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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:03:02 +0100

Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)

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 Ubuntu 9.10. 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.

How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Ubuntu 9.10

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:43 +0100

How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Ubuntu 9.10

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 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.

Using WebDAV With ISPConfig 3 On Ubuntu 9.10

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:58:19 +0100

Using WebDAV With ISPConfig 3 On Ubuntu 9.10

This guide explains how to set up and use WebDAV on a web site created with ISPConfig 3 on an Ubuntu 9.10 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.

Easy Way To Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Pendrive

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:40:27 +0100

Easy Way To Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Pendrive

This short guide explains how you can create a bootable Ubuntu USB pendrive.

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:31:12 +0100

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10

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.

Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu 9.10

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:34:40 +0100

Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu 9.10

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop to analyze the traffic on the local network card.

Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:05:23 +0100

Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10

AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.

How To Switch Permalink Structure In WordPress Under Ubuntu

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:45:39 +0100

How To Switch Permalink Structure In WordPress Under Ubuntu

There are certain things you need to tweak in Apache running under any Debian platform (including Ubuntu) in order to have it properly redirect webpages (301) after you change your permalink structure in WordPress.

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.10

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:44:33 +0100

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.10

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 an Ubuntu 9.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:43:37 +0100

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 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.

Installing Kernel Security Updates Without Reboot With Ksplice Uptrack On Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:29:07 +0100

Installing Kernel Security Updates Without Reboot With Ksplice Uptrack On Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop

Ksplice Uptrack is a subscription service that lets you apply 100% of the important kernel security updates released by your Linux vendor without rebooting. Ksplice Uptrack is freely available for the desktop versions of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. This tutorial shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop.

Install Multiple Linux Distributions Via PXE (The Easy Way)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:47:35 +0100

Install Multiple Linux Distributions Via PXE (The Easy Way)

The following script will set up a PXE config on your server, making it possible to install major Linux distributions via netboot.

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 Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:04:46 +0100

How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync. This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE command will also be carried out on the slave; but replication can help protect against hardware failures though.

Setting Up A PXE Install Server On Ubuntu 9.10

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:48:05 +0100

Setting Up A PXE Install Server On Ubuntu 9.10

This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. This is handy if your client computers don't have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up multiple computers at the same time (e.g. in a large enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs.