On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@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 It all just works so much better than relying on out-of-date 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". 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. Thanks! -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
