Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?
volksman
v0lksman69 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 23:46:54 UTC 2008
You have some but not all this is the complete list to get Joomla
running as per my note I sent earlier:
apache2
apache2-doc
apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-utils
libexpat1
ssl-cert
libapache2-mod-php5
php5
php5-common
php5-curl
php5-dev
php5-gd
php5-idn
php-pear
php5-imagick
php5-imap
php5-json
php5-mcrypt
php5-memcache
php5-mhash
php5-ming
php5-mysql
php5-ps
php5-pspell
php5-recode
php5-snmp
php5-sqlite
php5-tidy
php5-xmlrpc
php5-xsl
phpmyadmin
mysql-server
mysql-client
libmysqlclient15-dev
I believe your problem package right now is libapache2-mod-php5 which
isn't in your list but is needed to tell Apache to use PHP. However if
you don't have all the above you are likely to run into problems later.
BTW: I'm not going to get into a pissing match about what OS does what
in a certain way. Fact is GNU/Linux has traditionally been used by sys
admins running headless servers (IE command line, all text, no
windows). It was only two months ago that Ubuntu released their first
LTS server product (which still runs headless if you install by CD).
You can add a desktop later if you want. Up to that point their main
focus for 4 years was bringing desktop environments to the average user,
not server environments. So the interface just hasn't been built to
allow average users to setup and maintain server products without a
little hassle yet. You think this is hard. Try setting up a mail server.
However that said Ubuntu members are working this very problem:
http://en.emanuele-gentili.com/index.php/2008/06/14/rapache-is-born/
Very new (not sure there is even a release yet) but I bet the author
would like to have some n00bish input to the program. That's why Ubuntu
rules.
Best of luck. Let us know how it goes.
geo wrote:
> 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
> >
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG.
> > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1515 - Release Date: 6/23/2008
> > 7:16 PM
>
>
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