One drawback of this configuration is I can’t use the Microsoft Frontpage publish functionality. This was cool because I could hit the Publish button and it would automatically figure what was changed and push the new pages. As well, I could sync backwards if I made changes from a different location. I am currently having to manually FTP the changes to the new “webserver”. I know there is a way to install Frontpage extensions and use the WEBDav functionality to publish, but I have got that far yet.

The Weblog

Next I thought I would install a weblog application and create Blogs for myself and the kids. My original plan was to create links off thewatsonfamily.ca so people could get to them.

I seached on the internet and found a neat weblog application called B2Evolution (what you see now). B2evo is also a PHP application so I thought it would be easy to setup. Only thing was I needed Mysql on my webserver.

Again I searched the internet and found the Ubuntu MySql installation package and had MySql installed and running in minutes.

Next I copied the b2evo scripts to my /var/www directory and began the installation process as documented. Everything was going fine until it needed to connect to the MySql database. PHP was erroring out, unable to connect to the database.

After debugging, I finally discovered, after a couple days, that I needed the php5-mysql module so that PHP scripts could talk directly to MySql. @#$%!

I found a nice DNS provider called zonedit.com. This site allowed me to WEBForward Domains to a existing Web address. So, I was able to forward www.gregwatson.ca to thewatsonfamily.ca/blogs/a_stub.php where the blog actually is.