Installing www.ads-software.com on home network drive (Seagate 1TB GoFlex Home)

  • Mike

    (@mikefarrell)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi all,

    I am completely new to WordPress so I would appreciate as simple as possible an explanation please if you can help me.

    I want to make a long term venture with my website (currently thinking of an affiliate site but not too sure). Just want to get the site operable first whilst I plan the long term goal for it. Therefore, rather than go the easier route with WordPress.com with some limitations and have to move to www.ads-software.com in the future probably, I would rather teach myself www.ads-software.com and have full functionality from the outset.

    Basically, I don’t want to install www.ads-software.com on my hard drive (I don’t have a personal laptop at the mo and don’t want to install it on my business laptop or my wife’s laptop), I would much rather install it on my home network shared drive (Seagate 1TB GoFlex Home) so I can access it from multiple laptops if need be for test and development to create my website an then when it is ready I will pay for web hosting and then upload it to a hosting server.

    – Is installing it on my network drive possible?
    – Is it exactly the same process as installing it locally on a PC hard drive?
    – If there is differences, it would be great to know what the process is?

    Like I say, a step-by-step process for a beginner would be great to get me up and running.

    Any other comments/feedback appreciated aswell.

    Thanks in advance.

    Mike

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  • Thread Starter Mike

    (@mikefarrell)

    Ok … My laptop is Win XP

    So in a nutshell if my NAS does not have a built in web server then I cannot get it to be one and install and run Apache, MySQL and PHP ?

    Correct. The only other option is to install something like EasyPHP in your laptop and run the web server on there.

    Thread Starter Mike

    (@mikefarrell)

    Great help so far and much appreciated…

    I think I am getting there …

    But your advice would be leaning towards getting a web host straightaway?… Any particular reason for that?

    Well, you’re going to get hosting eventually, so why not sooner than later? also, I’d normally only recommend using a local server for developing/testing themes & plugins. Moving a whole site from a local server to a remote one is not a simple task. See Moving_WordPress for the full, gory, details.

    Why bother with all of that hassle when you can develop the site almost as quickly on a remote host?

    Thread Starter Mike

    (@mikefarrell)

    Well money basically … But that is another story ??

    Just thinking I’d rather work locally rather than paying for hosting when the site is bringing no revenue in whilst in development… And I don’t know how long that will be – as I have to teach myself WordPress aswell BTW ! ??

    I will need to keep a back up of the site locally though but I guess that is just a bunch of files ?

    Actually all you need for a site backup is just a database backup (sql) file and copies of any images you have used. You don’t even need a copy of your theme unless you’ve (a) bought it and/or (b) modified it. Just the db backup and the images is enough to recreate a site if the very worst happens.

    Thread Starter Mike

    (@mikefarrell)

    After reading up a bit more, think it makes send for me to install WordPress.com first and stry with that (as I see this is hosted for you free of charge)… The reason being Iban familiarise myself with how to build the site first…. Once O am comfortable, I will take your advice and go straight to www.ads-software.com and pay for hosting.

    Hopefully this makes sense to you ?

    I am sure I will be back in the forums in due course for other topics.

    As I said though your help so far has helped a bit with the learning curve. Thanks.

    Thread Starter Mike

    (@mikefarrell)

    If you think the above is a good idea to familiarise myself with wordpress first then I guess another question would be if I teach myself WordPress using WordPress.com and maybe even build the structure of the site with it (minus the limitations WordPress.com has compared to www.ads-software.com), then how much of a big deal will it be to move my WordPress.com site to www.ads-software.com on a hosting server later ?

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