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 Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, mysql, nginx, php, web server •
Comments: 9 Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0 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 CentOS 6.0 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.0 x86_64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, centos, email, postfix •
Comments: 4 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.0 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 (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database that 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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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2 x86_64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, centos, email, postfix •
Comments: 14 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2 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, ClamAV and SquirrelMail.
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Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On CentOS 6.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, php, web server •
Comments: 5 Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On CentOS 6.2 This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.2 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 Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, nginx, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.2 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 CentOS 6.2 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10 - Automatic File Replication Across Two Storage Servers
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: high-availability, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10 - Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 11.10) 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 11.10 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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Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 11.10. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system 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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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 6.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, ftp, security •
Comments: 0 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a CentOS 6.2 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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Server Monitoring With Icinga On Ubuntu 11.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: monitoring, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 Server Monitoring With Icinga On Ubuntu 11.10 Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on an Ubuntu 11.10 server to monitor this server and another Ubuntu 11.10 server.
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Debian Squeeze
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd, storage, web server •
Comments: 2 How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Debian Squeeze This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Debian Squeeze server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
