Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On FreeBSD

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.6, it supports FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on FreeBSD 7.2, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

iRedMail 0.6: Full-Featured Mail Server With OpenLDAP/Postfix/Dovecot/Amavisd/ClamAV/SpamAssassin/RoundCube/iRedAdmin On FreeBSD

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.6, it supports FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0 (it supports both i386 and x86_64). Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple and easy to use. iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. This tutorial shows how to use the OpenLDAP backend; it uses FreeBSD 7.2, but the steps for 8.0 are the same.

Creating A Jail With VNC Server On FreeBSD

This article explains how you can run a VNC server from within a jail on FreeBSD.

Installing MySQL And phpMyAdmin On FreeNAS

This howto was written when I needed to run some php based web applications and the only system around was FreeNAS. Although many people are using php and MySQL on a FreeNAS box successfully I couldn't find any simple tutorial for the purpose, so I wrote one in case anyone needs it.

VNStat On FreeBSD 7 With A PHP GUI

I installed VNStat and the PHP GUI to be able to view basic information regarding incoming and outgoing traffic per interface. I am using FreeBSD 7 with PHP4, as I had problems setting the GUI up with PHP5.

Installing A FreeBSD 7.0 DNS Server With BIND

This tutorial shows how to set up a FreeBSD based server that offers DNS services. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of FreeBSD, but should apply to the 32-bit version.

Step By Step: Install Wordpress Multiuser (WPMU) On FreeBSD 7

Wordpress is one of my favourite blog engines because it's easy and supports many plugins. Wordpress also available in multi-user mode which means a single Wordpress installation will cover many users with their own subdomain. This howto will show the steps taken to install Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD 7 stable.

Set Up PC-BSD v1.4 beta

This document describes how to set up PC-BSD v1.4 beta. PC-BSD is released under the BSD license.

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And PostgreSQL

This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a PostgreSQL database instead of real system users. I couldn't find any tutorial like that on the internet, so when that configuration finally worked for me, I decided to publish it. The documentation is based on FreeBSD 6.2 which I was recently forced to use (I usually use Debian). Nevertheless the document should be suitable for almost any Linux distribution as well (may require very small amendments).

Creating A DNS Cache With djbdns

Building a local DNS cache will speed up your internet connection since the time for the “translation job” (converting domain names into IP addresses) will become negligible with the assumption that the DNS cache gets the information from the parent DNS.