Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP).
Simple Groupware is an open source enterprise groupware that offers
email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, project
management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text
search, extensions and many more. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much
less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster,
especially static files.

Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP).
ownCloud enables universal access to files through the widely
implemented WebDAV standard, providing a platform to easily view and
sync contacts, calendars and bookmarks across devices while supporting
sharing, viewing and editing via the web interface. It offers the
ease-of-use of Dropbox and box.net without vendor lock in. ownCloud
users can run its file sync and share services on their own hardware.
nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and
delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

Securing Your ISPConfig 3 Installation With A Free Class1 SSL Certificate From StartSSL

This tutorial shows how you can use a free Class1 SSL Certificate from StartSSL
to secure your ISPConfig 3 installation and get rid of self-signed
certificate warnings. The guide covers using the SSL certificate for the
ISPConfig web interface (both Apache2 and nginx), Postfix (for TLS
connections), Courier and Dovecot (for POP3s and IMAPs), and PureFTPd
(for TLS/FTPES connections). If you’ve installed monit and use HTTPS for
its web interface, I will show you how to use the StartSSL certificate
for it as well. This guide assumes you use Debian or Ubuntu; the
principle is the same for other distributions supported by ISPConfig 3,
but paths might differ.

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 jails on *BSD systems. ISPConfig 3 contains a module to manage OpenVZ virtual
machines on the local server and on remote servers that run ISPConfig.

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 = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP). The guide also covers the use of the nc_staticfilecache
extension which allows TYPO3 to cache pages as complete .html files for
faster delivery (increases response times for static pages by a factor
of 230; it’s similar to Drupal’s Boost module). nginx is a HTTP server
that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of
faster, especially static files.

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 is Mailman,
my favourite mailing list server. Integrating the two can be a mission
though, so here’s some instruction to save you from quite a bit of pain.

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 most Linux distributions but may differ on some parts.

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.

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 + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP).
nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and
delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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 email scanner and SpamAssassin. Written in Perl
and PHP, Maia Mailguard gives end-users control over how their mail is
processed by virus scanners and spam filters, while giving mail
administrators the power to configure site-wide defaults and limits.

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 + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP).
nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and
delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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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 to explain how to install memcached and
PHP5-MemCached module on a Debian 6.0(Squeeze) system with Apache2.

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. Nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than
Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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 provided by mod_auth and allows you to use
normal SQL syntax to create/modify delete users. You can also configure
mod_auth_mysql to authenticate against an existing MySQL user table.

Running SugarCRM Community Edition On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

SugarCRM is a
webbased CRM solution written in PHP. SugarCRM is available in different
flavours called “Editions” (“Community” (free), “Professional”, and
“Enterprise”). In this tutorial I will describe the installation of the free Community
Edition on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.04 system that has nginx
installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP). With the modules My Portal, Calendar, Activities, Contacts, Accounts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, Bugtracker, Documents and Email, SugarCRM Community Edition offers everything that can be expected from a CRM solution.

While watching his thin client boot up [Nav] noticed that it’s using some type of Linux kernel. He wondered if it were possible to run a full-blow desktop distribution on the device. A little poking around he got a Debian desktop distribution running on a thin client.

The hardware he’s working with is an HP t5325. It’s meant to be a dumb client, connecting to a backend machine like a Windows Terminal Server or via SSH. But it’s got a 1.2 GHz ARM processor and [Nav's] preliminary investigations revealed the it’s running a version of Debian for ARM. He used CTRL-C during the boot sequence to derail that process and dump him to a shell. The login was easy enough to guess as the username and password are both ‘root’.

Once he’s got that root access it was slash and burn time. He got rid of the HP-specific setup and made way for additional Debian modules like the apt system. This isn’t trivial, but he’s worked out a bunch of sticking points which makes the process easier. With the repository tools loaded you can install Xserver and Gnome for a full-blown desktop on the embedded hardware.

