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".

• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd, mysql, php • Comments: 15

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Etch Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Etch server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• How To Save Traffic With mod_deflate On Lighttpd 1.4 (Debian Etch)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd • Comments: 0

  How To Save Traffic With mod_deflate On Lighttpd 1.4 (Debian Etch) In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_deflate on a lighttpd 1.4 web server on Debian Etch. mod_deflate is included by default in lighttpd 1.5, but not in 1.4 where mod_compress is used instead. The advantage of mod_deflate over mod_compress is that it can compress static and dynamic files (such as PHP files), whereas mod_compress can compress static files only. The lighttpd version coming with Debian Etch is 1.4.13, so we have to patch it to support mod_deflate. mod_deflate allows lighttpd to compress files and deliver them to clients (e.g. browsers) that can handle compressed content which most modern browsers do. With mod_deflate, you can compress HTML, text or XML files to approx. 20 - 30% of their original sizes, thus saving you server traffic and making your modem users happier.

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• Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Etch)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd • Comments: 1

  Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Etch) This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos). I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd's mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.

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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 10.3

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: lighttpd, php, suse • Comments: 1

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 10.3 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 10.3 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2008.0

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: lighttpd, mandriva, php • Comments: 0

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2008.0 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 2008.0 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Splitting lighttpd Logs With vlogger And Creating Statistics With Webalizer

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd • Comments: 0

  Splitting lighttpd Logs With vlogger And Creating Statistics With Webalizer Vlogger is a little tool with which you can write lighttpd logs broken down by virtual hosts and days. With vlogger, we need to put just one accesslog.filename directive into our global lighttpd configuration, and it will write access logs for each virtual host and day. Therefore, you do not have to split lighttpd's overall access log into access logs for each virtual host each day, and you do not have to configure lighttpd to write one access log per virtual host (which could make you run out of file descriptors very fast). At the end of this tutorial I will show you how to use webalizer to create statistics from the lighttpd access logs.

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• Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 8

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

  Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 8 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 8 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & lighttpd)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd, php • Comments: 1

  Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & lighttpd) This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system (with lighttpd). From the XCache project page: "XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load." It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.

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• Installing mod_geoip For Lighttpd On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, lighttpd • Comments: 0

  Installing mod_geoip for Lighttpd On Debian Etch This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with lighttpd on a Debian Etch system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting. I will show two ways to build mod_geoip - the first way is to build a new lighttpd .deb package (including mod_geoip) which is the way I recommend. This works only if you have installed the standard Debian Etch lighttpd package. If you've compiled lighttpd yourself, then the second way is for you: it shows how to build mod_geoip.so for your lighttpd version.

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• Installing mod_geoip for Lighttpd On Fedora 9

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, lighttpd • Comments: 1

  Installing mod_geoip for Lighttpd On Fedora 9 This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with lighttpd on a Fedora 9 system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting.

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