Ubuntu Linux Items

Turns out installing items on Ubuntu is extremely easy. The following items turned out to be useful tips (if not also the "proper" way to install additional items).

For PHP, to install additional modules, it's also a "sudo apt-get install php" command. Press the tab key "tab out, as it were, and it will show you the additional items that can be installed.

For Apache, to enable additional modules, instead of modifying the httpd.conf file, the files are separated out into separate directories. Use the "a2enmod" (presumably it's the 'Apache2 enable module' command.

I'm working on getting Ubuntu running Symfony and connecting to the Azure SQL Server database - this is turning out to be quite the challenge. After that nut is cracked, or when I crack and install MySQL instead (using apt-get), I'll post the results here to save the next person some work.

Updating Group File Permissions

From the command line:

chmod -R g+w *

This will give recursive group write access to everything. This is useful for me when my Apache is run under one user and my text editor is running under a different user (e.g. the user I logged in as). This will ensure both users, provided they're in the same group, will be able to edit the file.