[HowtoForge] Newsletter 06/15/2011

HowtoForge Newsletter 06/15/2011
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*** Version 1.2 of the ISPConfig 3 Manual ***
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The next update of the ISPConfig 3 Manual is available in PDF format (version 1.2 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.3.3; Date: 05/04/2011).

Version 1.2 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.3.3 (Date: 05/04/2011)
Author: Falko Timme
308 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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ISPConfig Monitor App for Android Phones
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With the ISPConfig Monitor App, you can check your server status and find out if all services are running as expected. You can check TCP and UDP ports and ping your servers. In addition to that you can use this app to request details from servers that have ISPConfig installed; these details include everything you know from the Monitor module in the ISPConfig Control Panel (e.g. services, mail and system logs, mail queue, CPU and memory info, disk usage, quota, OS details, RKHunter log, etc.).

Download/Usage
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For download and usage instructions, please visit http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ispconfig-monitor-app-for-android/ .

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New HOWTOs:
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* The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 11 (Katya)
* The Perfect Server - Fedora 15 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
* VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Squeeze Server
* How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Debian Squeeze
* How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Debian Squeeze)
* How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Debian Squeeze)
* Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6 (LAMP)
* How To Save Traffic With nginx's HttpGzipModule (Debian Squeeze)
* The Perfect Server - Fedora 15 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
* ISPConfig 3 ProFTPd For Debian
* Securing SSH On Ubuntu With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication
* Adding Two-Factor Authentication To JOSSO
* Using Google Translate From The Command Line
* MySQL Backup: Table By Table Backup With Auto Rotation, For Easy Restoration Of Partial/Full Database
* How To Use FreeRADIUS With LinOTP 2 To Do Two Factor Authentication With One Time Passwords

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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 11 (Katya)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 11 (Katya) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 11 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 11.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-linux-mint-11-katya

The Perfect Server - Fedora 15 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 15 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora-15-x86_64-ispconfig-3

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Squeeze Server
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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless Debian Squeeze server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/vboxheadless-running-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox-4.0-on-a-headless-debian-squeeze-server

How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Debian Squeeze
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This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync. This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE command will also be carried out on the slave; but replication can help protect against hardware failures though.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-mysql-database-replication-with-ssl-encryption-on-debian-squeeze

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Debian Squeeze)
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This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Squeeze system. The GRUB2 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-grub2-configuration-debian-squeeze

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Debian Squeeze)
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This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Squeeze). The GRUB2 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-lvm-system-incl-grub2-configuration-debian-squeeze

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6 (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 CentOS 5.6 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-centos-5.6-lamp

How To Save Traffic With nginx's HttpGzipModule (Debian Squeeze)
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In this tutorial I will describe how to configure HttpGzipModule on an nginx web server (on Debian Squeeze). HttpGzipModule allows nginx to compress files and deliver them to clients (e.g. browsers) that can handle compressed content which most modern browsers do. With HttpGzipModule, you can compress HTML, CSS, Javascript, text or XML files to approx. 20 - 30% of their original sizes, thus saving you server traffic and making your modem users happier.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-save-traffic-with-nginxs-httpgzipmodule-debian-squeeze

The Perfect Server - Fedora 15 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
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This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 15 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of Fedora 15, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora-15-x86_64-ispconfig-2

ISPConfig 3 ProFTPd For Debian
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This is a simple tutorial to configure ISPConfig to work with ProFTPd instead of PureFTPd on Debian. Please note that this tutorial does not include quota support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-3-proftpd-for-debian

Securing SSH On Ubuntu With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication
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SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you face an audit for regulatory or business requirements, such as Visa/Mastercard PCI, you need to be aware of some potential authentication related short-comings that may cause headaches in an audit. In this document we are going to demonstrate how to combine two-factor authentication from WiKID on Ubuntu. First, we will configure a domain on the WiKID server, then add the targeted server as network clients to the WiKID server, and finally configure the Ubuntu box via pam-radius.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/securing-ssh-on-ubuntu-with-wikid-two-factor-authentication

Adding Two-Factor Authentication To JOSSO
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WiKID Systems recently partnered with Atricore, the makers of JOSSO an enterprise-class SSO application. Both two-factor authentication and single sign-on have historically been expensive and complex affairs. Atricore and WiKID have both been addressing these issues by releasing easy-to-use, open-source software. These efforts merged when Atricore added native support for the WiKID Strong Authentication to their product JOSSO. In this tutorial you will see how easy it is to add two-factor authentication to JOSSO, creating a secure, easy-to-use solution for organizations needing SSO. JOSSO supports a wide variety of services including Tomcat, jBoss, Apache, IIS, Liferay, Weblogic, and Alfresco as well as cloud services such as Google Apps, Salesforce and SugarCRM. WiKID for its part supports Radius, LDAP and TACACS+ in addition to having an API. WiKID Software tokens run on Linux, Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, J2ME and others.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/adding-two-factor-authentication-to-josso

Using Google Translate From The Command Line
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I have found an article in one of the most famous Linux Arabic forums, it describes how to use Google Translate from the command line. It is a good script but it is needed to write the language pairs every time and I used to make the computers work for me not to work for computers, so I didn't like to do that write every time I want to use the script, usually I translate from English to Arabic, sometimes from Arabic to English and fewer times form some other languages to Arabic or to English if I found the direct translation from that language to Arabic is not clear enough. I have edited the script so now it checks the command arguments number.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/using-google-translate-from-the-command-line

MySQL Backup: Table By Table Backup With Auto Rotation, For Easy Restoration Of Partial/Full Database
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Here is a MySQL backup script which can take table by table backups (individual backup files of each table of each database) in a compressed format. It also provides an automatic rotation of old backup files. The backup script handles innodb and myisam tables separately.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql-backup-table-by-table-backup-with-auto-rotation-for-easy-restoration-of-partial-full-database

How To Use FreeRADIUS With LinOTP 2 To Do Two Factor Authentication With One Time Passwords
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This howto will guide you to set up RADIUS authentication with the LinOTP 2 Community Edition. LinOTP is a one time password backend that enables you to do two factor authentication with a broad variety of different hardware devices, software tokens and SMS. While the Enterprise Edition comes with a C module for the FreeRADIUS Server, the Community Edition, that is licensed under the AGPLv3 does not. Nevertheless, LinOTP provides very simple WEB APIs that makes it easy to talk to LinOTP in many different ways.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-use-freeradius-with-linotp-2-to-do-two-factor-authentication-with-one-time-passwords

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