OK. just read up on what Molly-Guard is, and it is just a way to prevent the server being accidentely shut down remotely. There is a nice little story behind its definition: What is Molly Guard? A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of...
Well, it seemed extremely easy in the end to set up a home server. I feel that I have not advanced my understanding of Linux a great deal, but I did manage to get a server up an running, of sorts. At least, I think that it is up and running OK. I accessed...
I never managed to work out how to use the sed find and replace command, and have been forced to use Screem (html editor that comes bundled with Ubuntu) to do it for me. A cop out I know, but I need to get the job done. The sed command does seem a much...
Got lots of help and advice this evening from my mate who is a bit of a wizard with computers. This evening I learnt these handy commands: (find . -type f -name ‘*.htm*’); do (to find all files within a directory that end in .htm or .hmtl or .htmanything) tar cvzf ~/mybackup.tar . (to...
OK, just found out where I am going wrong. And I am going wrong in more ways than one. Firstly, I need to modify the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to allow .htaccess rules to override the httpd.conf. Really I should not use .htaccess, but as I am using my Linux as a test environment for my Tranquillizer...
Just found this page on the Ubuntu website, bookmarking it here. Looks like need to make some changes to get the .htaccess working. Also seems that I could have installed LAMP automatically with this command: To install the default LAMP stack in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) In Feisty, the Ubuntu base system includes Tasksel....
I think that I found the solution, or at least a solution (it does not seem ideal). I typed this: sudo chmod -R 755 ./directory and it works. But, this leads to questions: 1. There must be one command to change permissions for all subdirectories? 2. why ./articles and not just articles? When using...
OK, it seems that I have a problem with permissions now (I initially thought that my .htaccess file is missing, which has code in to allow php to be parsed in html files). Anyway, I decided to create a new .htaccess first, using: sudo gedit /var/www/.htaccess and got this message: (gedit:8583): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While...
OK, last night I installed Apache and PHP. I was going to install MySQL this evening, but I decided that instead I would start with the next project I have, which is updating the template for Tranquillizer. So I thought that the most sensible way to do this would be to upload all the...
Well, everything seems to be going exceptionally smoothly so far. Time for bed now, but next time I will be installing MySQL. Then once that is set up I should in theory have a test environment to test database driven websites such as Drupal and WordPress. And this will help me on my journey...
I guess this is where I find out if it is working…… Apache restarting with sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart I have only ever done this through the control panel of my web host so far. So interesting to see how it is really done! OK, the results: jon@jon-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Forcing reload of...
I am now going to record my progress at installing PHP on Ubuntu, in the same way that I recording the results of installing Apache. Again, for my benefit, and your amusement. Are you laughing at me or with me? jon@jon-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading...
OK, this post will seem very strange to most readers. I am in the process of installing Apache onto my Ubuntu distribution, and I want to record everything that happens. So I am simply copying to this blog the terminal output. To most people this will seem like a crazy thing to do, but...
Making websites is easier than ever. With free web editing tools such as NVU, an adundance of code shared online and free FTP tools and cheap webhosting, building and publishing websites is easier than ever. Here are a few of the main tips I have used over the years. Open Source Templates – The easy way...
As part of my ongoing self education of the internet and computers in general, I have just installed the open source operating system, Linux, onto my old Athlon 1Ghz pc. I chose Ubuntu (version 7.04) as I was advised that it is a very “newbie” friendly distribution. It was a breeze to install, there...
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