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Installing the Jaws CMS on Ubuntu 7.10

Howto Forge - Wed, 06/02/2008 - 4:17pm

Installing the Jaws CMS on Ubuntu 7.10

Jaws is a content management system that utilizes a PHP framework with a MySQL back end. I have been looking for a good CMS for a little while now, but what attracted me to Jaws was its simplicity and appearance. I decided that since I was going to test Jaws out, I may as well document it, so that it might help others who are thinking about using it.

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Mandriva Directory Server On Debian Etch

Howto Forge - Tue, 05/02/2008 - 4:58pm

Mandriva Directory Server On Debian Etch

This document describes how to set up the Mandriva Directory Server (MDS) on Debian Etch. The resulting system provides a full-featured office server for small and medium companies - easy to administer via the web-based Mandriva Management Console (MMC).

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RESTORE-EE (Enterprise Edition) User Manual

Howto Forge - Mon, 04/02/2008 - 5:13pm

RESTORE-EE (Enterprise Edition) User Manual

This manual is part reference and part tutorial, meaning that you can look to it for everything from the simple questions of , “What does this icon do?” to the more involved questions, like “How do I schedule e-mail notifications?” Your experience with Restore will depend on your privileges on the Restore system. The administrator for the system will have a few extra capabilities that a standard user will not.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 8

Howto Forge - Sun, 03/02/2008 - 5:25pm

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 8

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 8 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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RESTORE-DC (Data Center) User Manual

Howto Forge - Thu, 31/01/2008 - 11:28am

RESTORE-DC User Manual

This manual is part reference and part tutorial, meaning that you can look to it for everything from the simple questions of , “What does this icon do?” to the more involved questions, like “How do I schedule e-mail notifications?” Your experience with Restore will depend on your privileges on the Restore system. The administrator for the system will have a few extra capabilities that a standard user will not.

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Set Up Postfix DKIM With dkim-milter

Howto Forge - Wed, 30/01/2008 - 4:18pm

Set Up Postfix DKIM With dkim-milter

DKIM is an authentication framework which stores public-keys in DNS and digitally signs emails on a domain basis. It was created as a result of merging Yahoo's domainkeys and Cisco's Identified Internet mail specification. It is defined in RFC 4871.

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How To Create The Sis191 Gigabit Ethernet Driver On Linux 2.6

Howto Forge - Tue, 29/01/2008 - 10:59am

How To Create The Sis191 Gigabit Ethernet Driver On Linux 2.6

This how-to is for those people wich have a sis191 gigabit ethernet integrated interface (on-board LAN), but cannot get sis191 default driver working. My Acer Aspire SA90 is one good example.

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How To Install Drupal 5.6 On Debian Etch With ISPConfig

Howto Forge - Mon, 28/01/2008 - 4:51pm

How To Install Drupal 5.6 On Debian Etch With ISPConfig

Drupal is a PHP based CMS (Content Management System) with great community support and a huge amount of modules. Drupal can be installed as a single site or it can be installed as a multisite.

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Tweaking Hidden Ubuntu Settings With Ubuntu Tweak

Howto Forge - Sun, 27/01/2008 - 5:30pm

Tweaking Hidden Ubuntu Settings With Ubuntu Tweak

Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc. Currently Ubuntu Tweak is available only for the Ubuntu GNOME desktop, i.e., it will not work on Kubuntu or Xubuntu. This short guide shows how to install and use Ubuntu Tweak.

Mailscanner/Exim Gateway With Communigate PRO Guide

Howto Forge - Fri, 25/01/2008 - 2:25pm

Mailscanner/Exim Gateway With Communigate PRO Guide

In this tutorial we will be installing and setting up Mailscanner as a mail firewall in front of a Communigate pro cluster. This tutorial has been written for the CENTOS 5.x Linux distro but am sure it can be used for any other Linux based system with little modifications. The system will run with SELinux in enforcing mode.

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Installing Apple's Safari Browser On Ubuntu 7.10 With PlayOnLinux

Howto Forge - Thu, 24/01/2008 - 4:39pm

Installing Apple's Safari Browser On Ubuntu 7.10 With PlayOnLinux

This guide explains how you can install Apple's Safari browser on Ubuntu 7.10. As there is no Linux version of Safari, we will run it under Wine. We will use a tool called PlayOnLinux to install Safari under Wine. With PlayOnLinux you can install lots of Windows games and some Windows applications (such as Office 2003, IE6, MS Money, etc.) on Linux. Installing Safari on Linux is good for people such as web designers who have switched to Linux but still need to test their web sites in other browsers.

How To Install MySQL 4.1 And PHP4 On Debian Etch

Howto Forge - Thu, 24/01/2008 - 10:19am

How To Install MySQL 4.1 And PHP4 On Debian Etch

MySQL 4 and PHP 4 are quite old, but you might have PHP applications on your server that require PHP4 and MySQL 4. The problem is that Debian Etch comes with MySQL 5 only, and its PHP4 packages depend on MySQL 5 and don't work with MySQL 4. This guide shows how you can install MySQL 4.1 on Debian Etch along with PHP4 packages that work with MySQL 4.1.

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Simple Home File Server (Based On Ubuntu)

Howto Forge - Wed, 23/01/2008 - 5:19pm

Simple Home File Server (Based On Ubuntu)

This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.

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How To Install And Use The djbdns Name Server On Debian Etch

Howto Forge - Tue, 22/01/2008 - 4:54pm

How To Install And Use The djbdns Name Server On Debian Etch

djbdns is a very secure suite of DNS tools that consists out of multiple parts: dnscache, a DNS cache that can be used in /etc/resolv.conf instead of your ISP's name servers and that tries to sort out wrong (malicious) DNS answers; axfrdns, a service that runs on the master DNS server and to which the slaves connect for zone transfers; and tinydns, the actual DNS server, a very secure replacement for BIND.

CentOS 5 - Home Gateway Firewall With DHCP Server For Connection Sharing

Howto Forge - Mon, 21/01/2008 - 4:23pm

CentOS 5 - Home Gateway Firewall With DHCP Server For Connection Sharing

If you're trying to set up a home network, you probably want to set up a permiter facing computer connected to your DSL/Cable modem, and then put all of your computers behind that firewall box to keep them safe. This tutorial will show you how to use a single external connection on the gateway computer (using Iptables firewall), and a second internal connection on the same box so you can connect the computers on the inside of your home/office to it.

Using The Bazaar Version Control System (VCS) On Debian Etch

Howto Forge - Sun, 20/01/2008 - 5:59pm

Using The Bazaar Version Control System (VCS) On Debian Etch

Bazaar is a distributed version control system (VCS) available under the GPL; it's similar to Subversion (svn). Bazaar is sponsored by Canonical, Ltd., the company that develops the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and therefore the Ubuntu project is the most prominent user of Bazaar. This article explains how to set up and use Bazaar on a Debian Etch system, and how to configure an SFTP-/HTTP server to host your Bazaar repository.

Installing Metasploit 3.0 On Ubuntu 7.10

Howto Forge - Fri, 18/01/2008 - 2:43pm

Installing Metasploit 3.0 On Ubuntu 7.10

The Metasploit Project is an open source computer security project which provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Its most well-known sub-project is the Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. Other important sub-projects include the Opcode Database, shellcode archive, and security research. (Wikipedia).

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