Server Installation

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Tue Jun 27 16:11:28 EDT 2017


Excellent documentation!  Watch out for line wrapping on that first link.
http://activethought.net/installing-livecode-windows/


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Simon Smith via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> It's taken me longer than I had hoped to do this.
>
> I got Livecode server up and running on the Windows 10 using both XAMPP and
> WAMP without any trouble. Both WAMP and XAMPP only needed a small change. I
> have documented everything here. http://activethought.
> net/installing-livecode-windows/  - and work equally well for hosting a
> LiveCode server locally.
>
> I started setting up an online Ubuntu server  - but it's been a while since
> I have done it and its many many little steps and a lot of work to
> document. And I don't think its an ideal solution either - developers need
> something reliable that they can get up and running quickly and does not
> require in depth knowledge of Linux to get setup.
>
> So after some research I can across ServerPilot.io - a cloud based control
> panel for cloud servers (like Digital Ocean and Vultr). You setup a clean
> server - link it to their control panel - and it takes care of everything -
> in a minute or two you get a nicely setup server - with control panel,
> mysql, apache and PHP.. Their free option gives you the basics - everything
> that you need to get a server up and running. There is the option of
> upgrading the control panel to get extra features. Unfortunately the free
> account does not give you the ability to setup SSL, You need to pay $10 a
> month for that - but you can get around that using Cloud Flare.  All that
> you have to do is setup LiveCode once everything is done - and you what is
> a really nice little potent little server.
>
> If interested - I have gone through it in more detail here, I rushed so
> hope I have not left anything out -
> http://activethought.net/perfect-livecode-cloud-server/.
>
> While I have ended up not documenting how to setup an entire server from
> scratch - for most I do think this is a much more convenient and better
> solution.
>
> Simon
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Bob Sneidar wrote:
> > > On Jun 16, 2017, at 17:23 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > >>
> > >> In many cases you'll find you don't need to change permissions and
> > >> then change them back; you can temporarily raise your own permissions
> > >> with sudo to edit files and leave permissions as originally
> > >> configured.
> > >
> > > True, if using terminal, but I was editing the file with the GUI text
> > > editor. I suppsoe I could have launched the text editor as sudo...
> >
> > True.  But most servers won't have a GUI installed, so it can be well
> > worth the time to get to know Nano.
> >
> > As with a GUI editor, you can launch Nano with sudo:
> >
> >    sudo nano somefile.txt
> >
> > You probably won't want to use Nano to write a book, but for quick
> editing
> > of config files it's pretty good, much easier to learn than vim or emacs.
> >
> > If you're on a system that doesn't have Nano installed, on a Debian-based
> > system like yours you can install it with apt-get:
> >
> >   sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install nano
> >
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