[HowtoForge] Newsletter 03/18/2010

HowtoForge Newsletter 03/18/2010
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New HOWTOs:
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* Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)
* Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2010.0 x86_64)
* Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4
* High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4 - Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers
* Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
* Highly Available NFS Server Using DRBD And Heartbeat On Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
* BIND Installation On CentOS
* Installation Of ZendOptimizer And IonCubeLoader Using Lighttpd On CentOS

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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)
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This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Ubuntu 9.10. I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd's mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/build-your-own-video-community-with-lighttpd-and-flowplayer-ubuntu-9.10

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2010.0 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-mandriva-2010.0-x86_64

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4
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This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on CentOS 5.4. 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-centos-5.4

High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4 - Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers
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This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (CentOS 5.4) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (CentOS 5.4 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/high-availability-storage-with-glusterfs-on-centos-5.4-automatic-file-replication-mirror-across-two-storage-servers

Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
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This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) with GlusterFS. The client system (Fedora 12 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/striping-across-four-storage-nodes-with-glusterfs-on-fedora-12

Highly Available NFS Server Using DRBD And Heartbeat On Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
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This HowTo explains how I set up a highly available NFS server using Debian 5 (Lenny) and drbd8 with heartbeat.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/highly-available-nfs-server-using-drbd-and-heartbeat-on-debian-5.0-lenny

BIND Installation On CentOS
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BIND is alternative software for translating domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they are easier to remember. So if we will browse the Internet we don't need to remember IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.yourdomain.com might translate to 192.168.0.1.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/bind-installation-on-centos

Installation Of ZendOptimizer And IonCubeLoader Using Lighttpd On CentOS
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This tutorial explains how to enable ZendOptimizer and IonCubeLoader in PHP on a Lighttpd web server on CentOS.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-of-zendoptimizer-and-ioncubeloader-using-lighttpd-on-centos

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