December 9, 2008 – 2:20 am
Not many people will have noticed, but I’ve recently switched this site over from WordPress to WordPress MU. Why would I do that? Well, mainly so I could host blogs for my family and or friends… okay, um… family. WordPress MU is meant for this, and it has a lot in common with regular wordPress so it is pretty close to what I already know.
This was a pretty simple feat, but I would still suggest reading lots of documentation before you decide to do this. You may find that MU is not what you want, there are other alternatives to also look into. If you still want to read about my experiences with this then continue on, but you need to make sure that this is really what you want before you do it yourself. Keep in mind, I cannot guarantee that this will work for you, or that it’s even the best way to do it, it’s just how I did it, and it did work for me… Read More »
December 7, 2008 – 9:59 am
Yeah, it came a little bit late, but I’ve finished the changover from WordPress to WordPress-MU. I was trying to hold out for version 2.7 to be released but I’ve decided to just run it on svn until it becomes official. Everything seems to working properly. Though I haven’t really had a lot of time to investigate things and look for problems. I’m thinking that I should be able to make a longer post about how it went and what kind of problems I ran into sometime in the next couple of days…
November 30, 2008 – 9:08 pm
I will be taking the site down for a short time soon. Probably Monday December 30th. Assuming that everything goes smoothly I should be able to finish it up within an hour or two.
For those who are interested I’m going to jump from WordPress to WordPress Mu. This will allow me to give some subdomains to my family and maybe set up some more for other things… I might piss off Google with the changes though I’m hoping it all works out so that the urls at least stay the same for what I already have here. If not then, ya know… It’s not like I’ve never blown things up with the search engines before.
Anyway, if you visit and things are borked, that’s probably why 
November 24, 2008 – 10:35 pm
I’ve already covered how I got static IPs and DNS working on Intrepid. Following up on that I’m now going to walk through how I set up Apache2, MySQL, and PHP for local testing of web based software. In my case that currently means WordPress and WordPressMU blogging software from automattic. Read More »
November 23, 2008 – 9:41 pm
The new network manager in Ubuntu Intrepid is great for many things, unfortunately, for me it has a bug, well, actually several bugs, that makes static IP address assignment a real pain. The problem is that the settings for the static IP do not stick, they get overwritten after each reboot. This is absolutely not something I can have happening.
I use my machine for testing, (more like playing with), various web software. I usually set things up with the Bind9 DNS server and virtual hosts through the Apache2 web server. For this to work I need to be able to resolve several test domains, as well as subdomains. I generally set up Bind9 on my machine with wildcard DNS and then use virtual hosts in Apache2 to sort out those resolutions to the correct directories on the machine.
With the new network manager the IP reverts to DHCP after each reboot, this completely buggers up the configuration of both Bind9 and Apache2. It was a total wreck that took me a few days to figure out so I’m going to post about it. Hopefully I’ll never need to refer back to this myself, but if it helps someone else then that is great. Read More »