Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On
Mandriva 2010.0

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on
Mandriva 2010.0. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The
client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local
filesystem.

GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several
peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or
TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system.
Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64
servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

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How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Mandriva 2010.0

This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Mandriva
2010.0 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Mandriva 2010.0).
The USB/IP
Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP
network. To share USB devices between computers with their full
functionality, USB/IP encapsulates “USB I/O messages” into TCP/IP
payloads and transmits them between computers. USB-over-IP can be useful
for virtual machines, for example, that don’t have access to the host
system’s hardware – USB-over-IP allows virtual machines to use remote
USB devices.

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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Mandriva 2010.0

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Mandriva
2010.0 server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics
about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage,
CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much
configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like
Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a
restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The
combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you
recognize current or upcoming problems (like “We need a bigger server
soon, our load average is increasing rapidly.”), and a watchdog that
ensures the availability of the monitored services.

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Mandriva 2010.0 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Mandriva 2010.0 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a
standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup,
every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol
and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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Virtualization With KVM On A Mandriva 2010.0 Server

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and
running virtual machines on a Mandriva 2010.0 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.

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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Mandriva 2010.0 Server

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x
on a headless Mandriva 2010.0 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.

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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2010.0 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’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.

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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2010.0 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
Mandriva 2010.0 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.1

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.

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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Mandriva 2009.1

This document describes how to install a Proftpd 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 with
this setup.

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The Perfect Server – Mandriva 2010.0 Free (x86_64) [ISPConfig 2]

This tutorial shows how to set up a Mandriva 2010.0 Free (x86_64)
server that offers all services needed by ISPs and 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 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of Mandriva 2010.0.

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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Mandriva 2009.1

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Mandriva 2009.1 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to
be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to
upload and download files.

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How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Mandriva 2009.1

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a Mandriva 2009.1 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be
downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to
upload and download files.

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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
Mandriva 2009.1 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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The Perfect Desktop – Mandriva One 2010.0 With GNOME

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2010.0 desktop (with the GNOME
desktop environment) 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.

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How To Install Django On Mandriva 2009.1 (Apache2/mod_python)

This tutorial explains how to install Django
on a Mandriva 2009.1 server. Django is a web framework that allows to
develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as
possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.

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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1

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
Mandriva 2009.1 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL
support.

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Mandriva 2009.1 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Mandriva 2009.1 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a
standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup,
every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol
and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.1 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’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.

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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Mandriva 2009.1

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid
and PHP5 on Mandriva 2009.1. 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.

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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2009.1 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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