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".

• Debian Wheezy Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, samba, storage • Comments: 4

  Debian Wheezy Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Debian Wheezy 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 Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, nginx, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy 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 Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Wheezy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, debian, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 14

  LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• nginx: How To Set A Connection Limit For Search Engine Bots Gone Wild (Especially Bingbot)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: nginx, web server • Comments: 1

  As a server administrator you might know this problem: you have done everything to optimize your server and it's working really well, and along comes a stupid search engine bot (like Bingbot) and hits all your vhosts at the same time with hundreds of connections, making your server load go up. Of course, you don't want to completely block the bot (unless you don't care about that particular search engine), so you can use robots.txt and/or nginx to control connections of a search engine bot to your server.

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• How To Use Multiple PHP Versions (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) With ISPConfig 3 (Ubuntu 13.04)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, php, ubuntu, control panels, ispconfig, web server, nginx • Comments: 4

  How To Use Multiple PHP Versions (PHP-FPM & FastCGI) With ISPConfig 3 (Ubuntu 13.04) Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on an Ubuntu 13.04 server. These PHP versions can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig.

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• Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Wheezy

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

  Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Wheezy TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger (> 500 pages), it is getting very slow. Fortunately, you can replace it with a search extension that uses the ultra-fast Apache Solr search server. This tutorial explains how to use Apache Solr with TYPO3 on Debian Wheezy.

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• Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Squeeze

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

  Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Squeeze TYPO3's default search extension called "Indexed Search" is fine for small web sites, but if your web site is bigger (> 500 pages), it is getting very slow. Fortunately, you can replace it with a search extension that uses the ultra-fast Apache Solr search server. This tutorial explains how to use Apache Solr with TYPO3 on Debian Squeeze.

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• The Perfect Server - Debian Wheezy (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: control panels, debian, ispconfig, nginx, web server • Comments: 38

  The Perfect Server - Debian Wheezy (nginx, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) 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 or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).

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• Using ngx_pagespeed With nginx On Debian Wheezy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, nginx, web server • Comments: 4

  Google has just released PageSpeed Beta for nginx, the nginx equivalent of mod_pagespeed for Apache. This module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times. This tutorial explains how to use PageSpeed with nginx on Debian Wheezy.

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• How To Upgrade Debian Squeeze To Wheezy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian • Comments: 22

  How To Upgrade Debian Squeeze To Wheezy The new Debian Wheezy has just been released. This tutorial explains how to upgrade your system from Debian Squeeze to Debian Wheezy.

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