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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How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.4
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, php, security •
Comments: 6 How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.4 This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.4 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against bufferoverflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections."
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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10) This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Ubuntu 9.10. I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd's mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, ftp •
Comments: 1 Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Ubuntu 9.10 This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 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.
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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, lighttpd •
Comments: 0 Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny) This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny. I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd's mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, suse •
Comments: 0 How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On OpenSUSE 11.2 This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.2 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.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, lighttpd, mysql, php •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 12 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring •
Comments: 11 Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Lenny server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems (like "We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.
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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10 This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, suse •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
