[BLU/Officers] Revisiting WordPress, Other Apps

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

I tried to setup wordpress on lachesis last night. I'm running into some
issues, but once I get it working properly, I'll let you know.

It's set up as virtualhost "wp.blu.org". I don't want to add it to
DNS until it's working, so if you want to try it out, you'll need to
add it to /etc/hosts on the machine you run your web browser on.

At the moment, when I tried registering a test user, i never received
the registration email. Also, when I click on the sample "Hello World"
post or try to add a comment, I get a 404 error.

Once the main blog is functioning properly, I'll then have to figure out
how to make it support multiple blogs. Once that's working, I'll create
a "Desktop SIG" blog.

I can't say how long this will take, as the main driving issues are
figuring out why it doesn't work correctly out of the box the way
I had expected it would.


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I would like a blog (WordPress if possible, but I'm flexible).
>
> I think a forum/bulletin-board is also a good idea, but for the
> desktop SIG, we don't have critical mass just yet for me to predict
> much usage.  What about BLU as a whole?  Do you guys think the forum
> would be used?  Would it supplant the mailing list?
>
> Best,
> Will
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:52 PM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>> I thought he was asking for a blog, not a bulletin board.
>>
>> I've been running Wordpress for a long time without incident, other than
>> comment bombing before I turned on comment moderation, and that's a
>> self-inflicted wound.
>>
>> One nice thing about Wordpress is if you install it, the admin can
>> update it (and its plugins) from the web without shell access.
>>
>> On 10/27/2012 02:55 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>>> Hi, Will.
>>>
>>> Take a look at http://bb.blu.org and let me know what you think.
>>> I just updated it to the latest version of phpbb, deleted the test
>>> forum I created last year, and created some new forums.
>>>
>>> Does this suit your needs?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> Below is a discussion we had last year regarding the possibility of
>>>> installing WordPress and other apps, perhaps on a guest server instead of
>>>> the main BLU server.  I'm considering doing some blogging for our BLU
>>>> desktop SIG.  If installing WordPress (or an alternative) isn't in the
>>>> cards, perhaps we could use a CNAME entry to host offsite (e.g. I have spare
>>>> server space), or create a .wordpress.com account (e.g. blu.wordpress.com or
>>>> blublog.wordpress.com)?
>>>>
>>>> Your thoughts from last year are below.
>>>>
>>>> What are your thoughts this year?
>>>>
>>>> Will
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:52 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Will.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't want user-installed applications like that on our primary
>>>>> server. We had a security breach about 10 years ago due to
>>>>> a misconfigured wiki install that someone had installed without
>>>>> my knowledge.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've considered setting up a couple of apps on the guest server.
>>>>> I installed phpbb on the guest server a while ago, but I haven't
>>>>> finished configuring it yet. I haven't looked at any blogging software
>>>>> like WordPress yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it be OK for me to install WordPress in that directory?  Not
>>>>>> absolutely required.  I just want to know my options.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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