Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Installing MediaWiki for IT 566 was pretty much the same as for WordPress. Download the tar file into your web root, create a MySQL database and user then go to you MediaWiki directory via a web browser and follow the instructions.…
One of the IT 566 challenges was do install WordPress. WordPress has a very simple installation procedure.
I created a MySQL user and database using phpMyadmin. After extracting the downloaded WordPress tar file to my web root and edited wp-config and I was ready to go.…
One of the challenges for IT 566 is to get Chrome OS. The pilot program for the CR-48 notebook closed sometime in March. Hardware running Chrome OS won’t be commercially available until June or July. So running Chrome OS on native hardware isn’t an option.…
Drush was (at least from my experience in 2011) not that well documented. The commands seem to change slightly with every version
I did figure out how to download themes with drush.
sudo drush dl sky
downloaded the sky theme
But I couldn’t figure out how to switch to that theme using drush so I just switched to the new theme via Appearance in the Drupal admin.…
Next in IT 566 land was installing Drupal and Drush. I installed Drupal with a few lines in the terminal:
cd /var/www
sudo wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.0.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf drupal-7.0.tar.gz
sudo mv drupal-7.0/ drupal
Then I made a Drupal database and user with phpmyadmin
and ran the drupal installer by going to localhost/drupal
Drush is a command line shell for quickly configuring Drupal.…
After a bit of a break, next up for IT 566 was installing Samba. I installed and configured Samba between Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP.…