Computer IT Diploma of Commercial Arts

Distractions

March 18, 2012 By Paul Yeatman

It has now been a week since I installed a Linux derivative on my server.  It has been a week of trying to get a DNS server running so I can have locally configured and accessable URLs.  So far the best I have got is the default server to show up. Still no idea how to get virtual hosts running.  this is despite following about 4 or 5 different tutes.  If I ever get it running I’ll whack up the settings that worked here so someone else does not have to spend over a week trying to get the damn thing running.

One would think installing Apache would be enough, but I have to stuff around with something called BIND as well and probably PHP.

Once this is all good, then I have to relocate my SQL datbase, as the default location is on the main HDD, which is puny. So far, relocating the db from the var/mysql dir has killed the sal server.  Go figure as I’d not have thought the server running was depeendant on the presence of databases!

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Microbiologist with >15 years in the pharmaceutical industry with such responsibilities as trainer, team leader, auditor, technical writer, validator, quality assurance and control, viable environmental monitoring and more. I've dabbled with computers since the 80's and am fairly IT savvy, acting as a help desk for my immediate and extended family. After toying with visual design since high school, I qualified as a graphic designer in 2012. For leisure I ride and race my many bicycles, create websites, mange my cycling club's social media and am passionate about increasing everyone's knowledge.