Techie Haven

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Now that I have a shiny new Droid phone I plan on updating my blog more frequently detailing my daily trial and tribulations in the government IT world. I have linked my blog to my Facebook account so my posts should start showing up on my wall.

Hopefully some of the tricks and tips I run across might be useful.

Also, If it works correctly people should now be able to Facebook “like” my posts as well as leave comments using their Facebook accounts. Lets see how it works, if it succeeds I hope to add the same functionality to my wife’s scrapbooking blog.

Well, it’s done. I will be using this site to keep track of my IT tips and tricks of the trade. I wish I would have started this a lot sooner… like 10 years ago sooner… but I hope to get some of the same problems from the past and get the solutions posted here with some helpful links.

Lets start with the links that I used to get this up and running. The only snafu I ran into… well, I had a couple…

1. Needing to get to the file browser as root to make changes required to certain files… found this gem… In the instructions below I did not have experience with vi so I just went into the file browser as root and CAREFULLY made the needed changes.

Basically log into root by typing su root in a terminal, put in your password, then type nautilus –browser & and ignore any error messages in the terminal window.

2. I had to add my local IP address for my server along with my site name in the etc/Hosts file like so 192.168.1.55 www.techiehaven.com and for good measure 192.168.1.55 techiehaven.com. Before making this change if I tried to go to localhost after installing WordPress I would just get my router admin page when trying to get to the site from within the LAN.

Here are the web pages I used to get up and running…

Ubuntu LAMP Server setup

Ubuntu Configure Apache, MySQL, and Cgi-Bin

Installing WordPress