Oct 07 2008
Configuring Wordpress
We are facing an interesting challenge with our new blogging site configuration. Our new jessupblogs.com website is going to function in two key roles:
- http://departmentblog.jessupblogs.com/
- http://faculty.jessupblogs.com/faculty_member_name/
After installing Wordpress into two different subdirectories, I’m at the point of tweaking Apache’s virtual hosts manually. We had a problem that tanked the Apache server for all of our public websites… bad, very bad. After troubleshooting, we found the culprit - an include statement with a non-existent target.
I was very excited to learn that Wordpress can share its two “users” database tables with a second Wordpress installation. This is the setup we are using for now, and it looks great.
I appreciate the efforts the University has been making towards intentional project management. Plus, I’ve had the opportunity to work with our web and graphics guy, Rob Ryan. What a great experience its been!
