Thanks in large part to Josh's consistent requests I have put together a GeekSpeak Blog. This system runs on Drupal a PHP based content management system. Our Corkdog server (Ubuntu) now hosts five virtual servers (web, rails, db, mail and lamp). The newest virtual which I set up over the last few evenings is called LAMP (Linux, Apacche2, MySQL, PHP) and it hosts the Drupal part of GeekSpeak.org.

The host machine runs Apache2 with mod-rewrite to direct to either

1. Tomcat/Cocoon which is our "old site", with green title bars.
2. Drupal which is our "new site", which you are reading from now.

Currently the only thing that the new site hosts is the contact form and the blog. But I think we will slowly migrate a lot of the data over to it. We shall see.

So, installing LAMP on Ubuntu, which is a Debian Linux, was easy. I simply ran:

which installed all of the modules. I then downloaded the most recent copy of Drupal and did some Apache2 configuration. I wish I had a Screancast package installed and I would have made this post much more useful. Maybe next time.