Development Server on Ubuntu Desktop
Last month,I did a clean install of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my home computer removing the "dapper drake". But it is only now, I got a chance to sit down and install all necessary packages to set up my development server again.
With Dapper Drake, I had to use alien to convert MySQL5 rpm to .deb, because there was no version 5 in the repositories. Anyway, Feisty has all newest versions of software.
This is what I did for setting up my development server:
For installing MySQL server I ran the command: sudo apt-get install mysql-server. Then I installed the following:
MySQL Administrator: It is a Graphical User Interface for administrating MySQL: sudo apt-get install mysql-admin
MySQL Query Browser is a GUI for managing databases: sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser
Apache: sudo apt-get install apache2
Apache Manual: sudo apt-get install apache2-doc
PHP: sudo apt-get install php5
PHP module for Apache: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
Enabling public_html directories for users
Well, I am the only user in my computer. But I can create and edit files without running sudo if I have a public_html directory at my home. sudo a2enmod userdir. I then restarted Apache and created a 'public_html' directory in my home. Now I can access it with http://localhost/~username/.
Enable mod_rewrite
- sudo a2enmod rewrite.
- Edit Apache configuration: sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
- Change line 12: “AllowOverride none” to “AllowOverride all”
- save and close
- Restart Apache
(Thanks to mod_rewrite for Apache2 in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04)
How to restart Apache?
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload.
Todo:
- Install IEs4Linux.
- Install Opera.
- Install Komodo Edit.
- Install gftp.
Helvetica
Helvetica, which has been called the official typeface of the 20th century, is celebrating its 50th birthday this year.
(Via Clement Pananchikal)
From Wikipedia: Helvetica was created by Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas’sche Schriftgießerei (Haas type foundry) of Münchenstein, Switzerland. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, the typeface's name was changed by Haas' German parent company Stempel in 1960 to Helvetica — derived from Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland — in order to make it more marketable internationally.