Wordpress and Linux geekery needed
Mar. 28th, 2009 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperOkay y'all, I need some clues from any of you folks out there who've set up your own Wordpress installs on your own Linux servers.
Here's the sitch: I want to be able to set up a Wordpress blog with ComicPress sitting on top of it for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat to use on our server. What I've been able to do so far is get the base Wordpress install running; this part I've done before and that's okay. We also have ComicPress installed.
However, the complication is this: Wordpress's docs say that anything Wordpress actually needs to write to should be group-writable by whatever user your web server runs under. Only, due to past really bad experience with unscrupulous asshats hacking our server, we really don't want to set any directories or files writable by said web server user.
Which makes things a bit more complicated for running ComicPress, since it seems to expect to be able to upload files every time you want to generate a new comic post. I had thought that if you manually copied a file up into the account space you could then tell ComicPress, "use this file that's already sitting right here, don't upload", only that doesn't seem like it works...? It's confusing, nonetheless.
So does anybody out there have experience with safely and securely configuring Wordpress so that it can do everything it needs to do and so that you don't have to worry about asshats hacking your server? If you do, sing out and let me pick your brains. Thanks in advance!
Here's the sitch: I want to be able to set up a Wordpress blog with ComicPress sitting on top of it for
spazzkat to use on our server. What I've been able to do so far is get the base Wordpress install running; this part I've done before and that's okay. We also have ComicPress installed.However, the complication is this: Wordpress's docs say that anything Wordpress actually needs to write to should be group-writable by whatever user your web server runs under. Only, due to past really bad experience with unscrupulous asshats hacking our server, we really don't want to set any directories or files writable by said web server user.
Which makes things a bit more complicated for running ComicPress, since it seems to expect to be able to upload files every time you want to generate a new comic post. I had thought that if you manually copied a file up into the account space you could then tell ComicPress, "use this file that's already sitting right here, don't upload", only that doesn't seem like it works...? It's confusing, nonetheless.
So does anybody out there have experience with safely and securely configuring Wordpress so that it can do everything it needs to do and so that you don't have to worry about asshats hacking your server? If you do, sing out and let me pick your brains. Thanks in advance!