[BLU/Officers] Revisiting WordPress, Other Apps

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Hi, Will.

I setup your blog and sent you an invite to add you as an author.
Your blog is at

    http://desktop-sig.blu.org



On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:28 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On further investigation, it seems I can set up a "team" blog and add
> additional authors and admins. I'll go ahead and do that for your blog.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:58 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Will.
>>
>> It occurs to me that rather than take on an additional administrative
>> burden by running wordpress locally, it might be easier to use an
>> outside blogging site and just point a blu.org cname at it in our DNS.
>>
>> Wordpress.com charges $13 per year per blog for this. Blogger.com
>> provides this for free.
>>
>> I just tested it with one of my personal domains, and it works fine.
>>
>> How about you create a BLU Desktop SIG blog at blogger.com, and
>> then I'll help you with the domain settings and add the pair of cname
>> records that point back to google's servers? Then your group's blog
>> can be hosted at blogger.com but have the URI http://desktop-sig.blu.org.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:21 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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