June 10, 2007

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

1. sudo a2enmod rewrite.
2. Edit Apache configuration: sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
3. Change line 12: “AllowOverride none” to “AllowOverride all”
4. save and close
5. 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:

1. Install IEs4Linux.
2. Install Opera.
3. Install Komodo Edit.
4. Install gftp.