Just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1, which was way too easy:
# in my blog.w-nz.com htdocs folder
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzpf latest.tar.gz
cp wordpress/* . -R
Visit the upgrade script, which consisted out of one simple click and I was done.
Great stuff.
PS. I reuploaded my logo and google analytics code too, but they don’t count, really (even though they consisted out of more work that the rest of the upgrade).
I’ve successfully installed vpopmail, qmail and courier today, after some hours of work on this server.
From now on you can send e-mail again to @w-nz.com adresses, which won’t end up in /dev/null. (like bas.westerbaan@~)
To the users of the server: if you want an email-address, mail me.
While testing my smtp server whether it would receive incoming email properly I was harshly confirmed by it being spam instead of my test mail entering my mailbox first:
It’s pretty funny to see spam junk in an ancient text-mode mailing program.
If anyone experiences problems with any application not mailing you any verification as it should, please email me. It could very possibly be that the qmail-send isn’t configured properly to allow unauthorized local mails.
Update: More good news, the amount of RAM on my virtual server has increased to 120MB! Which means that my server won’t be swapping instead of working all the time anymore.
After a long afternoon I’ve got lighttpd to work with my current apache based layout.
This means I can choose whether to run apache or lighttpd.
Lighttpd is a webserver, like apache. The key advantage of lighttpd over apache is that lighttpd is very light on your server. It uses a lot less memory, which is very nice espacially when considering that my server only has got ~90mB of memory.
The drawback of lighttpd is that it is light and doesn’t support as much as apache does.
It doesn’t do .htaccess files. Everything needs to be configured in the lighttpd.conf, which doesn’t support everything, or at least not in the same way as apache does.
However, lighttpd is pretty easy to configure when you get the hang of it.
One particulair pain in the ass is getting old mod_rewrite using .htaccess to work, for instance the one used by wordpress of this blog.
I’ve added this in my lighttpd.conf:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "blog.w-nz.com" {
url.rewrite = ( "^/(page|archives|comments|search|feed)/" => "/index.php?error=404" )
}
One interesting thing to note is that the configuration file is nothing more than a script being executed for each request.
I’ve just upgraded my blog to the new wordpress 2.0, which seems to work properly.
Espacially the back-end has got a face lift, which looks and feels really nice.
Update: redid the logo and changed the theme to show the author
And offcourse: Happy newyear!
Recently a lot of people seem to be switching from Apache to Lighttpd, which is a webserver that is said to be a lot faster, but even better it is said to have a constant low memory footprint.
I`m currently compiling lighttpd on my vserver (on which this blog runs), and I`ll switch to lighttpd – which should be as easy as setting some configurations for lighttpd to fit in with the current /var/www model I`m using and simply switching off Apache and switching on lighttpd.
I hope there won’t be a lot downtime.
Update Lighttpd and fastcgi don’t seem to really go together on my server configuration, so no lighttpd for a while :(.
When you read this, this page has been served from my virtual server.
This also means that luckily the whole web content transfer has been a success :-D.
Sadly things haven’t gone as smoothly with the qmail configuration for my mail accounts.
So please mail me to bas.westerbaan@gmail.com instead of my @w-nz.com acccount.
Even though the minor setback with the mail (which is giving me headaches), it has been rather fun to do. And I learned a lot. (like that putting a restriction on the amount of memory that php uses isn’t just to annoy the customer but just to safe the server from some terribly php scripts)
When everything is working fine I`ll post some more on setting up your own server.
I desperately need some sleep.
Update: seems that there are quite some bugs in the transfer after all: ftp which only recursed a certain amount of times; .htaccess files not being transfered; permissions changing; php sucking too much memory (again); not enough sleep 😛
But seems to be working right now
Due to server upgrades taking a bit more time than expected there was a little bit too much downtime.. sorry about that.
The blog has been updated to 1.5.
It adds a lot of nice new features and I would like to advice other users to upgrade now.
The new skin is the new default skin that comes with WP1.5.
When I find time I’ll adapt it a bit to make it a bit less default.
Edit Just noticed that the wordpress ACP looks horribly scrambled in Firefox, looks all right in internet explorer though :(.
I will soon own a quite cheap virtual server (by greenT, great company) which will give me way more flexibility than the current shared server account on which w-nz.com is located.
I’ll transfer my current site to the new virtual server from the current shared server account (w-nz.com; xr12.com; intrepidsoft.net).
In the worst case this could result in domain problems, transfer problems and lack of time to get it done and therefore a lot of downtime.
So when w-nz.com is down please be patient and if you want to email me use bas.westerbaan@gmail.com instead of my @w-nz.com email addresses.