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.

• I have deleted a site/domain and now want to create a new site/domain with the same name but ISPConfig 2 does not allow it.

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig • Comments: 0

  Most probably the deleted site/domain is still in the recycle bin. You have to delete them first in the recycle bin before you are able to create a new object with that name.

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• During install I get the following error: "configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under /usr."

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig • Comments: 0

  To install ISPConfig 2, the MySQL Devel packages are necessary. After you installed the mysql-devel package from your linux distro, you can run the ISPConfig setup again.

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• Building packages for ISPConfig 2 (.pkg).

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig • Comments: 0

  Here is a small guide on how to start with package building for ISPConfig 2: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3178

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• Is there a way to remotely manage your system with ISPConfig 2?

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: ispconfig • Comments: 0

  This functionality is now available as ISPConfig 2 plugin. You can add / modify / delete users, websites, dns-records, clients and resellers via a SOAP interface from external applications and scripts.http://www.ispconfig.org/remoting_plugin.htm

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