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Installing The Galera-Iworx Cluster
Author: DBezemer •
Tags: centos, high-availability •
Comments: 3 Installing The Galera-Iworx Cluster This document describes the installation of the Galera/Interworx cluster. This cluster provides the default Load Balancing that is available within Interworx, and additionally MySQL loadbalancing through MySQL Galera Clustering.
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How To Add WiKID Two-Factor Authentication To OpenVPN Community On Ubuntu 13.04
Author: nowen •
Tags: linux, security, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 How To Add WiKID Two-Factor Authentication To OpenVPN Community On Ubuntu 13.04 These instructions describe setting up two-factor authentication with WiKID Strong Authentication, which is a commercial/open source two-factor authentication system and OpenVPN, an SSL-encrypted VPN, on an Ubuntu 13.04 Linux server using the Radius Pluggable Authentication Module. First, we will configure PAM to use Radius, then we will configure OpenVPN to use PAM and one-time passwords, then we will create a network client on the WiKID server for OpenVPN. We won't go into specifics about installing these services, rather we will focus on configuring them to all work together.
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High Performance Linux Router With Optional LMS Web Panel And Radius Server In 5 Minutes
Author: kadzbi •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 4 High Performance Linux Router With Optional LMS Web Panel And Radius Server In 5 Minutes Every network administrator managing a pool of many routers, knows how important configuration repeatability is. For this reason I have presented how to install high performance router under Debian Linux OS with configuration done in an easily editable text files in few simple and pleasant steps. The whole installation should not take more than 5 minutes!
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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Wheezy
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring •
Comments: 8 Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Wheezy In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Wheezy server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server 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, and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.
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Multiarch: How To Use 32bit Packages On A 64bit System (Debian 7 Wheezy)
Author: planet_fox •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 3 Multiarch: How To Use 32bit Packages On A 64bit System (Debian 7 Wheezy) On Debian Wheezy, it is now possible to run a i386-linux-gnu application on an amd64-linux-gnu system. This is called Multiarch and refers to the capability of a system to install and run applications of multiple different binary targets on the same system.
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How To Use PHP 4.4.9 (FastCGI) With Apache & ISPConfig 3 (Debian Wheezy)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, control panels, debian, ispconfig, php, web server •
Comments: 15 Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. If you have some very old websites on your server, they might not work with PHP5, but only with PHP4. This tutorial shows how to build PHP 4.4.9 as a FastCGI version for use with Apache2 on a Debian Wheezy server. This PHP version can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig.
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Using RoundCube Webmail With ISPConfig 3 On Debian Wheezy (Apache2)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, control panels, debian, email, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 49 Using RoundCube Webmail With ISPConfig 3 On Debian Wheezy (Apache2) This guide explains how to install the RoundCube webmail application on a Debian Wheezy server running ISPConfig and Apache2, and how to enable the ISPConfig 3 plugins for RoundCube so that users can perform actions like changing their email passwords from within RoundCube. Roundcube webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface; it comes with functions like MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 12.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, suse, web server •
Comments: 0 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On OpenSUSE 12.3 This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 12.3. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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Back Up Route53 To S3
Author: rbabchis • Tags: dns • Comments: 1Back Up Route53 To S3 r53dump is a shell script that will connect to AWS Route53 service and dump all zones in Bind format for the specified account. Logging is done to syslog (check /var/log/syslog). Multiple accounts, multiple zones are supported. "cli53" is used for all connectivity with AWS systems. Dumped zones can optionally be sent to s3 automatically.
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High Availability NFS With DRBD + Heartbeat
Author: rbabchis • Tags: ubuntu, high-availability • Comments: 1High Availability NFS With DRBD + Heartbeat This document describes information collected during research and development of a clustered DRBD NFS solution. This project had two purposes: HA NFS solution for Media-X Inc.; develop a standard tool kit and documentation that Win2ix can use for future projects.
