[BLU/Officers] Revisiting WordPress, Other Apps

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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