On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 01:42:35PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > >> My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my > >> own server and limit who has access to them. I need some > >> recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. > >> > > Thanks for all the advice so far. I intend to test all the > > recommendations. But for now I'm testing wordpress and I've run into an > > issue: > > > > Apache's default document root is /var/www > > > > Wordpress wants to put everything in /srv/www > > > > So which location is "correct" for websites? > > > > I know how to change Apache's document root. I'm working on how to > > change Wordpress' default root. I suppose I could solve this by > > symlinking /srv/www to /var/www, but I'd like to hear some advice before > > proceeding. > > You're using the Debian WP package? I recently went through the same trouble. > Look at the README that came with the .deb. In there are 3 (IIRC) ways to > make the Debian package work with Apache. > Yep, I'm using the Debian package.
> Debian puts the code in /usr/share, and the configs in /etc/wordpress. It's > somewhat different from the way WP wants to do it. > > The one I used had to do with creating an alias in the main Apache2 config. > Worked like a champ. > I see it, but my eyes and brain are too fried now to try it. I will test it later. Thanks for the advice. > Don't pay any attention to what WP says. Not much, anyway. > > I wanted to use the .deb so I'd get updates and fixes from the Debian repos. > Same here I did get a blog working, but now I'm trying to set up a multisite. I'll have to read up on that some more. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120707200801.ga22...@aurora.owens.net
