Running Apache Websever (For PHP Development) on an Ubuntu Box

If you are doing any kind of PHP development, you’ll almost always be using Apache along with it. Here’s the quick and easy way to get PHP up and running on your Ubuntu box.

From a command shell, you will run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install php5

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Note that if apache is already installed you can omit the first line. Your web files will now be found in /var/www/

Google Drive on Ubuntu 14.04

Note: Posting this after quite a few months folks, have been busy with Projects and assignments.


Anyways, so Its been a year and a half since I switched to Ubuntu and since then I've been in love with how you can break the barriers with a Linux Operating system. I upgraded to the 14.04 Long Term Support release a few days ago and thought that I should back up some of my data from drop box (being smaller in size) to Google Drive (15 gig storage on the cloud).

The Ubuntu Software center already proived a native Drop box app, but not for the google drive. So I googled and I found something!

Just to summarize it all, the you can go to the Ubuntu Terminal (Ctrl+T for most) and enter the commands mentioned below!

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thefanclub/grive-tools

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install grive grive-tools

Wallah! You now have Google drive on your Ubuntu 14.04 :D

To setup Google drive after you have installed its package, type the command below in the terminal to configure. 

sudo grive-setup

...to be continued.

Sorry about the wait from the last episode, got busy with a few things that have I thought I should sum up as follows:

> Preparing for Ramadan Kareem

> Being too lazy to blog while fasting

> Being a couch potato, preparing for RHCE - precisely a linux engineer.

Moreover, I went to another technician the other day, he promised he'd be able to help. The next day he called me up to ask me to pick up the notebook. I was surprised mean while I thought he might not have been able to fix the issue. Rushing to the store and stepping into find the notebook good as new, fixed for PKR2500. Not a bad fix after all, right? Seems that Integrated circuit placed over the display adapter had broken down, replacement probably didn't cost a fortune, but Oh well! saved me a fortune at least :)