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Problem getting Apache/Firefox to display PHP webpages
by sagr 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Following the advice of some ALUGers in a previous thread I am in the process of upgrading our fileserver to Ubuntu 7.04. I have successfully installed Ubutu on it and then apt-get installed the modules "apache" and "php5-mysql". I have created a simple three line "hello world" PHP prog and saved it in /var/www as hello.php : root@wildebeest:/var/www# cat hello.php <?php echo "Hello World"; ?> If I type the URL http://localhost/ into firefox I see the default apache index.html holding page as expected (so I know apache is running). If however I type the URL http://localhost/hello.php a box pops up in Firefox saying: "You have chosen to open: hello.php Which is a: PHP script From: http://localhost What should Firefox do with this file? 1. Open with gedit (default) 2. Save to disc." Why doesn't Firefox simply display hello.php as a webpage? What am I doing wrong? Do I need to configure something in apache and/or Firefox to display php files as webpages? Any help welcome! Sagr.

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Evolution downloads duplicate emails each time it connects to POP server
by sagr 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hi Folks, I have recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 and am using the Evolution mail client version 2.10.1 to access my POP server hosted by 1&1. I access my emails via two PC's (one running Windows, the other Linux) so have set Evolution (on my Linux PC) to "Leave Message On Server" so they are available to download on my Windows PC (I currently use Windows as my main PC but just want occasional access to email on my Linux PC). The problem is that when I tell Evolution to "Send & Receive" it downloads all the emails on the POP server even though it has already downloaded them earlier. I am therefore downloading a complete duplicate set of emails each time I do a "Send & Receive" filling my Evolution inbox with multiple copies of the same emails. Is this a problem with Evolution, Linux, my ISP's POP server, or just because I have incorrectly configured something? Any suggestions welcome! Sagr.

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Facebook Group Unavailable
by samwise 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Group Unavailable We're sorry, this group isn't available right now. Please try again later. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2352779871 Hmmm ... so what's happened to the ALUG Facebook group, I wonder?! Peter.

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Defragmenting Hard drive
by Barrys linux mail 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi, Do you have to defragment and clean up a hard drive in Ubuntu Linux like you do with Windoze? As i can't find anything that looks like it at present. Barry

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Re: [ALUG] Real Player
by Bev Nicolson 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

I think I get it now (mostly) but do I save it on the desktop or open another tab in Firefox? And what does the realplayer command in terminal do? It didn't seem to recognise it... [puzzled look goes here] Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brett Parker" <iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Real Player > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:44:27 +0100 > "Brett Parker" <iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk> > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:38:22AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2007 23:18:46 Ted Harding wrote: > > <snippity class="boringDistinctionBetweenXTermAndTerminalEmulators"/> > > > > > > > As to "middle click" etc. Again, I'm not sure about how things > > > are arranged in Ubuntu, but in standard X-windows usage you > > > can use your three mouse-buttons[**] as follows: > > > > And, unless I'm missing something really clever, this seems like > > a very protracted discussion of copy-and-paste? Surely when you > > select "Copy link location" in Firefox it just puts the link into > > your desktop environment's clipboard? And then you can just paste > > it into your terminal emulator? Or does xterm not play nicely > > with DE clipboards? > > I was, a standard X11 version of copy and paste (the X11 clipboard only > handles text - err, by default ;) - Copy link location puts the text in > to the X11 clipboard *as well as* the desktop environment clipboard. > > With Gnome terminal you can right click and use "paste" to get stuff out > of the clipboard. Alternatively, Shift-Insert will also paste the > content of the X11 clipboard... > > For those without 3 button mice (no scroll wheel?! the wheel is a > button...) then (usually) 3 button emulation is turned on and so > clicking both the left and right buttons at the same time will do the > job. > > Hope that clears a few things up, > -- > Brett Parker > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] Real Player
by Bev Nicolson 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

