[HowtoForge] Newsletter 09/17/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 09/17/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.8 Server x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
* Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP)
* How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)
* Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11
* How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3
* Secure Your Wordpress Blog Administration With Two-Factor Authentication
* Alfresco Community Installer For Ubuntu 9.04
* Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5

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The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.8 Server x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
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This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 4.8 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of CentOS 4.8, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-4.8-x86_64-ispconfig-2

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

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-debian-lenny-lamp

How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)
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This tutorial shows how you can limit the CPU usage of a process with the tool cpulimit on Debian/Ubuntu. cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much CPU. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-limit-cpu-usage-of-a-process-with-cpulimit-debian-ubuntu

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11
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This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-hosting-with-pureftpd-and-mysql-incl-quota-and-bandwidth-management-on-fedora-11

How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3
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This tutorial explains how you can install and configure APF - an interface to IPTables which lets you easily configure a full featured firewall to secure servers and workstations connected to a network. This guide describes an example installation on a server with cPanel but it's only a matter of port numbers which must be open for everything to work. APF can be used on any system.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-configure-advanced-policy-firewall-apf-on-centos-5.3

Secure Your Wordpress Blog Administration With Two-Factor Authentication
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Wordpress is a very popular blogging service. It was recently hit by a disturbing vulnerability that allowed attackers to reset the Administrator's password. While there is a patch for that vulnerability now, wouldn't it be best to not use static passwords? It is actually quite simple to add two-factor authentication to Wordpress.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/secure-your-wordpress-blog-administration-with-two-factor-authentication

Alfresco Community Installer For Ubuntu 9.04
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This script automates the setting up of Alfresco Community on Ubuntu Server 9.0.4 & Ubuntu Desktop 9.0.4. Alfresco is an enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/alfresco-community-installer-for-ubuntu-9.04

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5
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This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how branching rules can be built.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/firewall-access-policy-rulesets-part-5

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