Okay… so I’ve spent some time on YouTube… wow um… can’t even think of where to begin. Stupid comes to mind. However some of it is hilarious… but most of it is just plain dumb.
Oh yes, good times…. of course it gives people a voice in one form or another… it can make you either look really smart, in the case… wtf are you posting on YouTube… Or it can make you look even worse… in the which yep stupid.
So so stupid…
So… Google had a wee little error on their website the other night when I opened up my browser… so sad:
The error has seem to have been corrected… but well you know me, always pointing out fun flaws and the like. yay error!
Wow… so I was having issues installing WordPress on my local testing machine. Ran across an error saying that MySQL wasn’t setup correctly and that WordPress needed it. Took me a while but I did eventually find a solution on a message board. Here they be:
These were the steps which I followed to install WordPress without it resulting in that nasty error message.
- Install Apache
- Install My-SQL. Note: in WordPress’ installation instructions this step comes after PHP installation. However, I read somewhere someone suggesting to install PHP after My-SQL. Don’t know if this was the determining factor, but it was the way I took.
- Install PHP. Here is were I think you’ll make it or break it. When installing PHP,
- be sure to point to Apache’s conf directory when asked where its configuration directory resides, don’t just point to Apache’s install directory,
- when asked which items to install, navigate down into Extensions and select MySQL and MySQLi. By default, these won’t be installed.
- Copy wordpress directory contents into Apache’s htdocs directory (just my choice, but there are ofcourse other variations which will work).
- Restart Apache.
- navigate to http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php This time it should work.
So yeah… that’s how it all works… or something like that. lol All in all, it worked out, and now I was able to install WordPress on my localhost without problem. And there you have it.
They call it “Chrome”.
What is it? In short, a web browser. In the long run, it’s a portal to the internet. A new way of browsing and an experience you’ll never forget.
Go for it, download Google Chrome, you know you want to. It’s the fastest thing since… er… um… damn it’s really fast. There’s no fancy frills in this browser, it’s all business. Well, let me take a step back… it’s not fancy (read cumbersome) on the outside… but it is way beautiful. Minimalsitic comes to mind. Love it!
Of course it is in beta… so it can only improve. (Of course… gmail has been in beta for how long now???)
But yes, my hat’s off to Google on this one. Way to go boys, way to go!