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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Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Static HTML Files)
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, lighttpd • Comments: 10Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Static HTML Files) This benchmark shows how Apache2 (version 2.2.3) and lighttpd (version 1.4.13) perform compared to each other when delivering a static HTML file (about 50KB in size). This benchmark was created with the help of ab (Apache benchmark) on a VMware vm (Debian Etch); if you try this yourself, your numbers might differ (depending on your hardware), but the tendency should be the same.
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Installing Joomla 1.5.6 On A Lighttpd Web Server (Debian Etch)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd •
Comments: 4 Installing Joomla 1.5.6 On A Lighttpd Web Server (Debian Etch) This guide explains how you can install Joomla 1.5.6 on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. Joomla comes with an .htaccess file with mod_rewrite rules (for Apache) (to enable search-engine friendly URLs) that do not work on lighttpd. Fortunately Joomla has a built-in method to make search-engine friendly URLs work on lighttpd as well.
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Installing Drupal 6.4 On A Lighttpd Web Server (Debian Etch)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd •
Comments: 1 Installing Drupal 6.4 On A Lighttpd Web Server (Debian Etch) This guide explains how you can install Drupal 6.4 on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. Drupal comes with an .htaccess file with mod_rewrite rules (for Apache) that do not work on lighttpd. Without this .htaccess file it is not possible to have clean URLs in your Drupal installation. Fortunately there's a way to make lighttpd behave as if it could read the .htaccess file.
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Installing memcached And The PHP5 memcache Module On Debian Etch (Apache2)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, php, debian •
Comments: 5 Installing memcached And The PHP5 memcache Module On Debian Etch (Apache2) This guide explains how to install memcached and the PHP5 memcache module on a Debian Etch system with Apache2. memcached is a daemon that can store objects in the system's memory (e.g. results of database queries) which can speed up your web site tremendously. You can use memcached over a network (i.e., install your web application on one server and memcached on another server), but usually you install both on one server to avoid the networking overhead.
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Installing Games On Ubuntu With Playdeb
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Installing Games On Ubuntu With Playdeb Playdeb is a repository for Ubuntu games that makes it easy to install games that are available on getdeb.net. This article shows how you can install games using Playdeb on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 9
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, lighttpd •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 9 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 9 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Port-Forwarding With rinetd On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 1 Port-Forwarding With rinetd On Debian Etch This article shows how you can do port-forwarding with rinetd on Debian Etch. rinetd allows you to forward ports from one system to another. This useful if you have moved your web sites to a new server with a different IP address. Of course, you have modified your DNS records, but it can take a few days until DNS changes become effective, and that is where rinetd comes into play. If clients still use the old DNS records, rinetd can redirect them to the new server. With rinetd, you do not have to fiddle with iptables rules.
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Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Gateway
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 1Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Gateway Untangle bundles common open-source applications for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network in one single Linux distribution. It can be integrated into existing networks either as a router or as a transparent bridge (directly behind the router, but before the switch that connects the client PCs with the router). The best thing about Untangle is that you don't have to reconfigure the client PCs - Untangle works out of the box.
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Tuning MySQL Performance with MySQLTuner
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mysql •
Comments: 13 Tuning MySQL Performance with MySQLTuner MySQLTuner is a Perl script that analyzes your MySQL performance and, based on the statistics it gathers, gives recommendations which variables you should adjust in order to increase performance. That way, you can tune your my.cnf file to tease out the last bit of performance from your MySQL server and make it work more efficiently.
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Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (Debian Etch)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd, php •
Comments: 0 Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (Debian Etch) This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Debian Etch system. From the eAccelerator project page: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."
