On a ROLL!

Okay so today I got an email from my boss asking me to bring my laptop along so I could get some howto Drupal videos on it.  I figured it'd be a good thing to have Drupal installed on my Windows machine too.

That was a whole different banana...  haha

So my biggest problem with Linux is that I had to keep giving MYSELF permission to access all the files, right?  I mean, besides the other problems...  and this time, I was thinking HURRAH I won't have any permissions to worry about!  

I went to this site for step by step: http://drupal.org/node/307956

So I copied the drupal files over to htdocs in XAMPP and tried to open up phpmyadmin, and got this error: #2003 - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

Back to Google! After some research, I figured out the problem is with the Antivirus software blocking XAMPP.  Fabulous.  I fixed those settings, and it seems to be doing alright so far!

Dontcha just LOOOOOVE when the computer tells you what to do?  

Virus Protection: "NO YOU CAN'T OPEN XAMPP IT'S NOT APPROOOOOOVED!" 

Me: "Uh, yeah I can.  I opened it."

Virus Protection: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!  YOU'LL RUIN EVERYTHING!"

Me: "Whatever."

I like Linux.  Linux lets you do whatever.  Just don't type in rm -f *.* and you're golden.  ;)

Hey, speaking of Linux, check out this awesome list of cool commands!  http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxcommands.html

It's done.  XDD  That was much better than yesterday, I think it would've been good on MICK too instead of my laptop.  I'm going to start playing with Drupal now, so have a great day, and if something earth shaking or whatever happens, I'll blog about it.  :D

Drupal? Finally? AKA ADVENTURES Part 2!

So I have XAMPP, or LAMPP 'cuz it's for my Linux.  Good ol' MICK, I love my compy.  Anyways, what I did next is following this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYTPm8GnFFo

However, I'm modifying it slightly, because I didn't want WAMP, I wanted XAMPP.  So far I've done it with exactly the same results.  I'll type if I run into a snag.

WOOO created a database!  Ooooh wow, this is sooo cool... 

kk, ran into a few snags.  The file didn't recognize that I was the root, so I couldn't get in to move the drupal files into the place I wanted it.  So I got in and changed permissions, but it didn't recognize me as an owner, even if I did have permissions.  So I used chown on it to give my username power to modify the LAMPP files.  I might need to log out and log in again, hang on...  Nope, I needed to changed the permissions lower down.  Man, this is all connected so amazingly...  wow.
Okay, got the permission changed, and I dropped Drupal into it.  Yehaw!  Now I wait to see what I'm supposed to do next...
Goodness, that was a TRIP!   Drupal is now installed, and tomorrow I think I'll start playing around with it.  What did I learn today?  Oh, a heck of a lot.
1. Permissions.  They're EVERYTHING with Linux.  So when Mr Bravo made us play with them so much in our Linux class, there was actually a really important point to it.
2. That would've been better to know before I started out installing XAMPP and Drupal
3. But it's okay, 'cuz I know now.
4. Documentation is rocking awesome!  Now I can review this!  YEAH!
5. Ahh, sweet success.  You just can't beat the feeling of successfully installing something using a Linux terminal.  And also the GUI stuff.  I just love it when things work.
6. Like I said in the previous post, know where the chocolate is.
7. Google is your best friend. So is sudo su.