Setting up a webserver lab on one laptop

Wed Feb 22 18:55:42 MST 2023

Trent,

Since you have two machines you might be able to use Proxmox.  I have it 
installed on an old i5 with 4 cores/4 threads and 16Gb of RAM.

I followed this guy  :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u8qTN3cCnQ

He also has a tutorial on VirtualBox  :  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX75Z-4MEoM

I'm strictly PHP so I can not be much help with the other languages.

Keith

On 2023-02-22 15:19, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> /*********************Author: Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> Date: 2023-01-25 08:30 -700
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> CC: techlists
> Subject: Re: TDD w/ Python, ch 9
> Hi Trent,
> 
> First question is what is in your heart? Is the path you are following
> where you want to go? Do not read anything into my question. It is all
> about you, and what you want to do.
> 
> I would suggest Bluehost and get as many months as you may need. I
> know
> they have a discount for new customers and I think you have to buy a
> year or more to get the discount - worth investigating. I think they
> use cPanel, which may or may not be of use to you.
> 
> Make sure you have shell access to your shared hosting server.
> ****************************/
> 
> I decided to go with DreamHost, as I had a good experience with them
> before.  I got chapter 9 working on Apache on a shared server (the
> default).  Unfortunately, chapter 10 is implement on NGINX, and
> DreamHost does not provide NGINX hosting at the lower service tiers.
> I have no current or likely use for NGINX except for the tutorial, so
> more money for more service is not happening.
> 
> /*****************************************************
> If you are not going to keep the website you might consider a
> hypervisor
> instead of shared hosting. Look at VirtualBox and Proxmox. By using a
> virtualization software you can build your own server (good for
> learning
> and resume) and save a few bucks. It will take some time and there is
> a
> learning curve.
> 
> I recently configured Proxmox on a old piece hardware and am glad I
> did.
> 
> Keith
> ****************************************/
> 
> I want to do this ^^^
> 
> I want to set up a development environment which mimics live
> development and production environments with hypervisor hosts and
> guests.  I'm currently using Mint on VMWare Workstation Pro on Windows
> 11 as my development environment.  The problem is my 4 core, 16 gig
> Dell laptop is lacking in horsepower.   (Compiling a Scala3 Hello
> World program on the Mint guest is slow.  Compiling two Scala3
> programs at the same time freezes the Mint guest.)
> 
> I don't want to burden the group with providing a detailed handbook or
> tutorial on how to set up a test NGINX-Django test system on a modest
> laptop, but what are the big parts I'm going to need, some integration
> gotchas, and is there a name for this variety of stand-alone
> web-development test environment?  (And is there a Linux distro which
> provides it in a box?  Maybe that would make a good PLUG FOSS project
> ... Linux Web-Dev Environment in a Box.  LWDE-IAB.   maybe not.)
> 
> I get a NEW HP lappy Friday.  I could convert this laptop to all Linux
> All the Time once the new laptop is stable.  I'm gonna see if I can
> get some memory added to the Dell tonight
> 
> Trent
> 
> Also Keith, are you going to do the presentation some time?
> On 2023-01-25 07:53, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven
> development
>> using Harry Precival's Test-Driven Development with Python. Percival
>> uses a simple web site on Django as the practice or example project.
>> In chapter 9 the baby website gets put on a real hosted web server.
>> It needs to be an olde fashioned service where you have the freedom
> to
>> do a lot of admin work. That is, you need to have enough rope to
> hang
>> yourself. I also need a domain name and two sub-domain names. Price
>> is important. I will probably finish the tutorial book and throw the
>> site away instead of keeping it as a personal website.
>> 
>> Has anyone got any suggestions for where to get a domain name and a
>> hosting service?
>> 
>> Trent
>> 
>> Choosing Where to Host Our Site
>> 
>> There are loads of different solutions out there these days, but
> they
>> broadly fall into two camps:
>> 
>>     * Running your own (possibly virtual) server
>>     * Using a Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) offering like Heroku,
>> OpenShift, or PythonAnywhere
> 
>> 
>> Particularly for small sites, a PaaS offers a lot of advantages, and
> I
>> would definitely recommend looking into them. We’re not going to
> use
>> a PaaS in this book however, for several reasons. Firstly, I have a
>> conflict of interest, in that I think PythonAnywhere is the best,
> but
>> then again I would say that because I work there. Secondly, all the
>> PaaS offerings are quite different, and the procedures to deploy to
>> each vary a lot — learning about one doesn’t necessarily tell
> you
>> about the others. Any one of them might radically change their
> process
>> or business model by the time you get to read this book.
>> 
>> Instead, we’ll learn just a tiny bit of good old-fashioned server
>> admin, including SSH and web server config. They’re unlikely to
> ever
>> go away, and knowing a bit about them will get you some respect from
>> all the grizzled dinosaurs out there.
>> 
>> What I have done is to try to set up a server in such a way that’s
> a
>> bit like the environment you get from a PaaS, so you should be able
> to
>> apply the lessons
>> 
>> Percival, Harry. Test-Driven Development with Python (pp. 263-264).
>> O'Reilly Media. Kindle Edition. (2017)
>> 
>> Or free at: https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html
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