Hi!

To set up a testing environment for web hosting, you can use XAMPP or LAMP on your Linux Mint. These are software packages that are easy to install and help you run a web server on your PC.

Install XAMPP: Download the 32-bit version from the official site and follow the installation instructions.
Install LAMP: You can install Apache, MySQL and PHP using the command in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
Test: After installation, you can access localhost on your browser to test.

If you want to test on a 64-bit OMV server, you can also install LAMP similarly, but make sure to check the system requirements for each software. Or follow rice purity test">https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/wiki/view/3994/how-to-install-ossn-on-ubuntu-1804-2004-2104-x64-using-command-linerice purity test

Good luck!

please follow https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/wiki/view/3994/how-to-install-ossn-on-ubuntu-1804-2004-2104-x64-using-command-line

Regarding the article I will update it. You need fo make sure in your apache vhost config you allowed the use of . htaccess.

Please follow apache forum for that or follow above link for auto setup.

Hi, Michieal.

Thanks for the advise but unfortunately I fell at the first with this as there is no vmware for linux 32 bit.

I have pressed on with setting up my own apache server on the laptop and all has gone well so far. I'm only stuck on the this one error that I get when trying to install ossn: MOD_REWRITE REQUIRED

I found this:

wiki

but I do not have the httpd.conf file anywhere on my system so should I create it and if so where?

I also have no .htaccess file either so the same question applies.

Thanks again.

There's a VMWare VM install of Ossn 6.1 standard. I would use that. It's so that you can test it out and see what the system can do. And, handily, it makes for a good development test machine, so that you are not screwing up a production site.

if you click the OPENSOURCE Social Network image/link at the top of this page, it'll take you to the main page. Click Download, and it'll pop up with two choices; choose the Virtual Machine image.
You'll need VMWare Player to use it, but it's a simple and easy install. VMWare will modify some of the core Linux files the first time it is ran, and it requires that you turn on Virtualization in your Bios. (Which is oddly not defaulted to on in most BIOSes.)
(I've gone through this on my Linux Ubuntu machine...)
But, once you have WMWare Player up and running, open the downloaded vm image and start it. Choose "I copied it" and it'll pop up and run. I personally installed a gui onto it so that it was easier to use and see things within it.

The Download link does take you to a page that has instructions on how to get it up and running. And, if you do decide to system upgrade the ubuntu image, don't take it past Hirsute as if you do you will break the system.

Also a fun fact: you can make copies of the VM, so that you can have "plain", "dev", "preproduction" machines to test things at every stage. (I highly recommend having a "plain" ie, untouched version to make sure that errors in the dev vm is not from the base components, and to help troubleshoot your component development.)