Articles with tag: "apache"
Pretty URLs: Enabling mod_rewrite on Ubuntu
October 20th, 2007
Pretty URLs are URLs that have meaning for human readers, rather than just being seemingly random jibberish only a web server could appreciate. The following is an example of a “pretty” URL:
http://my.blog.com/archive/2007/10/pretty-urls
Note that every part of the URL is relevant for a human reader. For comparison, here’s an example of an “ugly” URL:
http://www.mysite.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Forums&file=posting&mode=quote&p=14488&sid=0293840293840577
Web Development on Ubuntu
October 20th, 2007
If you want to build dynamic websites, one of the first things you’ll need to do is set up a development environment your local computer, so you can experiment and test new code without uploading everything to a remote web server. In a nutshell, this means LAMP — Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
With this setup, you’ll be primed and ready to go to run popular content management software on your local box–like Drupal, Joomla or Silverstripe; start a WordPress or Textpattern blog; or even roll your own community site from scratch using a hot framework like CakePHP.