[RndTbl] Got a loan of a computer until September - Playing with Ubuntu Server 10.4
Mike Pfaiffer
high.res.mike at gmail.com
Sat Aug 14 22:16:43 CDT 2010
An interesting package. Some adventures... The first is I appear to
have purchased a bad batch of CDs. Or it could be the burner. It works
fine installed on a DVD.
I've set up a LAMP server. It works fine for standard HTML files. It
took me a while to configure it for users public_html directories. The
usersdir module wasn't hard to find but finding out what to do was where
the time went.
I tried to display a PHP test file and ran into problems. It seems it
only works fine in the system directory but not for users. This is the
same problem I was having with OS X (10.4) last year. It wants to send
the file as a download. The documentation I've read today seems to be
out of date and makes some assumptions. For example, that I'm running
Windows, the software isn't already there. That sort of thing. Even the
documentation from Canonical wasn't very helpful (I spent most of the
day reading the 8.04 documentation without realising it). They also
assumed I had to download the software even though it was on their ISO.
I know I'm missing a setting somewhere. Probably in the
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf file. It probably has to be a 30 second fix.
Would someone happen to know it off the top of their head?
I'd like to set up Python as well. The language is installed. I want to
hold off installing it until I can get PHP working. If someone could
point me to some documentation for that too it will help a lot.
There are quite a few apps installed. Moinmoin and mediawiki are there.
I was wondering if installing a "forum" program would be worthwhile.
I'll probably connect it to a wireless router in the last week and let
my neighbours access it for a while. Of course with me it's also about
installing games. Chris was saying there are a few free PHP (web) games
which might be worth looking at. Then there is Montanas recommendation
about Stendhal. Anything else worth installing before the machine goes
back in September?
Later
Mike
P.S. There will be no web access through the wireless router. Shaw gets
their collective underwear in a knot at the idea of something like
bittorrent let alone an open router.
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