johnpain123

Thanks everyone... this forum and the experience everyone brings to it is excellent. There are some people with a lot of knowledge out there!

Hi Wildteen88, Thanks for the quick reply and sorry for the delayed response! Was going to work on this on Sunday, but ended up having to go and see my uncle in hospital who'd been diagnosed with cancer. He should be ok now, but God did that put things into perspective! Anyway, good instructions! I will try what you have suggested and will report back on progress soon. John.

Hi Wildteen, > Are you wanting your computer to be accessible from the internet For now, I just want to build the site on my laptop and then, when it's ready, I'll want it on the 'net! :-) > Note: Make sure your firewall excepts external connection to port 80. Thanks, that's good to know. So far I've installed Apache, and it seems ok except there is an error in one of the log files: "httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.139.0.5 for ServerName" Is this anything I should be worried about? Another (what may seem really stupid) question from me is coming up.... but let me just explain the whole picture... Basically, I want to use Drupal to create a website. From the reading I've done, I need to install Apache, MySQL DB, PHP and Drupal. I know there is a thing called WAMPServer out there, but I want to learn along the way and configure the individual components myself. ( I always find this better in the long term). I have so far installed Apache, MySQL, but I'm not sure if I need to install PHP and I don't understand how to install Drupal?! I've looked at the Lullabot install video for Drupal v6 and I understand it up until a point where she drags and drops the Drupal files into a web directory and "hey presto" it all just works?! How do I configure this directory for me to do the same thing? Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi there all, I'm really new to web development and know next to nothing about how to do all of this stuff! I'm interested in trying to set up websites and have downloaded Apache for Windows today. I'm stuck at the first installation screen! I've seen a post from user 123boy which is similar to my request, but I don't want to use "localhost", because I want to understand and learn how to use my own values. It asks for the following: 1. Network Domain. 2. Server Name. 3. Administrator's Email Address. The thing is that I don't fully understand how to set this stuff up on my laptop! For point 1, I have called this "mydomain.net". I went to the hosts file and did this: 127.0.0.1 johnpain123.mydomain.net mydomain.net I also went to Local Area Connection > Properties > Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) > Properties > Advanced > DNS tab > "Append these DNS suffixes (in order):" > and here I typed "mydomain.net" For point 2, I have called this "johnpain123" and my computer name (My Computer > Properties > Computer Name) is also "johnpain123". Are these the same thing? For point 3, I've realised that I must really be missing something because how do I set up an email account like this on my laptop that Apache can send emails to me?!! And where would the emails go to anyway? So... 1. Have I got the configurations correct so far for points 1 & 2??? 2. Is there anything more that I need to do for points 1 & 2? 3. Can anybody guide me as to what I need to do to set up point 3? Can I just use a gmail address for example? I'd really appreciate any help I can get because I'm really, really lost and feeling really, really stupid! :'( Thanks in advance, John.