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Re: WordPress on Debian

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I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB  on my 
server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know 
is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debian Way,
aka the Right Way for most stuff), and then ask any questions on 
#wordpress on freenode, they get all nasty (I've been banned from the 
channel for life!)
I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install 
their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all 
over the machine.
I do the same with dokuwiki installations and other CMS or site 
platforms, too, installing from upstream.

tony
http://tonybaldwin.me
all tony, all the time

On 09/19/2016 12:11 PM, Kent West wrote:
> There's a lot of conflicting documentation out there for installing
> WordPress on Debian, so I thought I'd come to you folks, who generally
> have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in all things Debian.
>
> This will wind up being more a theoretical discussion than a specific
> question of how-to, I'm afraid....
>
> Understand I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to Apache2 and
> WordPress and MySQL, etc (and to web stuff in general).
>
> It seems that some docs indicate that the WordPress (WP) should put part
> of its installation in /srv, and part in /usr/lib, and part in /var/lib,
> and part in /var/www, etc.
>
> On a philosophical/theoretical level, I want all my web-facing stuff on
> a single partition, preferably /home (as in /home/web), so that visitors
> to the site have no ability to tinker on the other partitions. Why would
> the HFS recommend that user-accessible files be on system partitions
> instead of on "safer" partitions?
>
> Am I thinking wrongly?
>
> I don't really even know enough to ask the right questions, but I'm
> hoping this might stir some conversations that lead me to asking the
> right questions. When I try to put my WP stuff on /home/web, I get
> confused about what goes where (because of the conflicting
> documentation, and not knowing what the various parts of
> Apaceh2/WP/mysql do),, and I get varying levels of success (but mostly
> failure) depending on what I try.
>
> Thanks for any insight!
>
> --
> Kent West     <*)))><
> http://kentwest.blogspot.com
> Praise Yah! \o/
>


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WordPress on Debian Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 18:20 +0200
  Re: WordPress on Debian Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-09-19 18:30 +0200
    Re: WordPress on Debian Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-19 19:00 +0200
      Re: WordPress on Debian Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 20:40 +0200
        Re: WordPress on Debian Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 20:50 +0200
          Re: WordPress on Debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 21:50 +0200
            Re: WordPress on Debian Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-09-19 22:30 +0200
            Re: WordPress on Debian Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-09-19 22:50 +0200
        Re: WordPress on Debian davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-19 22:00 +0200
        Re: WordPress on Debian Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-09-21 18:40 +0200
  Re: WordPress on Debian Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-19 18:30 +0200
  Re: WordPress on Debian Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 22:40 +0200

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