I\u2019ve started my own Blog server. After looking at several different open source servers, I ran across this review.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.asymptomatic.net\/blogbreakdown.htm<\/a><\/p>\n The review had many more titles than I had looked at. The bottom line was the same. They recommended WordPress and that\u2019s the way I was leaning as well.<\/p>\n So I downloaded WordPress<\/p>\n http:\/\/wordpress.org<\/a><\/p>\n The product requires two pre-installed components – PHP and MySQL. Since almost everything uses these two components, I already had them installed. All I had to do was create the MySQL table for WordPress (the instructions in the docs outlined the whole process). Five minutes later, I had a blog server.<\/p>\n Everything worked just as advertised except for the file upload. I needed to change the folder permissions on my server to allow the anonymous user account write access to the upload folder. That didn\u2019t really surprise me.<\/p>\n I\u2019m still testing everything out to make sure it works the way I want it to. Once I\u2019m sure it\u2019s secure, I\u2019ll open it up to the outside world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve started my own Blog server. After looking at several different open source servers, I ran across this review. http:\/\/www.asymptomatic.net\/blogbreakdown.htm The review had many more titles than I had looked at. The bottom line was the same. They recommended WordPress … Continue reading