I recently ran into quite an interesting problem. I wasn’t able to get my web server to access my home directory (a subfolder of it) for showing on the web. This was frustrating me to no end. For some reason it was giving me an error about not being able to read the .htaccess file. (The exact error was pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable ) I check permissions left and right and then realized that maybe, just maybe, /home/joseph (my home directory) was too restrictive. I did a chmod 755 /home/joseph and my problem has gone away. The error was a little misleading, but eventually we did get it worked out and I’m happily developing again.
This is my first screencast. It is a little rough around the edges, but I think it turned out ok. This covers an application named Synaptic that is useful for Debian based system. A lot of newcomers to Linux always ask me “How do I install <application name>?” If you have that question and are using a Debian based system like Ubuntu, then this should help you. Let me know what you think in the comments so that my next screencast can be better.
I just barely got a new workstation at home which should give me the ability to make a video without too much fuss. This means that you can all expect to start seeing some video tutorials shortly since rendering time isn’t in the hours anymore. Let me know in the comments what you’d like the initial videos to be about.