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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How To Upgrade Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) To 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) (Desktop & Server)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 How To Upgrade Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) To 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) (Desktop & Server) The new Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) has just been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 11.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 11.10.
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How To Migrate Mailboxes Between IMAP Servers With imapcopy
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: email, linux •
Comments: 7 How To Migrate Mailboxes Between IMAP Servers With imapcopy This guide explains how you can migrate mailboxes between IMAP servers with imapcopy. imapcopy lets you copy recursively all email messages and folders from one imap account to another. It supports the protocols imap and imaps.
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ubuntu, web server, nginx •
Comments: 6 Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline three solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second and third solution are very similar - both use a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, control panels, ispconfig •
Comments: 10 The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 x86_64 server 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 web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 5 Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 11.04 server.
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Fedora 15 - Error: Package: glibc-2.14-5.i686 (updates) Requires: glibc-common = 2.14-5
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: errors •
Comments: 0 Error: Fedora 15 - Error: Package: glibc-2.14-5.i686 (updates) Requires: glibc-common = 2.14-5 You get an error like the following one on Fedora 15: Error: Package: glibc-2.14-5.i686 (updates) Requires: glibc-common = 2.14-5 Installed: glibc-common-2.14-7.x86_64 (@updates-testing) glibc-common = 2.14-7 Available: glibc-common-2.13.90-9.x86_64 (fedora) glibc-common = 2.13.90-9 Available: glibc-common-2.14-5.x86_64 (updates) glibc-common = 2.14-5 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem ** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: nss_db-2.2.3-0.5.pre1.fc15.x86_64 has missing requires of libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) nss_db-2.2.3-0.5.pre1.fc15.x86_64 has missing requires of libnss_files.so.2(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)
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Mounting Remote Directories With SSHFS On Debian Squeeze
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, security, storage •
Comments: 2 Mounting Remote Directories With SSHFS On Debian Squeeze This tutorial explains how you can mount a directory from a remote server on the local server securely using SSHFS. SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a filesystem that serves files/directories securely over SSH, and local users can use them just as if the were local files/directories. On the local computer, the remote share is mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). I will use Debian Squeeze for both the local and the remote server.
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Running Magento 1.6.0.0 On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, nginx, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 2 Running Magento 1.6.0.0 On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 This tutorial shows how you can install and run Magento 1.6.0.0 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Magento is an open-source, feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Magento Community Edition here which is licensed under an open source certified license (OSL v3.0). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.
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Using Old Debian Versions In Your sources.list
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 14 Using Old Debian Versions In Your sources.list You might be in a situation where you have a sytem with an old Debian version that has reached end of life, like Etch, Sarge, Woody, etc., and a distribution upgrade is not an option for you (maybe because you have customized the system so much that you fear breaking the system by doing a distribution upgrade). The "normal" repositories for these old versions do not exist anymore, which means you cannot install new software or update existing packages using apt. This tutorial shows how you can modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to still get packages for your old Debian version using apt.
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How To Create A Debian Wheezy (Testing) OpenVZ Template
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, openvz, virtualization •
Comments: 2 How To Create A Debian Wheezy (Testing) OpenVZ Template This tutorial explains how to create an OpenVZ template for Debian Wheezy (Debian Testing) that you can use to create virtual Debian Wheezy machines under OpenVZ. I searched for a Debian Wheezy OpenVZ template, but couldn't find one, that's why I decided to create it myself. This guide can also be used for creating Debian Lenny templates and templates for recent Ubuntu versions.
