Topic: Wordpress

[ElFroggio]

Hi,

What's the difference between the Wordpress contrib http://wiki.contribs.org/Wordpress and installing Wordpress from fresh in an ibay?

Is the contrib up-to-date? Are there limitations to using the contrib?

Thanks

[mmccarn]

I don't know what version of wordpress is included in the contrib, so you may need to do an update after installing the contrib that you wouldn't need to do if you install the latest version in an ibay.

The contrib installs the application, creates the required database and database user, links them together, and installs some custom template fragments that can be used to easily customize some of the settings in the wordpress configuration file.  If you install in an ibay, you will need to manually create the mysql database and database user for wordpress to use, and you *may* need to customize the "ScriptAlias" settings for the ibay (I'm not sure about this).

The contrib installs wordpress in /opt instead of in an ibay.  This:
* prevents local network users from accessing your webapp using samba
* prevents the webapp files from having their ownership changed by server-manager (which changes ownership on ibay files if you set a "group" for the ibay).

SME 7.4 uses PHP 4.x; the latest versions of several webapps require PHP 5.x.  The contrib will install a version of the webapp that is known to work with SME server.

Contrib developers (some of them anyway, and I would trust dungog on this) will have configured the install to circumvent any known security holes in the webapp.  That is, if experts using webapp "X" all know that after installation you have to do A, B and C to make sure your installation is secure, then (hopefully) the contrib has had those steps run so that you don't need to worry about them.

[janet]

ElFroggio

A simple approach is to install from the contrib so that everything is setup correctly on your sme server. In most cases this only takes a few minutes.
Then check the version installed.
Then do a manual upgrade as per the upgrade instructions found at the support web site for the particular application.

This generic concept applies to most/all contribs, as unfortunately application upgrades do not always get released as a contrib.

[EdelingF]

I've got several Wordpress blogs installed on my SME and I always use the SME-Site Maker (http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Site_Maker) with the latest package from the Wordpress.org website. Just use the Contrib/Howto from SME-Site Maker and the very easy installation instructions (http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress).
For security reasons, don't install in a ibay.

Good luck!

[milaweb]

Site-Maker works very good, but how do you create vituel domains for the blogs(if your blogs have separate domains). I have found some posts about that sub, but the dosen't seem that strait through. 

[EdelingF]

I make Ibays for each domain and server-manager I direct the domain to the Ibay. When I install a Wordpress installation for that domain I put a redirect script in the index.html of the Ibay redirecting to the specific map given in in Site-Maker.
So if you have installes Wordpress in for instance /opt/wordpress , I redirect the Ibay for the domain to www.domain.com/wordpress.
It's not a perfect way of doing this, but it works. Every time I tried something else, my server got messed up.....

[milaweb]

Ok that was fast! Thanks. I thought of that solution, but i am not quite sure how google reacts on that, when it crawls the blog. Are your blogs indexed by google?

[EdelingF]

Yes, they are.
I use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for that.