{"id":4,"date":"2006-03-15T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/how-not-to-set-up-a-blog\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:02:19","slug":"how-not-to-set-up-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/how-not-to-set-up-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to set up a blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point towards the end of last week I had the idea of writing a blog. I spent a while looking around for a decent online blogging tool, and, as I suspect most people do, I landed on blogger.com<\/a>. It looked fairly swish, and had plenty of useful features. Except one. Where is the support for categories? So, moving on, and with the advice of some friends, I ended up at wordpress.org<\/a>. It ticked all the boxes and is available<\/a> in the FreeBSD ports collection.<\/p>\n

This is where things went downhill. Step one, I figured, would be to get the existing packages on my server updated, since I’d quite like to use PHP5 for running WordPress, and I noticed it also needed MySQL. This didn’t take too long, despite there being a new version of perl to install. The problems came when I tried to build MySQL; it wouldn’t even build<\/a>. After a while I got it to build and install, only to discover PHP behaving oddly as well; it would hang when WordPress used it’s mail() function.<\/p>\n

I asked a few fellow FreeBSD developers, but didn’t get much sympathy since I was at that point running FreeBSD 5.2.1, a long since outdated version.<\/p>\n

So on Sunday I started the task of upgrading to RELENG_5 (see my other post<\/a> for more). The build process was fairly straightforward, thankfully. Then I noticed the serial line to my server was down, so I figured it would best to wait until Monday to do the actual install.<\/p>\n

On Monday the install went fine, gvinum started without any problems, and the machine booted up with no unusual errors. There were a few tense moments during the actual reboots, but a lot of relief afterwards. I was surprised to find my PHP problems, and a long standing issue with mutt, had gone away before I’d even started the rebuilds.<\/p>\n

The rest of Monday, and half of Tuesday was spent rebuilding all the packages on the system. By the end of Tuesday I was ready to start setting up the blog.<\/p>\n

So, I make that the best part of 5 days to set up a blog. Surely that’s got to be a record?<\/p>\n

Now to think about which theme to use…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point towards the end of last week I had the idea of writing a blog. I spent a while looking around for a decent online blogging tool, and, as I suspect most people do, I landed on blogger.com. It looked fairly swish, and had plenty of useful features. Except one. Where is the support for categories? So, moving …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t