Re: [PLUG] Back to wordpress

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 03/05/2014 02:31 PM, Eric H. Johnson wrote:
> I got it installed but I am not sure I follow as to what I need to do next.

I really dislike the way these kinds of "web-app" tools totally 
disregard the package and update system and just do whatever they feel 
like.  I understand why it works this way, and why that makes sense from 
the developer's perspective.  But from an end-user or end-admin 
perspective it's really a giant pain.

And I'm not the only one.  Maybe you mentioned this and I'm forgetting, 
but is there some reason you can't just use one of these:
	http://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress
	http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress

Note, these are not hosted solutions (well, they can be), they are 
pre-built VMs and installers.  Turnkey has a large number of VM formats 
for Debian VMs, Bitnami has some VMs and various self-contained 
installers for a bunch of OSs (Windows is prominent; ignore that and 
drill down!).

I wasted about 5 hours last fall trying to get Redmine up and running on 
CentOS for $WORK, then gave up and had the Bitnami stack up in 10 
minutes, almost all of which was waiting for the installer to finish. 
I'd previously done a proof-of-concept using the Turnkey VM (*really* 
easy), but $WORK uses CentOS and not Debian, so...

I should have mentioned all of this sooner, not sure why I didn't.

Later,
JP
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