I've tried it again and instead of using Terminal, opened Real Player from the drop down menu and pasted the URL into that while the original BBC window was open and it worked. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ted.harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk > To: "Bev Nicolson" <bnicolson(a)operamail.com>, main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Real Player > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:57:03 +0100 (BST) > > > On 28-Jul-07 14:47:29, Bev Nicolson wrote: > > I think I get it now (mostly) but do I save it on the desktop > > or open another tab in Firefox? And what does the realplayer > > command in terminal do? It didn't seem to recognise it... > > [puzzled look goes here] > > Bev. > > When you entered the command, did you enter "realplayer" or "realplay"? > > The commmand to start RealPlayer is 'realplay', as in my original > response: > > realplay http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/ > video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.ram > > [all one line] where what follows "realplay " is the URL you get > when you save it from "Open in stand alone player". > > So, if you entered 'realplayer' nothing would happen (or. if it > did, it would be the wrong thing). > > On the other hand, if you really did enter 'realplay', then it > is likely that the command 'realplay' is not in your PATH. You > can check this by entering the ocmmand > > which realplay > > in the terminal. You should get a response like > > $ which realplay > /usr/bin/realplay > > (realplay is usually in /usr/bin/). if you get a blank, then > either RealPlayer is not installed, or your PATH when you open > the terminal is not properly set up. In which case, write back > and we'll try to help. > > By the way, thanks to Richard Lewis for pointing out what's > inside a ".ram" file. This has interesting consequences which > can be usefully exploited, and I'll expound that in a reply to > Richard. > > Good luck with all this, Bev! > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 28-Jul-07 Time: 18:56:59 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Email server and spam filtering
by mephi 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

I've started setting up an email server, and it's going quite well so far, but I want to add spam filtering. It's not a normal email server, it's more of a central storage for all of my external email accounts, so what I've got so far is: Setup one Linux user account per email account. Getmail receives the mail, and stores it in maildir format if each user's home directory. Dovecot acts as a local IMAP server to allow me to pick up the emails from each user. What I want is a server side spam filter in there, has anyone done anything like this? Matt

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RE: [ALUG] Real Player
by Bev Nicolson 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Yes, that's exactly what happens Ted. But what's an xterm? And what's the alternative to a middle click? It's not an option on my mouse. (I am using Firefox btw.) Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ted.harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk > To: "Bev Nicolson" <bnicolson(a)operamail.com> > Subject: RE: [ALUG] Real Player > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:42:50 +0100 (BST) > > > On 26-Jul-07 16:05:58, Bev Nicolson wrote: > > I use Ubuntu 6.06 in case that helps. Well, I have Real Player > > working fine for Listen Again and webcams but > > if I want to play any of the videos on the BBC news web site I can't. > > Any ideas why? I'm just curious to know what the reason might be. > > Bev. > > I often find that when I click on the BBC link for a video clip, > the BBC Player (with embedded Real Player) opens, but nothing > further happens. Is that what's happening for you? > > In that case, usually there is an option below the "screen": > > "Launch in stand alone player" > > If I place my mouse cursor over this, and right-click (Firefox), > I get the option to "Copy link location". I then left-click on > this, to save it into the X buffer. > > Then I go to another xterm, and enter > > realplay > > followed by a space, then middle-click to enter the URL saved > by "Copy link location". Thus I get a line like; > > realplay http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/ > video/108000/bb/108931_16x9_bb.ram > > [all one line, no break]. > > This comand then launches Real Player with the video clip > (it may be necessary to first kill the BBC Player since it > sometimes "locks onto" the sound). > > I don't know why this happens, and it's not entirely systematic. > But when it does happen, the above work-round solves it (provided > you get the "Launch in stand alone player2 option). > > Hoping this helps, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 26-Jul-07 Time: 17:42:32 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Browsers segfault on "Lincolnshire"!
by ted.harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

[Apologies if you get this twice -- initially sent from wrong email address] Hi Folks, I know the weather has been dire, especially for Lincolnshire in our region. But I didn't expect it to overwhelm a browser! When I try http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/ (the "Lincolnshire Echo" website) I get a segfault almost as soon as the page opens. This is with both Firefox 1.04 (2005) on Red Hat 9, and also Mozilla 1.3 (2003) on a SuSE 7.2 installation (so it's not due to anything didgy on a particular machine). Anyone else can confirm/comment on this observation? Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Jun-07 Time: 19:42:31 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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My social isolation problems not _that_ cured yet...
by Ruth Bygrave 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

It appears when I was talking and thinking about depression, there was a major one about to hit WHAMMO! Have been in mental hospital and am nearly up to the end of my Section. I really intend to get myself sorted out, but it seems endless at present. I tell myself people eventually leave the ward and do not return, but it doesn't seem like that now. Ruth

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