Creating Advanced MySQL-Based Virtual Hosts On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)

Creating Advanced MySQL-Based Virtual Hosts On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)

This guide explains how you can create advanced virtual hosts on a
lighttpd web server on Debian Squeeze that are stored in a MySQL
database. The method described here does no…

Creating Simple Virtual Hosts With mod_mysql_vhost On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)

Creating Simple Virtual Hosts With mod_mysql_vhost On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)

This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple
virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Squeeze. With
mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read th…

Debian Community celebrates its 19th birthday

The Debian community is pleased to celebrate its 19th birthday since Ian Murdock’s original founding announcement [1]. Quoting from the official project history [2]: “The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a ‘distribution’ of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution [...]

Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city

On August 16, the Debian community will celebrate its 19th birthday since Ian Murdock’s original founding announcement [1]. As is tradition, the Debian communities all around the world will gather to celebrate it with Debian Birthday parties. 1 : http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6 A Debian Birthday party is a fun event, globally marking the appreciation and the joy of [...]

Debian Project News – July 30th, 2012

Welcome to this year’s fifteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian Med team report from LSM * DebConf13 Logo Contest: final round voting * Rapsberry Pi + Debian = Raspbian! * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical [...]

Configure An Email Gateway With Scrollout F1 Anti-Spam & DLP

Configure An Email Gateway With Scrollout F1 Anti-Spam & DLP

An email gateway (a.k.a. firewall) is a machine (physical or virtual)
installed between Internet and the email server. Its primary role is to
protect the email server by filtering inc…

OpenVZ: Mounting Host Devices/Partitions/Directories In A Container With Bind Mounts (Debian/Ubuntu)

OpenVZ: Mounting Host Devices/Partitions/Directories In A Container With Bind Mounts (Debian/Ubuntu)

Sometimes you are in a situation where you need to mount a hard
drive, partiiton or directory from the OpenVZ host inside an OpenVZ
container – for…

Debian Project News – July 12th, 2012

Welcome to this year’s fourteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * New artwork for “Wheezy” * Reports from DebCamp * Bits from the DPL * Debian Maintainer Dashboard, a new UDD frontend * Interviews * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the upcoming [...]

Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze

Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And duply On Debian Squeeze

When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give
you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider’s backup
systems. This tutorial shows how you …

Debian Project News – June 25th, 2012

Welcome to this year’s thirteenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * DebConf11 financial report * Countdown to the freeze * Debian mirror redirector * Internationalisation sprint * Salzburg bug squashing party * Presentation in Romania * Bits from the DPL * Other news * Upcoming [...]

Debian Project News – June 11th, 2012

Welcome to this year’s twelfth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian archive rebuilds on Amazon Web Services * Debian welcomes diversity * armhf and s390x on their way to Wheezy * DebConf13 logo contest * First bug squashing party in Shanghai * Bits from [...]

Running Shopware Community Edition (Version 3.5.6) On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.04

Running Shopware Community Edition (Version 3.5.6) On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Shopware Community Edition (version 3.5.6) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 12.04 system that has nginx inst…

Install Scrollout F1 Anti-Spam Firewall on Ubuntu or Debian in 30 minutes

Scrollout F1 is a free anti-spam and anti-virus email firewall (gateway) for multiple domains and email servers. This document describes how
to install Scrollout F1 from scratch, on a fresh Ubuntu Server or Debian.

The installation is easy.
Even …

High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.0.x On Debian Squeeze – Automatic File Replication Across Two Storage Servers

High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.0.x On Debian Squeeze –
Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Squeeze) that use Gluste…

Debian Project News – May 28th, 2012

Welcome to this year’s eleventh issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the Release Team * Removal of Qt3 from Debian * Report from Debian Utsavam * Interviews * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Release-Critical bugs statistics for the [...]

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Debian Squeeze

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Debian Squeeze

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 p…

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

This tutorial describes how you can set up a single dedicated server
as a virtual multiserver environment using OpenVZ …

How To Configure Apache To Use Radius For Two-Factor Authentication On Ubuntu 12.04

How To Configure Apache To Use Radius For Two-Factor Authentication On Ubuntu 12.04

This document describes how to add WiKID two-factor authentication to Apache 2.2.22 using mod_auth_radius on Ubuntu 12.04. It is also recommended that you consider usi…

Running OXID eShop Community Edition (Version 4.5.9) On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

Running OXID eShop Community Edition (Version 4.5.9) On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run OXID eShop Community Edition (version 4.5.9) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx …

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.0.x On Debian Squeeze

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.0.x On Debian Squeeze

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Squeeze. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS
here. The client system will be able to acces…