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My last project for the class I’m taking at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is the installation and configuration of MediaTomb. I searched for installation instructions and found a good set at http://socrateos.blogspot.com/2011/01/installing-mediatomb-on-ubuntu.html. Continue reading
For one of the three tasks for my final project, I decided to install something not already listed on the IT566 website (Note – this URL is no longer available). I searched for open source software for Ubuntu. I landed on a page describing 10 great applications for Ubuntu. From the list, I really liked the Cairo-Dock application. Continue reading
I decided as part of the Final Project group of three tasks, I would install a MediaWiki. To do this I went to the MediaWiki website and clicked on the links for the documentation for the installation procedure. I followed the Brief Installation Guide instructions. Continue reading
To setup Samba to access files from the Ubuntu server machine from my iMac, I installed Samba. First, I searched in Google on how to install Samba. I found instructions at http://www.unixmen.com/linux-distributions/4-ubuntu/1203-how-to-install-and-configure-samba-in- ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-via-gui- (and yes, the dash does belong at the end of the name… I double-checked that).
It was very straightforward and easy to follow. After the installation, I went to System -> Administration -> Samba. When the dialog box opened, I was able to add the computer and edit the sharing properties labeled as UbuntuShare. From my iMac, I went to the Finder and saw the computer on my network listed as dell on the left. Yet, the folders I could access were found under the label of UbuntuShare (if you look at the top of the screenshot I am posting, you will see the label UbuntuShare).
I installed Subsonic on my Ubuntu machine. I went to www.subsonic.org and downloaded the necessary files. Then I followed the instructions found at http://www.subsonic.org/pages/installation.jsp#debian and went to the http://localhost:4040 address. It didn’t load, so I thought I would reboot the computer just to make sure it finished the installation process. As soon as the machine rebooted, the http://localhost:4040 address worked and let me sign in. I gave some changed some settings and told Subsonic where to find my music files and started jammin’.
My progress and proof are found here:
Installing Subsonic
Playing Music with Subsonic
Anticipating for the worst, I downloaded Drupal 7 installation files and loaded them into the /var/www directory in a folder named “drupal.” I thought this would be tough, but I ran the installation files in the browser, made a drupal database in phpmyadmin and set up Drupal in about 10 minutes. Woohoo!
You can visit the Dupal Joe site at http://ordinaryjoe80.dyndns-server.com/drupal (Note – this URL is no longer available).
In order to install Moodle on my server, I went to the /var/www directory and copied the moodle folder to it. I configured the file permissions, set up my phpmyadmin database, and installed Moodle. However, everything was successful until I tried to access it from another computer at http://ordinaryjoe80.dyndns-server.com/moodle (Note – this URL is no longer available). I kept getting an error saying
“Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through “http://localhost/moodle” address, sorry.
Please notify server administrator..”
AND it was only able to be accessed on the actual server computer. I spent hours making sure permission files were correct and everything was in order. Finally, I came across an forum where someone had the same issue. Apparently, sometimes this issue occurs in Moodle 2.0 and so I followed the last post to the forum (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149586). I realized that file config.php had a string that said
$CFG->wwwroot = ‘http://localhost/moodle’;
This is why I couldn’t access it from another computer. I changed the http://localhost/moodle to http://ordinaryjoe80.dyndns-server.com/moodle and voila – it worked like a charm. You may now access Moodle Joe at http://ordinaryjoe80.dyndns-server.com/moodle (Note – this URL is no longer available).
I installed the LAMP testing servers and everything by following the instructions found at http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/04/installing-lamp-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/ and created a test myphpinfo file. My screenshot is:
As part of the assignment, we are to install some type of music editor and MP3 creator to our server. Taking a lead from our professor, I looked up Audacity and found it is a simple free music editor that can easily be installed. However, it doesn’t support the export to MP3 format, so I had to install something else, called LAME, for the export to occur. I found the directions to install from an article by Jonathan Moeller at http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=2116. The directions were simple enough that even I could follow.
I took a brought a track I had made a while back into Audacity and created a new track from it. In order to do so, I needed to install FFmpeg by going to Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Libraries and clicking on the Download button. I was directed to a resource online from which I was able to download FFmpeg libraries. I found the download at http://ffmpeg.org/download.html. My track opened right up, I made my edits and here it is:
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