How to set PassivePortRange and PassiveIP in pure-ftpd on Debian and Ubuntu Linux

If you run a firewall on your Linux server and want to use passive FTP connections, you have to define the passive port range in pure-ftpd and your firewall to ensure that the connections don't get blocked. The following example is for pure-ftpd on Debian or Ubuntu Linux and ISPConfig 3. Set Passive Port Range ... Read more

Yarn Installation on Debian Linux

YARN package manager is a tool for managing yarn. The acronym stands for “Yet Another Resource Negotiator”, and that is what the package manager does: it negotiates with other packages to determine which will consume resources and when without user intervention. The design of this system was inspired by Node’s npm and Python’s pip, but ... Read more

How to Install Mono on Debian Linux

Mono Framework is an open-source software framework that can be used to create all kinds of Server and Desktop applications, incl. games. Mono Framework is dependency-free (No C++ compiler required) and compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Mono Framework started as a fork of Microsoft’s .Net Framework v1.0 but now has become ... Read more

How To Customize Basic Cinnamon Elements

Though Cinnamon comes with a settings tool you can not yet customize it to the fullest. This is because it still is under heavy development and it is even not yet recommended to create super-creative themes, since it is likely that functions will be altered or added in the near future. Nevertheless, I have searched ... Read more

Debugging of ISPConfig 3 server actions in case of a failure

The following article describes the steps that need to be taken to debug ISPConfig 3 server scripts. This procedure applies to all ISPConfig 3 versions incl. ISPConfig 3.1 and ISPConfig 3.2. Enable the debug Loglevel in ISPConfig Login to the ISPConfig interface and set the log level to Debug under System > System > Server ... Read more