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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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 17 (LAMP)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, fedora, web server •
Comments: 8 Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 17 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: high-availability, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Distributed Replicated 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 a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network. If you lose one server from replication1 and one from replication2, the distributed volume continues to work. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 17
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, nginx, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 17 Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 17 x86_64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, email, fedora, postfix •
Comments: 0 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 17 x86_64) This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.
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High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04 - Automatic File Replication Across Two Storage Servers
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: high-availability, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 6 High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.04 - Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 12.04) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. 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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Running Shopware Community Edition (Version 3.5.6) On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, nginx, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 1 Running Shopware Community Edition (Version 3.5.6) On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.04 This tutorial shows how you can install and run Shopware Community Edition (version 3.5.6) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 12.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Shopware is a feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Community Edition here which is free. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.
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Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 1 Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and distributions in a guest, just like virt-manager. This article shows how you can use it on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM server.
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Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, php, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 12 Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 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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How To Upgrade From Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 (Desktop & Server)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 4 How To Upgrade From Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 16 system to Fedora 17. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 10 Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
