[HowtoForge] Newsletter 12/29/2009

HowtoForge Newsletter 12/29/2009
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New HOWTOs:
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* Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 9.10
* Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 12 x86_64)
* Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
* How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.10
* Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.10
* Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0 (LAMP)
* How To Build A Low Cost SAN
* Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 11

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Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 9.10
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This guide explans how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-9.10

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 12 x86_64)
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This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-fedora-12-x86_64

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 9.10. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system 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.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-an-nfs-like-standalone-storage-server-with-glusterfs-on-ubuntu-9.10

How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-on-ubuntu-9.10

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.10
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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 9.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-lighttpd-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-9.10

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0 (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 Mandriva 2010.0 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-mandriva-2010.0-lamp

How To Build A Low Cost SAN
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In today's world there is a obvious need of information sharing in every department and network storage can help us to achieve this most growing challenge. Here in this article we are focusing our concentration to make a low-cost SAN.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-build-a-low-cost-san

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 11
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This document describes how to install a Proftpd 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 with this setup.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-hosting-with-proftpd-and-mysql-fedora-11

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