Thank you google!

I'm making progress on the technical front. (On a side not I promise this entire Blog will not be technical... but in the beginning a web site needs a bunch of technical stuff.) My virtual test system is up and running. I've enabled Apache, PHP and MySQL. It was actually very, very easy. I did a google search on Fedora and MySQL and found a web site that told me exactly what to do step by step:

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/install_apache.htm

Thank you google for making it so easy to learn from other people! Remember when ever you are stuck on something try a couple searches using different terms and see if someone else has already been down the same path. The only glitch I had was when MySQL didn't want to start because resolveip couldn't resolve my systems hostname and IP Address. Since my system gets it's IP dynamically using DHCP I never bothered to set a host name. To solve my problem I had to do the following (Time to return the favor and hope someone with the same problem will stumble on this in a search since they may not be convinently married to a networking expert):

• run 'ifconfig' to find the ip address
• run 'hostname ' to set a hostname
• edit /etc/hosts to add a new line with the ip address and hostname (I'll need to update this everytime I reboot or restart the network since it could change.)

Now my current todo list is:

• Find a name
• Set up source control using CVS so I can keep track of the code I write
  
• Fix my daughters bedtime... how in the world did I let it get so messed up she wasn't asleep until 9! It should be 7:30.
• Unpack the last couple of boxes (and the mess hidden behind them) in the corner of the living room.
• Cook and freeze the chicken and beef I bought for advanced meal planning. (Better do this before it goes bad.)