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I am a complete beginner when trying to set up a web server. Anyhow, I decided to attempt to set up a Ubuntu server on an old laptop of mine (About two - three years old).

I followed the instructions in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJ55ebMcOc and everything was working fine.

However, my laptop is run on wifi and not a VM or ethernet port as shown in the video at approximately 15:31.

When I run ifconfig command, I only get the "lo - local loopback" results. Thus, I do not have an IP address and without an IP address I think I am unable to do anything. The laptop was able to connect to my router during the installation because it downloaded some files during that time.

I saw this question and answer and attempted it Ubuntu 14.04 Server - WiFi WPA2 Personal But for some reason I am unable to get to etc/network/interfaces/ (says it is not a directory) I can only get to etc/network

Any idea as to why I am unable to change directory to etc/network/interfaces or how else I can make it work?

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  • It's not a directory, it's a file - you get to the directory /etc/network/ and then open the file interfaces in a text editor. Or just open the file using an absolute path e.g. sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces – steeldriver Jan 05 '16 at 04:04

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/etc/network is the directory

interfaces is a file, not a directory

You may edit the file with a text editor

# nano /etc/network/interfaces
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