Introduction
I recently wrote a post entitled "5 Ways To Use Puppy Linux" which gives a short list of possible uses for Puppy LINUX.One of the ideas mentioned was to use Puppy LINUX as a small development web server enabling web development on the move. Simply take your laptop/netbook and a USB pen drive pre-installed with Puppy LINUX and the LAMP stack and you can develop web pages whilst travelling on the train. Someone left a comment asking how this could be done.
This is the 1st of a series of posts detailing how to set up the LAMP stack within Puppy LINUX.
Initial Setup
I have taken a 2gb USB drive and I have installed Lucid Puppy on it as this is the easiest and for me most complete version of Puppy LINUX.I installed Firefox and set up the wireless connection and then I created a 512mb save file and rebooted the PC.
The following steps will show you how to install Apache within Lucid PUPPY.
Installing Apache
1. Click the install icon on the top row.
4. Exit the installer and restart it by clicking install again.
6. Click the Apache HTTP Server Metapackage
9. Run through all the installers until all the packages are installed
11. You will receive an error stating that libaprutil-1.so.0 could not be found. You now need to install this from the repositories. Click install to bring up the package manager and type libapr
12. Install the libapr-1 package.
15. Typing Apache2 brings up the real issue which is that httpd.conf could not be found. Go to /etc/apache2 and type "nicoedit httpd.conf". Nicoedit is the default editor within Lucid Puppy.
16. Enter the following line in the Nicoedit window DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs"
17. Save the file
NB: You can add all the httpd.conf commands you would normally use within httpd.conf. The steps above create a basic shell required to get Apache running
18. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. Still it does not work.
19. Type adduser www-data. When asked for a password you can just press return. (Although adding a password would make it more secure the point of this exercise is to set up a development server for when you are on the move).
a2enmod authz_host22. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. Still it does not work but we are getting close now. The error is basically stating that the folder we set in httpd.conf does not exist. Enter mkdir /var/www/htdocs.
a2enmod mime
a2enmod alias
a2enmod setenvif
23. Type /etc/init.d/apache2 restart again. It should now work.
24. Navigate to /var/www/htdocs and create a file called test.html.
25. Enter the following code into test.html
<!DOCTYPE>26. Open Firefox and type http://localhost/test.html.
<html>
<head>
<title>Testing Apache for the 1st time</title>
</head>
<body>
Testing Apache for the 1st time
</body>
</html>
Summary
It took a fair bit of effort getting Apache working but it is possible to do so and as you can see from the screenshot above it runs.This guide should not be used to create a production Apache server using Puppy. The concept of this guide is to get a working version of Apache within Puppy LINUX for use as a development platform when on the move.
The next guide will show how to install PHP.
Thanks for reading.
Waiting for "How to install Oracle in Raspberry Pi"
ReplyDeleteI think that may be pushing the boundaries a bit too far
DeleteOverkill! Try mini-httpd or one of the many other lightweight webservers. Or just cd to the
ReplyDeletedirectory in question and run:
sudo python -m SimpleHTTPServer -port 80 > somelogfile &
Part 2 now available (How to install PHP in Puppy Linux
ReplyDelete(http://everydaylinuxuser.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/how-to-install-php5-in-puppy-linux.html)
hey can you explain more steps: "15-17"
ReplyDelete"15. Typing Apache2 brings up the real issue which is that httpd.conf could not be found. Go to /etc/apache2 and type "nicoedit httpd.conf". Nicoedit is the default editor within Lucid Puppy.
16. Enter the following line in the Nicoedit window DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs"
17. Save the file"
thanks...
I mean how to go to "/etc/apache2"..in console?
ReplyDeleteOpen a console window by clicking the icon on the top row.
ReplyDeleteNow type cd /etc/apache2
Then you can type nicoedit httpd.conf
and so on....
Alternatively you can do it in one command by typing nicoedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Thank you Gary..."nicoedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf" command opened a completely blank text file.
ReplyDeleteThen I typed: "/var/www/htdocs" (step 16)
and saved (step 17) the file.
then I had typed "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart" in console and the result is:
"Restarting web server: apache2 ... failed!
You may still have some apache2 processes running. There are
processes named 'apache2' which do not match your pid file,
and in the name of safety, we've left them alone. Please review
the situation by hand.
apache2: Syntax error on line 212 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file httpd.conf: No such file or directory"
please help me to do solve this. I am new to puppy world...thx...
Rather than use the comments section of the blog to troubleshoot it would probably be better to do troubleshoot via email. My email address is everydaylinuxusergmail.com. (Replace the with the symbol).
DeleteOff the top of my head have you finished all the other steps in the sequence?
Is the path within apache2.conf pointing to a different folder for httpd.conf? (in a console type niooedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and look at line 212).
Thank you so much! Your perfect Howto end's frustrated years I often use OS, I do not like, because I'm not know, how to set up apache with php in puppy. Thank you from Berlin Germany
ReplyDeleteYou provide great knowledge of Puppy LINUX as a small development web server and also its installing steps.it can help more who are unknown and finding this criteria.you should carry on.
ReplyDeleteHi I also need help with step 15-17. When I type /etc/apache 2 and pres enter it says sh:/etc/apache2: is directory
ReplyDeleteThen I type nicoedit httpd.conf end it open a NicoEdit and say Unable to open file!
What to do next? What name do I use when I have to save? DO I type all of this DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs" in text file or just "/var/www/htdocs"
why is the first picture the wrong way?
ReplyDeleteIn the step on installing "libaprutil . . .", the screenshot shows loading package
ReplyDeletelibaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3_1.3.9+dfsg-3build1
This did not work for me, and so I installed the package above it:
libaprutil1_1.3.9+dfsg-3build1
After this was installed, I was able to proceed.
Later, there is an error saying "Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled . . ."
This is resolved by the actions in step 21 invoking "a2enmod". You might want to clarify this in the notes.
I am grateful for these instructions, and look forward to the next step. Thanks