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Article Comments:

Mike Larkin commented Sat Jun 28 03:16:37 UTC 2008 ago:

Would love to see one on Imagemagick/Rmagick install and configuration!

Gabe Plaxico commented Sat Jul 05 20:37:26 UTC 2008 ago:

Django advanced tutorials. Essentially, mirror rails content depth with Django. Some of use/evaluate both.

All in all. great service and I am very pleased with Slicehost. Cheers!

Neil commented Mon Jul 07 01:25:55 UTC 2008 ago:

An article on installing apache2 development headers for CENTOS would be great. They are needed in the new passenger gem.

Thanks.

Edwin Moss commented Tue Jul 08 21:46:40 UTC 2008 ago:

Postgres installation!

Great Docs!

Thanks.

Bryan Dragon commented Mon Jul 14 18:16:28 UTC 2008 ago:

Congratulations on an terrific service and many thanks for the excellent tutorials.

I'd like to request a comprehensive tuturial for setting up a mail server. It would be great to have some instructions for configuring Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, & co. to match the other aspects of serving websites that you have covered so well.

Edgar J. Suárez commented Thu Jul 17 02:58:16 UTC 2008 ago:

Your articles rule the world. :]

It would be nice to have a RoR installation/setup with sqlite3, ImageMagick and Nginx/mongrels on CentOS

Thank you very much.

Mat commented Fri Jul 18 01:10:25 UTC 2008 ago:

Some Git or Git+Capistrano articles would be awesome. Thanks for the awesome write-ups so far as well!

Patrick Berkeley commented Fri Jul 18 05:27:32 UTC 2008 ago:

Git/Capistrano/Rails on Ubuntu Hardy, please.

Patrick Berkeley commented Fri Jul 18 09:18:16 UTC 2008 ago:

Gitosis tutorial that works with the existing Ubuntu Hardy tutorials would be much appreciated.

A83 commented Fri Jul 18 18:19:05 UTC 2008 ago:

I would like to se a tutorial in how to make PHP work on a Nginx install on Ubuntu Hardy.

I don't get any of the tutorials I found to work.

Mo commented Fri Jul 18 23:09:07 UTC 2008 ago:

It would be really helpful to see tutorials on how to install and configure Postfix and Dovecot. Also how to install and configure an FTP server and DNS server. Many thanks for your excellently written, and easy to understand, tutorials, you are an absolute god send :)

James Brown commented Sat Jul 19 15:55:30 UTC 2008 ago:

So, Why is Fedora not listed in the "LINUX DISTROS" dropdown on http://articles.slicehost.com/ ?

  • James

PickledOnion commented Mon Jul 21 10:31:14 UTC 2008 ago:

Hi James,

Very simply because we don't have any articles for Fedora (or Arch, or Gentoo, etc).

Less than 1% use Fedora and even fewer use Arch Linux - we have to assign priority to the distros that are used the most.

Over 86% use Ubuntu or Debian.

PickledOnion

Barry commented Wed Jul 23 07:08:56 UTC 2008 ago:

I know it's probably a dull subject for most, but I'd really like to see an article on permissions management, scripted permissions corrections, apache permissions, developer permissions, etc.

I also second the Imagemagick article request.

Eric commented Wed Jul 23 15:11:46 UTC 2008 ago:

I'd like to see an article on configuring an FTP server to work with the apache directory layout you outline on your other articles. I.e., how you can make users that login to ~/public_html/domain1.com kind of thing.

Nick commented Thu Jul 24 04:16:22 UTC 2008 ago:

I'm with A83, would love to see an article about setting up MySQL and PHP on an nginx server.

PickledOnion commented Thu Jul 24 13:07:07 UTC 2008 ago:

Barry,

Did you see this article on permissions:

Apache Virtual Hosts - permissions

I think that may help with a lot of what you are after.

PickledOnion

PickledOnion commented Thu Jul 24 13:08:35 UTC 2008 ago:

Just as a general comment:

Postfix articles are on the way - I am knee deep in them as I write this.

I may not use dovecot in particular but pop and imap will be included.

PickledOnion

Matt S commented Fri Jul 25 04:53:25 UTC 2008 ago:

I'd like to see Django-via-WSGI tutorials; either a straightforward setup with Apache, or with nginx proxying static content & Apache + WSGI handling the Django side of things.

davemck commented Tue Jul 29 21:36:31 UTC 2008 ago:

I'd like to add my voice to the calls for something on getting php to work with nginx.

dedekind commented Sun Aug 03 11:12:16 UTC 2008 ago:

I have no requests at the moment, but I’d however love—in the article sitemap—to see the visited links in another color than the default blue color. That way we can see which tutorials we have read so far and which we haven’t :).

davemck commented Sun Aug 03 17:04:12 UTC 2008 ago:

Another beginner's request from me. I'd like to see something about optimising mySQL on the slice.

Gleb Esman commented Tue Aug 05 16:36:09 UTC 2008 ago:

Definitely need article on setting up PHP + NGINX!

Gleb

John Topley commented Wed Aug 06 14:54:11 UTC 2008 ago:

I'd like to see an article on installing and configuring logrotate.

Thanks for the brilliant articles - definitely the best I've seen.

