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• The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 15 (Olivia)

  Author: CSch • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 12

  The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Wheezy (AMD64)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, debian, openvz • Comments: 7

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Wheezy (AMD64) In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Wheezy server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

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• Running New Shopware Version 4.0.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Ubuntu 12.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: nginx, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 2

  Running New Shopware Version 4.0.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Ubuntu 12.04 This tutorial shows how you can install and run the new Shopware version 4.0.x on an Ubuntu 12.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Shopware is a feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Community Edition here which is free. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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• Installing FreeIPA With Replication

  Author: amergrgic • Tags: centos • Comments: 10

  Installing FreeIPA With Replication Do you need a single point to add users within your organization for authenticating to multiple backends like your Linux servers? You've probably looked at OpenLDAP and found the same problem a lot of other users have: bad documentation and ridiculously hard to configure. Having done some installations of OpenLDAP in the past, the search was on to find a good alternative and more importantly, one that is far easier to do and has a good gui and CLI for adding users and groups.

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• Debian Wheezy Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, samba, storage • Comments: 4

  Debian Wheezy Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Debian Wheezy and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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• Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, nginx, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).

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• Functions In PHP

  Author: haroon • Tags: php • Comments: 2

  Functions In PHP Functions are considered to be a complicated topic in programming and many newbies think it will cost them a hand and a leg to master them. But mark my words and mark them well - functions are your friends and they are one of the easiest and most effective things in programming to learn.

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• Secure ISPConfig 3 And Services With GoDaddy Signed Certificate On CentOS

  Author: Hairy • Tags: security, centos, control panels, ispconfig • Comments: 2

  Secure ISPConfig 3 And Services With GoDaddy Signed Certificate On CentOS Let's set up a signed certificate from GoDaddy for the ISPConfig control panel, Pure-FTPD, Postfix, Dovecot, phpMyAdmin, and Squirrelmail. Don't forget to replace pluto.example.com with your own FQDN throughout this entire section!

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Wheezy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, debian, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 14

  LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• nginx: How To Set A Connection Limit For Search Engine Bots Gone Wild (Especially Bingbot)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: nginx, web server • Comments: 1

  As a server administrator you might know this problem: you have done everything to optimize your server and it's working really well, and along comes a stupid search engine bot (like Bingbot) and hits all your vhosts at the same time with hundreds of connections, making your server load go up. Of course, you don't want to completely block the bot (unless you don't care about that particular search engine), so you can use robots.txt and/or nginx to control connections of a search engine bot to your server.

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