Articles by Till Brehm
About Till Brehm
Over 20 years of experience as a software developer and Linux system administrator. Till Brehm is the founder and lead developer of the ISPConfig hosting control panel software (since 2000) and he founded HowtoForge in 2005 as a place to share Linux knowledge with other Linux enthusiasts.
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Using mount --bind To Move The Website And Email Directory Of a ISPConfig 3 Server To a New Directory
Author: till •
Tags: linux, debian, fedora, suse, ubuntu, centos, email, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 19 Use mount --bind To Move The Website And Email Directory Of a ISPConfig 3 Server To a New Directory In the following guide, I will explain the procedure on how to move the email and website directory of a ISPConfig 3 installation to a new partition. This might become handy when your current partition runs out of space.
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Install Ioncube Loader For All PHP Modes (CLI, CGI, FCGI And FPM) On Debian Wheezy
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, cherokee, debian, lighttpd, linux, nginx, php, web server •
Comments: 1 Install Ioncube Loader For All PHP Modes (CLI, CGI, FCGI And FPM) On Debian Wheezy In this tutorial I will explain the installation of Ioncube Loader on Debian Wheezy so that it can be used in all PHP Modes. If one of the php.ini files does not exist on your server, then this php mode is not installed and you can skip that php.ini file.
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Speed up apache webserver with mod_pagespeed and memcached on Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, debian •
Comments: 1 The page load time gets more and more important for websites to provide a better user experience and it is important for the search engine ranking as well. Google has developed the apache module "mod_pagespeed" to optimize and streamline the content delivery of the apache web server which reduces the load times of pages, especially when they use many assets like CSS files, javascript includes and images.
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How to find out if your server is affected from Openssl Heartbleed vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) and how to fix that
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: centos, debian, fedora, suse, ubuntu • Comments: 8How to find out if your server is affected from Openssl Heartbleed vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) and how to fix that A severe vulnerability in OpenSSL has been found, the vulnerability is named Heartbleed and affects the heartbeat implementation in Openssl version 1.0.1 up to version 1.0.1f. This velnerability can be used to get the private key of a SSL connection, so it is important to update the server immediately. The bug is fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.1g. All Major Linux Distributions have release updates to the vulnerability.
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Setting up an NFS Server and Client on Debian Wheezy
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, debian, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 3 This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on Debian Wheezy. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk. In this Tutorial I will show you two different NFS exports, the export of a client directory that stores files as user nobody / nogroup without preserving filesystem permissions and a export of the /var/www directory which preserves permissions and ownerships of files, as required on a hosting server setup.
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Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS & MySQL Database Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3
Author: till •
Tags: debian, control panels, ispconfig •
Comments: 36 Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS & MySQL Database Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3 This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS servers all managed trough a single ISPConfig 3 control panel. The setup described below uses five servers and can be extended easily to to a higher number of servers by just adding more servers. E.g. if you want to have two mailservers, do the setup steps from chapter 2 on both of these servers. If you want to set up more web servers, then install ISPConfig on all other web servers in expert mode except of the first one.
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Installing A Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster On Debian 6.0 With ISPConfig 3
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: control panels, debian, email, ispconfig, mysql, web server •
Comments: 46 Installing A Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster On Debian 6.0 With ISPConfig 3 This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers and Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and /var/vmail (email account data) folders.
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Installing OpenVZ + Management Of VMs Through ISPConfig 3 (Debian 6.0)
Author: till •
Tags: virtualization, debian, control panels, openvz, ispconfig •
Comments: 13 Installing OpenVZ + Management Of VMs Through ISPConfig 3 (Debian 6.0) This tutorial describes the installation of an OpenVZ host server to manage virtual machines from within the ISPConfig 3 hosting control panel. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualization technology for Linux servers, similar to jails on *BSD systems. ISPConfig 3 contains a module to manage OpenVZ virtual machines on the local server and on remote servers that run ISPConfig.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.1 [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: ispconfig, suse •
Comments: 24 The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.1 [ISPConfig 3] This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: ispconfig, suse •
Comments: 1 The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
