[HowtoForge] Newsletter 12/15/2011

HowtoForge Newsletter 12/15/2011
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*** Version 1.3 of the ISPConfig 3 Manual ***
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The next update of the ISPConfig 3 Manual is available in PDF format (version 1.3 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.4; Date: 10/25/2011).

Version 1.3 for ISPConfig >= 3.0.4 (Date: 10/25/2011)
Author: Falko Timme
333 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 - Pinguy OS 11.10 (Beta)
* How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME)
* Running Joomla 1.7 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
* Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0
* vsftpd: Local And Virtual Users With Bash Scripts For User Maintainance (CentOS 6.0)
* PDNSD HowTo - A DNS Caching Personal Server (Fedora 16)

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The Perfect Desktop - Pinguy OS 11.10 (Beta)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Pinguy OS 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. The Pinguy OS developer has stated that there propably will not be any further release of Pinguy 11.10 due to some instabilities of the components used. This Perfect Desktop tutorial therefore refers to the currently released beta version of Pinguy OS 11.10.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-pinguy-os-11.10-beta

How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME)
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This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a trusted certificate authority (CA) create one for you.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-encrypt-mails-with-ssl-certificates-s-mime

Running Joomla 1.7 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10
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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Joomla 1.7 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/running-joomla-1.7-on-nginx-lemp-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.10

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 6.0 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-lighttpd-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-centos-6.0

vsftpd: Local And Virtual Users With Bash Scripts For User Maintainance (CentOS 6.0)
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vsftpd is the most popular FTP server in the Linux world and is secure and fast. Recently I had to configure a FTP server quickly onto a CentOS server setup built using the minimal ISO and the server was up and running in a snap.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/vsftpd-local-and-virtual-users-with-bash-scripts-for-user-maintenance-centos-6.0

PDNSD HowTo - A DNS Caching Personal Server (Fedora 16)
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PDNSD is a non authoritative caching DNS server. It maintains a disk cache of the queries that your system performs and subsequent queries will be faster from the cache. It is safe enough to be used on a personal Unix/Linux system as a home Desktop or a Laptop.

You can find the document here:
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http://www.howtoforge.com/pdnsd-howto-a-dns-caching-personal-server-fedora-16

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