Ben Johnson commented Thu Aug 07 05:42:03 UTC 2008 ago:

First, I really appreciate the tutorials you've done so far. I'm getting a little worried about security though. What I'd like to see is some basic information about how to identify possible threats. You won't be able to go into detail about how to seriously protect against them, but what should we be on the lookout for? Should we be concerned about installing mod_security etc?

Thanks again.

Scott commented Mon Aug 11 16:43:37 UTC 2008 ago:

I'm also with A83, would love to see an article about setting up MySQL and PHP on an nginx server.

David Grant commented Mon Aug 11 17:03:40 UTC 2008 ago:

I'm interested in seeing something on svn over http/DAV for read/write access.

Vamsee commented Tue Aug 12 04:55:21 UTC 2008 ago:

Hi, great series on setting up Postfix. Also, I've been looking for a simple way to setup smtp auth with Postfix so that I can use the slice to send mails from my development machine. It would be great to see what approach you recommend going with.

Harianto commented Wed Aug 13 11:20:48 UTC 2008 ago:

Hi,

allot of the articles helped me out, but sometimes a little different.

Is there any article how to install MySQL and InnoDB with yum or rpm on CentOS 5?

gaiusparx commented Wed Aug 13 16:00:57 UTC 2008 ago:

nginx + thin + merb

Thanks

Chris Lloyd commented Fri Aug 15 04:30:56 UTC 2008 ago:

+1 for PHP + nginx

aurelien commented Mon Aug 18 10:12:09 UTC 2008 ago:

Hi, I'm really enjoying your series on setting up an email server and postfix configuration on ubuntu and this is just to let you know that I'm patiently waiting for you to cover setting up pop and imap access to the mail server! I must add that as a resource, what you are building up is simply terrific.

PickledOnion commented Tue Aug 19 09:36:43 UTC 2008 ago:

Hi,

I've just had a weeks holiday.

Now I am back I can carry on with the email articles :)

All the other comments and requests have been noted. Once the email series is completed, I will go though the requests and complete as many as I can.

Thanks for the support.

PickledOnion

Luc commented Tue Aug 19 18:26:27 UTC 2008 ago:

I loved the email series.

I was wondering if you could have a similar series of article on logging in Ubuntu covering syslog, log rotations, etc...

Rich commented Wed Aug 20 05:00:41 UTC 2008 ago:

Love the articles!

I'd like to see one on scaling an application across multiple slices in various combinations.

ger commented Thu Aug 21 16:27:54 UTC 2008 ago:

An article about monitoring your vps with munin and monit.

James Brown commented Fri Aug 22 03:31:30 UTC 2008 ago:

Thought this might come in useful. If you do not change the perms on /tmp you are in for a world of pain (well, not too bad once you know how to recover).

Fedora 9 MySQL Installation

yum groupinstall "MySQL Database"

chkconfig mysqld on

chmod 777 /tmp

service mysqld start

chmod 755 /tmp

/usr/bin/mysqlsecureinstallation

gg commented Sun Aug 24 17:45:00 UTC 2008 ago:

lighttpd fastcgi rubyonrails, please. Thanks a lot!

CRC commented Wed Aug 27 14:40:35 UTC 2008 ago:

Any word on when multi-domain email setup tutorials will be posted?

Erik Barber commented Wed Aug 27 15:44:09 UTC 2008 ago:

I would like to see an listing for Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks using DenyHosts w/Debian Etch

Andy Atkinson commented Thu Aug 28 19:58:32 UTC 2008 ago:

nginx + HAproxy balancing requests to mongrels please.

Michael Hale commented Fri Aug 29 20:02:27 UTC 2008 ago:

I'd love to see an article on setting up god to watch a typical rails box: nginx|apache,mongrel,mysql,postfix.

Diego Fejgelis commented Sun Aug 31 22:10:50 UTC 2008 ago:

Hey, It would be great to see some cacti and nagios how-to.

Great job.

Sam Ducker commented Tue Sep 02 22:44:45 UTC 2008 ago:

A warehouse setup with svn/ruby bindings when you do more svn tuts would be awesome plus setting up roundcube added to the email tutorials, maybe one for google apps to keep up the great work :)

nick commented Thu Sep 04 18:13:11 UTC 2008 ago:

i just discovered the syntax highlighting in nano. its saving me loads of problems-- the sloppy mistakes i used to do whilst following all of your awesome tutorials.

I used some of the stuff from this blog post: http://freethegnu.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/nano-shortcuts-syntax-highlight-and-nanorc-config-file-pt2/

I grabbed the gentoo pack that article links to and added many of the filetypes to my nano configuration.

I'm editing faster and more accurately now, and i'm catching mistakes before writing out.

Ben Perry commented Thu Sep 04 23:03:18 UTC 2008 ago:

I'm curious about the Apache + SSL articles. It looks like you're using namebased vhosts, but I thought you couldn't use SSL with namebased vhosts and they had to be IP based.

In particular I'm looking at setting up 4 sites each with their own SSL cert. I didn't think this was possible on one IP address.

Cheers. Love the existing articles. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to becoming a slice customer in the very near future. :D

Bart commented Sat Sep 06 02:26:33 UTC 2008 ago:

It will be usefull a mySql install/config article on CentOS

Thanks, Bart.

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