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As some of your in primary may have come across this I thought I'd ask if anyone can recommend a webstore type app that would be kid friendly for junior age kids. For context I have a very creative daughter who wants to start "selling" her craft designs and she has a few friends who are similarly interested so, as I have a dedicated server and plenty of space I've been voluntold to get a space setup for her/them. Educationally it'd be a good experience for them all to see what's involved in ecommerce without the actual payments side of things so while my experience is in using complex webstore systems I'm aware that there may be something more suited to her age group but with scope to develop further. Ideally I'm looking for something that provides a web backend, is easy to managed so that the kids can upload and edit product listings (possibly with a more complex/advanced section that I can manage) and manage "orders". There's no intention to provide an online payment option but more a case of showcasing the kids work/products and allow friends/family to indicate interest, etc... and pay offline as needed. If anyone has any ideas or is aware of what is out there for this sort of project then please let me know. I'd like to avoid WordPress if I can. Thanks in advance...

Thanks Dave, I'll consult with my wife, figure out what she wants to do and then be in touch.

Thanks for the recommendation. It does seem to tick most of the boxes, barring the small HD capacity. @ICTDirect_Dave I need to check with the boss but I can foresee an issue as this is her personal machine, not a school purchase and the bargainhardware site doesn't have the same unit/spec. I'd also like to get a bigger drive (ie: 1TB - Samsung M.2 970) rather than get something we'll pull straight out.. Wondering if we could get the necessary USB OS stick to save on the headache of drive cloning. Any/all of that possible? And if so, how best to resolve?

Thank-you for that steer... I was nearly leaning in that direction but that sort of weakness is definitely something she'd come a cropper on. The storage thing is always fun as she hoards worksheets and other resources but the 4Tb external hard drive helps tackle that tendency.

Hi, Been a while since I've graced these hallowed forums but as I married a teacher (no I wasn't insane!) I've kept an eye in on most things. My reason for posting is that my other half is looking for a laptop of her own to handle both her own interests and also be able to VPN and handle work related tasks as a SENCO. Unfortunately I'm more than a little rusty on my knowledge of laptop based hardware so I was hoping you folk might share some good options, ones to avoid and suggestions on where might be the best place to purchase. One aspect of things we're looking at is a way of extending out to a second screen but that's relatively easy to resolve. Overall need is for office based apps, good connectivity, reliable and still able to handle a bit of binge watching on Netflix. No interest in games or video processing so mostly a good all rounder that doesn't hurt the eyes. Decent battery life is pretty important too. Budget is around £500-750 but could be persuaded higher if there's good reason for stretching things. Edit: USB-C and A ports and preferably option to connect via a USB-C hub to a second screen + keyboard, and mouse on a desk. Thanks in advance for any recommendations or steers away.

If you're on a new server you'll also need to do the following: yum install httpd-devel ...before you run the ./configure line.

Version 1.14.2 (on a new server) cd /home/downloads/svn wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/subversion/subversion-1.14.2.tar.gz tar xfvz subversion-1.14.2.tar.gz cd subversion-1.14.2 sh get-deps.sh yum install apr-devel yum install apr-util-devel yum install lz4 lz4-devel ./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config --with-utf8proc=internal make clean make make install

That time again so a quick update as EasyApache4 made a few changes. cd /home/downloads/svn wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.1.0.tar.gz tar xfvz subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz cd subversion-1.10.0 sh get-deps.sh ./configure --with-apr=/home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.4/srclib/apr/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.4/srclib/apr-util/apu-1-config --with-utf8proc=internal make clean make make install

Couple of additional points to address as the 1.10.0 installation created a few new problems for my particular install. 1. Thanks to Louidvdw for sharing the permissions point here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/nix/26101-subversion-whm-cpanel-11-a-2.html#post743185 2. You may hit a slew of "Forbidden" access errors which are likely to be picked up on in your apache error log In my case the issues were caused by a poorly edited svnaccess file (ie: the file with all the repos group associations, permissions, etc...) It seems that SVN now sanity checks this file and applies strict rules to the file, resulting in forbidden errors until you fix them. So, things to look out for: - "Section appears more than once in the authz file [foo]" Fix: Check for [foo] in your access file and remove any duplicates - "Access entry refers to undefined group '@bar'" Fix: Look under your [groups] section and look for any groups that have no members assigned (eg: bar = ). You can either assign a default user (eg: root) or remove the group and any permissions assigned to that group under the relevant repositories.

