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Setup a Squid proxy server on Debian
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Aug 17, 2011
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last modified
Nov 11, 2017 09:42
The use of a Squid proxy server can solve many problems: reduce bandwith usage, filter visited Internet pages (anti-virus, parental control, ...), overide a IP based access control, ... This howto describe some Squid configurations for a better protected surf.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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Servers
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HTTP
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Setup a status page on a Apache 2 server
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Apr 28, 2012
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last modified
Nov 11, 2017 09:29
Apache 2, PHP-FPM, APC, and other tools have usage statistics in Web pages. The data provided by these statistics are critical. It is important to secure the access to them. This howto setup a secure sub-domain dedicated to the display of HTTP server statuses.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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Servers
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Apache 2
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Setup an email alert on SSL / TLS certificate expiration
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Dec 06, 2011
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last modified
Oct 22, 2018 07:51
SSL / TLS certificates are signed by certificate authority for a defined period, usually 1 year. Once the expiration date has passed, the certificate is considered invalid by the clients (browsers, mail clients, etc.). Being alerted of a server expired certificates help to anticipate renewals.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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Servers
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HTTP
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Setup and use the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Debian
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Aug 11, 2011
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last modified
Nov 11, 2017 09:44
LVM stands for "Logical Volume Manager". It sits between the partitions and hard disk, and provides flexibility and power to partitions management. It is particularly useful for managing partitions used by the Xen domains. It provides the ability to create partitions over several hard disks (software RAID), to resize partitions on the fly, ...
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Debian GNU/Linux
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System
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Setup
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Setup Debian Testing sources apt repository on Debian Stable
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Mar 06, 2013
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last modified
Jan 15, 2014 03:41
This guide adds the Debian Testing sources repositories to Debian Stable without changing the standard system behaviour.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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System
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Software
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Setup disk quotas on Debian
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Aug 18, 2011
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last modified
Nov 11, 2017 09:30
Quotas are a simple mean to limit the disk usage of some software or users. This article list some of the methods used to implement disk quotas on Debian.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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System
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Setup
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Setup email alerts for PHP errors
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Jul 27, 2011
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last modified
Mar 02, 2018 06:04
Being alerted of PHP errors raising on production sites increase the reactivity in face of problems. This howto offers a solution to implement such alerts.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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Servers
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PHP
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Setup master/slave replication between two MySQL servers
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Sep 30, 2013
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last modified
Nov 11, 2017 09:44
This howto ease the setup of data replication from a MySQL master server to a MySQL slave server.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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Servers
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MySQL
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Setup of a OVH dedicated server
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
Jun 25, 2012
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 06:40
This howto present various enhancements to apply immediately after the activation / installation of a OVH dedicated server.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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System
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OVH
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Setup the contrib and non-free Debian repositories
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by
Pierre-Yves Landuré
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published
May 25, 2012
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last modified
Nov 26, 2016 09:52
The default Debian installation only provide software from the "main" repository. In order to have access to all Debian softwares, contrib and non-free repositories must be configured. This howto describe an automated process to enable the contrib and non-free repositories in Apt.
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Debian GNU/Linux
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System
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Software
