Posts Tagged ‘ apache ’

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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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