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Continue ReadingWordPress Under Rails
There have been occasional discussions about integrating a WordPress CMS into a Rails application. One approach is to simply do a WordPress install under RAILS_ROOT/public/blog. That’s pretty straightforward: cd RAILS_ROOT/public mkdir blog cd blog svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.8.4 . Then do the usual WordPress setup ritual. If you’re running Phusion Passenger, you need to tell Passenger to ignore the WordPress stuff: I did this setup last night, and now my Rails app has a built-in, full-featured blog. The down side to this approach is that you now have yukky PHP code “polluting” your Rails directory structure, and it also implies that you have a lot of control over your Apache server.… Read More
Continue ReadingA Word About WordPress
Last week there was a fair amount of buzz about WordPress security issues. Here’s an Information Week article and also a short blurb from IT World in case you’re not a WordPress user. And, here’s a rant about lazy admins from a long-time user of WordPress. Two things jump out at me here: 1) WordPress is being described as a “self-hosted” application, and 2) upgrading WordPress is surprisingly clumsy, given the assumption in 1). That’s not entirely fair – there is an “automatic” upgade path, but it presupposes that you have the necessary access permissions to whatever server is running WordPress, which may not be true if you are running… Read More
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