Category: How-to

  • netcup + froxlor + mail server (dovecot/postfix) + tls/ssl (Let’s Encrypt)

    You can use only one specific domain and ssl certificate in dovecot and postfix. So you have to create this specific domain and activate Let’s Encrypt for that, so that you can use those certificates for SSL/TLS. All the users with different domains and email-domains have to use this one specific domain to connect to…

  • netcup + froxlor

    Froxlor Trigger cronjob /usr/bin/php /var/www/froxlor/scripts/froxlor_master_cronjob.php –force –debug # Possible jobs: # “–backup” for start backup job # “–letsencrypt” FTP user Is created automatically with the Froxlor user (same password). WordPress update: check for correct ownership of the files copied to the directory. If you used “root”-FTP user to copy the files, you have to change…

  • Fritzbox VPN + IPSec XAuth + Windows + Shrew Soft VPN Client

    Very good how-to can be found here: Windows 7 mittels Shrew Soft VPN Client per VPN mit FRITZ!Box 7390 (FRITZ!OS 6) verbinden  

  • XBMC + MediaPortal TVServer + Android

    Install Mediaportal TVServer Plugin (see also HowTo): TVServerXBMC download XBMC on Android (see HowTo): ARM version download   Devices Minix Neo X8-H (Amazon.de) Tronsmart Vega S89-H Orbsmart® S82 Remote: Mele F10 PRO  

  • Guest System in VirtualBox + Host System with working WOL + Transparent NAT

    My need was to run a virtual Linux System inside VirtualBox. The bridged drivers of the VirtualBox has broken the WakeOnLan functionality of my server, so had to uninstall this driver and use NAT connection (source). The problem with the NAT connection was, that all packages were given from the Host OS with their IP address…

  • VPN – OpenVPN – Ubuntu (Server) – Windows (Client) – Android (Client)

    Ubuntu Install sudo apt-get install openvpn sudo apt-get install easy-rsa  

  • Sync Video + Audio from different sources

    Used Software ffmpeg: demux/merge MAGIX Video deluxe 2014 Premium: automatic sync video and audio SOX (optional): clean audio    

  • VirtualBox + Linux + SharedFolder

    SharedFolder Install VB utils (Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils Manually mount shared folder: mount.vboxsf -w -o umask=0007,uid=1000,gid=1000 shared_name /<target> umask: set persmissions (0007 -> full perm to owner and group, no perm to other) uid/gid: user and group id shared_name: the name given in VB dialog for the shared folder /<target>: the folder inside Linux…

  • Windows or Java Application as Windows Service

    Windows applications see: http://www.serverhowto.de/Applikationen-als-Dienste-einrichten.228.0.html Java applications (JAR) We use YAJSW to create a service wrapper for the JAR application. Precondition: Download YAJSW Java 1.5 or higher (to check call java -version) NOTE: to display system tray java 1.6 is required. For thread dump with locks java 1.6 is required. How-to use (src): Unpack the zip file…

  • How-to configure Xdebug + XAMPP + Aptana Studio 3 on Windows

    This how-to will describe how to configure Aptana Studio 3 on Windows with XAMPP and Xdebug to be able to debug PHP code.   Enable Xdebug in apache The first thing, that we should do is to enable Xdebug on XAMPP. For this we must edit the php.ini file that configurates the php module. So…