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".

• Running ProcessWire On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 13.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, nginx, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 2

  This tutorial shows how you can install and run ProcessWire on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 13.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). 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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• Fedora 19 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, samba, storage • Comments: 5

  This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 19 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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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 19

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, lighttpd, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 19 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 19 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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• Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 19

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, mysql, nginx, php, web server • Comments: 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 a Fedora 19 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 19 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, fedora, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 19 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 19 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• How To Upgrade From Fedora 18 To Fedora 19 With FedUp (Desktop & Server)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 4

  This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 18 system to Fedora 19 with the help of the Fedora Updater (FedUp). The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

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• Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Ubuntu 13.04)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: security, ubuntu • Comments: 1

  EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Ubuntu 13.04 to encrypt your data.

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• Encrypt Your Data With EncFS on Debian 7 (Wheezy)

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

  EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Wheezy to encrypt your data.

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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 13.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: lighttpd, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0

  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 13.04 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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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 13.04 (AMD64)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, ubuntu, openvz • Comments: 5

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 13.04 (AMD64) In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 13.04 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

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