Comments on: Less-than-serious Tutorial On Ubuntu Web Server Installation

By: Ian Clifton

Ian Clifton — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:08:45 +0000

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!

By: Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:14:24 +0000

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?

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:07:43 +0000

This gave me a much needed laugh in my quest to set up a web server.

By: Alonso

Alonso — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:21:42 +0000

Thanks for the reply ian it was helpful

By: Ian Clifton

Ian Clifton — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:55:38 +0000

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.

By: Alonso

Alonso — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:09:12 +0000

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

By: Kane

Kane — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:36:44 +0000

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!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:27:23 +0000

Josh, you’re an asshole. I think that about sums up your attitude

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:37:56 +0000

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.