Comments on: Setting up a WordPress blog on PlusNet

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:44:00 +0000

Thanks again Nic.
Actually, I searched the forums and support on wordpress for ages. Then I noticed that one user had just re-uploaded the quicktags.js file from the installation onto the CGI server. It worked, but I’v no idea why!!!

By: Nic Price

Nic Price — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:47:09 +0000

Hi Howard, I’m using Firefox (which I can recommend for all sorts of reasons) as my browser and quicktags are working fine.

I haven’t tried it in IE or Opera. There may be something helpful in the WordPress support forum. If I find anything I’ll let you know.

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:21:26 +0000

I forgot to ask you..
Did you manage to get quicktags to work? I’ve tried my blog in both IE and Opera - but they don’t load on either. I have to manually type-in the html refs. Damned annoying!

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:20:11 +0000

Thanks Nic. It looks like I have to go on a bit of a learning curve here! But thanks for the pointers.

By: Nic Price

Nic Price — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:40:44 +0000

Howard, thanks for the positive feedback, I’m glad this was useful.

As for backing up…

As virtually all content is contained in the MySQL database I back that up more often than my files.

There’s a really clear guide for backing up your database in the WordPress Codex site here.

Then, depending on how much bespoking you’re doing to the core files there’s not much to back up.

If you’ve created your own theme it’s worth making copies of any changed files (CSS stylesheet in particular in my case).

I then password protect a zipped up version of the SQL and files, keeping a copy on a USB key-ring drive and occasionally emailing myself a copy too. It all packs up pretty small.

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:15:51 +0000

Hi. This was very useful in setting up my wordpress in my PN CGI space. Thanks!
I just wondered if you have managed to work out the best/easiest way to back up everything on the CGI server. I have previously had awful problems with a messageboard which was regularly deleted by a hacker. (the same hacker damaged hundreds of users PN CGI applications). I just need a quick backup I can do. It doesn’t even need to be automatic. Appreciate any help.

By: Nic Price

Nic Price — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:13:59 +0000

Alistair, apologies for not replying sooner

If you’re still looking for an answer (I can’t think of one immediately) I’d recommend posting in the excellent WordPress support forum. It’s a great community forum where people are very helpful.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:07:42 +0000

Hi I have just installed wordpress on plusnet. I have run into an access problem, apparently I have to reset the admin permissions. I can see the files and folders through my FTP but as a newbee I do not know where to start to reset the permissions. You sound as though you know what you are doing, any ideas?
Thanks
Alistair

By: Nic

Nic — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:08:31 +0000

Chris,

I’m glad you found the article helpful and thanks for feeding back, very useful points.

I’ll edit a link in to the article pointing to your comment to help anyone else thinking of setting up a blog.

Happy blogging!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:29:55 +0000

Thanks very much for this information. I just wanted you to know that it did help me. I would only add two things. When you activate MySQL you are given a single word as a hostname, and that single word is what you should put as the DB_NAME in wp-config.php. The second thing is that the blog files should be uploaded into the top-level directory of the cgi..plus.com web-site, and not the cgi-bin directory of that site, nor the htdocs directory of the http://www.<yourname>.plus.com site. I tried both of those first, and only got it right after a bit of experimentation. I’m still getting my content sorted out, which is why I haven’t given a URI, but the blog is definitely there. It was reading your article that gave me the confidence to carry on trying new things. Thank you.

Chris.