Over the last... oh... 8 months or so, I've been casually putting together a LAMP server to host my blog and personal website on, and give myself access to files from work, etc. Last week, I believed I had it reasonably prepared for entrance into the World Wide Web. My CPU then jumped up, slapped me in the face, called me a B!%^#, and attempted to destroy my server.
I forwarded my ports, and nothing worked. So I decided to go editing config files for Apache. That was all well and good, until I really screwed something up . . . not sure what. This led me to uninstall my server programs: Apache, MySQL, PHP, and supporting modules. I attempted to reinstall, but the computer flipped out everytime.
Several reboots, and some manual file cleaning later, I just wiped the hard drive and resinstalled Ubuntu. Their sudo tasksel command, which I learned during this process, made the reinstallation of the LAMP server super easy and quick. I had a little trouble using phpMyAdmin, until I linked it to my /var/www folder, reinstalled WordPress, et voila! Back where I started. With ports forwarded, I was still unable to access the server from the web. I noticed later that I was connected to the IP for my modem, not the USABLE IP assigned to me by my ISP. I must be honest: I have no idea what that means. Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to call tech support and have them walk me through what to do with those IP addresses.
Anyone know if Apache should be configured past its initial installtion? Is the server ready to go as soon as the IP address route properly, or do I need to configure apache for my domain?
All of this has led me down a very interesting chain of ideas. In the coming months, I have a new website that should be launching, and I'm pretty excited about the idea. It will hopefully be different from other things you've been seeing.
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