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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How To Build mod_fastcgi For Apache2 On OpenSUSE 12.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, suse, web server •
Comments: 0 How To Build mod_fastcgi For Apache2 On OpenSUSE 12.2 mod_fastcgi is needed for Apache prior to 2.4 to work with PHP-FPM. There is an apache2-mod_fastcgi package for OpenSUSE, but unfortunately it is buggy: it does not allow you to use the FastCgiExternalServer directive inside a vhost, although the official mod_fastcgi documentation says that this is allowed. This guide explains how to build a new mod_fastcgi from the sources for Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 12.2 system to fix this problem.
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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.2 On A Headless Fedora 18 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: virtualization, fedora, virtualbox •
Comments: 3 VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.2 On A Headless Fedora 18 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.2 on a headless Fedora 18 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.
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Scientific Linux 6.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: linux, samba, storage •
Comments: 0 Scientific Linux 6.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Scientific Linux 6.3 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 18
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, lighttpd, mysql, php, web server •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 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 18 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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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 12.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On Scientific Linux 6.3
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, openvz, virtualization • Comments: 0Installing And Using OpenVZ On Scientific Linux 6.3 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Scientific Linux 6.3 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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How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 18
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 2 This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 18. Since it has now been included in the repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora's default desktop at the moment is GNOME 3.
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How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 1 How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE) Thunar is the default file manager for XFCE desktops. While it is easy to integrate DropBox into Nautilus, the default file manager for GNOME, it is not so trivial for Thunar. This guide explains how to use DropBox with the Thunar file manager on a Fedora 18 XFCE desktop.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Fedora 18
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, ftp, security •
Comments: 0 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a Fedora 18 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
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The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 18 XFCE
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 4 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 18 desktop (with the XFCE desktop environment) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
