Virtual Ethernet devices of the OpenVZ VM’s inside ProxMox is connected to a bridge. After installing ProxMox and creating virtual nodes, I found that public ips allocated inside VM’s were not reachable to world.
A quick fix for this issue is to ensure that Proxy ARP and IP Forwarding is configured fine.
Check these lines:
# ifconfig vzbr0 [...]
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This is a very common issue found in VirtualMin
The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP scripts run as domain owners will not be executed.
To resolve this you will have to recompile apache with /home as a base directory [...]
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Looking for a web administration tool for your system? Try out Webmin. One of the very basic tools to manage your system.
You can download the webmin package for different OS’s from the official website webmin.com.
Once you have the .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian, you will be prompted to install some dependencies. So first get the dependencies installed. Here [...]
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Hostname is stored in /etc/hostname file on Debian. This file is read at the boot time and name is setup using the init script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
To make changes to the hostname, first edit this file as follows:
#sudo gedit /etc/hostname
Once you’re done editing the hostname, save the file and run the following command to set the hostname. [...]
All I needed is to access my home directory hosted on a server quickly on a secure channel. FTP/Web based access were bit irritating as I could not read some of the IRC logs stored in unicode with ease. I quickly thought of installing and mounting the remote direct via sshfs (Secure Shell File System). [...]
Are you planning to upgrade your Debian etch on your server? It’s quite simple. You just need to follow these two steps.
Edit sources.list
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
and change all words etch to lenny,
Update and upgrade
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
that is all.
Do it on command line instead of running it through GDM/KDE so [...]
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