Less-than-serious Tutorial On Ubuntu Web Server Installation
9 Comments Published January 18th, 2007 in Humor, Linux, SoftwareOkay, 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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Wow, nice you are an idiot flash link. I liked how you gave me lots of pretty pictures to enjoy and gave me plenty links to everywhere possible on the internet.
Josh, you’re an asshole. I think that about sums up your attitude
I think, considering why this article was made to begin with, the author made his/her point… Besides, it’s funny as hell
It sucks that people have to nock a guy for trying to help shed a little light, there are those of us who do appreciate it though, keep the tuts coming and many thanks for the effort involved!
To those of you who can’t think of something better to do than flame people for trying to help… You’re the reason why tech support everywhere firmly believes everybody should be forced to take an IQ test prior to buying a computer and another before being allowed internet access. If User_IQ < Potatoe_IQ then User_ID = BANNED!
I am new to this. Did all that but I cant put any files in the www folder, do you have to give yourself write permissions to the folder, is that safe or do you have to log on as root to setup the content
Alonso, /var/www is typically owned by root or www-data, so there are a few ways you can take care of the problem, depending on your concern for security. The best bet is usually to set the group to something like www-data and add your user to that group. When testing out things quickly, I’ve replaced www with a symlink to whatever folder I want to use (such as one in my homedir). You can also change the config to look elsewhere, which is a good option when using vhosts.
Thanks for the reply ian it was helpful
This gave me a much needed laugh in my quest to set up a web server.
I asked my neighbor to print the photo of the keyboard because I couldn’t figure it out. Anyway, when I got to the Best Buy, they didn’t have any with red circles. They only had non-red-circled keyboards. Will those work ok, or do I really need to have the red circle?
Rhys, it’s really tough to say if non-red-circled keyboards will work. I recommend buying a red Sharpie and creating your own red circle; if you do it well enough, the computer might not know the difference. Good luck!