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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Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, security, suse, web server •
Comments: 1 Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On OpenSUSE 11.2 This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 11.2 system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 4 Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 13 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 13 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 3 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 13 x86_64)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, fedora, postfix •
Comments: 3 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 13 x86_64) This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix 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.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, fedora, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, debian, web server •
Comments: 3 Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian Lenny This tutorial explains how you can generate statistics for your web site with AWStats and JAWStats on a Debian Lenny web server. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web server statistics. JAWStats runs in conjunction with AWStats and produces clear and informative charts, graphs and tables about your website visitors. AWStats is able to create graphical web pages for the statistics, but JAWStats presents this data in a much nicer way - it's much better organized and makes use of Ajax and Flash.
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How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 7 How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 10.04). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).
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Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, powerdns •
Comments: 0 Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12 This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.
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Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, kvm, virtualization •
Comments: 1 Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 13 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.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 5.4
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, ftp, security •
Comments: 0 How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On CentOS 5.4 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a CentOS 5.4 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
