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Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE)
Author: grungy •
Tags: centos, debian, mysql •
Comments: 9 Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE) SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server. So if you use Debian or Centos and install your MySQL from a .deb or .rpm package this is how you do it.
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Fedora 18 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, samba, storage •
Comments: 3 Fedora 18 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 18 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 On Fedora 18
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, mysql, nginx, php, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 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 Fedora 18 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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How To Upgrade From Fedora 17 To Fedora 18 With FedUp (Desktop & Server)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 3 How To Upgrade From Fedora 17 To Fedora 18 With FedUp (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 17 system to Fedora 18 with the help of the Fedora Updater (FedUp). The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: high-availability, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 12.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 12.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, storage •
Comments: 0 This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running CentOS 6.3) with GlusterFS. The client system (CentOS 6.3 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, storage •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running CentOS 6.3) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (CentOS 6.3 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Installing Debian Wheezy (testing) With debootstrap From A Grml Live Linux
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: other, debian •
Comments: 1 Installing Debian Wheezy (testing) With debootstrap From A Grml Live Linux This tutorial explains how to install Debian Wheezy (testing) with the help of debootstrap from a Grml Live Linux system (like it is used as a rescue system at Webtropia). This should work - with minor changes - for other Debian and Ubuntu versions as well. By following this guide, it is possible to configure the system to your needs (OS version, partitioning, RAID, LVM, etc.) instead of depending on the few pre-configured images that your server provider offers.
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How To Automatically Add A Disclaimer To Outgoing Emails With alterMIME (Postfix On Debian Squeeze)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, email, postfix •
Comments: 6 This tutorial shows how to install and use alterMIME. alterMIME is a tool that can automatically add a disclaimer to emails. In this article I will explain how to install it as a Postfix filter on Debian Squeeze.
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How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, mysql, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 12.10 mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.
