Posted January 2nd, 2010 by Gerry
If you are a regular follower of my blog you know that I recently changed the theme of the Wordpress blog. Although changing the theme itself is rather straightforward within the Wordpress admin system, I wanted to customize a free theme and didn’t want to risk taking down my production theme while I was doing it. By installing a copy of Wordpress on a local server I was able to make changes and test them in a non production environment before putting everything into production.
Since I setup LAMP and Webmin on my system when creating the Ushare server most of the infrastructure was already in place including the Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and PHP with the module for PHP. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted October 30th, 2009 by Gerry
I always like having the latest versions of software, with the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on October 29th I wanted to perform an update on my home server to test the new features. Additional information regarding Ubuntu Server can be found at www.ubunutu.com and a list of new features in version 9.10 can be located here.
As with any update you should always backup your important information and make sure that your existing software has all updates. My information is stored on the server and an external hard drive so I am already backed up. The next thing I needed to do is open a command prompt on my desktop that is connected to the server. This can be done from a Linux Desktop, but my normal choice is to use Putty from my Vista Desktop, see my post on Creating a Home Server with Ubuntu Server if you need more information regarding this.
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