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Ok, I was running my own web server under windows with apache and I decided that it was finally time that I quit percrastinating and start using linux. I found a website called linuxvirgins and it was exactly what I was looking for. A quick, easy to follow guide to get me started with linux. To make a long story short I downloaded knoppix, installed it, and tried getting a lamp server running. I ended up deleting my usr directory and had to reinstall linux.
While I'm installing linux for the second time I notice that debian is suppose to have apache preinstalled. So I decide to try and use get-apt to get it to work, but it gave me some errors. So I decided to give installing it myself another shot. I installed apache exactly how http://www.hostlibrary.com/installing_apac...ql_php_on_linux said so. Everything was working fine except when I was done I couldn't connect to http://localhost/. So I searched around on the web and found that apachectl -start will start the server. I type that in and it says apachectl is not a directory. But when I typed ls in it showed apachectl. What am I doing wrong?
Is there an easier way to install lamp on knoppix/debian? I ended up trying to see if it would work if I unistalled knoppix style and installed the debian style. But when I installed the debian style my network wouldn't even work. So maybe apache worked when I installed it, but I couldn't check it because my network wouldn't work. Anyways I decided to uninstall that and reinstall knoppix because atleast I could get on the internet and see whats wrong with that.
I'd appreciate any help anyone has to offer. I really like linux so far, I'm just a little perturbed that I spent a whole day un/installing linux and so far its been all for nothing. Thank you for your time.
edit: I found out about get-apt. I've got my server up and running again. Sorry to bother you.
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Always mention the distro version you are using. All recent distros have good package management system that will take care of installing/updating/upgrading software.
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