Re: WordPress on Debian

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> wrote:
On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:

On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:

I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install
their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all
over the machine.

So what I'm hearing is that I should forego using apt/aptitude to install WordPress, and just install in manually?

Oh, I forgot to emphasize my broader question: am I correct in thinking that pieces of a web server should not be strewn about on the file system, simply because it conceptually exposes those parts of the file system to *users*?

Tony, by "$user" ("/home/$user/www"), do you mean something like "/home/mywidgetfactory/www" for your web site named "My Widget Factory" and "/home/nutsandbolts/www" for your web site named "Nuts, Bolts, Screws, and Banana Peels", both sites being served from the same physical (or virtual) Debian box?

Does each web site need its own complete WordPress installation? (I would expect some of the WordPress installation to be on various partitions, such as "/usr/share" and "/usr/lib", but only those portions that are common to all the WordPress sites, which are configured by the admin once and then pretty much left alone, but I would expect site-specific info to be away from those system partitions, and instead be stored some place like "/home/$user/www", or in my first-attempted case, in "/home/web/$site_name".)

Thanks!

Kent West <")))><
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