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Re: WordPress on Debian

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Kent West wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> 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  It all just works so much better than relying on out-of-date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.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://tonybaldwin.me
>> all tony, all the time
>>
>>
> So what I'm hearing is that I should forego using apt/aptitude to install
> WordPress, and just install in manually?
>
> Ag, I hate to go that route; I really like having an apt-maintained system.
>
> Is there perhaps a definitive document that explains how WordPress things
> are set up in Debian. The /usr/share/wordpress/readme.html starts off by
> unpacking the zip file, which tells me that's not the document that
> describes The Debian Way. There's no "man wordpress" or "info wordpress".

I don't know anything about wordpress.

But I do know that when I want documentation about package FOO, one
place worth looking is

  /usr/share/doc/FOO/

(Notice the "doc/" element in the path.)

> The online docs I have found haven't convinced me that one is more
> definitive than the conflicting another, and even if it did, doesn't seem
> to have a good explanation of The Debian Way concerning WordPress.

There is also a debian wiki page, which also has not yet been
mentioned, that AFAICT undertakes to describe two methods of
installation.

  https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress

Good luck with your project.

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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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