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Running SquirrelMail On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

The SquirrelMail package from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories comes
with a configuration file for Apache, but not for nginx. This tutorial
shows how you can use the Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 SquirrelMail
package in an nginx vhost. Nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less
resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially
static files.

Using GeoIP With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

This tutorial explains how to use the GeoIP module with nginx on
Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 to find out where your visitors come from.
The GeoIP module sets multiple variables like $geoip_country_name, $geoip_country_code, $geoip_city,
etc. that you can use in your PHP scripts or directly in your nginx
configuration, for example to serve content in different languages based
on the user’s country.

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 has a large variety of tools and features
to use. It can be used for quick editing like resizing images or
adjusting the colours of photographs, but also for more professional
tasks which depend on layered images and more. It is a good mixture
between MS Paint and professional image editing tools and is
recommendable for most purposes of image-editing-everyday-use.

Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS & MySQL Database Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3
multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS
servers all managed trough a single ISPConfig 3 control panel. The setup
described below uses five servers and can be extended easily to to a
higher number of servers by just adding more servers. E.g. if you want
to have two mailservers, do the setup steps from chapter 2 on both of
these servers. If you want to set up more web servers, then install
ISPConfig on all other web servers in expert mode except of the first
one.

Running phpMyAdmin On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

The phpMyAdmin package from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories comes with
configuration files for Apache and Lighttpd, but not for nginx. This
tutorial shows how you can use the Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04
phpMyAdmin package in an nginx vhost. Nginx is a HTTP server that uses
much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster,
especially static files.

Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with
nginx on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04. While nginx itself does not serve
CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline three
solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a
small web server that has CGI support, while the second and third
solution are very similar – both use a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.

PHP-FPM/Nginx Security In Shared Hosting Environments (Debian/Ubuntu)

If you want to use nginx and PHP-FPM for shared hosting environments,
you should make up your mind about security. In Apache/PHP
environments, you can use suExec and/or suPHP to make PHP execute under
individual user accounts instead of a system user like www-data.
There’s no such thing for PHP-FPM, but fortunately PHP-FPM allows us to
set up a “pool” for each web site that makes PHP scripts execute as the
user/group defined in that pool. This gives you all the benefits of
suPHP, and in addition to that you don’t have any FTP or SCP transfer
problems because PHP scripts don’t need to be owned by a specific
user/group to be executed as the user/group defined in the pool.

Mounting Remote Directories With SSHFS On Debian Squeeze

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 over SSH, and
local users can use them just as if the were local files/directories. On
the local computer, the remote share is mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in
Userspace). I will use Debian Squeeze for both the local and the remote
server.

Running Magento 1.6.0.0 On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Magento 1.6.0.0 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP).
Magento is an open-source, feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use
the Magento Community Edition here which is licensed under

an open source certified license
(OSL v3.0). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than
Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

The Perfect Desktop – Mepis 11

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mepis
11 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 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. Mepis is a Linux distribution based on Debian Stable.

Using Old Debian Versions In Your sources.list

You might be in a situation where you have a sytem with an old Debian
version that has reached end of life, like Etch, Sarge, Woody, etc.,
and a distribution upgrade is not an option for you (maybe because you
have customized the system so much that you fear breaking the system by
doing a distribution upgrade). The “normal” repositories for these old
versions do not exist anymore, which means you cannot install new
software or update existing packages using apt. This tutorial shows how
you can modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to still get packages for your old Debian version using apt.

How To Create A Debian Wheezy (Testing) OpenVZ Template

This tutorial explains how to create an OpenVZ template for Debian
Wheezy (Debian Testing) that you can use to create virtual Debian Wheezy
machines under OpenVZ. I searched for a Debian Wheezy OpenVZ template,
but couldn’t find one, that’s why I decided to create it myself. This
guide can also be used for creating Debian Lenny templates and templates
for recent Ubuntu versions.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
MySQL Admin tool on an Ubuntu 11.04 system and how to connect to a
remote host with it. This should also work on most Debian based
operating systems.