[BLU/Officers] Revisiting WordPress, Other Apps

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com> wrote:
> I posted our first series of blog posts to the new blog that John setup.
> http://desktop-sig.blu.org
>
> A few notes:
> 1.  It works!
> 2.  John- Can you remove the "Test new blog" post?  I don't have privileges.
> 3.  At some point, I might like to have higher privileges.  I may want
> to adjust the right sidebar and see what other customization options we
> have.
> 4.  I haven't used Blogger before.  I still prefer WordPress, which I
> have a lot more experience with, but as mentioned in #1, this works!
> One concern to run by you guys: Blogger isn't free open source
> software.  Should we be concerned about that?
>
> Will
>
> On 10/28/2012 11:26 AM, Will Rico wrote:
>> Thanks John!  Nice job with the design too.  I'll give this a shot.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> On 10/28/2012 09:10 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>>> 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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