How to Setup WebDAV Based File Server Using Apache2 on Ubuntu 12.04
Hi fellas, after a while going to write about setting up a WebDAV based file sharing system. What’s WebDAV? Well, to make it simple it’s a protocol for read write access to the file system works in conjunction with http web services. Somewhat similar to ftp access. One advantage using this setup is you can enable [...]
Installing OpenVPN with Shorewall in Ubuntu – Part 2
If you haven’t go through the OpenVPN installation part, you can check in Part 1. Now we have a client connected to the server with IP address 10.8.0.17. First we need to tell server to route incoming packets destined to internet through server’s public IP. Which we call NAT. I’m using Shorewall to do the task which [...]
Installing OpenVPN Server with Shorewall in Ubuntu – Part 1
Hello everyone. I couldn’t post anything recently as I got stuck with some projects. Today I’ll be covering OpenVPN installation with Shorewall in Ubuntu 12.04. This is something new I tried and it worked for me :D. On the first part I’ll go through the basic installation and getting a user connected to the server. [...]
Archive All Incoming & Outgoing Mails in Zimbra / Postfix
My friend using Zimbra at his office asked me that if there’s any possibilities to keep all incoming and outgoing mails of all users in separate location where his boss can see the mails while users are unaware of it š After few Google searches I found the solution. It basically auto bcc all inbound and outbound emails to specified [...]
Rsync Script With File Versioning by Date
This script I’m using on my file server when mirroring the data from primary hard drive to backup and external hard drive. Which basically checks for the files which have been modified or deleted on primary by comparing backed up data on the backup drive and then move the unmodified and undeleted files from backup drive to a [...]
ownCloud | An Open Source Dropbox Alternative
Your own data, your own cloud. ownCloud is a full featured DropboxĀ alternative server application run on your own server. Owncloud can be setup and running with minimal configuration. The basic requirement is a working LAMP server. Like Dropbox and Google Drive Images music files can be accessible from web interface without need to [...]
Split DNS – Explained
In one of my previous post about setting up Zimbra mail server application, I’ve mentioned about configuring a Split DNS (local DNS) server using bind9 on server itself. In this article I’ll explain why is it important to a mail server and how it works. Before we go into detail, you should have a good understanding of DNS [...]
Zimbra 8.0 Outgoing SMTP Authentication
Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client. Zimbra was initially developed by LiquidSys, which changed their name to Zimbra, Inc. Recently I’ve installed zimbra 8.0 on one of my client’s server, but I couldn’t use existing wiki instructions to [...]
Setup a Headless Transmission Client in Ubuntu 12.04
After searching for a solution to run Transmission BitTorrent client as a service (daemon) instead of opening manually and keep the running icon on the desktop and found ‘transmission-daemon’ package which will let us to run Transmission in a headless server or in our own NAS. Transmission daemon can be accessed by [...]
Broadcast Audio Online with Icecast Darkice and ezstream
If you ever wanted to broadcast your own voice or a mp3 playlist, here’s the solution for that. When I was exploring about onlineĀ broadcasting, I found two popular audio broadcasting applications those are Shoutcast (Windows) and Icecast (Linux). In this guideĀ I’ll setup an Icecast server in Ubuntu. The reason why I [...]