Ubuntu Server, match #2:
Some time ago, Susan’s aunt gave us an old PC that was too wimpy for her use, and I set it up as a house server under Ubuntu Linux, but I’ve just had a myriad of problems with it. The burner doesn’t work. The Samba setup is damaged beyond repair and you can’t connect to it. I have a bunch of house server stuff on it (Joomla, Wordpress and Gallery) but I can’t back them up easily offline. And there’s enough stuff to HAVE on the server that the original HD is way too small.
The only real thing I can come up with is to brute-force back up the stuff that is on there that I want to keep, and then to reformat the silly drive. And then yank it, and stick in a much larger (1Tera) HD that will take the stuff, and plan out properly in the first place how to set the damn thing up so that everything will work properly.
The apps I want on there are:
- Joomla
- Wordpress
- Gallery
- Knowledge Tree (to handle a LOT of PDFs and other documents)
- (something to manage a large pile of MP3s would be nice, but I dunno what that would be in Ubuntu)
Big problem is in setting up the thing RIGHT the first time.
I can install Joomla, Wordpress and Gallery, and a server setup using the GUI (we also would use the server for light workstation stuff, and I hate using the command line). But Knowledge Tree usually requires its own stack setup for web use (Apache and whatnot) FIRST before you’d get things out of the Ubuntu system. I’m not sure how well that would work.
Any photo or MP3 files on the system would have to be something that could easily be accessed through Samba from the other workstations in the house, on either their Windows or Ubuntu sides. I made a total hash with Samba before, and I’m dead nervous about screwing this up.
The HD just arrived, and so I now need to research out how to put this jigsaw together. Any suggestions welcome.