OS2World OLD-STATIC-BACKUP Forum

OS/2 - Technical => Web applications => Topic started by: sdennis on 2009.02.24, 01:31:45

Title: Wordpress under OS/2
Post by: sdennis on 2009.02.24, 01:31:45
Hi, everyone-

I don't know if anyone else has done this, but I've successfully gotten Wordpress 2.7.1 running under OS/2 Warp 4.52 with the help of Paul Smedley's ports of MySQL and PHP!  My blog is not really public yet (I'm combining my static pages with my blog), but you can see it at http://nsbbs.info/blog/.  My wife has a beginnings of a blog at http://midnightmoonlight.com.  Both are hosted on the same machine and the same webserver (Web/2).

If anyone is interested, I could write a simple FAQ on how to get Wordpress up and running.

Later,
Sean
Title: Re: Wordpress under OS/2
Post by: kim on 2009.02.24, 19:49:33
Please do, I know that there are several users interested of running WordPress and as well Drupal. Also, you're welcome to make use if the Wiki section (http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/How_To).
Title: Re: Wordpress under OS/2
Post by: ivan on 2009.05.19, 22:07:27
Did Sean ever do so as I have been asked to set up Wordpress for a friend who is using OS/2
Title: Re: Wordpress under OS/2
Post by: sdennis on 2009.05.20, 05:58:35
Quote from: ivan on 2009.05.19, 22:07:27
Did Sean ever do so as I have been asked to set up Wordpress for a friend who is using OS/2

I actually removed WordPress from my webserver as the poor machine was having performance problems.

However, it's quite easy to install:

1) Grab the latest PHP and MySQL port from Paul Smedley's site (http://os2ports.smedley.info).
2) Install both of them as per the directions (it's a standard install for both; very similar to Windows which I've installed both on before).
3) You'll need to modify PHP.INI accordingly (put it in x:\MPTN\ETC).  If you'd like the one I'm using, which is based on Paul's own PHP.INI, just email me at sean {at} nsbbs {dot} info and I'll send it.
4) I forget which DLL you have to install to get WordPress running, but it's part of the PHP package.
5) Download and install WordPress (wordpress.org has great documentation).
6) Et voila! instant blog. <G>

Mind you, I'm rusty on the details as to what I did, but it was not difficult!  I just had to dig a little and get some help from Paul.  I'll be happy to help as much as I can.  Maybe this would be an excuse for me to set up WordPress again...and move my webserver from a Celeron/400 to this spare 1.6gHz machine I have that has OS/2 already installed on it...

Later,
Sean
Title: Re: Wordpress under OS/2
Post by: Fahrvenugen on 2009.05.21, 07:18:50
I've found that most PHP based web apps run quite well on Warp.  I've got an OS/2 based development web server that is running a variety of things, including: 

-Wordpress
-Bblog
-Joomla
-Drupal
-Limesurvey
-PhpMyAdmin
-Coppermine Photo Gallery
-Typo
-Xoops

I've got a couple of other things that I've installed on it over the years.  Generally it does quite well.

For the web server, I've used both Paul Smedley's port of Apache and Dink's Web/2.  For performance, I've found that Web/2 ( http://dink.org/web2/ ) seems to do a little better (and uses less memory, Apache seems to like to use a large amount of memory compared to Web/2), but for compatibility I've had better luck with Apache  (especially with Drupal, I had issues getting it to work with Web/2, but Apache it was quite happy)

For PHP, its Paul's builds (CGI on Web/2, the Apache module for Apache), same with MySQL