Monthly Archives: January 2010

WordPress Error: Unable to create directory / Is its parent directory writable by the server?

By Ammon | January 28 2010

If you get this error when you try to upload an image to your WordPress blog, there are two things you can do: Go to Settings > Miscellaneous in your WordPress admin area and make sure that ‘Store uploads in this folder’ is set to the default: wp-content/uploads (notice there is no ‘/’ before wp-content/uploads).  [...]

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Use your user’s public_html directory to serve webpages

By Ammon | January 20 2010

Using a public_html file in your home directory is much more convenient than /var/www for a local website development environment. The following commands create a file called public_html in your home directory and enable the UserDir module in Apache. From the command line, enter: $ mkdir ~/public_html $ cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled $ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.conf [...]

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Ubuntu Karmic LAMP stack installation

By Ammon | January 19 2010

In the terminal, type: $ sudo apt-get install apache2 $ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server $ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Just agree when it asks you stuff.

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Use ‘service’ to start, stop and restart Apache in Ubuntu Karmic

By Ammon | January 19 2010

The service service_name command command can be used to start, stop, or restart anything in your /etc/init.d directory. From the command line, use it like this: $ sudo service apache2 start $ sudo service apache2 stop $ sudo service apache2 restart

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