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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:52:02 +0100

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Nginx [ISPConfig 3]

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:00:24 +0100

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Nginx [ISPConfig 3]

This tutorial shows how to prepare an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx and Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

Stronghenge Application Firewall

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:30:37 +0100

Stronghenge Application Firewall

Stronghenge is an Out-of-Band Application Firewall that can inspect both HTTP and HTTPS traffic for attacks against your web applications. Since Stronghenge's detection engine is based off of the most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide, Snort, it's easy to start using. Additionally, since it's an Out- of-Band solution it requires little to no modification to your existing network. With Snort's powerful regular expression support, you can implement a positive or negative security model. With it's standalone decryption engine for RSA algorithms and custom Snort additions, it can be deployed as a single or multiple appliance configuration where one device can do decryption where the other can do detection and blocking. However, this tutorial will just cover how to deploy as a single appliance configuration.

The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 12.1 (GNOME)

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:11:05 +0100

The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 12.1 (GNOME)

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:09:31 +0100

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64 With Apache2 [ISPConfig 3]

This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, Mailman, etc. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.

How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server)

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:15:44 +0100

How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server)

This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.4 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 12.1.

Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 11.4

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:07:31 +0100

Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 11.4

This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on OpenSUSE 11.4. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.

Installing Verax NMS On SuSE, RedHat, And Debian

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:59:17 +0200

Installing Verax NMS On SuSE, RedHat, And Debian

This guide descibes installation process of commercial non-free version of Verax NMS (Linux/Unix installation package is available for commercial version only). The Verax NMS can be installed on 32 and 64 bit Linux distributions including: SuSE, RedHat Enterprise and Debian using i386 and x64 architectures and any other environment supporting Java 1.6 or higher (AS/400, FreeBSD and others).

Editing Images With Pinta

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:12:49 +0200

Editing Images With Pinta

This article is about how to use the Pinta graphical editor to edit pictures and covers some of its most important features. Pinta is a lightweight image editor for Linux and is far more easier to handle than Gimp but still has a large variety of tools and features to use. It can be used for quick editing like resizing images or adjusting the colours of photographs, but also for more professional tasks which depend on layered images and more. It is a good mixture between MS Paint and professional image editing tools and is recommendable for most purposes of image-editing-everyday-use.

Install Tomcat And Deploy Web Applications With Rex

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:38:04 +0200

Install Tomcat And Deploy Web Applications With Rex

In this tutorial I will show you how to manage your Tomcat installations and how to deploy Webapps in a repeatable way with Rex. In this tutorial I will use Debian Squeeze, but Rex is also available for other distributions.

Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:58:36 +0200

Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an OpenSUSE 11.4 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

How To Set Up A Postgresql 9.0 Hot Standby Streaming Replication Server With Repmgr On OpenSUSE 11.4

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:53:23 +0200

How To Set Up A Postgresql 9.0 Hot Standby Streaming Replication Server With Repmgr On OpenSUSE 11.4

This is a tutorial how to set up a postgresql replicated hot standby server with streaming replication, and we also set up the repmgr to monitor and manage the replication cluster. Unlike most tutorials that copy the database file from master to slave (or standby) in the middle of running pg_start_backup() and pg_end_backup(), repmgr is used to simplify the whole procedure. (But I still think that procedure helps you a lot to understand how postgresql warm standby, pitr, and hot standby replication work.)

OpenSUSE 11.4 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:08:15 +0200

OpenSUSE 11.4 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 11.4 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.

Script For Automatically Setting Up A Perfect Server On OpenSUSE 11.4 And Installing ISPConfig 3

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:43:24 +0200

Script For Automatically Setting Up A Perfect Server On OpenSUSE 11.4 And Installing ISPConfig 3

Here's a little script that automates the task of setting up a Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3], and in the end it also installs ISPConfig 3.

How To Upgrade DRBD Userland Version To 8.3.9 Under OpenSUSE 11.4

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:24:46 +0200

How To Upgrade DRBD Userland Version To 8.3.9 Under OpenSUSE 11.4

This documentation shows you how to compile the drbd package 8.3.9 based on the OpenSUSE 11.4 kernel source tree (we do need to build the kernel source tree, but we do not need to recompile the kernel). It is for test purposes only, and it works for my working environment and I cannot guarantee that this works for you.