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Tutorial: Using Solr with TYPO3 on Debian 6

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TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger (> 500 pages), it is getting very slow. Fortunately, you can replace it with a search extension that uses the ultra-fast Apache Solr search server. This tutorial explains how to use Apache Solr with TYPO3 on Debian Squeeze. read more...

permapage | score:9959 | -falko, May 16, 2013

Using ngx_pagespeed with nginx On Debian 7

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Google has just released PageSpeed Beta for nginx, the nginx equivalent of mod_pagespeed for Apache. This module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times. This tutorial explains how to use PageSpeed with nginx on Debian Wheezy. read more...

permapage | score:9923 | -falko, May 10, 2013

Tutorial: Build a Debian 7 Server

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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier). read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9921 | -falko, May 13, 2013

tutorial: Build a Debian 7 server

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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers Apache (instead of nginx), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier). read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9905 | -falko, May 9, 2013

Tutorial: Upgrade Debian 6 to 7

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The new Debian Wheezy has just been released. This tutorial explains how to upgrade your system from Debian Squeeze to Debian Wheezy. read more...

permapage | score:9883 | -falko, May 8, 2013

Tutorial: Automatically add a disclaimer to emails with alterMIME (Postfix on Debian 6)

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This tutorial shows how to install and use alterMIME. alterMIME is a tool that can automatically add a disclaimer to emails. In this article I will explain how to install it as a Postfix filter on Debian Squeeze. read more...

permapage | score:9740 | -falko, January 18, 2013

Tutorial: Run Joomla 1.7 on Nginx on Debian 6, Ubuntu 11.10

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Joomla 1.7 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. read more...

permapage | score:9709 | -falko, December 15, 2011

Tutorial: PrestaShop 1.5.x on Nginx (Debian 7/Ubuntu 12.10

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a PrestaShop 1.5.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. read more...

permapage | score:9703 | -falko, April 8, 2013

Tutorial: Install Piwigo Gallery on Nginx (Debian 7)

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Piwigo gallery site with nginx, configured for vhosts, on a Debian Wheezy system. Piwigo is a gallery-website with many plugins. In this sample we configure the vhost "gallery.domain.tld". read more...

permapage | score:9700 | -falko, April 20, 2013

Tutorial: Run ActiveCollab 3 on Nginx (LEMP) on Debian 7/Ubuntu 12.10

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run activeCollab 3 on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. read more...

permapage | score:9666 | -falko, April 14, 2013

Tutorial: Build PHP 5.4 from Source on Debian 6

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This tutorial describes how you can build PHP 5.4 from source on Debian Squeeze. Later on, we will install more modules through PECL and add it as an additional PHP version to ISPConfig's dropdown. At the end you will have a fully function PHP 5.4 installation which is selectable within the ISPConfig interface and a .deb package than can be used on other server as well. read more...

permapage | score:9591 | -falko, March 25, 2013

Tutorial: Redaxo 4.4.x on Nginx (LEMP) on Debian, Ubuntu

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Redaxo 4.4.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. read more...

permapage | score:9587 | -falko, April 6, 2013

Tutorial: Use multiple PHP versions (Debian 7)

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Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on a Debian Wheezy server. These PHP versions can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig. read more...

permapage | score:9566 | -falko, March 31, 2013

Tutorial: Install Debian 7 (testing) with debootstrap from a Grml live Linux

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This tutorial explains how to install Debian Wheezy (testing) with the help of debootstrap from a Grml Live Linux system (like it is used as a rescue system at Webtropia). This should work - with minor changes - for other Debian and Ubuntu versions as well. By following this guide, it is possible to configure the system to your needs (OS version, partitioning, RAID, LVM, etc.) instead of depending on the few pre-configured images that your server provider offers. read more...

permapage | score:9521 | -falko, January 19, 2013

Rsnapshot: Archive, Snapshot, Backup MySQL Databases on Debian

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This howto will show you how to install and set up Rsnapshot, enable archiving of snapshots and how to back up MySQL databases on Debian. Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals. read more...

permapage | score:9442 | -falko, January 14, 2013

High-resolution text console with uvesafb in Debian/Ubuntu

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While you may rarely use the console on your server, it's nice to have a high-resolution display just to see that many more columns and rows. Linux's vesa module (via the vga= parameter) has been around for a while and made this possible, provided you kept up with what VGA mode number to use and don't mind the spotty hardware compatibility.

While KMS is the way to do this in the future, it doesn't help us with the drivers and hardware we have now. A new kernel module, uvesafb, mainlined in 2.6.24, is another, new option. In addition to specifying modes in a more user-friendly way (i.e. 1280x1024-32 for 32-bit color, with a 1280x1024 resolution), hardware compatibility is better in particular, you can now get a high-resolution text console with NVIDIA display adapters.

In the following, I describe how to use uvesafb on Debian and derivative distributions (i.e. Ubuntu). The instructions assume kernel 2.6.27 or higher.

(and here's a bit of high resolution digital art) read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9439 | -tamasrepus, November 11, 2010 (Updated: April 24, 2012)

ClusterFS Tutorial: High-Availability Storage on Debian

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This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Lenny) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Debian Lenny as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86-64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9375 | -falko, June 9, 2009

Linux Mint Debian disk partitioning tutorial

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Linux Mint Debian Edition, or LMDE, is the edition of Linux Mint based on Debian Testing. The latest release was made available for download on December 24, 2010. The installation program on this edition is similar to the Ubiquity installation program, which is used on the main edition, the one based on Ubuntu. But while the Ubiquity installation program incorporates an automatic disk partitioning phase, the LMDE lacks it. As a result, installation of LMDE requires that the disk be partitioned manually . This tutorial offers a step by step on how to partition a disk for installing LMDE. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9375 | -finid, December 29, 2010

Tutorial: Set up a GlusterFS Samba Storage Server on Debian 6

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This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian 6.0, using GlusterFS and SAMBA, and custom scripts and settings to make life easier. The SAMBA share will reside on a GlusterFS share which consists out of two storage nodes for high-availability. read more...

permapage | score:9367 | -falko, February 1, 2013

Tutorial: Run Contao 3.x on Nginx on Debian 7/Ubuntu 12.10

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Contao 3.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. read more...

permapage | score:9356 | -falko, February 4, 2013

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