Tejas P Mehta

Few days ago accidentally i lost my Show Desktop icon from Quick Launch toolbar. So i tried to make it work by few tricks like enable disable Quick launch again. But it did not work. So i followed following steps to make it work.

Click on Start Menu and Goto Run and type following
%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

It will open on folder. Now create new file with notepad and carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop


On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file as “Show desktop.scf”.

Close notepad and you will see that Show Desktop icon is available again in your Quick Launch tool-bar.

When we are using Ubuntu at that time somehow we want to bookmark some place which will be easily listed in Places menu. But by doing this sometimes order get changed or Documents, Pictures, Download all tabs are moved to bookmark option. This will create problem. So here is easy way to solve this problem in GNOME.

Just open the file manager (Say Computer or Download anything)  and select Bookmarks->Edit Bookmarks from the menu.

You can also just right-click a bookmarked item in the sidebar of the file manager window, and you’ll get an option for removing it.

After setting up proper LAMP system on Ubuntu we need to set some other parameters also for apache to workout smoothly with current open source systems. For that must necessary configuration is mode_rewite module. To enable this module use following command in terminal:

a2enmode rewrite

This will enable your clean URL structure for websites.

In my last post i have described how to install PHP in Ubuntu. You can found that article here. Now after installing PHP successfully we will install MySQL now.

1. Open the terminal from Applications > Accessories > Terminal

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

2. set your root password (although mysql should ask you about that when installing)

Note: You can download and set PHPMyAdmin interface for MySQL by executing. Just download it and place at /var/www/.

In my last post i have described how to install Apache in Ubuntu. You can found that article here. Now after installing Apache successfully we will install PHP now.

1. Open the terminal from Applications > Accessories > Terminal
2. Install PHP using apt-get by typing the following
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

This will install php5.x version to your machine. At time of writing this post it is recommended that you install PHP 5.2.X version as 5.3.X version is still not supported on lots of shared hosting server and if you make your application in PHP 5.3.X then you might have to convert it to PHP 5.2.X which is lengthy process.

Afer successfull installation restart Apache2 with following command.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

So we have successfully installed PHP. To test it goto /var/www direcotry and make one test.php file with any text-editor you use. Open test.php and write following code.

<?php
print “Hello World !!!”;
?>

Now run it by typing http://localhost/test.php in firefox… You should see your “Hello World !!!”

Next Tutorial will be of Installing MySQL in Ubuntu / Linux.