Although some folks had attributed a problem with running PHP script prepared in TextEdit, I switched to GEdit, which comes with the software suite in Ubuntu and I still had no luck. I was aware that TextEdit had a nasty habit of adding the ".rtf" extension to all files, but such was not the case with GEdit. I have no idea where I've gone wrong. All of this material is stuff I wanted to master and I would be satisfied even if I didn't master it so long as I could get things to run and I had a pretty good run of "luck" or "ability to follow *some* instructions" before hitting the PHP section. I do have a couple weeks over break to review everything and attempt to do the LAMP part over on my Dell laptop, running Windows. They always say that the importance of an experiment is the ability to replicate it. I will be the first to admit that there were several times this semester where I think I finally got stuff to work on a fluke. Looking back at the form of documentation I created in terms of screenshots, there were a lot of shots done when I was going well and few when I came up against challenges. I have indeed taken steps to get away from earlier, long held reactions of getting emotional when I ought to double down on being rational. The topic I would most like to explore is where on earth did I go wrong with this PHP stuff? What is it about this particular script (I have never seen before) that made it such a problem?
Still, I feel like I went far in actually using Linux, opening directories, apt-getting applications and running them, navigating with some degree of dexterity I have never had. Now on to the final and off to work.
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