Tue, Aug 12, 2008
Migration 2
Posted to Technology category
It has taken a long day, but I now have VMWare and the LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl) stack working on the new laptop. My development copies of my blog and the CGI programs I have worked on for the company website are now accessible using the new laptop's local web server.
I really wish Debian and Ubuntu would leave the apache2 config files the way they are described in the actual apache documentation. And I'm not sure why the configuration that was working on the old laptop (Ubuntu 8.04 that got there by way of upgrades) doesn't quite work on the new laptop, which started out as Ubuntu 8.04.
And they really need a reliable way to configure apparmor so that mysql can have its data in a non-default location. I had to block apparmor from affecting mysql to get things to work.
I have all the data that is likely to change and needs to be backed up in /home: /home/mysql, /home/www, /home/vmware, but the config files aren't nearly as cooperative as they should be about setting things up that way.
Tomorrow I'll go into the office and load the Windows images I will need for testing the new application I need to develop.
Tonight I'm going to download a 32bit Centos image for the UNIX side of the development and testing and get that loaded into VMWare. I'm also going to rsync /home and /etc back up to the server, so I have a record of things in a working state. I should dump a list of the installed packages, and back that up to0.