What can I read that explains in plain English steps to get web site online with Ubuntu server?
by villandra from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4RS1J)
I have Ubuntu and Ubuntu command line down pretty well, and want to set up my own web server that would host my personal web sites.
Nearly everything I can find online tells me HOW to set up LAMP, without telling me for what I need two thirds of it nor what to exactly do with it, and then, I can't find one thing that takes one through the steps of actually getting their site online and their domain pointing to their server and everything.
On another forum I got it verified that if I only use flat HTML I don't need a database or php, but their idea of telling me what to read to tell me what I need and how to do it was aw go read the Ubuntu Server manual.
Whoever wrote the Ubuntu Server manual, it would be their life's work to even wrap their way around the very NOTION of spelling out the steps, step one, step two, ... last step point domain name to server, to get a web site online using Ubuntu Server, and tell me exactly for what I would need to do what alternatives and under what circumstances I would use them, and THEN, tell me IN SEQUENCE, EXACTLY how to do each step. For step one, here is what to do. For step two, this is what you do. Instead they wrote some way too technical document in Greek that may tell you how to do things but it gives one absolutely NO CLUE what they need to do, and pieces of information you have no idea how to put what together how are scattered all over the manual.
Most books online for anything about Ubuntu aren't written for version 18.04, and almost everything works differently than instructions written for say Ubuntu 14.04. For example, the instructions on how to fix monitor resolution issues use a conference file that Ubuntu doesn't use now and can't be GOTTEN to use now, and doesn't tell you what it does use, and noone on the Ubuntu forums will tell you that either. It's gotten almost as bad as Mint. But in any case, most books on Ubuntu are out of date.
And the few books on Ubuntu server that are up to date appear from what I can discern at Amazon, to pretty much do what I am finding online - tell you to set up LAMP, tell you HOW to set up LAMP, more or less, but don't tell you what to do with any aspect of LAMP except Apache, and then leave you hanging as far as how to actually get your web site online.
And, I understand Apache may not even be the best option if you want people to be able to not wait 20 minutes for the page to load.
Thanks - for actual help.
And if anyone would rather argue with me than answer the question I asked, which is what happened on the Ubuntu forum, and what usually happens on the Ubuntu forum, please just tell me where to ask where people will actually provide the information I asked for, because I really want to find an actual help forum!
Yours,
Dora Smith
Nearly everything I can find online tells me HOW to set up LAMP, without telling me for what I need two thirds of it nor what to exactly do with it, and then, I can't find one thing that takes one through the steps of actually getting their site online and their domain pointing to their server and everything.
On another forum I got it verified that if I only use flat HTML I don't need a database or php, but their idea of telling me what to read to tell me what I need and how to do it was aw go read the Ubuntu Server manual.
Whoever wrote the Ubuntu Server manual, it would be their life's work to even wrap their way around the very NOTION of spelling out the steps, step one, step two, ... last step point domain name to server, to get a web site online using Ubuntu Server, and tell me exactly for what I would need to do what alternatives and under what circumstances I would use them, and THEN, tell me IN SEQUENCE, EXACTLY how to do each step. For step one, here is what to do. For step two, this is what you do. Instead they wrote some way too technical document in Greek that may tell you how to do things but it gives one absolutely NO CLUE what they need to do, and pieces of information you have no idea how to put what together how are scattered all over the manual.
Most books online for anything about Ubuntu aren't written for version 18.04, and almost everything works differently than instructions written for say Ubuntu 14.04. For example, the instructions on how to fix monitor resolution issues use a conference file that Ubuntu doesn't use now and can't be GOTTEN to use now, and doesn't tell you what it does use, and noone on the Ubuntu forums will tell you that either. It's gotten almost as bad as Mint. But in any case, most books on Ubuntu are out of date.
And the few books on Ubuntu server that are up to date appear from what I can discern at Amazon, to pretty much do what I am finding online - tell you to set up LAMP, tell you HOW to set up LAMP, more or less, but don't tell you what to do with any aspect of LAMP except Apache, and then leave you hanging as far as how to actually get your web site online.
And, I understand Apache may not even be the best option if you want people to be able to not wait 20 minutes for the page to load.
Thanks - for actual help.
And if anyone would rather argue with me than answer the question I asked, which is what happened on the Ubuntu forum, and what usually happens on the Ubuntu forum, please just tell me where to ask where people will actually provide the information I asked for, because I really want to find an actual help forum!
Yours,
Dora Smith