An interesting package. Some adventures... The first is I appear to have purchased a bad batch of CDs. Or it could be the burner. It works fine installed on a DVD.
I've set up a LAMP server. It works fine for standard HTML files. It took me a while to configure it for users public_html directories. The usersdir module wasn't hard to find but finding out what to do was where the time went.
I tried to display a PHP test file and ran into problems. It seems it only works fine in the system directory but not for users. This is the same problem I was having with OS X (10.4) last year. It wants to send the file as a download. The documentation I've read today seems to be out of date and makes some assumptions. For example, that I'm running Windows, the software isn't already there. That sort of thing. Even the documentation from Canonical wasn't very helpful (I spent most of the day reading the 8.04 documentation without realising it). They also assumed I had to download the software even though it was on their ISO. I know I'm missing a setting somewhere. Probably in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file. It probably has to be a 30 second fix. Would someone happen to know it off the top of their head?
I'd like to set up Python as well. The language is installed. I want to hold off installing it until I can get PHP working. If someone could point me to some documentation for that too it will help a lot.
There are quite a few apps installed. Moinmoin and mediawiki are there. I was wondering if installing a "forum" program would be worthwhile. I'll probably connect it to a wireless router in the last week and let my neighbours access it for a while. Of course with me it's also about installing games. Chris was saying there are a few free PHP (web) games which might be worth looking at. Then there is Montanas recommendation about Stendhal. Anything else worth installing before the machine goes back in September?
Later Mike
P.S. There will be no web access through the wireless router. Shaw gets their collective underwear in a knot at the idea of something like bittorrent let alone an open router.