lazer_viking
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This is actually a compliation of a bunch of issues I've been having, and I think I'd really happy if I resolved them all.
So for starters, let me try to tell you what I'm trying to do in the end. Right now I have a domain sapphireconcepts.net hosted by Acenet (acenet sucks btw), and I want to port it all to my laptop (and my laptop is now stationary)(and later, when I get a dedicated server, I'll repeat all of the steps I used to get my laptop working as a server). A few things I want to do is host the page that's at sapphireconcepts.net right now, which is really a simple page. I also want to host a few other sites that will be subdomains of sapphireconcepts.net, like sanctimony.sapphireconcepts.net. I have figured out how to make subdomains yet. The way I do it on Acenet's servers is to use a super user-friendly "holds your hand through everything so you don't have to learn big bad ol' Unix" interface. I can probably get that user interface, but I don't want to have to use it. I want know how to do it on my own.
So anyway, I tried to install Dragonfly CMS today so I could transfer sanctimony.sapphireconcepts.net to my laptop for starters, but I couldn't get it working because of a cookie issue. I even made a hostname at dyndns.com (phoenix3662.linuxhome.org) but that didn't help. I still got the "ERROR: Invalid cookie settings." message after it tested cookies. I even edited my php.ini to say session.save_path = /var/www/session.save_path and chmod 777 /var/www/session.save_path but it still didn't work. So after about 5 hours of fighting an uphill battle, I just decided to try another CMS, Xoops. Xoops installed okay, but no one can sign up for it because it can't send out the validation email to the users. So I guess I need to set up a mail server of something? I thought PHP handled the emailing. *doh* Guess not
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So all that aside, I at least wanted to try to set up FTP to transfer files from my Windows computer using a program to make things simpler to my Linux laptop without having to use shared folders and all that stuff. But I couldn't connect to my laptop. I even opened port 21, but I guess Apache doesn't handle FTP stuff?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I think the mail server thing and the cookie problem are the highest priority. The FTP thing isn't too important.
So for starters, let me try to tell you what I'm trying to do in the end. Right now I have a domain sapphireconcepts.net hosted by Acenet (acenet sucks btw), and I want to port it all to my laptop (and my laptop is now stationary)(and later, when I get a dedicated server, I'll repeat all of the steps I used to get my laptop working as a server). A few things I want to do is host the page that's at sapphireconcepts.net right now, which is really a simple page. I also want to host a few other sites that will be subdomains of sapphireconcepts.net, like sanctimony.sapphireconcepts.net. I have figured out how to make subdomains yet. The way I do it on Acenet's servers is to use a super user-friendly "holds your hand through everything so you don't have to learn big bad ol' Unix" interface. I can probably get that user interface, but I don't want to have to use it. I want know how to do it on my own.
So anyway, I tried to install Dragonfly CMS today so I could transfer sanctimony.sapphireconcepts.net to my laptop for starters, but I couldn't get it working because of a cookie issue. I even made a hostname at dyndns.com (phoenix3662.linuxhome.org) but that didn't help. I still got the "ERROR: Invalid cookie settings." message after it tested cookies. I even edited my php.ini to say session.save_path = /var/www/session.save_path and chmod 777 /var/www/session.save_path but it still didn't work. So after about 5 hours of fighting an uphill battle, I just decided to try another CMS, Xoops. Xoops installed okay, but no one can sign up for it because it can't send out the validation email to the users. So I guess I need to set up a mail server of something? I thought PHP handled the emailing. *doh* Guess not
.So all that aside, I at least wanted to try to set up FTP to transfer files from my Windows computer using a program to make things simpler to my Linux laptop without having to use shared folders and all that stuff. But I couldn't connect to my laptop. I even opened port 21, but I guess Apache doesn't handle FTP stuff?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I think the mail server thing and the cookie problem are the highest priority. The FTP thing isn't too important.
