Ubuntu

As an update to my earlier article on installing Linux as a dual boot on a Windows XP machine, I had to uninstall everything today, reverting this to only a Windows machine. Sad day.

Earlier I wrote about how to enable Clean URLs on a Drupal installation on a shared hosting service, such as my own provider, InMotion Hosting. Now that I have setup my LAMP Stack on my own Ubuntu machine, I also want to enable Clean URLs for Drupal installations on localhost.

One of the main reasons that I have been working so hard to learn Linux is so that I can begin to learn how to effectively develop websites with Drupal. On top of Linux, all I need is Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed, and voila! A LAMP Stack that functions as a normal web server, allowing me to test web programming from the comfort and privacy of my own computer.

I just spent most of the morning installing Ubuntu Linux 11.10 to dual-boot with Windows XP, which came on the computer I am using. For the future, I wanted to record some basic information about how to replicate this task. If it is helpful to some poor lost soul trying to do the same thing, all the better!