[techtalk] setting up Apache
Hi everyone, My new job is so much fun! I'm the new Webmaster where I work and have slowly learning my way around my new job. I know the server is a UNIX system, but my husband assures me it's enough like Linux to be almost twins, so I'm not so intimidated by it. What I'm asking is, does anyone know a good irc channel or mailing list for Unix newbies to ask questions without feeling totally stupid? I'm going to migrate the webpages from a Netscape Enterprise system that is no longer supported by Netscape (or anyone else) to Apache and I'd like someone/someones who would be willing to give moral support and some technical support if necessary. If I could get away with changing the system to a Linux one I would...that's down the road. I DO have a project involving Linux, php, MySql and shopping cart software that I'm perking in my head. If anyone has had experience with opensource shopping cart software, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks, everyone! Carol ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] setting up Apache
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:03:12AM -0600, WolfRyder wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My new job is so much fun! I'm the new Webmaster where I work and have > slowly learning my way around my new job. I know the server is a UNIX > system, but my husband assures me it's enough like Linux to be almost > twins, so I'm not so intimidated by it. What I'm asking is, does anyone > know a good irc channel or mailing list for Unix newbies to ask questions > without feeling totally stupid? > > I'm going to migrate the webpages from a Netscape Enterprise system that is > no longer supported by Netscape (or anyone else) to Apache and I'd like > someone/someones who would be willing to give moral support and some > technical support if necessary. > > If I could get away with changing the system to a Linux one I > would...that's down the road. I DO have a project involving Linux, php, > MySql and shopping cart software that I'm perking in my head. If anyone has > had experience with opensource shopping cart software, I'd appreciate > hearing about it. > Well there is this list. You can also look though the various archives of the different email lists of the programs your looking at. http://www.geocrawler.com/ might be a good source for you. You might want to set up a linux box as you describe at home or at work and play with it. Join the email list of the distro your using and ask there. I've found most Linux email lists to be friendly. No need to feel stupid. Just some thoughts. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] setting up Apache
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, WolfRyder wrote: > Hi everyone, Hiya! > My new job is so much fun! I'm the new Webmaster where I work and have > slowly learning my way around my new job. Congratulations! That's how I got started on *nix systems too. > I know the server is a UNIX system, but my husband assures me it's > enough like Linux to be almost twins, so I'm not so intimidated by it. That's good. Linux is really just one flavour of a group of systems referred to as "Unix" - SGI's Irix, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X... All slightly different, but similar enough you can jump from one to another without feeling completely bewildered. > What I'm asking is, does anyone know a good irc channel or mailing > list for Unix newbies to ask questions without feeling totally stupid? I think you've found one :-) > I'm going to migrate the webpages from a Netscape Enterprise system that is > no longer supported by Netscape (or anyone else) to Apache and I'd like > someone/someones who would be willing to give moral support and some > technical support if necessary. Excellent move! Having done almost exactly the same myself (CERN httpd --> Apache on a Solaris system) the best piece of advice is: move slowly! Are there any pressing reasons to dump Netscape's server right now, or is it just a case of keeping up to date? If you like, meet me on irc.openprojects.net - I'm called "James_" (note the underscore!). > If I could get away with changing the system to a Linux one I > would...that's down the road. I DO have a project involving Linux, php, > MySql and shopping cart software that I'm perking in my head. If anyone has > had experience with opensource shopping cart software, I'd appreciate > hearing about it. e-commerce isn't something I've done any work on, but I'm sure someone here has! James. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] need help: customizing bash behavior
I'm a Linux newbie and I've been systematically reading the
O'Reilly book "Learning the bash Shell" by C. Newham, et. al.
(this is not a plug). I run RH 6.2, with the old (2.2) kernel, but I
have manually upgraded the shell to bash version 2.04.
I'm up to chapter three, which deals with customizing the shell's
behavior, including the use of environment settings and options
in the (global) bashrc and profile files, and I'm having some
trouble understanding how to implement certain settings of the
shell.
I was able to set the FCEDIT variable within profile, but all my
attempts to set the HISTIGNORE variable in that same file have
failed. I have also been unable to make "set -o ignoreeof" "stick"
when located in profile yet both the HISTIGNORE and
ignoreeof settings are perfectly happy in bashrc, which, from
my inspection of the comments in profile and bashrc, seems
like the "wrong place" for them to be. Am I making sense?
Anyhow, with the current setup, I get the results I want, but
it seems messy and a bit arbitrary, which probably means I've
missed some subtlety of proper configuration practices. BTW,
although I like Newham's book, there are some gaps in the
explanation of setting environment variables that are deppening
my current confusion.
I've included the two current versions of the files /etc/bashrc
and /etc/profile as inline text below... my additions to the
original articles are marked with and are as follows:
in bashrc: added lines 6-16; lines 12-16 appear (to me) to
be in the "wrong file", since they deal with the environment
and are not aliases or function definitions... but this is what
works for now!
in profile: added lines 22-24; tried inserting lines 12-16 from
bashrc at line 25 but to no avail.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help out!
jkatz
: profile :
# /etc/profile
# System wide environment and startup programs
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
ulimit -c 100
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
# System environment settings added by jkatz 11-Feb-2001
FCEDIT="/usr/bin/emacs"
if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
: bashrc :
# /etc/bashrc
# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile
# System aliases added by jkatz 11-Feb-2001
alias la='ls -la'
alias md='mkdir'
alias rd='rmdir'
alias ro='rm *~; rm .*~'
# System options added by jkatz 11-Feb-2001
set -o ignoreeof
HISTIGNORE="&"
# are we an interactive shell?
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal
stty erase `tput kbs`
fi
case $TERM in
xterm*)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
;;
*)
;;
esac
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
if [ "x$SHLVL" != "x1" ]; then # We're not a login shell
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
fi
fi
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