Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04

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

How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam

If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain to detect which of the sites is vulnerable and sends the spam emails. This tutorial explains the installation of a small wrapper script which logs email messages sent trough the PHP mail() function.

Recompiling PHP5 With Bundled Support For GD On Ubuntu

You'll learn how to recompile PHP5 with bundled support for GD on Ubuntu to use advanced GD functions for image editing, like desaturation, and so on.

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Install PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd On Debian (Lenny) With Imap, MySQL, Sqlite3 And ImageMagick Support

This tutorial covers the setup of PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd on Debian (lenny) with imap, mysql, mysqli, sqlite3, ImageMagick and mycrypt support.

Goldfish, A PHP Autoresponder Script For The HowtoForge "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail " Setups

Goldfish is a quite simple autoresponder script (written in PHP) for Postfix. It consists of only one PHP file which can be started through a cronjob. It works with our "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail" tutorials (it cannot be used for other setups, especially Postfix setups that don't use a MySQL database).

Basic Web Server On Ubuntu 9.04 With Zend Framework

This is a brief description of the steps required to set up a basic Web Server (on Ubuntu 9.04) with the Zend Framework installed.

Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (Debian Lenny)

This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Debian Lenny system. From the eAccelerator project page: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04

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

How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.3

This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.3 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against bufferoverflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections."