[HowtoForge] Newsletter 09/29/2011

HowtoForge Newsletter 09/29/2011
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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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* PHP-FPM/Nginx Security In Shared Hosting Environments (Debian/Ubuntu)
* The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
* Creating A Bootable USB Device On Linux Mint 11
* How To Install Repcached (Memcached Replication) For High-Availability Over 2 Nodes On Ubuntu 11.04
* Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
* Lessfs 1.5 On CentOS 5

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PHP-FPM/Nginx Security In Shared Hosting Environments (Debian/Ubuntu)
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If you want to use nginx and PHP-FPM for shared hosting environments, you should make up your mind about security. In Apache/PHP environments, you can use suExec and/or suPHP to make PHP execute under individual user accounts instead of a system user like www-data. There's no such thing for PHP-FPM, but fortunately PHP-FPM allows us to set up a "pool" for each web site that makes PHP scripts execute as the user/group defined in that pool. This gives you all the benefits of suPHP, and in addition to that you don't have any FTP or SCP transfer problems because PHP scripts don't need to be owned by a specific user/group to be executed as the user/group defined in the pool.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/php-fpm-nginx-security-in-shared-hosting-environments-debian-ubuntu

The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.7 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.7 x86_64 server 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-centos-5.7-x86_64-ispconfig-3

Creating A Bootable USB Device On Linux Mint 11
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This tutorial will show you how to make your USB hard disk device a bootable Linux system. Linux Mint 11 needs about 4.7 gigabyte of free space on your hard drive, so make sure your device has at least that much space available. I am using an 8 gigabyte stick which is enough to install Mint on it and additionally have some space left to save data. In my case, I will install Linux Mint 11 on my USB device, but it should work similarly with other systems. To create a bootable disk, you need either an iso-image of the desired Linux system or a real Linux DVD.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-a-bootable-usb-device-on-linux-mint-11

How To Install Repcached (Memcached Replication) For High-Availability Over 2 Nodes On Ubuntu 11.04
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This is a short tutorial based on MarcusSpiegel's howto found here. This how to will cover the missing parts for installing Repcached on Ubuntu server 11.04. This is a copy/paste friendly tutorial so using putty will make this a lot easier. This how to will show you how to install and build memcached with replication, create a startup script and configure PHP to use memcache for sessions rather than storing them as files. This tutorial assumes you have set up 2 servers to replicate the information over.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-repcached-memcached-replication-for-high-availability-over-2-nodes-on-ubuntu-11.04

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
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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 11.04 server.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-proftpd-tls-on-ubuntu-11.04-natty-narwhal

Lessfs 1.5 On CentOS 5
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For this HowTo I used a VirtualBox with CentOS 5.7 x86_64. I attached a separate 20GB Data drive mounted to /data. This will hold the lessfs DB and data. The lessfs mountpoint I put at /lessfs. This is a very basic setup, just to get it running. There is plenty of tuning to be done based on volume size, file types, and compression choices. The latest lessfs required more recent versions of fuse and tokyocabinet than was in the CentOS repository, so I chose to install most of this from source.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/lessfs-1.5-on-centos-5

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