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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Installing A Web, Email And MySQL Database Cluster (Mirror) On Debian 5.0 With ISPConfig 3
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: apache, debian, high-availability, ispconfig, mysql, postfix •
Comments: 24 Installing A Web, Email And MySQL Database Cluster (Mirror) On Debian 5.0 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 5 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. GlusterFS will be used to mirror the data between the servers and ISPConfig for mirroring the configuration files. I will use a setup of two servers here for demonstration purposes but the setup can scale to a higher number of servers with only minor modifications in the GlusterFS configuration files.
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Installing A Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS And MySQL Database Servers On Debian 5.0 With ISPConfig 3
Author: till •
Tags: debian, ispconfig •
Comments: 19 Installing A Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web, Email, DNS And MySQL Database Servers On Debian 5.0 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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SAMBA (Domain Controller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger"
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: samba, storage • Comments: 41SAMBA (Domain Controller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" This is a detailed description about the steps to set up a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger) to act as file- and print server for Windows (tm) workstations in small workgroups. This howto uses the tdb backend for SAMBA to store passwords and account information. This is suitable for workgroups for up to 250 users and is easier to setup than an LDAP backend. A second howto covering the installation of LDAP + SAMBA will be published on HowtoForge soon.
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SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 6.10
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: samba, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 1SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 6.10 This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 6.10) to act as a file- and printserver for Windows (tm) workstations in small workgroups. This howto uses the tdb backend for SAMBA to store passwords and account information. This is suitable for workgroups for up to 250 users and is easier to set up than an LDAP backend.
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Debian 4.0 (Etch) Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Author: Till Brehm •
Tags: debian, samba, storage •
Comments: 2 This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba file server on Debian Etch and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as adding users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has its own home directory that is accessible via SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read/write access.
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Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: samba, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 2This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 7.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as standalone server, not as a domain controller. For this setup, I will use the Ubuntu Server installation CD but the same installation procedure will work on an Ubuntu desktop as well.
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SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 7.10
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: samba, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 2SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 7.10 This is a detailed description about setting up an Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 7.10) to act as file- and printserver for Windows(tm) workstations in small workgroups. This howto uses the tdb backend for SAMBA to store passwords and account information. This is suitable for workgroups for up to 250 users and is easier to set up than an LDAP backend.
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Recover Data From RAID1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD
Author: till • Tags: linux, other, storage • Comments: 5Recover Data From RAID1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD This tutorial describes how to rescue data from a single hard disk that was part of a LVM2 RAID1 setup like it is created by e.g the Fedora Core installer. Why is it so problematic to recover the data? Every single hard disk that formerly was a part of a LVM RAID1 setup contains all data that was stored in the RAID, but the hard disk cannot simply be mounted. First, a RAID setup must be configured for the partition(s) and then LVM must be set up to use this (these) RAID partition(s) before you will be able to mount it. I will use the Knoppix Linux LiveCD to do the data recovery.
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ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.0.4 "The Hoary Hedgehog"
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig, ubuntu • Comments: 24ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.0.4 "The Hoary Hedgehog" This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.0.4 - The Hoary Hedgehog) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/POP3s/IMAP/IMAPs, Quota, Firewall, etc.).
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ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger"
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig, ubuntu • Comments: 98ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/POP3s/IMAP/IMAPs, Quota, Firewall, etc.).
