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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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, lighttpd, mysql, php •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11 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 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 9.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, mysql, php, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 9.04. 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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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, ftp •
Comments: 2 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.3 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Boot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: linux •
Comments: 2 Boot Linux Over HTTP With netboot.me This tutorial shows how you can boot Linux over HTTP with netboot.me. All that users need is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. netboot.me allows you to boot into the following distributions: Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu. netboot.me provides gpxe images for USB sticks, CDs, and also for floppies, i.e., you can boot from a USB sticks, a CD, or a floppy.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, mandriva, mysql, php •
Comments: 1 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2009.1 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2009.1 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, ftp •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 3How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu) This tutorial shows how you can limit the CPU usage of a process with the tool cpulimit on Debian/Ubuntu. cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much CPU. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, mysql, php •
Comments: 11 Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Lenny server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, php •
Comments: 18 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Lenny This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Debian Lenny. 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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How To Install Django On Debian Lenny (Apache2/mod_python)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian •
Comments: 2 How To Install Django On Debian Lenny (Apache2/mod_python) This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Lenny server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.
