mentor

11/16/07 10:05 am
When I first got there we first talked about what I planned on doing. Once we got that figured out we just needed to find the best way to show how a server worked. He came up with either make a PC from spare parts and install software on it to act like a server or to install a virtual machine on my PC. Which is basically like making another computer on my computer and installing server software on the separate PC. I decided to go with the Virtual Machine idea because it would be the easiest to do.
After that we had to download the programs to do this as well as install them while waiting we talked about which type of server we should do. Also I got to witness what he does for work, which is a lot of web site designing. Once we got the programs installed he showed me how to run the Virtual Machine and explained that its like having a separate PC in your PC. We then got the Linux OS installed on the VM. We then got the OS to start up a telephone server just to show what it can do. We were able to set up a out going line for a telephone after working on the scripts. So we could call anyone on the phone connected to his computer. After learning some of the Linux commands we got the VM player and the Linux TrixBox server programs burned on a DVD. While this was going on we talked about all the types of servers I could run on my computer. He said with trixbox OS I could run a database server, a voice of ip server, or a web server and how each one could be used as a product. After that he showed me how to mess with each one through the VM/trixbox. After that the DVD was done he said for me to play with it at home to determine which one I want to do.

1:15pm

6:10 pm
When I got home and tried to use the DVD the files weren’t working so I called him and explained what the error was. He then went over what it could be and we were trying to fix it. After about eight tries of trying to change the files to have them work he decided it would be better just to re download the files because it was probably the DVD that was corrupt so he then told me to go to the right sites to download the files then where to properly install them. Then he helped me change the settings on the trixbox so that it could run with out being on a router. After that he had to go and I got it running
7:30pm

11/19/07

3:15 pm
When I arrived at his office I went over all that I did and we decided that it would be best to do a web server once that was done we had to get the script we needed to use. We decided on using a image hosting because it would be easiest to show how its working and how other people can us this web site. We then had to upload this script on to his own website as well as change it into a Linux format. After doing this we uploaded it onto our server. After that we had to set all the permissions for everyone to use on the web. Which to get into those settings we had to navigate around with the Linux commands. We then got it finally up and working he showed me exactly how everything was connected on a dry erase board. Which is a person by typing in the Ip address or host name to go to the website Apache takes this request sends it through php. The php sends it to the server which is trixbox, trixboxs then sends the user HTML which is what you see from websites. So all I had to do at home was set everything else up the same as he did then get all those steps connected and I have my own image hosting website on my pc.
6pm