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I know it's difficult to find good documentation to configure apache2 with mod_fastcgi and suexec to make php websites works. This configuration works well with Debian Etch (4.0). Here an example of configuration.

Munin is a simple to configure tool that make real nice graph about your server status. It can actually deal with almost any aspect of your server (load average, network cards status, CPU usage, memory usage, postfix, exim4, mysql ...) without spending much time in configuring it. Munin produce MRTG likes graph so you can easily see how your server health is going.

Our intention is not to build a fail-safe system nor a HA-Linux. We are just using RAID-1 mirrored disks to make sure that the system can be restored easily if 1 disk crashes. The following has been tested only twice (hey, we've got other things to do). It did work for us, it might work for you. It might also make your rats go berserk or just blow your mind.

A RAID device is a Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The concept was developed in 1987 at UC Berkeley and involves the creation of a virtual disk from multiple small disks in order to deliver improved performance and reliability. There are many flavors of RAID and lots of variations in how to implement it. We detail here a specific instance we use: software RAID1 using IDE disks on a Dell PowerEdge box running Debian "sarge" loaded with grub, managed by mdadm, using the ext3 journaling file system.

The system is equipped with 2 similar hard disks (they do not have to be the same but it helps if they are at least similar). The first disk is attached to the primary IDE as master, it will be referenced as /dev/hda. The second disk is attached to the secondary IDE also as master, it will be referenced as /dev/hdc.

There is a great howto about installing Xen on Debian Unstable. It is really easy to do and it runs fine. Nevertheless, on production servers, that's not an optimal solution. Debian Unstable has too many updates and things change too often. On production machines, a Xen host system should be stable, secure and should not need much attention. That is where Sarge comes in. If you pull the Xen packages from backports and install them on Debian stable you've got the best of both worlds. Let's do so!

Ce site a pour but d’aider les débutants qui désirent passer à linux, en l’occurence installer une Debian, on les aidera au maximun dans les avancement de la configuration de leur système. Nous voulons réaliser une documentation via le wiki (DebianDocs)qui soit le plus claire et la plus précise possible. Nous le savons, il y a encore beaucoup de chemin avant d’arriver à ce but, mais nous comptons sur chacun d’entre vous pour compléter le wiki, tout en respectant son architecture et sa philosophie. Le but est de fonder une véritable communauté d’entraide FACIL sur Debian.

Les premiers chapitres décrivent « une » installation simple de Debian de A à Z et la philosophie générale pour faire évoluer sur le système. Les chapitres suivants décrivent rapidement comment installer un environnement graphique. Enfin, les derniers chapitres sont orientés vers une utilisation serveur de Debian (comment monter un serveur de mails, web etc).

very good articles,tutorials about debian linux and most will work for ubutu linux

Guide d'installation d'une Debian Sarge

Guide d'installation de Debian GNU/Linux.