Bringing this back up to speed... cd /home/downloads/svn wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz tar xfvz subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz cd subversion-1.10.0 sh get-deps.sh ./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config make clean make make install Note: You will hit errors if you haven't already installed LZ4 and utf8proc so chances are the configure command line may need look more like this: ./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config --with-lz4=internal --with-utf8proc=internal Personally we just installed lz4 binary and devel packages using YUM and then used the internal ref for utf8proc yum install lz4 lz4-devel so... our final code looked more like this. cd /home/downloads/svn wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz tar xfvz subversion-1.10.0.tar.gz cd subversion-1.10.0 sh get-deps.sh ./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config --with-utf8proc=internal make clean make make install

Unfortunately I realised late on that the directory above was created from the legacy EA4 Apache installation prior to conversion to Cloudlinux. I believe you can still use EA4 to create an Apache installation with the appropriate version of PHP and you'll need to ensure you install the appropriate modules... From that it's then a case of using "locate" in shell to figure out where the apr-1-config and apu-1-config are and go from there.

This is a work in progress but just to update with what I've learned so far with EasyApache4 on WHM/Cpanel cd /home/downloads/svn wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.9.7.tar.gz tar xfvz subversion-1.9.7.tar.gz cd subversion-1.9.7 sh get-deps.sh ./configure --with-apr=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/cpanel/ea-apr15/bin/apu-1-config make clean make make install Bound to be some gotcha's in this that I haven't found yet but as with anything perhaps this will provide someone else with a clue to figure out the solution to the next problem (assuming there is one)

Couple of additional notes... If you need to switch your repository across to using an SSL connection rather than standard http you can do this by: 1. Installing a self signed cert for the domain you're using for your repository ref: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/security/ssl/installing-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate (assuming you haven't gone out and registered a signed one that is) 2. Copying your custom.conf from the std to ssl.. cp /etc/httpd/conf/userdata/std/2_4/[u]user[/u]/www.[u]userdom[/u].co.uk/svn_custom.conf /etc/httpd/conf/userdata/ssl/2_4/[u]user[/u]/www.[u]userdom[/u].co.uk/svn_custom.conf 3. Incorporating the custom configuration into your httpd.conf #TEST the custom configuration before you commit it! /scripts/verify_vhost_includes #Assuming all is well... commit the svn_custom.conf and restart the apache server: /scripts/ensure_vhost_includes --user=[[u]user[/u]] /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf /scripts/restartsrv_httpd 4. Checkout your code using the new https url ... and that's about it... Just to note this approach is useful if you have nginx handling your standard/port80 web traffic and apache for any secure/port443 traffic. I was finding that I was getting bursts of activity from the server via port 80 following by 504 gateway timeout errors so this helped fix access.

Subversion 1.9.1 with Apache 2.4.x cd /home/downloads/svn wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.9.1.tar.gz tar xfvz subversion-1.9.1.tar.gz cd subversion-1.9.1 sh get-deps.sh ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-apr=/usr/local/apache/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/home/cpeasyapache/src/httpd-2.4/srclib/apr-util make clean make make install The apache pre-main config is as recently LoadModule dav_svn_module /usr/local/libexec/mod_dav_svn.so LoadModule authz_svn_module /usr/local/libexec/mod_authz_svn.so

Just thought I'd share this little nugget of humility (or is that humiliation) as the penny just dropped. The problem I was having was a VPN LAN to LAN connection kept dropping between my workshop remote site and the unit at home. I had the Keep Alive option setup on the dial-out profile so I couldn't figure out what was going wrong until I realised that the target IP address might be important. Until my light bulb moment I had pointed the ping target at a Google DNS server but now the IP is an internal IP address on the target network and surprise surprise the connection stays active and rarely drops at all. Feel free to pour scorn on such a basic n00b error but figured I'd share this horrific admission in case there are others of similar challenged nature