st, 2011
How To Create A RAID1 Setup On An Existing CentOS/RedHat 6.0 System
This tutorial is for turning a single disk CentOS 6 system into a
two disk RAID1 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system
will still be able to bo…
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Posted in October 20th, 2011
Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On CentOS 6.0
This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with
nginx on CentOS 6.0. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are
several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: …
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Posted in October 9th, 2011
Editing Images With Pinta
This article is about how to use the Pinta graphical editor to edit pictures and covers some of its most important features. Pinta is a lightweight image editor for Linux and is far more easier
to handle than Gimp but still ha…
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Posted in September 27th, 2011
The Perfect Server – CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 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 conf…
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Posted in September 26th, 2011
Lessfs 1.5 On CentOS 5
For this HowTo I used a VirtualBox with CentOS 5.7 x86_64. I attached a
separate 20GB Data drive mounted to /data. This will hold the lessfs DB and data.
The lessfs mountpoint I put at /lessfs. This is a very basic setup, j…
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Posted in September 16th, 2011
Tiny Web Proxy And Content Filtering Appliance On CentOS 6 (Version 1.4)
This small HOWTO will show you how to set up a small virtual machine to speed
up and secure your home / small enterprise web surfing network using CentOS 6,
Squid 3.1 and Q…
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Posted in September 8th, 2011
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.0 x86_64)
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…
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Posted in August 28th, 2011
The Perfect Server – CentOS 6.0 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 6.0
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
TL…
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Posted in August 25th, 2011
Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.0 Server
This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and
running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.0 server. I will show how to
create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines tha…
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Posted in August 18th, 2011
Xtables-Addons On Centos 6 & Iptables GeoIP Filtering
This tutorial will explain how to install aditional modules for the
kernel to use with iptables rules sets (netfilter modules).
Xtables-addons is the successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). Likewis…
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Posted in August 14th, 2011
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0
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 …
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Posted in August 10th, 2011
Install Tomcat And Deploy Web Applications With Rex
In this tutorial I will show you how to manage your Tomcat
installations and how to deploy Webapps in a repeatable way with Rex. In
this tutorial I will use Debian Squeeze, but Rex is also …
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Posted in August 9th, 2011
How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.6
This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid
and PHP5 on CentOS 5.6. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the
older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts wi…
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Posted in August 8th, 2011
How To Create A Kickstart File For CentOS/Fedora/RedHat (RHEL)
Working for an IT Support company
means I am regularly installing CentOS, Fedora & Redhat on servers
and desktop computers. Following this guide will explain how to automate
the in…
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Posted in August 4th, 2011
The Perfect Server – CentOS 6.0 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 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 con…
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Posted in August 3rd, 2011
Installing rsnapshot On CentOS
Working for an IT Support
company I needed a solution for automatically backing up a bunch of
Linux servers, this guide will walk you through setting up rsnapshot on
CentOS for automated rsync & ssh binary diff b…
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Posted in July 28th, 2011
Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.0
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 server for
OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers
(VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver
proj…
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Posted in July 27th, 2011
Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6
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. T…
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Posted in July 22nd, 2011
How To Install, Secure, And Automate AWStats (CentOS/RHEL)
AWStats is a free and very powerful tool that generates advanced web,
streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. It can analyze
log files from all major server tools and convert …
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Posted in July 18th, 2011
VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless CentOS 5.6 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0
on a headless CentOS 5.6 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to
manage your …
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Posted in July 15th, 2011
How To Do A CentOS 6.0 Network Installation (Over HTTP)
This tutorial shows the process of installing
CentOS 6.0 using the HTTP NetInstall method.
This method is much faster for basic systems since you don’t have to
download ISO files or one hug…
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Posted in July 14th, 2011
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
CentOS 6.0 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Posted in July 10th, 2011
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6
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 5.6 server with PHP5 supp…
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Posted in July 8th, 2011
CentOS 5.6 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
CentOS 5.6 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol
as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a st…
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Posted in July 1st, 2011
How To Set Up An Openfire Instant Messaging Server On CentOS 5.6
In this current changing world of unified communication, organizations
and support teams require some form of communication to improve
efficiency and possibly customer satisfaction. In…
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Posted in June 22nd, 2011
Postfix/Dovecot Authentication Against Active Directory On CentOS 5.x
This document describes how to integrate Postfix/Dovecot with
Microsoft Active Directory on CentOS 5.x, and you can manage mail users
in Microsoft Active Directory. You will lear…
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Posted in June 14th, 2011
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
CentOS 5.6 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Posted in May 22nd, 2011
Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.6 (x86_64)
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.6 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux…
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Posted in April 26th, 2011
Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.6
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.6 server for
OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers
(VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver
proj…
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