... because I perfer using /var/www/html to /home/user/public_html.
I spent a lot of time wondering how there seem to be folks that have it working. At all. I almost don't believe it's possible, at this stage.
I noted that some referred to php 5 and some to php 7, and that there seemed to be some people that though it was less likely to work with php 7 ... but when I tried to install php 5.6, the end result appeared to mess with my php 7 packages, so I uninstalled everything php, reinstalled php 7 from the distro, and then switched my system and apache back to 7.0. With the other packages, I kept seeing 'possible coredump in /etc/apache2' in the apache2 error log.
I saw in forums that there was a time that the system service implementations of the vbox**** scripts were not so stable, and in fact, found that restarting the vboxweb-service appeared to yield the correct result more often than stopping and starting ( and starting and starting ) the web service, but this did not appear to be the solution either.
I'm at the point now where I get a spinner, either after logging in with the admin/admin creds, or without logging in ( I think that's the result of skipping the auth in the config.py or the /etc/default/virtualbox files. )
I'm down to two possibilities:
1 -- It just doesn't work in Azure, for some reason
2 -- Some system dependency has been upgraded so that the packages don't work together anymore
( I think this is my most likely possibility, as the most recent of the instructions that I've found are at least 6 months old. )
I did see one here -- which was more current than any of them, but it was (1) in Spanish, and (2) had many more steps to go through -- did things like set up http authentication instead of using the app's authentication -- and I don't care about either. Also, I was convinced that after burning all that time, I would again find it not working.
If someone with a working installation is able to replicate it with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 or even 16.10 ( or hell, any operating system fresh from the repos ), I would appreciate it if you could tell me exactly how you did it, ESPECIALLY if you were able to do it Azure.
It doesn't matter to me what OS it's in, but time is of the essence. I'm trying to get it thrown together before the 3rd.
I appreciate any help that comes my way!
Thanks!!
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I've struggled with this for four days now.
On Azure, I've encountered various results of failure. On my latest attempt, I followed:
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/running-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox-5.1-on-a-headless-ubuntu-16.04-lts-server/
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/managing-a-headless-virtualbox-installation-with-phpvirtualbox-on-ubuntu-16.04/
and then uninstalled VBox 5.1 to follow:
and then:
https://variable63.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/phpvirtualbox-ubuntu-16-04-server-install-tutorial-2016/
and then matched my config to:
https://www.ostechnix.com/install-oracle-virtualbox-ubuntu-16-04-headless-server/
... because I perfer using /var/www/html to /home/user/public_html.
I spent a lot of time wondering how there seem to be folks that have it working. At all. I almost don't believe it's possible, at this stage.
I noted that some referred to php 5 and some to php 7, and that there seemed to be some people that though it was less likely to work with php 7 ... but when I tried to install php 5.6, the end result appeared to mess with my php 7 packages, so I uninstalled everything php, reinstalled php 7 from the distro, and then switched my system and apache back to 7.0. With the other packages, I kept seeing 'possible coredump in /etc/apache2' in the apache2 error log.
I saw in forums that there was a time that the system service implementations of the vbox**** scripts were not so stable, and in fact, found that restarting the vboxweb-service appeared to yield the correct result more often than stopping and starting ( and starting and starting ) the web service, but this did not appear to be the solution either.
I'm at the point now where I get a spinner, either after logging in with the admin/admin creds, or without logging in ( I think that's the result of skipping the auth in the config.py or the /etc/default/virtualbox files. )
I'm down to two possibilities:
1 -- It just doesn't work in Azure, for some reason
2 -- Some system dependency has been upgraded so that the packages don't work together anymore
( I think this is my most likely possibility, as the most recent of the instructions that I've found are at least 6 months old. )
I did see one here -- which was more current than any of them, but it was (1) in Spanish, and (2) had many more steps to go through -- did things like set up http authentication instead of using the app's authentication -- and I don't care about either. Also, I was convinced that after burning all that time, I would again find it not working.
If someone with a working installation is able to replicate it with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 or even 16.10 ( or hell, any operating system fresh from the repos ), I would appreciate it if you could tell me exactly how you did it, ESPECIALLY if you were able to do it Azure.
It doesn't matter to me what OS it's in, but time is of the essence. I'm trying to get it thrown together before the 3rd.
I appreciate any help that comes my way!
Thanks!!