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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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 11.10 With Nginx [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu, control panels, ispconfig, web server, nginx •
Comments: 4 The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 11.10 With Nginx [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx and Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 11.10)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, email, postfix, ubuntu •
Comments: 7 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 11.10) 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 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. 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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Ubuntu 11.10 + saslauthd: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no mechanism available
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: errors •
Comments: 12 Error: Ubuntu 11.10 + saslauthd: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no mechanism available You have installed Postfix with saslauthd on Ubuntu 11.10 and get the following error in /var/log/mail.log when you try to send an email: server1 postfix/smtpd[7868]: warning: unknown[1.2.3.4]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no mechanism available
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Fedora 15
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, nginx, web server •
Comments: 1 Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On Fedora 15 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Fedora 15. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.7
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, openvz, virtualization •
Comments: 0 Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.7 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 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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Setting Up Network RAID1 With DRBD On Ubuntu 11.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ubuntu, high-availability, storage •
Comments: 2 Setting Up Network RAID1 With DRBD On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how to set up network RAID1 with the help of DRBD on two Ubuntu 11.10 systems. DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device and allows you to mirror block devices over a network. This is useful for high-availability setups (like a HA NFS server) because if one node fails, all data is still available from the other node.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 2 The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.7 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).
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How To Migrate Mailboxes Between IMAP Servers With IMAP TOOLS
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: email, linux •
Comments: 3 How To Migrate Mailboxes Between IMAP Servers With IMAP TOOLS This guide explains how you can migrate mailboxes between IMAP servers with IMAP TOOLS. IMAP TOOLS is a collection of Perl scripts that allow you to do various tasks with IMAP servers and also POP3 servers. In this article I will focus on the scripts imapcopy.pl (copies messages and mailboxes from one IMAP server to another) and pop3toimap.pl (copies POP3 messages to an IMAP server). Both scripts support SSL. If you specify port 993 (995 for POP3) then an SSL connection is initiated. If the port number is 143 (110 for POP3) then it will try a non-SSL connection. With any other value the port will be tested to see if it supports SSL. If so, SSL will be used to make the connection; otherwise a non-SSL connection will be made.
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On CentOS 6.0
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, web server, nginx •
Comments: 3 Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On CentOS 6.0 This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on CentOS 6.0. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 11.10 [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, control panels, email, ispconfig, postfix, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 22 The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 11.10 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) 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: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
