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Re: WordPress on Debian

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On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's what I do as well.  For complex software (e.g., WordPress,
> Drupal, mailing list managers), I always end up downloading the latest
> tarball, unpacking it, and then ./config; make; make test; make
> install.  It all just works so much better than relying on out-of-date
> packages.
>
> If I want to get ambitious, and keep track of things via the package
> manager, I use checkinstall.
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
>

I like stuff in git repos (like hubzilla, gnu/social, etc) or with its 
own built-in updating mechanism, like WP has (dokuwiki has a plugin for 
that) to facilitate updating stuff.
At home (as opposed to my remote servers) I tend to install only Debian 
pkgs, except for OmegaT my most used work application, which always 
install from upstream (ours is often 2 years behind the latest),
and I wish they'd put it on github, or gitorious, or similar.


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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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