Gordaen’s Blog

Note: If you’re looking for a more serious tutorial, you should read the previous Ubuntu Web Server Tutorial.

I noticed I had a bit of a traffic spike on Wednesday, so I checked out the referrers (or referers if you’re writing specs for a marvelous thing to be called the “Internet” but you haven’t heard of a dictionary). One source of traffic was Tux Machines, which had a partial version of the post and a link to the full version on my site. I assume that it’s a community-based content-sharing site for Linux, so someone found my article interesting or useful and posted it. Then I read the solitary comment by “vonskippy,” which offered criticism of my post, check it out:

One would hope that if you’re going to write a tutorial on a topic that has been done a least a bazillion times before, that you’d make it interesting, or in-depth, or illustrated with screen shots and graphics, or write in a funny and witty manner, or vary it in even the tiniest way from the other 99.999999% of the same exact tutorials, but nooooooo. Apparently the guy needs to read a good tutorial on that mysterious web thing called “linking”.

I’m sure s/he means well (because bashing just for bashing is even more useless than my clone-like tutorial), but I wasn’t sure why the valuable criticism was not left on my blog where I could easily access it. Well skippy, this post is for you:

(awexome graphics make posts good!)

This post was written based on what I did with my Ubuntu install. It may work on Debian systems, but I don’t guarantee it. Actually, I don’t even guarantee that this works on Ubuntu (though George Zimmer may, assuming Ubuntu is a brand of men’s suits). I probably paid some guys to Photoshop pictures that looked like I actually setup a web server, just like how the AP paid for doctored photos. Of course, you know that’s not likely because I am not rich. If I were, I’d buy a Windows server and pay someone else to deal with the constant problems. Before I forget, if any of these commands don’t work for you, use sudo. Sudo, it’s like Judo only tougher in a binary kind of way. That only works in print, because it’s probably pronounced like “sue doo,” which means JewDew would be a better rhyme. That either refers to a special type of haircut or Mountain Dew you have to drink from a Menora.

Back to the point: a tutorial that’s been done a million+ times before (other search terms give slightly better results). First, open a terminal. If you don’t know how, you’ll be glad to know there’s an easy keyboard shortcut to switch to a terminal. This isn’t a tutorial on Ubuntu/Gnome keyboard shortcuts (nor is it one for Linux keyboard shortcuts in case you wanted to post on some other website to ask if this tutorial was), so just start smashing on your keyboard until something works (though, starting with CTRL, ALT, and one of the function keys might be a good idea).

Terminal open? Good. Terminal not open? You’re retarded. Let’s continue… but not on this page, because that would be too convenient (and probably what all those other tutorials do anyway).

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