![]() ![]() Viewing the site from within the home network, using either or would have given the initial appearance of working, but ultimately would have configured the site incorrectly. The trick to configuring the webtrees site is that it must be done from outside of the home network. Once I had unzipped and renamed the webtrees folder, I was ready to configure the site. I was content to leave as an HTML home page that links to my family tree, which resides at. ![]() Not having tested this option, I’m not exactly sure how well it would have worked. ![]() This might have had the effect of leading directly to my tree. Another option might have been to empty the contents of the webtrees folder directly into htdocs and erasing the index.html file there. By changing the name of the folder to grahamtree, I was able to customize the URL to. As is, the URL for my family tree would have been. I took the opportunity at this time to perform some URL customization. This unzipped the software files onto the server in a folder called webtrees. I found it much easier to do this directly from the /var/So for the current version as of this writing: root# cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs The package you receive is then simply unzipped to install the software. The software is downloadable from using the server’s wget command. The Webtrees software is not included in Gentoo’s portage tree, but installation is simple nonetheless. Here’s what I went through to get it running. Debugging the SELinux permission errors took some time, and got much easier once I learned how properly troubleshoot. Now that I have a server machine running Linux and a LAMP stack accessible via the internet, I’m ready to install the Webtrees software.
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