Linux Basement Tutorials

Truth be told, it is rather easy to get a test server up and running using the packaged web server that comes right with Django Trunk, but in this tutorial, I do throw in the apt-get install commands to install apache2 and mysql, but actually getting a production server up and running using mod_python and mysql is beyond the scope of this document. It also is unecessary, because Django has some phenominal documation, and I highly recommend continuing on with your Django education at both Django.com and www.djangobook.com

Django on Hardy

Installing Moodle



What is Moodle?

    From moodle.org

Preparing for Drupal and Moodle



We have to do serveral more things to prepare the server and database for Drupal. The first thing is we need to enable mod-rewrite and also make a quick change to the default apache2 configuration file for sites-available.



First, lets go ahead and enable mod-rewrite by entering the following at the command prompt:

Now it is time to log into your server. Remember that you have to log in with the username/password that you created durring the installation process.



For our purposes, we need to configure root access. To do this, you must issue the root user a password.

sudo passwd root

You will notice that you are first promted for your password, and then prompted twice to enter a password for root. Now that you have a password, you can change into root by typing:

Let's go ahead and power on the virtual machine, make sure to have your Ubuntu Server disk in your disk drive. www.ubuntu.com

Click "Power on this Virtual Machine".







If all goes well, you will boot to the installation CD and see this.