[HowtoForge] Newsletter 12/23/2010

HowtoForge Newsletter 12/23/2010
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Season's greetings with all good wishes for the new year

As the holiday season approaches, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support and feedback for our projects HowtoForge and ISPConfig. It is users like you who make our jobs a pleasure and inspire us to put our ideas into practice.

May your holiday season and the new year be filled with much joy, happiness and success. We look forward to working with you in the coming year and hope our projects continue to be useful to you for many years to come.

Happy holidays!

*** Version 1.1 of the ISPConfig 3 Manual ***
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The first update of the ISPConfig 3 Manual is available in PDF format (version 1.1 for ISPConfig 3.0.3.1; Date: 12/12/2010).

On more than 300 pages, it covers the concept behind ISPConfig (admin, resellers, clients), explains how to install and update ISPConfig 3, includes a reference for all forms and form fields in ISPConfig together with examples of valid inputs, and provides tutorials for the most common tasks in ISPConfig 3. It also lines out how to make your server more secure and comes with a troubleshooting section at the end.

Version 1.1 for ISPConfig 3.0.3.1 (Date: 12/12/2010)
Author: Falko Timme
305 pages

The manual can be downloaded from these two links:

http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-3-manual/
http://www.howtoforge.com/download-the-ispconfig-3-manual
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New HOWTOs:
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* Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 14 Server
* How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 10.10 (Kernel 2.6.35)
* How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 14 Desktop (Kernel 2.6.35)
* Configuring Source And Destination NAT With Firewall Builder
* SSL Certificates For PostgreSQL
* Tiny Content Filtering And Web Acceleration Appliance (Ubuntu, Squid, Apache, VMWare)

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Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 14 Server
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This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 14 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-a-fedora-14-server

How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 10.10 (Kernel 2.6.35)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 10.10 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-10.10-kernel-2.6.35

How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 14 Desktop (Kernel 2.6.35)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Fedora 14 desktop system (with kernel 2.6.35). 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-a-fedora-14-desktop-kernel-2.6.35

Configuring Source And Destination NAT With Firewall Builder
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Firewall Builder is a firewall configuration and management GUI that supports configuring a wide range of firewalls from a single application. Supported firewalls include Linux iptables, BSD pf, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco router access lists and many more. In this tutorial we are going to cover how to use Firewall Builder to configure a NAT rule that translates both the source and destination IP addresses of the original packet. This type of NAT configuration can be useful in a variety of network configurations.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/configuring-source-and-destination-nat-with-firewall-builder

SSL Certificates For PostgreSQL
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This describes how to set up ssl certificates to enable encrypted connections from PgAdmin on some client machine to postgresql on a server machine. The assumption is that postgresql (compiled with ssl support) and openssl are already installed and functional on the server (Linux). PgAdmin is already installed on the client (either Windows or Linux).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/postgresql-ssl-certificates

Tiny Content Filtering And Web Acceleration Appliance (Ubuntu, Squid, Apache, VMWare)
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This small HOWTO will show you how to set up a small virtual machine to speed up and secure your home / small enterprise web surfing network using Ubuntu Server 10.10, Squid 3.1 and Content Security 1.0 deployed in a VMWare Virtual Player running on Windows 7 x64 as a host operating system.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/tiny-content-filtering-and-web-acceleration-appliance-ubuntu-squid-apache-vmware

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For a monthly fee of 5 EUR or 25 EUR for half a year, you can become a HowtoForge supporter and help us cover our costs (servers, bandwidth, etc.) and support ISPConfig development. In return, you receive the following benefits:

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