Articles by Falko Timme
About Falko Timme
Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".
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Creating Simple Virtual Hosts With mod_mysql_vhost On Lighttpd (Ubuntu 12.10)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 0 This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Ubuntu 12.10. With mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read the vhost configuration from a MySQL database. Currently, you can store the domain and the document root in the MySQL database which results in very simple virtual hosts. If you need more directives for your vhosts, you'd have to configure them in the global section of lighttpd.conf, which means they'd be valid for all vhosts. Therefore, mod_mysql_vhost is ideal if your vhosts differ only in the domain and document root.
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How To Convert An ext3/ext4 Root File System To btrfs On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu, storage •
Comments: 5 How To Convert An ext3/ext4 Root File System To btrfs On Ubuntu 12.10 ext3 and ext4 file systems can be converted to btrfs. For non-root file systems, this can be done online (i.e., without reboot), while for root file systems we need to boot into some kind of rescue system or Live CD. This guide explains how to convert an ext3 or ext4 root file system into btrfs on Ubuntu 12.10 and how to roll back to ext3/ext4 again if desired.
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.
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Rollback To A Working State With btrfs + apt-btrfs-snapshot On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu •
Comments: 6 This tutorial explains how you can revert failed apt operations (like apt-get upgrade) and roll back to the previous system state with apt-btrfs-snapshot on an Ubuntu 12.10 system that uses the btrfs file system. apt-btrfs-snapshot creates a snapshot of the system before the apt operation. Being able to easily restore the previous system state after a failed apt operation takes away much of the pain system administrators have to deal with normally and is one of the greatest features of the btrfs file system.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 12.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, php, suse, web server •
Comments: 0 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 12.2 This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 12.2. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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How To Install MySQL 5.6 On Ubuntu 12.10 (Including memcached Plugin)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mysql, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 How To Install MySQL 5.6 On Ubuntu 12.10 (Including memcached Plugin) According to What's New in MySQL 5.6, MySQL 5.6 will bring some performance improvements over MySQL 5.5. If you want to test out MySQL 5.6, you have to install one of the development releases from the MySQL downloads page because there is no stable release yet. This tutorial explains how to install the MySQL 5.6.8rc1 (Linux Generic) development release on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.
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The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 12.10 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. Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop environment.
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 12.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: suse, web server, nginx •
Comments: 0 Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 12.2 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on OpenSUSE 12.2. 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.
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Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 2 Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 12.10 This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 12.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.10 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 12.10 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.
