[HowtoForge] Newsletter 01/21/2010

HowtoForge Newsletter 01/21/2010
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New HOWTOs:
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* How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
* Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
* Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12 (LAMP)
* Fedora 12 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
* How To Install Fedora 12 KDE
* Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
* Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-itk On Ubuntu 9.10
* Set Up Hudson For Continuous Integration Under Linux

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How To Set Up An SSL Vhost Under Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10/Debian Lenny
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This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end. We use the mod_ssl Apache module here to provide strong cryptography for Apache2 via SSL by the help of the Open Source SSL toolkit OpenSSL.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-an-ssl-vhost-under-apache2-on-ubuntu-9.10-debian-lenny

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network. If you lose one server from replication1 and one from replication2, the distributed volume continues to work. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) 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/distributed-replicated-storage-across-four-storage-nodes-with-glusterfs-on-ubuntu-9.10

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12 (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 Fedora 12 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-fedora-12-lamp

Fedora 12 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 12 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.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-12-samba-standalone-server-with-tdbsam-backend

How To Install Fedora 12 KDE
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This is a very brief howto on installing Fedora 12 KDE on 64 bit machines. I installed it on my laptop, tweaked it and still tweaking. So here goes.....

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-fedora-12-kde

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
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FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-proftpd-tls-on-ubuntu-9.10-karmic-koala

Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-itk On Ubuntu 9.10
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This article explains how you can install and configure apache2-mpm-itk on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. apache2-mpm-itk is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate UID and GID - in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts. mpm-itk works with mod_php because mpm-itk is based on the traditional prefork MPM, which means it's non-threaded. This means you don't need to use suExec or suPHP anymore to run a website's PHP scripts as a separate user.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/running-vhosts-under-separate-uids-gids-with-apache2-mpm-itk-on-ubuntu-9.10

Set Up Hudson For Continuous Integration Under Linux
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Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. This article explains how you can set it up on Linux.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-hudson-for-continuous-integration-under-linux

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