informednetworker.com & software dmackey on 05 Feb 2008 07:03 am
Setting up a Ubuntu Linux Test Server.
I’m mainly a Windows Network Engineer personally and while I’ve dabbled with Linux in the past, I’ve never really embraced it. With Informed Networker being written with a LAMP stack in mind it seemed time for me to take the leap and start working with Linux.
I have an old 700 Mhz machine with 768 MB of RAM with Windows 2000 installed. I downloaded Wubi and installed Ubuntu 7.04. Once this was completed I enabled Remote Desktop and installed TightVNC on my Windows Vista laptop - then I remoted in. Once in I began by ensuring all the software was updated and then by installing the rest of the LAMP stack - Apache, MySQL, and PHP. In addition I added Webmin for configuration management and phpMyAdmin for handling the MySQL databases. Now its late and I need to get some sleep, so hopefully tomorrow I will begin actually installing Pligg in this test environment.