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@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@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 > > > > -- > > Richard Gaskin > > Fourth World Systems > > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > -- > > Carpe diem > > *Simon Smith* > m. +27 83 306 7862 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode