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Highly Available NFS Server Using DRBD And Heartbeat On Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:13:47 +0100

Highly Available NFS Server Using DRBD And Heartbeat On Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

This HowTo explains how I set up a highly available NFS server using Debian 5 (Lenny) and drbd8 with heartbeat.

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:34:10 +0100

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny

Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd 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.

Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:59:10 +0100

Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)

This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny. I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd's mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.

Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:20:18 +0100

Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Lenny 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.

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Debian Lenny Server

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:09:55 +0100

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Debian Lenny Server

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Debian Lenny 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.

Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:23:29 +0100

Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian

Since Apache is most of the time a memory hungy process, people started to look for different ways to host their website. Apache is clearly not the only webserver available. A few good examples are lighttpd and nginx. In this tutorial I will show you how to install it on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial also applies to Debian, though. There is only a very small difference.

How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:24:12 +0100

How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny

Debian Etch is soon to be unsupported by the Debian team, therefore all Debian Linux Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny. I work for Netzen (an IT Support company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the past months, so I am providing this guide on how to upgrade Debian Etch to Debian Lenny to the HowtoForge community.

Trafficanalysis Using Debian Lenny

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:09:47 +0100

Trafficanalysis Using Debian Lenny

By using my Network Monitoring Appliance we noticed a link in MRTG always under heavy load. On this link a lot of different traffic aggregates, so we decided to analyze of what quantities of protocols and therefore applications the cumulative traffic consists.

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:48:35 +0100

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Lenny server.

Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:05:21 +0100

Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny

module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages. This tutorial shows how to use module-assistant in command-line mode and in interactive mode.

How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Debian Lenny

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:10:47 +0100

How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Debian Lenny

This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Debian Lenny as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Debian Lenny). 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.

How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:11:17 +0100

How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny

This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end. We use the mod_ssl Apache module here to provide strong cryptography for Apache2 via SSL by the help of the Open Source SSL toolkit OpenSSL.

Setting Up Freeswitch On Debian 5 (Lenny)

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:01:51 +0100

Setting Up Freeswitch On Debian 5 (Lenny)

FreeSWITCH is an open-source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch. It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control the callflow.

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala / Debian 5 Lenny With Magnet Link Support

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:09:07 +0100

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala / Debian 5 Lenny With Magnet Link Support

rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the "screen" program provide you all the tools you need. This howto works for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and for Debian 5 Lenny.

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:33:07 +0100

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on Debian Lenny, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.