[BLU/Officers] Revisiting WordPress, Other Apps

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

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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