Basics and setup for Mac OS X Server 10.4

  • So much I don’t know….

    I’m a user support guy who has a server. I barely understand it. I have been asked whether WordPress can be run on our server (an Apple XServe running Mac OS X Server unlimited v10.4.11).

    I checked the install advice and it looks like I have php and can get MySQL running.

    My question: How does this work? ??

    If these modules run, do users log into my server and set up blogs on it? Do I need Mac OS X Users (logins and password) for them to have blogs. Then they would have domainname/~username/blog or something like that?

    And when someone comes to that address then it opens a file which pulls the code from the module which makes the blog “work”? (I’m obviously used to Application model or the non-scripted web-page content model…. ??

    I apologize for not knowing so much….

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  • I’ve set up separate instances of WordPress for each site that will have the blog; it’s really easy to do and WP doesn’t take much space. I *think* WP will run on the version of PHP you have on Server 10.4, but you’ll be better off upgrading if you can.

    Once you set up a WP installation in the target Web site (which you’ll want to have already set up using Server Admin), the end user will manage the blog through the WP Web interface—unless you get stung by the same bug that I’ve experienced that prevents WP from updating itself, plugins, etc. You can manually install things, of course, and if your users are competent command line people it’s certainly doable. (Yes, you will need local user accounts for each blog, BTW; I find it simplest to just set them up with homes in /Users and create a symlink—not alias—to their Web site within their home folder, using ln -s <source location> <alias name>.)

    I hope this helps!

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