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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:42:40 +0200

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:09:52 +0200

Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.04 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.

Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:05:05 +0200

Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool

Some of you may know the commercial Flexnet Licencing Application (©Macrovision). It's a client-server based solution for managing the usage of socalled Flexnet-enabled applications. You can hold licenses of more than one product on one license-server. As you typically have to buy licenses and licenses can be expensive it would be nice to have a monitoring solution, to see the utilization of the precious licenses, wether they are underutilized (so money is wasted) or are always fully utilized (so that you can suspect that sometimes people can not do their work, or only delayed) which is also a waste of resources. As far as I know there are commercial applications for performing such reports, but again you have to spent money. Why not build a simple system yourself, which shows the actual and past usage in an "MRTG style"?

How To Make An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary, Docky & Gloobus-Preview)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:31:08 +0200

How To Make An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary, Docky & Gloobus-Preview)

This article shows how you can change the appearance of your Ubuntu 10.04 desktop so that it resembles a Mac. This can be achieved with the help of Elementary, Docky, and Gloobus-Preview. Elementary is a project that provides a popular icon set and GTK theme; Docky is an interactive dock (like the one you know from a Mac) that provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on your computer, and more; and Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file or directory.

How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:43 +0200

How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

After a long time waiting the most interesting update of the Intel drivers for linux is now a fact. We can now have this great hardware acceleration for playing h.264 video. Or in other words we now have Hardware acceleration for HD content with our Intel video cards. As an owner of U400-138 with Intel 4500 MHD I have been waiting for this over a year but now I can play 720p without an issue. And so here is how to install this.

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:01:10 +0200

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Ubuntu 10.04 system. The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:27:24 +0200

Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

How To Install BIKA LIMS Inkosi On Ubuntu Server In 15 Minutes

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:53:54 +0200

How To Install BIKA LIMS Inkosi On Ubuntu Server In 15 Minutes

This howto describes how to build a standalone BIKA LIMS solution on top of Ubuntu server. Once you have downloaded and installed the basic Ubuntu the whole process of cutting and pasting takes about 15 minutes.

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:56:48 +0200

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 10.04). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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.

Installing Nginx With PHP 5.3 And PHP-FPM On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:41:07 +0200

Installing Nginx With PHP 5.3 And PHP-FPM On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)

In this post I will explain how to install Nginx with PHP 5.3.2 and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04-amd64). The Lucid release is a Long-Term Support (LTS), meaning that it will be supported for three years on the desktop and for five years with the server version.

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:14:30 +0200

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

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 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.04)

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:26:51 +0200

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.04)

This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix 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.

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04 (LAMP)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:50:39 +0200

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:56:29 +0200

How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

This guide explains how to install Alfresco Community 3.3 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.