I have just upgraded the lighttpd service to 1.4.20 for some of my Linux boxes which are running on a very old Fedora Core 5 distro.
The RPMs are available at the following URLs and generated from a modified specs file from DAGs.
I have tried overriding my resolv.conf nameservers with OpenDNS on Fedora Core 9 so that the domain names get resolved faster.
prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222; prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.220.220;
Now restarting your NetworkManager, and you should see that the OpenDNS nameservers are prepended before your ISP’s nameservers.
Fedora Core 9 provides a java 1.6 plugin for the FireFox. However, I have found that it doesn’t work for some of the web sites, in particular, my Internet banking and fansub.tv. This post describes what I have done to get my Java applets to work in FireFox.
My home gateway machine is a 5-year old Intel P4 2.4GHz machine running FC8. This machine has undergone a few Fedora upgrades from FC5 to FC7 and then to FC8. The hard disks have been replaced 3 times, and the partitions have been messed up because the hard disk replacements are often larger in capacity than the burn outs.
The upgrade this time is a clean installation of Fedora Core 9 with a couple of new hardware–a new LG DVD superwriter, Adaptec 1420SA SATA-II RAID controller and 2 x WD Caviar SE16 640GB hard disks. There were minor glitches during the installation, but they were resolved through the abundant information available on the Internet.
This blog post documents the steps required to setup email hosting for multiple domains on a Fedora Core 7 box. At the end of the setup exercise, you will have a email hosting system that uses
If you are familiar with system administration and using yum, you should be able to complete this within 30 minutes.
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