Archive for August 6th, 2007

How to setup a Linux FTP server

Monday, August 6th, 2007

This article should help you install and configure the Proftpd software on a Fedora Linux server using RPM packages for the install.

Assuming you’re using RedHat, Fedora, or CentOS, you should already have a tool called ‘yum’ installed on the server. Yum is an acronym for ‘Yellowdog Updater, Modified’ and is a very useful tool for installing and updating RPM packages on your Linux server. It will usually take care of all needed dependencies for a package(s) , sometimes saving you hours of time that it would normally take to manually download and install each piece of software.

To install proftpd use the following command (more…)

How to setup Apache2 web server to host multiple sites on 1 IP address

Monday, August 6th, 2007

It’s very common these days to host multiple websites on a server using only a single IP address.
This is done with the Apache web server using ‘Virtual Hosts’.

You must first make sure that you have configured DNS to point whatever domains you wish to host on the server to the server’s IP address.

In your httpd.conf file (or a separate file that is included from the httpd.conf file) you will need lines similar to the following. (more…)


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