Gordaen’s Blog

Okay, just to make sure you’re still with me (and you don’t just happen to be imagining the exact words on this web page without viewing it… again), the previous page helped you get the terminal open. I hope you aren’t reading ahead, because you’ll spoil the excitement of the one step that is on this page.

I lied; there are a whole bunch of steps. First, go to a store that sells keyboards (make sure they aren’t the musical kind, because those don’t work very well for commands that require more than the A-G keys). It can even be an online store. If you’d like to overpay, try Best Buy (judging by their name alone, I know that shopping elsewhere would not get the same awesome deal). Buy several keyboards. The next part of the tutorial is really hard, so you’ll probably get pissed off and break a keyboard in half (or several, if you’ve ever been hit by gamma radiation and turned green, in which case your head is too small for your body).

Now, you’re ready for the hard part. I suggest finger exercises before you begin. You have to type a LOT into the terminal, so I’ll put it on it’s own line:

apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Don’t forget to press enter! Whew, that was a lot of work!

(doesn’t this image help illustrate my point?)

Unfortunately, you might even get a message that you have to press “y” and then enter for the packages to decompress. Fear not; you have spare keyboards just in case pressing “y” breaks yours. This tutorial was not in depth enough last time, so I’ve included an image of a keyboard. I circled the general area you should be looking at to find the keys you need to use.

(now you know where the keys are)

Oh, did I mention that was a Chinese keyboard? Using multiple languages gives the post even more depth. Stimmen Sie zu?

Now you put your internets in /var/www and you have a working web server. If you’re really expecting more content that is even slightly useful at this point, well, you need help. But I guess that makes sense because you are looking for more useful content… damn you English language!

P.S. I really do appreciate constructive criticism, but I thought this response to skippy would be fun to do (and maybe fun to read). The reason my original post was the way it was is because my goal was to quickly and clearly show how to setup a web server. It did not have links because A: the tutorials I saw made the process overly complicated and B: if someone can find my blog, install Ubuntu, and setup a web server, I make the wild assumption that the person can also use Google (but I linked it just in case someone was having a hard time finding it). In all seriousness, this isn’t meant as an attack on vonskippy, because he doesn’t have any weapons of mass destruction.

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