[HowtoForge] Newsletter 09/24/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 09/24/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny
* Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11
* How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3)
* Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny
* Installation & Configuration Of Intrusion Detection With Snort, ACIDBASE, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.04 Using SPM
* Paravirtualized OpenSolaris 2008.11 domU Using Debian Lenny
* Daily Journal With Panel Launcher
* Easier Reinstalls

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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny
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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 a Debian Lenny server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11
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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 a Fedora 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-cherokee-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-fedora-11

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3)
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This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running CentOS 5.3 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-software-raid1-on-a-running-system-incl-grub-configuration-centos-5.3

Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny
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This tutorial was written for the Debian Lenny distribution and supposes that the user has knowledge about what load balancing is and some basic skills of Linux, our two load balancers consist out of 2 machines that monitor each other [heartbeat], if the master stops responding the secondary one [Backup] will take the master role [Backup -> Master].

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-a-simple-high-availability-web-server-for-a-small-company-using-debian-lenny

Installation & Configuration Of Intrusion Detection With Snort, ACIDBASE, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.04 Using SPM
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This tutorial describes how to install and configure Snort intrusion detection system (IDS), ACIDBASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.04 using packages from Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager. Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which ACIDBASE will use to display in a graphical interface in web browser.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-and-configuration-of-intrusion-detection-with-snort-acidbase-mysql-and-apache2-on-ubuntu-9.04-using-spm

Paravirtualized OpenSolaris 2008.11 domU Using Debian Lenny
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This guide will help you to create an OpenSolaris paravirtualized Xen guest under Debian Lenny.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualized-opensolaris-2008.11-domu-using-debian-lenny

Daily Journal With Panel Launcher
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I keep a daily journal because my memory is not what it used to be. I have friends who keep daily journals just because they like to write. I use gedit for most text-related work and recently learned how to make a special panel launcher for my journal. I keep my daily journal in a folder called "office" but the month and year change, so my journal for this month is named 200908.journal or "yyyymm.journal". Now, making a panel launcher to open a file with gedit is no big deal but I found that using "gedit /home/user/office/*.journal" in the Command portion of the launcher doesn't work. I think this is due to the wildcard, "*", and I will show you how to overcome this problem. Using the month and year in the panel launcher requires that you edit the launcher every month and I didn't want to have to do that so I came up with a way to open a file from a panel launcher regardless of the file name.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/daily-journal-with-panel-launcher

Easier Reinstalls
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I typically reinstall my computer operating system every six months. The reasons for this are that it cleans out the system and reinstalls require me to be in front of the computer for a total of about ten minutes so it's painless. Notice I said "in front of the computer", the system does all of the work for me with some specially crafted bash scripts.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/easier-reinstalls

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