I had such busy week that I didn’t even had time to update my blog. At work my collegue is on vacation (he will return this Tuesday) so I have to take care of lots of things at the same time. One of them is our visit to London, England on Tuesday and Wednesday. Getting all arrangements done in time is a big hassle. I have many things on my head and I’m sure I am forgetting a few important… Oh well. I guess I have this week to clean up my mess. If only I know where to begin 🙁
On a brighter note: I am very very close to migrating my blog to my Ubuntu 6.06 Linux server! I had a major breakthrough importing my SQL database into Linux. I just edited the database dump and made sure all references to my Windows install (paths mostly, like f:/apache2triad/htcdocs) etc. where pointing to the right install: /var/www. Another thing I had to adjust my install for whas the fact that I don’t have my blog in a directory /serendipity anymore, but just in the root. But taking that hurdle was a mojor one, because it is a pain in the ass to migrate all your content! Now, if only I can get my file permissions fixed in a way where I don’t have to do that pesky chmod -R 777 stuff all the time. However, I already have a pretty sweet setup though using Webmin, ssh and sftp, and phpmyadmin.
There are still lot’s of other things on my server to-do list though:
- Install Coppermine (today?)
- Install phpBB2 (today?)
- Setup my Blogger account (and FTPD) to use my new server
- Find a replacement for SAM Broadcaster (iLounge)
Of that list, I think iLounge is going to be the most difficult; I can still use SAM, but I want to have the music database (and the PHP website) enabled so people can do requests etc… And, the whole idea would be that I can re-use the Windows server that I currently run my webserver on. Because I now know how to migrate my stuff.
For now I am doing my blogs on 2 machines to keep everything in sync. I can already report that the performance of my Ubuntu webserver is a lot better then my Windows server, even though the Linux server is just a Pentium III running at 866mhz.
To be continued…