Resolving Domains Internally And Externally With Bind9 And Caching Nameserver Rumi, March 28, 2011 Preface: Some times, we are required to resolve our internal domains on a local nameserver and external (Internet) domains from ISP's nameserver. There are different solutions to this problem, but in this howto, we are going to solve it through configuring a combination of caching-nameserver and BIND 9. Theory Behind… Continue Reading
How Do I Know if I’m Running 32-bit or 64-bit Linux Rumi, March 8, 2011 Few Basic Command- Using 'uname' uname –m 'uname' more uname –a Now something different- cat /etc/*release or cat /etc/*version Continue Reading
Enabling SquirrelMail For Your Web Sites On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian Lenny) Rumi, January 29, 2011January 29, 2011 SquirrelMail's Apache configuration is in the file /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf, but this file isn't loaded by Apache because it is not in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory. Therefore we create a symlink called squirrelmail.conf in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory that points to /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf and reload Apache afterwards: cd /etc/apache2/conf.d/ ln -s ../../squirrelmail/apache.conf squirrelmail.conf /etc/init.d/apache2 reload… Continue Reading
Errror on VMWare on my CentOS box- vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured, for this system Rumi, January 28, 2011January 28, 2011 "vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured, for this system. To (re-) configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl" I've been receiving this error since I've been trying to setup VMWare workstation ver 5.0 on my Centos box. It is now resolve after issueing the command- VMWARE_DEBUG=yes… Continue Reading
Debian Mail Server with Exim as MTA Rumi, January 7, 2011 Install LAMP Base System: # installed: (L)inux – apt-get install apache2 # installs (A)pache – apt-get install mysql-server # installs (M)ySQL – apt-get install php5 phpmyadmin # installs (P)HP and mySQL Webtool – Installation of the webmin system-administration webapplication (cgi-perl with its own webserver): -> since etch, there is no… Continue Reading
Install & Configure Popasswd in Debian (for Horde) Rumi, January 7, 2011 $ apt-get install poppassd # installs server-side mechanism for changing the password $ cd /var/www-ssl/horde/passwd/config $ cp -p backends.php.dist backends.php $ vi backends.php: – delete all but 'poppassd' ########################################### # note: # My poppassd service didnt start, because the deb-package put the startup command in # the /etc/inetd.conf superserver file,… Continue Reading
Installing Horde in Debian 5 Rumi, January 7, 2011 Default installation is with Apache + mod_php5 + php-mysql: # aptitude install horde3 Packages installed looks like: apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common fckeditor horde3 libapache2-mod-php5 libmcrypt4 php-cache php-date php-db php-file php-http-request php-log php-mail php-mail-mime php-mail-mimedecode php-net-dime php-net-ftp php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-net-url php-pear php-services-weather php-soap php-xml-parser php-xml-serializer php-xml-util php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql… Continue Reading
Install SquirrelMail Rumi, January 6, 2011 To install the SquirrelMail webmail client, run apt-get install squirrelmail Then create the following symlink… ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail/ /var/www/webmail … and configure SquirrelMail: squirrelmail-configure Continue Reading
Creating SSL certificates using openssl Rumi, November 26, 2010 Here was my requirements- I need one of my domain (it was actually an IP redirection) with SSL setup on my IIS 6 (windows 2003 server) system. The IIS have several virtual hosted domains already and one of them needed this SSL setup For some reason- Windows openssl didn't give… Continue Reading
Howto Install VMware Workstation 6.5 in Ubuntu Rumi, November 25, 2010 Thought it might e quite useful on setting up vmware on my network- Continue Reading