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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 10.04

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:11:55 +0200

How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Ubuntu 10.04

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 10.04. 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.

Installing Liferay 6.0.5 Community Edition Bundled With Tomcat On Ubuntu 10.04

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:29:24 +0200

Installing Liferay 6.0.5 Community Edition Bundled With Tomcat On Ubuntu 10.04

Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. Get the benefits of packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution.

How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:55:47 +0200

How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04

This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Ubuntu 10.04 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Ubuntu 10.04). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers. USB-over-IP can be useful for virtual machines, for example, that don't have access to the host system's hardware - USB-over-IP allows virtual machines to use remote USB devices.

Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:28:04 +0200

Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. AoE stands for "ATA over Ethernet" and is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows AoE initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) AoE target using normal ethernet cabling. "Remote" in this case means "inside the same LAN" because AoE is not routable outside a LAN (this is a major difference compared to iSCSI). To the AoE initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:01:36 +0200

VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in

Today I will tell you how to set up a new Ubuntu 10.04 server which runs VMware server 2.0.2-x and the VMware Remote Console Plug-in.

Caching With Apache's mod_cache On Ubuntu 10.04

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:04:07 +0200

Caching With Apache's mod_cache On Ubuntu 10.04

This article explains how you can cache your web site contents with Apache's mod_cache on Ubuntu 10.04. If you have a high-traffic dynamic web site that generates lots of database queries on each request, you can decrease the server load dramatically by caching your content for a few minutes or more (that depends on how often you update your content).

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 10.04

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:47:01 +0200

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 10.04

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 10.04 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.

How To Set Up A Webgui Based Print Server On Ubuntu Server Using SWAT, CUPS, And SAMBA

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:10:55 +0200

How To Set Up A Webgui Based Print Server On Ubuntu Server Using SWAT, CUPS, And SAMBA

This how-to describes the process of setting up an intranet based print server using Ubuntu server. By using CUPS SAMBA and SWAT the final product is a webgui based solution to a headless print server.

Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:18:50 +0200

Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On Ubuntu 10.04

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:25:27 +0200

Chrooting Apache2 With mod_chroot On Ubuntu 10.04

This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 10.04 system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:42:40 +0200

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:09:52 +0200

Ubuntu 10.04 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.04 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.

Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:05:05 +0200

Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool

Some of you may know the commercial Flexnet Licencing Application (©Macrovision). It's a client-server based solution for managing the usage of socalled Flexnet-enabled applications. You can hold licenses of more than one product on one license-server. As you typically have to buy licenses and licenses can be expensive it would be nice to have a monitoring solution, to see the utilization of the precious licenses, wether they are underutilized (so money is wasted) or are always fully utilized (so that you can suspect that sometimes people can not do their work, or only delayed) which is also a waste of resources. As far as I know there are commercial applications for performing such reports, but again you have to spent money. Why not build a simple system yourself, which shows the actual and past usage in an "MRTG style"?

How To Make An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary, Docky & Gloobus-Preview)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:31:08 +0200

How To Make An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary, Docky & Gloobus-Preview)

This article shows how you can change the appearance of your Ubuntu 10.04 desktop so that it resembles a Mac. This can be achieved with the help of Elementary, Docky, and Gloobus-Preview. Elementary is a project that provides a popular icon set and GTK theme; Docky is an interactive dock (like the one you know from a Mac) that provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on your computer, and more; and Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file or directory.

How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:22:43 +0200

How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

After a long time waiting the most interesting update of the Intel drivers for linux is now a fact. We can now have this great hardware acceleration for playing h.264 video. Or in other words we now have Hardware acceleration for HD content with our Intel video cards. As an owner of U400-138 with Intel 4500 MHD I have been waiting for this over a year but now I can play 720p without an issue. And so here is how to install this.