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FYI I NEVER MENTIONED YOUR N= AME OR U WERE THE ONE HELPING ME! THEY ALL ASSUMED THAT I'M SURE CUZ U ALL S= O CLOSE... AND BTW YES I WAS PLANNING ON DOING SOMETHING TO REPAY YOU FOR "H= ELPING" ME! AND I'M SURE IF YOU REVIEW ALL YOUR NOTES I SAID THANK YOU MANY T= IMES! AND I HOPE WHAT I DID TO MAKE MY LIFE EASIER ON THE FILE PATH ISSUE HELPS OTHERS!!!
I have really leaned another one of this life's le= ssons today.
As any member of this list will may or may n= ot know I have been an active member of this list for 20+ years.
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During this time I have learned so much about the use of WebDN= A from people such as Ken Grome, Donovan Brooke, and others that have since m= oved on.
I have always tried hard to return the fav= our and as such at times have gone far and beyond the task of offering help.= I have enjoyed giving back to the community from which my skills have grown= .. This I believe is the reason why I have been contracted by WebDNA users fr= om around the world.
I have seen many users over th= e years with configuration problems, in particular the last few weeks with U= buntu 18.04, hence the reason why I wrote the instructions a week or so ago o= n how to set up WebDNA on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04 - I even went= as far as to provide an image of the same available to anyone that would li= ke it, all in the hope that WebDNA would become a quick easy solution for me= mbers of this list to implement.
I had a number of p= eople request a copy of this image, none of whom have taken up the offer. On= e user requested that I build an image that anyone could use on any platform= .. However this is not possible for cloud servers as each cloud provider has t= heir own flavour of Ubuntu tuned to their hosting configuration. The instruc= tions that I publish will work if you follow the steps on any host and/or ne= w Ubuntu 18.0 installation.
And then along came Bri= an Harrington.
I must preface this with the f= act that everything that i have done for Brian was at no charge, purely a ge= sture of good will that I extend to all members of this list.
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Brian was unable to log into the Ubuntu 18.04 Droplet that he cre= ated. I offered to meet him on Skype to help him get past his hurdle - less t= han a minute later I had connected to the Droplet (a virtual server) using s= sh, Brian had some confusion as to how that was achieved, and had not receiv= ed the image that I had shared with him from DigitalOcean. So to make things= easier and so that he didn=E2=80=99t have to go backwards I simply complete= d the installation from the instructions that I had published.
Less than 20 minutes later Brian was the owner of a shiny n= ew Ubuntu 18.04 server complete with a working installation of WebDNA server= that was only requiring a license number.
As you w= ill know, if you have read the published instructions, Webmin is also instal= led on the Droplet.
What happened next is purely co= mical, if I published the emails that I received and you read the warnings t= hat I provided, plus the repeated advice that I gave, you would see ex= actly where Brian=E2=80=99s problems are.
=46rom he= re all Brian needed to do was upload his websites to /var/www/html and set u= p his Virtual hosts - at this stage WebDNA was 100% functional with all the s= tandard file extensions that are installed with the WebDNA installer.
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As an additional task I set up two Virtual Hosts, one on 8= 0 the other on 443 with the ssl certificate that he supplied so that he coul= d have a working reference.
However Brian had other= plans, he wanted to create a new directory /Library/Websites to be the root= directory of his webserver, remember this is the same person that has had n= o experience with a Linux server, he has had experience with a Mac server so= I believed that he had a good sense of being able to manage a Linux Server.= Brian didn=E2=80=99t want to use the installed Webmin, he wanted to do all A= pache configuration by uploading files with FTP however he didn=E2=80=99t ha= ve a FTP client.
Brian, you may remember the Skype m= essage that I sent you expressing my concern that if you work outside the st= andard installation you would break it.
For the res= t of the week I continued to help him, answer his questions, provide advice.= All the time doing my own work that Brian=E2=80=99s emails were interruptin= g. As I live in Sydney there were times that I was not able to answer him im= mediately due to the 10 hour time difference.
Then o= n Friday afternoon (Sydney time) I received yet another email from Brian - h= e had locked himself out of his server, yes, I fixed this for him too, repai= red his non-root user with sudo privileges and advised him that in 19 minute= s time I would be leaving for the weekend.
So it is= now Sunday morning in Sydney, I have turned on my computer this morning aft= er have a =E2=80=98family=E2=80=99 day yesterday to see the usually quiet We= bDNA list dominated by Brian continuing to have issues with his installation= ..
What does surprise me, and leads me to writing th= is email are comments pointed to myself by Brian such as:
"TalkList members say they will help... then the= y are GONE and suddenly don't has access to email or skype???!!! Nothing wor= se than someone setting you up to fail...!!!=E2=80=9D
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Brian had a very large V= Host file that he moved from his Mac server to the Linux environment without= any alterations. He believes that it was easier to change the configuration= of the Linux/Apache server than to use search and replace on his VHost file= .. Brian=E2=80=99s problems relate directly to Permissions and the relocation= of his server root. I note that Brian has said:
" I have no idea why Stuart think= s /Library/Webserver files are gonna be an issue when apache2.conf list shar= e folder and everything else.=E2=80=9D, I guess to Brian taking advice f= rom someone that has 23 operational Ubuntu 18.04 servers really doesn=E2= =80=99t make much sense.= Now I would like to see a retraction of the ill placed comments that you hav= e made about me.