One more crock of shit
Posted on June 20th, 2004 at 6:27 pm by pveraI decided it was time to introduce the concept of the web log to my office, so used iBlog to set up a small blog to announce big system changes, outages, etc.
Pretty much everybody liked it, then one of the guys asked me the one damn question I was not prepared to answer: can I post?
Nope.
As far as I can tell, no, iBlog does not support multiple authors.
OK, no biggie. I’ll just go and download MT or something else. MT now costs money. So then I realized there is a popular blogging app for ASP.net called .Text. Funny thing is their site sucks so much that it took me about half an hour to find the actual project pages and the downloads link.
Two hours later, still no blog.
This is very humiliating to me, a guy that has been around IIS and SQL Server since forever. Still, this nerd here could not get the damn blog installed in less than two hours. And then I found out it did not support multiple users. God dammit.
So I went back and searched for posts from the week that MT pissed off everybody in the world that uses their products. I had seen a list of products that are free and compete against MT. And that’s where I found WordPress.
Five minutes later, I had the blog up and running.
30 minutes later, I had convinced a friend to get one too, and had his running.
Less than an hour later I already had this one running. Son of a bitch!
Now, let me show you what it takes to get WordPress running:
- Download the source code
- Unzip the tarball
- Modify your DNS if this is a new domain
- Modify your http.conf if this is a new domain
- Create the MySQL database
- Use the sample configuration file to make the site configuration and modify it to reflect the proper MySQL login settings (3 lines)
- Load the site in a browser and read
You are done!
That’s about it. I got it nailed down to less than 10 minutes with only 3 installs.
