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Install Imule On Debian Lenny

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:59:21 +0200

Install Imule On Debian Lenny

When I write these lines, the latest version of Imule is 1.4.6. But ... It relies on packages version (libgcj10, libstdc++6) that are released with the unstable (sid) version of Debian. So either you upgrade Debian to unstable version or you choose a lower version of Imule. I chose the latter: to install an old version of Imule. I tested few of them and 1.3.5 seems to work quite well with Debian Lenny (stable).

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Lenny

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:33:25 +0200

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Lenny

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Lenny (Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/MySQL)

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:19:29 +0200

Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Lenny (Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/MySQL)

This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard, a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Lenny 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.

Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:24:22 +0200

Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny

This tutorial describes how you can monitor your server with the tool Bijk. Bijk creates online 30 graphs about load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, NginX, PostreSQL and others with alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and Gentoo. In this article I will explain how to install Bijk on Debian.

Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian Lenny

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:48:43 +0200

Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian Lenny

This tutorial explains how you can generate statistics for your web site with AWStats and JAWStats on a Debian Lenny web server. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web server statistics. JAWStats runs in conjunction with AWStats and produces clear and informative charts, graphs and tables about your website visitors. AWStats is able to create graphical web pages for the statistics, but JAWStats presents this data in a much nicer way - it's much better organized and makes use of Ajax and Flash.

Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:42:43 +0200

Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client.

Installing Nginx With PHP 5.3 And PHP-FPM On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) Without Compiling Anything

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:52:47 +0200

Installing Nginx With PHP 5.3 And PHP-FPM On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) Without Compiling Anything

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.

Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:25:20 +0200

Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Lenny

This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new). These graphs can be accessed with a browser, whereas pflogsumm ("Postfix Log Entry Summarizer") can be used to send reports of Postfix activity per email.

Using DPKG To Install OpenVZ On Debian

Mon, 24 May 2010 21:32:32 +0200

Using DPKG To Install OpenVZ On Debian

To use the DPKG package manager to install OpenVZ, all you need to do is download the OpenVZ components, and let DPKG do the rest.

Protect phpMyAdmin On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian)

Fri, 21 May 2010 15:30:14 +0200

Protect phpMyAdmin On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian)

With this small howto I explain how to protect your phpmyadmin installation on your Debian server with ISPConfig3 against hack attempts as much as possible. I assume that you already have an ISPConfig3 server running on Debian, which has been set up according to this howto and that phpmyadmin has been installed from the Debian repository into the directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin. With this default setup you can access phpMyAdmin via: http://www.anywebsiteonyourserver.tld/phpmyadmin, which we're going to change for security reasons.

Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE)

Wed, 19 May 2010 17:22:58 +0200

Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE)

SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server. So if you use Debian or Centos and install your MySQL from a .deb or .rpm package this is how you do it.

Nginx Catch-All Host As Front End To Apache For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Lenny

Mon, 17 May 2010 17:24:05 +0200

Nginx Catch-All Host As Front End To Apache For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Lenny

Apache has always been the web server of choice for me. It is a real beast when it comes to resources usage specially in a resource limited environment such as a VPS. I started playing with Nginx a lightweight, high performance web server. My area of interest was running Nginx as a reverse proxy and making it work in a Apache/ISPConfig 3 environment.

The Perfect Subversion Server - Debian Lenny [ISPConfig3]

Fri, 14 May 2010 15:20:51 +0200

The Perfect Subversion Server - Debian Lenny [ISPConfig3]

Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data, or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of a version control system as a sort of "time machine". This guide will help you setup the subversion system, and integrate it with your existing ISPConfig3 installation allowing you control over disk usage, quota and other factors in a very familiar way. Perhaps one day, somebody can use this process to create a plug in for ISPConfig3 that does all of this automatically.

HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached "Built-In Server Side Replication" On Debian Lenny

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:43:28 +0200

HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached "Built-In Server Side Replication" On Debian Lenny

People probably know about memcached and its high performance name-value based memory object cache interface. Its main purpose is to provide an easy to use distributed caching engine in a multinode environment. Have you ever wanted to let memcached handle replication?

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny With Coloured Interface

Wed, 05 May 2010 19:31:53 +0200

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx / Debian 5 Lenny With Coloured Interface

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 10.04 Lucid Lynx and for Debian 5 Lenny. The difference is that commands that contain sudo must be executed as root.