WordPress on UH server

Want to host your own website and don't want to use a commercial blog service? Try hosting WordPress on a UH department account.

WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. WordPress offers a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.

What you need if you want to host your own WordPress blog site at UH:

• ability to do basic PHP/MySQL scripting
  
• PHP/MySQL enabled website at UH
• Access to your web server (via shell or FTP)
• A text editor
• An WebDav Client (you need to install WordPress on the remote server)
• Your web browser of choice

My experience: Other than some WebDav configuration problems (using a Mac) and configuration and addressing errors at the site and with the MySQL database (which UH ITS corrected quickly), the process was OK. I would not say it was pleasant, since I don't know PHP. I do know enough programming in other languages to make sense of the PHP scripts. Since I know SQL at an intermediate level, I found that part easy. WordPress pretty much installs itself. You only need to know PHP and MySQL if you want to change the default setup and for some of the plugins. When I get the site on the production server, I will post the URL here.