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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 15 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, fedora, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 15 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 15 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• Introduction To The Ubuntu Unity Desktop

  Author: CSch • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 20

  Introduction To The Ubuntu Unity Desktop This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through some new features of the Unity desktop, Ubuntu's new desktop environment used since Ubuntu 11.04. The prime subject will be the launcher, which is something like a side-dock, and how to configure it the way it fits your likings most.

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• How To Take Screenshots Of Your Android Smartphone

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: android, desktop • Comments: 21

  How To Take Screenshots Of Your Android Smartphone Unfortunately it is not possible to directly take screenshots of an Android phone (e.g. by tapping on a button). This tutorial shows you how you can take screenshots of an Android smartphone with the help of a computer where the Android SDK is installed.

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• Fedora 15 - ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 0

  Error: Fedora 15 - ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory While you run virt-manager on a Fedora 15 desktop and try to connect to a KVM host, you get the following error message: cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Host key verification failed. : Connection reset by peer Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1055, in _try_open     None], flags)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, in openAuth     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Host key verification failed. : Connection reset by peer

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• Ubuntu 11.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: samba, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 1

  This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.04 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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• [solved] MySQL - Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors, mysql • Comments: 1

  You see the following error while executing a MySQL query: 'ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 138: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes'. Here is the solution

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• Courier-IMAP - imapd: Maximum connection limit reached for

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 0

  Error: Courier-IMAP - imapd: Maximum connection limit reached for You cannot connect to Courier-IMAP and see the following errors in your mail log: Aug 08 11:25:45 server1 imapd: Maximum connection limit reached for ::ffff:1.2.3.4

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• Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: cherokee, mysql, php, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 2

  Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04 Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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• Debian Squeeze/Apache2/PHP5 - PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/ming.ini on

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 1

  Error: Debian Squeeze/Apache2/PHP5 - PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 You see the following lines in Apache's error log (/var/log/apache2/error.log): PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/ps.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0

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• Debian/Apache2/WebDAV - Permission denied: Could not open property database.

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: errors • Comments: 0

  Error: Debian/Apache2/WebDAV - Permission denied: Could not open property database. You use Apache2 with WebDAV on Debian and see this in Apache's error log (/var/log/apache2/error.log): [Wed Jun 11 15:39:04 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.46] (13)Permission denied: Could not open property database. [500, #1]

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