User:Dubiousjim/Tutorials and Howtos
Welcome to Tutorials and Howtos, a place of basic and advanced configuration tasks for your Alpine Linux.
The tutorials are hands-on and the reader is expected to try and achieve the goals described in each step, possibly with the help of a good example. The output in one step is the starting point for the following step.
Howtos are smaller articles explaining how to perform a particular task with Alpine Linux.
We encourage people to send in both complete articles as well as requesting topics to be covered. If you think you have the skills and knowledge to write an Alpine Linux related article please do so on this Wiki. If you want to request a topic, please add your request in this page's Discussion.
Storage
- Alpine local backup (lbu) (Permanently store your modifications in case your box needs reboot)
- Setting up disks manually
- Setting up a software raid1 array
- Setting up encrypted volumes with LUKS
- Setting up Logical Volumes with LVM
- Formatting HD/Floppy/Other
Networking
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- Configure Networking
- Connecting to a wireless access point
- How to configure static routes
- How to configure a network bridge
- Using serial modem
- Using HSDPA modem
- Setting up Satellite Internet Connection
- Using Alpine on Windows domain with IPSEC isolation
- Setting up a ssh-server (Using ssh is a good way to administer your box remotely)
- How to setup a wireless access point (Setting up Secure Wireless AP w/ WPA encryption with bridge to wired network)
- Setting up a OpenVPN-server with Alpine
- Generating SSL certs with ACF
- Setting up unbound DNS server
- Setting up nsd DNS server
Unlisted:
- Setting up traffic monitoring using rrdtool (and snmp) not in networking
- Setting up a git repository server with gitolite and cgit not in networking
- Alpine Wall
- Fault Tolerant Routing with Alpine Linux
- Freeradius Active Directory Integration
- IP Accounting
- Obtaining user information via SNMP
- RealCase OpenVPN-client on ALIX.2D3
- TinyDNS Format
- Traffic monitoring
- Using Racoon for Remote Sites
- Setting Up Fprobe And Ntop
- Setting Up a bridge
- Setting up A Network Monitoring and Inventory System
- Setting up NRPE daemon
- Setting up Satellite Internet Connection
- Setting up Smokeping
Post-Install
- Package Management (apk) (How to add/remove packages on your Alpine)
- Alpine local backup (lbu) (Permanently store your modifications in case your box needs reboot)
- Init System (OpenRC) (Configure a service to automatically boot at next reboot)
- Upgrading Alpine using the stable or edge repositories
- Setting up a ssh-server (Using ssh is a good way to administer your box remotely)
- setup-acf (Configures ACF (webconfiguration) so you can manage your box through https)
- Changing passwords
- Enable Serial Console on Boot
- Error message on boot: Address space collision: host bridge window conflicts with Adaptor ROM
Desktop Environment
Applications
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VoIP
Web
Webapps
- 2600hz (FreeSWITCH, Asterisk GUI web acces tool)
- Awstats (Free log file analyzer)
- Cacti
- Drupal (Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP)
- EyeOS (Cloud Computing Desktop)
- FreePBX_V3 (FreeSWITCH, Asterisk GUI web acces tool)
- Glpi (Information Resource-Manager)
- MediaWiki (Free web-based wiki software application)
- Ntop (NetFlow collection and analysis using a remote fprobe instance)
- Pastebin (Pastebin software application)
- Phpizabi (Social Networking Platform)
- PhpPgAdmin (Web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL)
- Phpmyadmin (Web-based administration tool for MYSQL)
- Piwik (A real time web analytics software program)
- Phpsysinfo (A simple application that displays information about the host it's running on)
- Redmine (Project management system)
- Request-Tracker (Ticket system)
- Roundcube (Webmail system)
- Smokeping (Network latency monitoring)
- Statusnet (Microblogging Platform)
- Sqstat (Script to look active squid users connections)
- Trac (Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects)
- Webmin (A web-based interface for Linux system)
- WordPress (Web software to create website or blog)
- Zabbix
- Hosting services on Alpine (Hosting mail, webservices and other services)
- Setting up postfix with virtual domains
- Protecting your email server with Alpine
- Hosting Web/Email services on Alpine
Misc
- Setting up Transmission (bittorrent) with Clutch WebUI
- Freeradius Active Directory Integration
- Traffic monitoring (For Alpine Linux firewalls)
- Setting up NRPE daemon (Performs remote Nagios checks)
- Setting up lm_sensors
- Screen on console
- Using espeak on Alpine Linux
- IPTV How To
- Pllua
Complete Solutions
- Replacing non-Alpine Linux with Alpine remotely
- Fault Tolerant Routing with Alpine Linux
- ISP Mail Server HowTo (Postfix+PostfixAdmin+DoveCot+Roundcube+ClamAV+Spamd - A full-serivce ISP mail server)
- ISP Mail Server Upgrade 2.x
- ISP Mail Server 2.x HowTo (Beta, please test)
- High Availability High Performance Web Cache (uCarp + HAProxy for High Availability Services such as Squid web proxy)
- High performance SCST iSCSI Target on Linux software Raid
- Setting up A Network Monitoring and Inventory System (Nagios + OpenAudit and related components)
Drafts
Currently unfinished/works-in-progress.
- Using Racoon for Remote Sites
- Setting up Transparent Squid Proxy (Covers Squid proxy and URL Filtering system)
- Obtaining user information via SNMP (Using the Squark Squid authentication helper)
- Setting up Streaming an Asterisk Channel
- Setting up A Network Monitoring and Inventory System (Nagios + OpenAudit and related components)
- Intrusion Detection using Snort (Installing and configuring Snort and related applications on Alpine 2.0.x)
- IP Accounting (Installing and configuring pmacct for IP Accounting, Netflow/sFlow collector)
- Disk Replication with DRBD
Obsolete Docs
Candidates for rewriting/removal.