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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Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Ubuntu 12.04)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 5 Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Ubuntu 12.04) 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 an Ubuntu 12.04 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.
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Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 1 Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.04 SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on Ubuntu 12.04.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04 This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.04) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 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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Ubuntu 12.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: samba, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 12.04 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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ProFTPd: Enabling/Disabling TLS Based On User Or Group
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, security •
Comments: 5 ProFTPd: Enabling/Disabling TLS Based On User Or Group FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. While this is a good thing, not all FTP clients support TLS. This article explains how to enable or disable TLS in ProFTPd based on the FTP user or group.
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Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On Fedora 17
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, php, fedora, web server •
Comments: 0 Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On Fedora 17 This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 17 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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Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Fedora 17
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, fedora, web server •
Comments: 1 Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Fedora 17 SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on Fedora 17.
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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: cherokee, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 2 Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 12.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Setting Up vsftpd + TLS On Debian Squeeze
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ftp, security •
Comments: 0 Setting Up vsftpd + TLS On Debian Squeeze FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up vsftpd with TLS on a Debian Squeeze server.
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Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) (Paravirtualization & Hardware Virtualization)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, virtualization, xen •
Comments: 11 Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) (Paravirtualization & Hardware Virtualization) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 4.1.2) on a CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other, but still use the same hardware.
