Hello world!
Arrrgh! So many problems getting WordPress running on Debian etch. Well, to be fair, problems getting it to run with Apache 1.3, which I was still faithfully running. I started up Apache2 and had no problem at all.
It seems that the problem was with trying to access the MySQL 5.something database from php4. I didn’t have a php5 module for Apache2, though. Apache2 by default uses php5, which seems to have no problem talking to MySQL, and thus setting up WordPress.
I’m sure I could have found a solution all the way around, but there really wasn’t any reason to. I moved all of the work sites to my new MacBook Pro, so this server now only hosts personal sites. That’s as it should be anyway.
Now, to figure out the exact paradigm for the apache2 configuration files. It is a bit different and instead of having one monolithic configuration file, it seems you now break everything out. This is kinda cool and the organization freak in me really likes it.
Now I can get rid of Drupal. I really wasn’t at all happy with it once I got it up and running. But, I never spent a ton of time on it, either. I just went with it because that is what Tom installed at work to handle some stuff and I thought running my own install would give me some experience with it. But it tries to do too many things, I think. Therefore, it can get complex and you need to install a module to do just about anything. All I really wanted was blogs. I can build from there.
So, anyway, here’s the first post.