So, as I said this blog thing was a bit of an experiment. I’ve had the revolution34.com domain for a few years now, and haven’t really used it for much. I knew I wanted to do something bloggish, but my free webspace from ntl doesn’t have PHP or MySQL, which are pretty basic requirements, apparently. Being something of a Macintosh cheerleader, I also quite fancied testing first-hand exactly how idiot-proof Mac OS X has made this kind of thing.
So, basically I installed PHP and MySQL (using the information at Marc Liyanage’s excellent pages ), and then downloaded WordPress 1.5 after it was recommended on Mac OS X Hints. The extensive community was a big incentive too, as it gave me a lot of resources to draw on.
WordPress’s 5-minute install did exactly what it said on the tin, and I was up and running locally on my PowerBook in no time
One visit to DynDNS.org later and I’d got the URL and my IP all nicely bound up. Then all it took was some fiddling with the ports on my firewall and, rather scarily, my laptop’s a webserver. I still have some work to do with the look and feel, and need to get some content up, but on the whole it’s been an interesting, and fairly successful experience so far.
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