[RndTbl] Got a loan of a computer until September - Playing with Ubuntu Server 10.4

[Mike Pfaiffer]

	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out of date and makes some assumptions.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.