Roundcube is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. Installation is easy in Debian but the application is pretty outdated in the [...]
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sSMTP is an extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things – no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration. This is ideal for web servers to avoid [...]
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Here’s a basic guide on how to get Apache2, PHP5 and MySql working on most Debian based distros in a few easy steps. 1. Install Apache2 and PHP5 (as an Apache module) apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql
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Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows [...]
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eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator & optimizer. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the [...]
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apache2-mpm-itk is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate uid and gid — in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts. 1. Install the apache2-mpm-itk package apt-get install [...]
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Debian has released a stable version of Debian 6.0 (squeeze). If you’re running previous version of Debian, you can easily upgrade. 1. Update all packages currently installed to the latest lenny versions apt-get update apt-get upgrade
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Dotdeb provides a repository with PHP 5.3 for lenny and it’s easy to upgrade: 1. Add these lines to the apt sources (pico /etc/apt/sources.list) deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
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Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. 1. Install the Unison package apt-get [...]
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Varnish is a state of the art web accelerator. Its mission is to sit in front of a web server an cache the content. It makes your web site go fast. 1. Install Varnish apt-get install varnish
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