Articles by Falko Timme

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".

  • Creating Virtual RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora Appliances For KVM With BoxGrinder (Fedora 17)

    fedora Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , , • Comments: 0

    Creating Virtual RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora Appliances For KVM With BoxGrinder (Fedora 17) BoxGrinder is a tool that allows you to build virtual machines (with RedHat, CentOS, Scientific Linux or Fedora as the OS) for multiple virtualization techniques. Currently it supports KVM, VMware, Amazon EC2, VirtualBox, and VirtualPC. This tutorial shows how to use BoxGrinder to create a CentOS 6 KVM guest on Fedora 17 and also how to deploy it to a remote KVM host.

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  • How To Set Up nginx As A Reverse Proxy For Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.04

    nginx Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , , • Comments: 5

    How To Set Up nginx As A Reverse Proxy For Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.04 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 set up nginx as a reverse proxy on front of an Apache2 web server on Ubuntu 12.04.

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  • Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.2)

    opensuse Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 1

    Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.2) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an OpenSUSE 12.2 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

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  • Make Browsers Cache Static Files On nginx

    nginx Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , • Comments: 5

    This tutorial explains how you can configure nginx to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files) to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your visitors' browsers. This saves bandwidth and makes your web site appear faster (if a user visits your site for a second time, static files will be fetched from the browser cache).

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  • Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.2

    lighttpd Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 0

    Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.2 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 12.2 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.

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  • OpenSUSE 12.2 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

    opensuse Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 2

    OpenSUSE 12.2 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 12.2 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.

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  • Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)

    apache Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 0

    Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on OpenSUSE 12.2.

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  • Running A Small Business Server With ClearOS 6.3.0 (Community Edition)

    Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , , • Comments: 2

    Running A Small Business Server With ClearOS 6.3.0 (Community Edition) This guide shows how you can install and run a Small Business Server with ClearOS 6.3.0 (Community Edition). With ClearOS, you can run various services (such as a file- and print server, a web proxy and content filter, a mail server, etc.) in your local network and manage them through an easy web interface. ClearOS provides apps for each of these tasks from its marketplace - many of them are free, some of them have to be paid for. ClearOS Community is open-source and free. There's also a professional version available for which you have to pay, but which in return provides better support, better tested apps and updates, etc.

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  • VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.2 On A Headless OpenSUSE 12.2 Server

    opensuse Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 1

    VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.2 On A Headless OpenSUSE 12.2 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.2 on a headless OpenSUSE 12.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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  • Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Fedora 17

    fedora Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 0

    Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Fedora 17 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Fedora 17. 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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