Forward three, back two

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.