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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Creating Advanced MySQL-Based Virtual Hosts On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd, mysql, web server •
Comments: 0 Creating Advanced MySQL-Based Virtual Hosts On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze) This guide explains how you can create advanced virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Squeeze that are stored in a MySQL database. The method described here does not use the lighttpd mod_mysql_vhost module, and unlike mod_mysql_vhost (which allows you to store only the hostname and document root of a vhost in a database), this method allows to store individual configuration directives for each vhost in the MySQL database.
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Creating Simple Virtual Hosts With mod_mysql_vhost On Lighttpd (Debian Squeeze)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd, web server •
Comments: 0 This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Squeeze. With mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read the vhost configuration from a MySQL database. Currently, you can store the domain and the document root in the MySQL database which results in very simple virtual hosts. If you need more directives for your vhosts, you'd have to configure them in the global section of lighttpd.conf, which means they'd be valid for all vhosts. Therefore, mod_mysql_vhost is ideal if your vhosts differ only in the domain and document root.
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CentOS 6.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, samba, storage •
Comments: 2 CentOS 6.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 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 CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, lighttpd, mysql, php, web server •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Centos 6.3 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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Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On CentOS 6.3 This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on a CentOS 6.3 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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Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Fedora 17)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 0 Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Fedora 17) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on a Fedora 17 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.
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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Fedora 17 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 0 VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Fedora 17 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Fedora 17 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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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (nginx, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server, nginx •
Comments: 6 The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (nginx, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server 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: nginx web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache.
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Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, php, web server •
Comments: 0 Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On CentOS 6.3 This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 (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.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 (LAMP)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, mysql, php, web server •
Comments: 10 LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
