DynDNS Problems!

I am posting this in case anyone else from IT566 has DynDNS and experiencing problems seeing their web page. I emailed a DynDNS "ninja" last night (March 29th) and got a response the next day, also I am posting this so I can easily reference this email while troubleshooting on my server machine, and or not logging into my gmail all the time. 


DynDNS Ninja response..............................................................
"What you need to check are:

       1.  Make sure the IP address in our database is correct.  You can't connect with your hostname until you can connect using your external IP first.

       2.  Check that no firewall is blocking access

       3.  If you have a router, make sure this is configured to forward
       the necessary ports to your computer

       http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/routers_and_port_forwarding.html

       4.  If your ISP has begun blocking port 80 and you want to run a web
       server (or some video cameras and other devices that use that port)
       you'll need to use our WebHop service to work around this:

       https://www.dyndns.com/services/webredirect/

       This link will also walk you through what to check in detail:

       http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/why_cant_i_connect_to_my_server.html

--
Alan Ellis
DynDNS Ninja Squad
http://dyn.com
http://twitter.com/dyndns  "

Drupal 7 installed on local host.

Double Quack! I installed Drupal 7 on my local host computer. Not sure if I am completed the total requirements of this assignment I must say that installing LAMP and looking (examining) through the phpMyAdmin hierarchy files made me understand how to create a database folder in phpMyAdmin SQL. Just went with the "plain jane"database that I named quaxster. So onto the journey! 

* Assuming you have apache or apache2 and LAMP requirements.
1.find the......./var folder, ..............inside /var folder right click on the www folder, rightclick properties, goto the permissions tab..............set owner and group to your username

2. Download Drupal 7 from drupal.org. I selected the 7.0 tar.gz (2.6 MB) | zip (3.05 MB)  it automatically unzipped and ready to go in my computer.


3. Rename the folder that downloaded onto your computer from "drupal-7.0" to "drupal7"  (no space).


4. Move the drupal7 into the /var folder then into www folder. The ubuntu yellow tags at the top of the window help with outlining the file extenstion which should read............./var/www/drupal7.


5. Inside this very same drupal7 folder (which is in the /var and www folder!) open the sites folder, then open the default folder, create a files folder that goes in this default folder. Thus you have /var/www/drupal7/sites/default/files. Right Click on this files folder and select properties and then the permissions tab and under the 'Others' tab, set "folder access" to 'create and delete files'

6. Whoa there Nellie!........while you are here this default folder notice the default.settings.php file (placid blue globe on a piece of paper) .......right click and copy and paste it. Rename this .php duplicated file to settings.php. I left the older default.settings.php file there with the new settings.folder.......will it hurt who knows!
 
7. Now in your 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin for your computer go to phpMyAdmin located on the home site (click on the phpMyAdmin logo) and create a new database that Drupal7 will be housed in, I named my quaxster, yeah baby! no just quaxster. The database perimeters were plain jane and created it without all the bells and whistles.

8. Type in your web brower h*tp://localhost/drupal7......(substitute this * with a t....yup). Your computer should open a drupal installation window with a little oily guy icon. If not you have your files or folders out of order go back to step 5! 

9. Go through the Drupal install from this series of dialog boxes.

10. Until you hit the roadblock! For in the Drupal installation Database configuration it will ask you to align drupal7 with your new database you created in phyMyAdmin (step7). My database was named quaxster.

11. Drupal will ask for Data base Username: Use your phpMyAdmin username, mine is "root" as I never changed it when I installed phpMyAdmin. Yet I would prefer more edible nutrients for I am a duck!

12. Drupal will ask for for the Data base password: your phpMyAdmin password. 

13. Provide email address for Drupal updates. yada yada....complete the install.

14. I may have forgotten something in these steps..... but I got excited when I was past the hard stuff........yup yup yup

Vector Based Software

Been working on my school's emergency plan for the last 4 weeks with little time for anything else. No one in 10 years has produced an updated floor plan of my school with labels electrical and utilities cutoffs as well as exits and camera locations. I am using Freehand MX which is a vector based program that has been discontinued but still is sold by Adobe (yea!). Once Aldus then Macromedia software product, Freehand started with a large user base that was whittled away by Corel draw and Adobe Illustrator.

Now once I get this plan passed by the numerous powers to be in my at my school district I will covert it to Libre Draw and see the results. I miss the fact that Freehand has no b/w preview of color graphics like Libre offers. Oh well just press command P and hope it is not too dark.