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Note: this is not a guide yet, just a text about my progress!
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Hi Apache friends.
I have spend around 7 hours almost every day in two weeks trying to set up server on linux computer.
i already using it on windows computer but i want a live server not just a local host, that can use ssl and cron having mail system, saving files as tar.gz etc. just like when i pay for having my site on a host, and the optimal solution for me is having it on a linux system,
But i run in to tons of problems every time i try to do it. and i cant spend all day week after week trying to solve it, so like to make this thread here so we can end up with a guide to setting it up, once and for all.
I know forum rules says one question pr topic, but in this case i think its best let all questions be in same topic, cause have al ready tried count less times jump from one topic to another, each problem has has at-least 3 different solutions and every time having followed one solution that fixed one thing it just caused another problem right after.
not that all solutions vas from apache friends , and its not for nagging anyone,i am sure everyone is doing what they can to help, have been using google and searched for latest solutions. and have a bit flair for finding out if solution is useful, so much have learned by working with ubuntu for around a year.,
Here is my latest try, written just as example to show my problems, installed ubuntu ran update installed xampp. every thing went OK. added my site to htdocs folder set up database started my system and everything was running fine as local host,
then i restarted ubuntu started xampp up in terminal and went to htdocs/myproject folder.
and began working on my site, but i was not able to save my file after editing nor could i rename folder or unpacking files,
said did not have right permissions to do that,
so found guide about permissions ran some terminal commands set up me as user and adm as group so now having all permissions and was ready to go, started server up again it was running but now strange thing happen the process in terminal did not stop, and when editing file new terminal window kept coming with error messages about BIT not set if remember right,
but it saved my work, so went further with setting system up managed to set up so it instead of using localhost was using my domain, and as it already has DNS set up so every thing should be fine, so typed my domain name in browser and great it was up and running, but no it was still just local nothing was live.
that is why like to make guide here write all down and all problems in this thread if it is OK