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notbob
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 Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: Install/setup wordpress on slack |
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Anyone done it?
I've been thinking about dabbling in the blog thing and it looks like
wordpress is the easiest way to begin, even if I change software later. I've
looked around and found zip on setting up wordpress with slack. LJ has
article on how to do it with mysqladmin, but I'd like to see cli approach,
also. Do slack bloggers prefer/recommend a diff/better blog software?
Advice welcome.
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Handover Phist
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: Install/setup wordpress on slack |
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notbob :
| Quote: | Anyone done it?
I've been thinking about dabbling in the blog thing and it looks like
wordpress is the easiest way to begin, even if I change software later. I've
looked around and found zip on setting up wordpress with slack. LJ has
article on how to do it with mysqladmin, but I'd like to see cli approach,
also. Do slack bloggers prefer/recommend a diff/better blog software?
Advice welcome.
nb
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I prefer Serendipity to Wordpress. Not as many geegaws but then I don't
like extra crap kicking around in my software. Most blog software is
pretty straightforward to put together, just
mysqladmin create $DBNAME
and then give permissions on $DBNAME so the blog can use it. Badabing,
done.
My blog is at blog.websterscafe.com, but you probably dont care.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Matthew
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Install/setup wordpress on slack |
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On 2008-11-11, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Do slack bloggers prefer/recommend a diff/better blog software?
Advice welcome.
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PmWiki and DokuWiki have blog functions. If you already have a
wiki then it might pay to setup blogging on it. If your going
to setup a flat-file wiki than I would reccomend PmWiki over
dokuwiki. Dokuwiki stopped displaying images for an unknown
reason; I did a fresh reinstall but nothing helped.
Dokuwiki is more user-friendly but PmWiki seems less hacked.
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Eric Hameleers
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: Re: Install/setup wordpress on slack |
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notbob schreef:
| Quote: | Anyone done it?
I've been thinking about dabbling in the blog thing and it looks like
wordpress is the easiest way to begin, even if I change software later. I've
looked around and found zip on setting up wordpress with slack. LJ has
article on how to do it with mysqladmin, but I'd like to see cli approach,
also. Do slack bloggers prefer/recommend a diff/better blog software?
Advice welcome.
nb
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I run my blog at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/ using Wordpress with
a sqlite backend instead of MySQL. That way it is completely portable.
Wordpress has nice features and a wealth of plugins. Recommended.
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Frank Bell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:52 am Post subject: Re: Install/setup wordpress on slack |
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:55:17 -0500, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I've been thinking about dabbling in the blog thing and it looks like
wordpress is the easiest way to begin, even if I change software later.
I've
looked around and found zip on setting up wordpress with slack. LJ has
article on how to do it with mysqladmin, but I'd like to see cli
approach,
also. Do slack bloggers prefer/recommend a diff/better blog software?
Advice welcome.
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I run Wordpress under Xampp on a Slack 12.1 box (when I started, I was
running on Slack 10.0).
Xampp. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
Download and install Xampp. Be sure to follow the instructions on the
Xampp site.
Once it's working, run the lampp security utility to set up your passwords
(see the instructions on the Xampp site). This is very important. If you
don't do it, you expose your whole setup to the world. Be sure to note
the passwords you create.
Create a database in mysql for the blog to use and a mysql user for the
blog to use to log into mysql.
Create a folder under /opt/lampp/htdocs to put wordpress in (I recommend
against putting it directly in htdocs in case you want to something else
along side wordpress).
Follow the wordpress instructions for the install.
Once you get wordpress installed, then you can start doing the fun stuff,
like finding a theme, setting up plugins, annoying persons in public, and
stuff like that.
You can see my site by following the address in the siggy.
When I first set it up, lo! these many years ago, I set up apache, mysql,
perl, and php each separately. As I remember, it took two days and the
command line to tell php where to find apache and perl and mysql was
longer than a campaign speech.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly. I'm hardly a
Slackware guru--that's why I read this newsgroup--but I know a little bit
about Xampp and Wordpress.
Hope this helps.
--
Blogging from Pine View Farm (http://www.pineviewfarm.net)
Updates daily. Worthwhile updates occasionally.
Opera (http://www.opera.com), Fluxbox (http://www.fluxbox.org), and
Slackware (http://www.slackware.com)--
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Frank Bell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:00 am Post subject: Re: Install/setup wordpress on slack |
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:55:17 -0500, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
Addendum:
I also have perfected scripts and set up cronjobs to automatically rotate
my Apache logs and backup my MySQL database on a regular basis which I
will be happy to share with you--or anyone else.
Nothing special--it's just been a three-year learning curve.
--
Blogging from Pine View Farm (http://www.pineviewfarm.net)
Updates daily. Worthwhile updates occasionally.
Opera (http://www.opera.com), Fluxbox (http://www.fluxbox.org), and
Slackware (http://www.slackware.com)--
the ultimate internet experience. |
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