I installed apache/mysql/php
I also installed mambo, a LAMP site, locally. INstalled and running...but there's some weirdness.

I was just on sourceforge.org looking for an appy and my locally installed website appeared in a frame on the remote sourceforge.org web site. Please see the image.

http://www.madcarters.com/images/wtf.png

SO, I am assuming there was something I didn't do? I stopped apache -- of course when I reloaded sourceforge, my site was gone.

ummmm -- Wha??

THanks for your advice

machiner

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Well -- again this forum was pretty useless -- but in the interest of community and education:

I found the problem --

I installed a script (media mate) that uses php/mysql to manage a movie collection locally. There are :
internet and mail settings that were enabled . After I unchecked (disabled) these settings, I could no longer see my locally hosted website embedded in any more live websites.

I have contacted the developer and maybe this is a bug, maybe not. Maybe my LAMP configuration is fubar -- I'm not sure yet ...

But the situation is being resolved no thanks to me asking for help on this forum. RTF!??? Whatever. I've killed enough trees printing readmes and the like...

THere have been many posits about why Linux isn't more mainstream -- besides the obvious few limiting factors, I see its community as the biggest roadblock to this happening.

I see forums like this one alienating potential linux converts and/or demeaning or simply ignoring them.

To be sure, this forum and others do make some attempt to assist -- but speaking from my own experience, most of the questions I ask go unanswered -- for whatever reason. As well, on any given day -- I can see many, many threads that also remain unanswered.

With this kind of support (this being the ONLY real form of support for Linux) it is no wonder that people shy away from the OS.

I like linux -- I have been able to address all of my problems - but sometimes this meant -- reinstalling -- when maybe someone could've prevented that by answering one of my, or another's, queries. I am a geek -- but the proposed target audience for Linux is not geeks -- it is those people that have no interest in becoming sysadmin -- and it is these people that will never embrace anything other than a richmond OS offering. Yeah -- windows sucks, but I didn't need to becoome sysadmin to use it -- I became sysadmin because I wanted to.

machiner