The Unix way is for each user (and that could mean a person or a daemon) is given only the minimum privileges needed to do what is necessary. That goes for yourself as well -- it just takes some getting used to set privileges in areas that are appropriate and to need to need to login to so something outside your normal privileges.The Ninja Space Goat wrote:yea and one of the biggest reasons for making the switch is to learn all about linux so that when we get a linux box at my work and start hosting our own site, I will know how to administrate it (or at least help administrate it). I should probably learn these things, but for now I need to work on some php stuff so I need to have read/write access to the files and I need to do it the easy way.
Thinking about making the switch to Linux...
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- Christopher
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Alright I messed something up...
I was trying to set up a virtual host and I did this...
and now when I try to restart apache I get this error...
help 
I was trying to set up a virtual host and I did this...
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$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server... grep: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.com.conf: No such file or directory
[fail]Did you do this in /etc/apache2-site-enabled ?The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I was trying to set up a virtual host and I did this...
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$sudo vi mysite.com.conf
Does
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ls -lad /etc/apache2-site-enabled/my*- jayshields
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If anyone knows of a guide to set up any kind of desktop eye-candy (GLX, compiz, beryl) that definately works with the latest version of Ubuntu and an Nvidia graphics card please post or PM me a link. I still haven't found a guide that works.
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I've done it now. I tried 3 times with compiz, first time with beryl and it works. Although certain settings in the beryl-manager crash my system completely (blur/3D windows) and sometimes it randomly crashes anyway. Even when it's working fine all I have to do is open FireFox and my CPU usage goes anywhere between 20%-70% constant and everything starts running all slow. I've read it's to do with the kernel but everytime I do something on Ubuntu there's something like that comes up and I spend 4 hours fixing it only to find another gripe.
Being honest now I've got the eye candy working I'm bored of Ubuntu/Linux. I mean, I'm on Windows now, anything I want to do, I can do. I've got MSN w/ Plus, BitComet, WMP11 and FireFox running and my CPU usage stays between 2% and 20%. I run the classic Windows theme - that's all I want. I'm not a fancy man, I don't use iPods, I stick with Creative players
I like stuff that does what it's intended to do, and does it well - rather than something that does what it's intended to do, and some more stuff, but doesn't do it as well.
I only wanted Ubuntu running so I could show the eye-candy to my uni mates who run OSX. So now I'm leaving it while it's half-working so I can show them when I go back
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I've done it now. I tried 3 times with compiz, first time with beryl and it works. Although certain settings in the beryl-manager crash my system completely (blur/3D windows) and sometimes it randomly crashes anyway. Even when it's working fine all I have to do is open FireFox and my CPU usage goes anywhere between 20%-70% constant and everything starts running all slow. I've read it's to do with the kernel but everytime I do something on Ubuntu there's something like that comes up and I spend 4 hours fixing it only to find another gripe.
Being honest now I've got the eye candy working I'm bored of Ubuntu/Linux. I mean, I'm on Windows now, anything I want to do, I can do. I've got MSN w/ Plus, BitComet, WMP11 and FireFox running and my CPU usage stays between 2% and 20%. I run the classic Windows theme - that's all I want. I'm not a fancy man, I don't use iPods, I stick with Creative players
I only wanted Ubuntu running so I could show the eye-candy to my uni mates who run OSX. So now I'm leaving it while it's half-working so I can show them when I go back
- RobertGonzalez
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Remember Ninja, you can do almost anything with any file from anywhere on your system in *nix, as long as you remember to path yourself correctly (yes, I have screwed this up many a time myself).
So when you enter
If your pwd is /home/ninjagoatman/ then you will actually be making that file instead of editing it, and it will be in /home/ninjagoatman/ not /etc/apache2-site-enabled/.
Also, how did you save your file? Can you get into it again in vi?
So when you enter
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$sudo vi mysite.com.confAlso, how did you save your file? Can you get into it again in vi?