Archive for 'CentOS Howto'

Installing FreeIPA With Replication

Do you need a single point to add users within your organization for
authenticating to multiple backends like your Linux servers? You’ve
probably looked at OpenLDAP and found the same problem a lot of other
users have: bad documentation and ridiculously hard to configure. Having
done some installations of OpenLDAP in the past, the search was on to
find a good alternative and more importantly, one that is far easier to
do and has a good ...

Secure ISPConfig 3 And Services With GoDaddy Signed Certificate On CentOS

Let’s set up a signed certificate from GoDaddy for the ISPConfig
control panel, Pure-FTPD, Postfix, Dovecot, phpMyAdmin, and
Squirrelmail. Don’t forget to replace pluto.example.com with your own FQDN
throughout this entire section!

Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.4 Server

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and
running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.4 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 ...

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.4

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 6.4 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and
MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP
FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of
any size, especially busier sites. ...

Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.4

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.4 server for
OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers
(VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver
project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial
virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual
servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under ...

The Perfect Server – CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (nginx, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3)

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.4 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: nginx web server, Postfix mail
server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
Mailman, and ...

How To Run Your Own Web SMS Portal With PointSMS

This tutorial will show you how you can set up an SMS web site on CentOS using PointSMS.

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 6.4

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses
virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This
is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a
single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and
upload/download bandwidth limits with this ...

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.3 x86_64)

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is
based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in
a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the installation and
configuration of Courier, so that Courier
can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH ...

Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On CentOS 6.4

SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a new networking protocol whose goal
is to speed up the web. It is Google’s alternative to the HTTP protocol
and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several
speed-related features such as

stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web
server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming ...