Installation environment

  • We have decided to use WordPress for our website. This will be a fairly simple static website with content being updated by select employees. This will not be blog. The site itself is primarily informational in nature with a few forms that will email data to certain employees when submitted, and periodic updates covering current events and such. All in all, not a very comlex application.

    We currently have a full development and production enviornment in place which we are using to develop web based applications for internal use. This testing and production environment consists of two idententically configured RHEL Apache Servers running things like Passenger, Rails, and Capistrano. One is the testing server, the other is the production server. I am uncertain as to a lot of the details of this setup as I am not involved on the development side of things.

    We are considering installing WordPress on these server. My concern is that while this setup works great for the development, testing, and delivery of our web based applications, it may be a bit overly complex for the needs of our website. We already encountered a problem with Permalinks caused by Rails that took us about a week or so to fix, and I have a feeling we will encounter similar problems down the road as we install additional plug ins and enable additional WordPress features.

    I was hoping to get some input from the forum as to whether or not the benefits of running WordPress in such and environment justify the complexity. Or, all things considered, wouldn’t we just be better off running wordpress on it’s own server and keeping both environmens seperate. Keep in mind that we have no plans at this time to develop any applications under WordPress.

    Thanks;

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  • Hi toleolu,

    Just a suggestion for making it easier to control your settings for WordPress. Could you setup a VPS server for running WordPress?

    I’m not sure what your ruby issue will have to do with WordPress. Linux flavour makes little difference. Server architecture depends on your requirements.

    You need PHP and MySQL to run WordPress. You can build deployment processes using source control if you want to. There are a number of ways that it can be done, but it depends on your business needs as to how to implement it.

    I’m not quite clear on what you are asking. You don’t need to test WordPress itself, but you may want to test how adding plugins, core updates and theme changes affects your site. You may want a test area for that. But you might not want to deploy those changes as much as replicate them on the live site manually?

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