Continuing to muddle my way along with Linux, trying to get Apache, MySQL and PHP to play nice with each other and acknowledge me in my guise as a humble mortal and not God. Right now, I don’t seem to be able to up-root myself. I’ve already reinstalled the lot when (I’m using the NuSphere platform) the admin website started telling me it couldn’t find the server I had it installed upon and I couldn’t figure out how to tell it, no, THAT ONE, STUPID. There will come a point when I actually have data in these directories and a reinstall will not be a painless solution any more. Maybe by then I – with my 24-verb vocabulary – will actually have learned enough to be dexterous. The most constructive thing I think I did in the last 3 hours was put an alias into the bashrc file so I didn’t have to type the whole tortuous path name to turn on Apache and MySQL. Poke away until it breaks, reinstall, and then poke away until it breaks in a new and informative way. Meanwhile the rain pelted and the wind blasted – there goes the cherry blossom, just as it reaches its spring fullness.
Useful website of the night, The Linux Tutorial, although when I wandered sideways onto a long article on the need for security, the editorial fingers began to itch to tear it apart and restructure it.