New Guides
Despite making some loose promise to myself to kick-off the year with some server guides, I’ve only just got around to it. You can find the first here.
My first, in what I hope will be a series of many, is for a small server build for the home/small office. This covers the basics of a web server, which include Apache, PHP, MySQL, FTP and phpMyAdmin. In future guides I hope to provide more useful apps to install on it including wordpress, wikis, iTunes streaming, web radio recording, torrent client, photo sharing. But time will tell.
Why have I written this guide when there are so many other good ones out there? Well, most of those weren’t much help to me and didn’t usually tell me how to do what I wanted to. I had problem after problem which really made me learn how to configure a server. That’s good right? Yep, but some people don’t want to learn, they just want it to work - and I hope that my guide will provide some kind of half-way between these two, some learning, but something that works well too.