http://morison.biz/technotes/sections/13 Distros, mail and web servers, low cost www production and hosting en 2006-2008, Rod Morison Software technotes@morison.biz Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:36:48 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61 I've been doing a fair bit of PHP and Python on Linux recently. My favorite PHP editor, PhpEd is Windows only. However, I prefer to develop LAMP code on LAMP. Here's a solution: Linux on VirtualBox, networked to the host Windows OS rod Sysadmin Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:48:33 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61#comments 5 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/61 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/61 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A61 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62 Since I did some streaming video experiments in the early years of this century I've known that maxing both directions of an internet connection kills throughput. I did some experiments, initially to improve my SIP Phone performance (when my son is playing online games, TBH) and came up with a "low-hanging fruit" solution rod Sysadmin Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:43:00 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/62 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/62 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A62 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60 Every year or so I update CA'd certs and usually forget that my mailserver (cyrus+postfix) needs a PEM format file. Then, I have to fish around for the openssl commands that do the job rod Sysadmin Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:13:59 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/60 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/60 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A60 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58 Ok, that's an overstatement. I used VMWare Workstation successfully for a year to develop for Win2k web servers on my XP desktop. However, when I needed an Ubuntu guest on Windows Vista host (for Python/TurboGears dev), VMWare got ugly with various host apps. I searched...and I found...VirtualBox. This doc is a loose how-to, because some steps were poorly documented rod Sysadmin Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:23:59 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/58 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/58 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A58 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36 Back in '99 I was determined to get out of semiconductor CAD software and into this wizzy Internet stuff. Probably the smartest thing I did back then was to build (and rebuild and rebuild) a web+email server for my own domain rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:45:45 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/36#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/36 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A36 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/20 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/20 In the past (Suse < 9) I've always had to build postfix and cyrus from scratch to get them to work together (could be my problem, I admit). In Suse 10.1 I've finally gotten them to work from the distro, with a few bits of config hacking, for local passwd users (no mysql based accounts in this config.) rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:43:24 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/20#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/20 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/20 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A20 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/14 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/14 When running the BitDefender install script, wget tries passive ftp and hangs. Here is a way to force wget to not use ftp passive rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:51:38 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/14#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/14 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/14 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A14 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/7 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/7 DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER: Ok, this seems to be the way to go. I don't know how far back this was supported, but if installing 10.x, try it out. DISCLAIMER: This note needs a rewrite because there's an easier way. I'm hoping this still works under 10.1, too, as I haven't checked it. You may want to check http://opensuse.us/viewtopic.php?t=149 for a 10.1 specific how-to rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:47:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/7#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/7 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/7 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A7 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/9 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/9 Ever inherit a mysql server that no one knew the root password, or perhaps any of the passwords? rod Sysadmin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:34:53 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/9#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/9 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/9 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37 Let's break down the top level parts for the project rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:03 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/37#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/37 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A37 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38 Go Forth and Build It Remember, these are planning guides, not how-tos. If you've done the planning and assembled everything you should be ready to go. Your next step is to put it all together, connect it, install it and figure out+solve along the way. However, there's an excellent step-by-step Opensuse server building guide I recently found: The Perfect Server - Suse 10.3. After you finish this article, give it a look and bookmark that url for reference during your project. First Life: Http Me! If you made it through, you should be able to login locally ... more rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:18 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/38#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/38 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A38 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39 Ok, you're on the net! You're just as accessible as Yahoo and Google...well, not exactly, you need to tie your domain name to your static IP address. Then, email service for that domain, and your domain really will be on the net. DNS Get past those numeric IPs. You should have the BIND software installed from your initial OS setup. There are two really good graphical interfaces to BIND, Yast (built into Suse, run "yast2" as root) and webmin In spite of those interfaces, first time out, use the text config files. Understand them. BIND and these files are ... more rod Sysadmin Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:38 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/39#comments 0 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/post.php/article/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/comments/feed.php/article/39 http://morison.biz/technotes/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A39