Eric H. Johnson on 5 Mar 2014 12:59:41 -0800 |
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Re: [PLUG] Back to wordpress |
JP, To be fair, getting Wordpress running has not been the problem, the problems start when I try to port the site developed by someone else. They develop on Macs and host on Windows so have not been a lot of help. The initial manual install of wordpress worked fine and only took a couple of hours. A few other problems are ones that a VM install would have problems with too, like configuring Apache2 for the host names and pointing it to the correct folder, and adding sub folders at the same level as wp-content added by the developer, etc. Regards, Eric 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 ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| http://bashcookbook.com/ My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug