Having set up several Debian and Ubuntu web servers in the past I thought it would be a good idea to share my process. The following is a relatively comprehensive guide to installing and configuring an Apache based web server with some optimizations and basic resource monitoring. I primarily work with Ubuntu servers, but most of the commands here should work exactly the same in Debian or Ubuntu. I’ve tried to note where differences may occur.
NOTE: The latest version of this script can always be found here: https://github.com/PHX2600/FirstFriday
With this update I have drastically reduced and simpified the code to produce the same results. I did some rigorous testing of my own to make sure this script will calculate the correct date, but that doesn’t mean it’s bullet-proof. If you find a bug, please email me so I can fix it.
Somewhere along the lines of moving my blog from one site/platform to
another I lost this sample of code. See link above for the latest
version of this script.
UPDATE: This script has been updated, see: https://github.com/PHX2600/FirstFriday
While developing phx2600.org, I ran into a slight dilemma. The PHX2600 meetings occur once a month on the first Friday of every month, and we wanted to display that on the site. However, it was becoming a tedious chore to change the date once a month manually. So, being the automation addict I am, I thought, why not write a script. So one night I hammered out the following script that will calculate the first Friday of next month:
Want to pep up your web page with some dynamic menus? Here’s a simple solution that only requires a few lines of PHP and CSS.
UPDATE (11/1/08): Simplified the header code and edited the syntax of the list element echo code.