Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?

Tue Jun 24 23:02:46 UTC 2008

I'm at home now, I have to go out with my wife to pick up some stuff in town - but this is just a quick note.

I have the following packages installed - I'm looking at my Synaptic Package manager right now.

libct3
php5-mcrypt
php-auth
php-http
php-http-request
php-net-socket
php-net-url
phppgadmin
screem
wwwconfig-common
libapache2-mod-php5
libgtksourceview2.0-common
libgtksourceview-common
notification-daemon
php5
php5-cgi
php5-cli
php5-common
php5-dev
php5-gd
php5-mysql
php5-pgsql
php-sybase
phpmyadmin
php-pear

Is this a correct installation? Should Joomla install then?

Because it certainly does appear that php should be all installed, right???

I still cannot run anything that ends in .php and I've installed this stuff like 3 weeks ago, for 3 weeks it's been not working. I don't understand why this doesn't work if I've installed it by the Synaptic.

geo

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Mark W. Law <bear at wightman.ca> wrote:
From: Mark W. Law <bear at wightman.ca>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
To: yaktur at yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 9:59 AM

Do you have PHP installed and configured in Apache on your server?  I am 
getting the dreaded 'what do you want me to do with this page?' error
from 
your machine.

Mark

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 09:37:42 you wrote:
> My home computer IS the server. The whole family uses it for e-mails,
chat,
> music, etc.....but I also (through some pure luck?) managed to get Apache
> running on it. 
> But I cannot make Joomla do anything!
>  
> http://georutkay.homelinux.org/Joomla/
>  
> I got this far. But software complexity is constantly stonewalling me.
And
> I don't know what else to try and open PHP files with. If not Firefox,
then
> what must they be opened with to permit Joomla to install? 
> Or is the Joomla installer corrupted? How can I know?
>  
> geo
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 6/24/08, Phil Thornley <phil at pncpublishing.com> wrote:
>
> From: Phil Thornley <phil at pncpublishing.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
> To: yaktur at yahoo.com, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community"
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 9:04 AM
>
>
> geo,
>
> When it comes to working with PHP files, they must be put into your WWW
> root folder and opened by accessing the localhost (or domain name) of your
> web server.
>
> You are not looking for phpmysqladmin, you need to look for phpmyadmin
> which is the system for working with mysql through php. Again these files
> need to be put into your WWW root folder and accessed through your web
> server, not directly via Firefox (it only reads them as standard files
> without the use of a web server).
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> geo wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I'm on a bit of a time-budget so if I can't get this working in a
month or
> two, I have no choice but to give up on it and get on to other tasks which
> will become much more pressing in the near future, one of those tasks
> includes finishing up the wireless network of the Windows computers at the
> farm properties - quite a task.
>
> I simply don't have the luxury of trying to do this "that
way". It's not in
> the cards. Sorry.
>
> geo
>
> Hi Again:
> >From the Language that you are using, you seem to be doing very
complex
>
> things in the other operating systems. Linux is the thing you are
> interested in, so take a bit of time to learn some of the basics with it
> before trying to do the same kind of very complex things, with Linux.
> Not doing this
>  makes the learning curve Slew Rate very sudden. You are
> talking about PHP, and that is a very thick Book, and SQL, and that is a
> very thick book, and you are a Noob to Linux too, and that is a very
> thick Book. Learn a bit of Linux just by it's self. Now the Learning
> curve is very gradual. Then when you've mastered the GUI of your
Choice,
> and a bit of the shell, then Start with SQL. After you got the basics
> with that then go to PHP. Then what people tell you will make some
> sense, in the Linux way of looking at it. The lingo is a bit different
> in Linux, and after some basics you will know what people are saying
> when you go on a forum.
>
> Make things a bit simple, it's not that you are simple, it just makes
it
> easy to grasp the concepts in Linux this way.
>
> Alfred!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geo <yaktur at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: yaktur at yahoo.com, The Canadian Ubuntu Users
>  Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Mark W. Law <bear at wightman.ca>
> Cc: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:26:00 -0700 (PDT)
> Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199
>
>
> Sorry, but how do I do this?
>
> I tried getting phpMySQLAdmin by either Synaptic or by typing sudo
> apt-get install phpMySQLAdmin in the Alt+F2 window.
>
> Nothing. It doesn't exist in either place.
>
> But even if it did, how would i create a new blank database? I don't
> know any of this stuff.
>
> Thanks,
> geo
> PS: Sorry if I came off as a little testy before, this thing just EATS
> so much of my time just to experiment and fail at it again and again.
>
>
>
>         - download and install phpMySQLAdmin (used to admin MySQL
> databases)
>
>         - In phpmysqladmin create a new blank database and call it, say,
>
>  'joomla'
>
>         - Point your browser to http://localhost/[NAME OF THE FOLDER YOU
>         CREATED]/index.php
>
>         - Follow the prompts to
>          install Joomla (it will want the name of the blank
>         database you just created)
>
>         :)
>
>         M.
>
>         On Monday 23 June 2008 20:16:34 you wrote:
>         > Hi Mark
>         >
>         > Ok, I've downloaded Joomla and extracted it to a folder
on my
>
> desktop.
>
>         > I don't know how to install it though.
>         >
>         > Joomla isn't in Synaptic so I had to download it from the
>
> website.
>
>         > There are several files:
>         >
>         > CHANGELOG.php
>         > configuration.php-dist
>         > COPYRIGHT.php
>         > globals.php
>         > htaccess.txt
>         > index.php
>  >
>  > index2.php
>  >
>         > INSTALL.php
>         > LICENSE.php
>         > mainbody.php
>         > offline.php
>         > offlinebar.php
>         > pathway.php
>         > robots.txt
>         >
>         > ....as well as several folders.
>         >
>         > When I double-click on INSTALL.php, it opens Firefox and then
>
> Firefox
>         keeps
>
>         > asking what to do with INSTALL.php: Open with Firefox or save
to
>
>          disk?
>
>         > So I keep clicking "Open" and it just repeats and
>
> repeats.
>
>         > What do I do with this Joomla then?
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         > geo
>
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> 7:16 PM

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