Again I find myself in the situation of not having blogged at all last week, trying to find the time to do this is proving quite difficult, never-the-less I shall carry on. It's actually becoming quite enjoyable!
I'm midway through the first week of my Easter break and it's actually really nice to take some time out (it's a hard life I know!). What I really wanted to do with this post was briefly talk about a little side project that I've had going on for the past few days
I'm midway through the first week of my Easter break and it's actually really nice to take some time out (it's a hard life I know!). What I really wanted to do with this post was briefly talk about a little side project that I've had going on for the past few days
Since Alex and I have started doing a bit of web development we've been approached by a housing company to create a website for them, they wanted to do it using a Wordpress template but neither of us has really used it before. The initial idea seems simple enough, just a tiny bit of CSS and PHP work with the job becoming more complex later on. Perfect!
However one thing that we are going to need is a way to test out our work, and that will require having a web server with Wordpress installed . . . enter old and unused computer. I'd been mucking around with this old Dell PC ages ago and had wanted a Windows and Linux box to muck around on so that I can become proficient cross-platform, I'd basically just wiped the hard-drives and then completely reinstalled XP and Ubuntu to start with, what I now wanted to do was set this box up permanently and have it a webserver on our local network.
This was actually a really simple task to accomplish, the web resources for installing a web server on Ubuntu are numerous and clear, so it was a case of downloading the LAMP stack as suggested by the Ubuntu help forum and after a bit of PHPMyadmin configuration I was ready to go. I never thought it could be that easy if I'm honest!
Installing Wordpress was then just as easy by following the instructions on the Wordpress help wiki, again some minor PHPMyadmin work and that was it we were up and running! What I've also done is made the www root folder a shared folder on the local network so that it is easy to change around the files from either of our computers which should make things much easier.
I know I haven’t actually written much on the process but I thought it would be best to share a general overview as there's really no point in repeating what is on the help pages because it really is that simple. This is going to be a great help though, both in terms of helping me learn a little bit about server administration and as a real testing ground for any development work that we do. The next step is to investigate accessing the PC via SSH, not because it's essential but because this could prove to be another technology and method that I may need to use in the future, there would be no better place to learn it than in a closed environment where nothing can (hopefully) go wrong!
I know I haven’t actually written much on the process but I thought it would be best to share a general overview as there's really no point in repeating what is on the help pages because it really is that simple. This is going to be a great help though, both in terms of helping me learn a little bit about server administration and as a real testing ground for any development work that we do. The next step is to investigate accessing the PC via SSH, not because it's essential but because this could prove to be another technology and method that I may need to use in the future, there would be no better place to learn it than in a closed environment where nothing can (hopefully) go wrong!
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