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".

• The Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND & Dovecot [ISPConfig 3]

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, control panels, ispconfig • Comments: 32

  The Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) With BIND & Dovecot [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) 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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• Ubuntu/Postfix/Saslauthd - SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 3

  This article shows how to fix the following error message on an Ubuntu/Postfix/Saslauthd mail server - SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied.

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• SquirrelMail - Query: CREATE "Sent" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name.

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 0

  Error: SquirrelMail - Query: CREATE "Sent" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name. On CentOS/Fedora/RedHat, you see the follwing error message in SquirrelMail after you have logged in: Query: CREATE "Sent" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name.

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• Firefox - Content Encoding Error / Google Chrome - Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 7

  Error: Firefox - Content Encoding Error / Google Chrome - Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error. When you open a PHP page in your Firefox, you get the following error: Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. * Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. In Google Chrome, you get the following error: Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.

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• Postfix - do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 10

  Error: Postfix - do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains You see the following error in your mail log: Feb 24 21:42:39 mail postfix/trivial-rewrite[1896]: warning: do not list domain example.com in BOTH mydestination and virtual_mailbox_domains

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• [solved] Debian/Ubuntu - Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC

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

  You get an error like this one: "Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/share/perl/5.10.0 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/sa-update line 81.BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/sa-update line 81."

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• How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.6

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, centos, php, web server • Comments: 0

  How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.6 This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on CentOS 5.6. 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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• DesktopNova - Automatically Change Wallpapers On Ubuntu 11.04 (With Classic Gnome)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 6

  DesktopNova - Automatically Change Wallpapers On Ubuntu 11.04 (With Classic Gnome) DesktopNova is an application that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper after a preset period of time. It works with Gnome amd Xfce desktops. This tutorial shows how to use DesktopNova on an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop with the Classic Gnome interface.

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• PHP - It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.

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

  Error: PHP - It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You get the following warning when you run a PHP script: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.

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• yum - Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 0

  Error: yum - Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum. You install a package using yum (on Fedora/CentOS/RedHat) and get the warning: Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.

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