[HowtoForge] Newsletter 08/25/2011

HowtoForge Newsletter 08/25/2011
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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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* Server Monitoring With Icinga On Debian Squeeze
* How To Speed Up Drupal 7.7 With Boost And nginx (Debian Squeeze)
* Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11
* Changing Desktop Appearance On Linux Mint 11
* Setting Up Network RAID1 With DRBD On Debian Squeeze
* Using scponly To Allow SCP/SFTP Logins And Disable SSH Logins On Debian Squeeze
* Ubuntu 11.04 Generic - The SysAdmin Way
* Xtables-Addons On Centos 6 & Iptables GeoIP Filtering
* How To Migrate Joomla Content (Articles) Using phpMyAdmin
* Installing Wordpress With BitNami

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Server Monitoring With Icinga On Debian Squeeze
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Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on a Debian Squeeze server to monitor this server and another Debian Squeeze server.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/server-monitoring-with-icinga-on-debian-squeeze

How To Speed Up Drupal 7.7 With Boost And nginx (Debian Squeeze)
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This tutorial shows how you can speed up your Drupal 7.7 installation on a LAMP stack (Debian Squeeze) with the help of Boost and nginx. Boost provides static page caching for Drupal enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic. Boost makes sure that your logged-in users always get fresh content by not caching pages for logged-in users. In a first step I will show how to make your site faster by enabling Boost on a normal LAMP stack (Apache2, PHP, MySQL), and in a second step I explain how to make your site even faster by using nginx as a reverse proxy sitting in front of Apache and delivering the static HTML pages cached by Boost. nginx delivers static files a lot of faster than Apache and uses less memory/CPU.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-speed-up-drupal-7.7-with-boost-and-nginx-debian-squeeze

Useful Basic Terminal Commands On Linux Mint 11
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This tutorial is supposed to show useful terminal commands to people who are new to Linux. Terminal commands are powerful tools if they are used correctly, but can cause great damage if you are not completely aware of what you are doing. Before using commands that are new to you, look up the manual page and make sure you have your files saved and backed up.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/useful-basic-terminal-commands-on-linux-mint-11

Changing Desktop Appearance On Linux Mint 11
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This tutorial is supposed to show how to change the desktop's appearance to people who are new to Linux. For this tutorial I am using Linux Mint 11 with the Gnome desktop. This is the default desktop you have installed on your system. If you have not configured it otherwise already, everything should work for you.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/changing-desktop-appearance-on-linux-mint-11

Setting Up Network RAID1 With DRBD On Debian Squeeze
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This tutorial shows how to set up network RAID1 with the help of DRBD on two Debian Squeeze systems. DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device and allows you to mirror block devices over a network. This is useful for high-availability setups (like a HA NFS server) because if one node fails, all data is still available from the other node.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-network-raid1-with-drbd-on-debian-squeeze

Using scponly To Allow SCP/SFTP Logins And Disable SSH Logins On Debian Squeeze
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scponly is an alternate shell that restricts users to SCP and SFTP logins, but disallows SSH logins. It is a wrapper to the OpenSSH suite of applications. With the help of scponly, you can allow your users to use clients such as WinSCP or FileZilla to upload/download files, but you refuse SSH logins (e.g. with PuTTY) so that your users cannot execute files/programs. This tutorial shows how to install and use scponly on Debian Squeeze.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/using-scponly-to-allow-scp-sftp-logins-and-disable-ssh-logins-on-debian-squeeze

Ubuntu 11.04 Generic - The SysAdmin Way
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In this tutorial I will guide you trough the setup of Ubuntu 11.04 Generic system the way a good linux system administrator would install it. After it is complete you will have a great starting point for all of your future Ubuntu linux needs. By that I mean the following: If you are using virtual environment, you will have an image that you can clone and convert in any supported virtual format and use it as a starting point for all of your Ubuntu virtual projects. If you install this on a real hardware you can also clone you installation and use it as a starting point on various other machines with similar hardware. I will not cover cloning and conversion in this tutorial. Also as I will edit and tweak few system settings in this tutorial that I will not explain much, I hope this guide will encourage you to further explore those options and Linux in general.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-11.04-generic-the-sysadmin-way

Xtables-Addons On Centos 6 & Iptables GeoIP Filtering
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This tutorial will explain how to install aditional modules for the kernel to use with iptables rules sets (netfilter modules). Xtables-addons is the successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). Likewise, it contains extensions that were not, or are not yet, accepted in the main kernel/iptables packages. Xtables-addons is different from patch-o-matic in that you do not have to patch or recompile the kernel.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/xtables-addons-on-centos-6-and-iptables-geoip-filtering

How To Migrate Joomla Content (Articles) Using phpMyAdmin
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Joomla is a very popular Content Management System (CMS). This article applies to Joomla 1.5 content (Article) migration to Joomla 1.7 using phpMyAdmin database tool.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-migrate-joomla-content-articles-using-phpmyadmin

Installing Wordpress With BitNami
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BitNami Wordpress Stack is a free, self-contained, easy-to-install package that bundles every piece of software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for development or production purposes. It includes the latest version of Wordpress and is fully configured and ready-to-run.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-wordpress-with-bitnami

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