Playing with Wordpress on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I have been toying with the idea of installing some kind of CMS system such as WordPress. Of course, I know that there are other CMS out there and some might argue why WordPress when you could go for the likes of Drupal or others. My main motivation to go ahead with WordPress is that I will be able to jumpstart my adventure in exploring the development of a website using CMS systems and seeing it to fruition.

My own Dal site is not using WordPress but infact is based on Microsoft's Web Expression 4.0 which honestly speaking wasn't very hard to pick up. But unlike MS's Web Expression, the open source world is a different ball game. Knowledge and information are more disjoint and GUI's are rare to come by with if there are any whatsoever. However, I am convince that the way to go is to pick up one of these open source toolings rather than Microsoft way.

To make this posting short and sweet, I have managed to fully install WordPress on my Ubuntu machine. The journey wasn't exactly a bed of roses. If you are expecting anything technical out of this, I can tell you now that there is nothing much. It started out with natively installing WordPress, LAMP stack (php5 and Apache2), MySQL and phpMyAdmin separately - which I manage to, successfully. Unfortunately, due to this method - I wasn't able to figure out how to solve the problem with uploads to WordPress. You'll notice that theme uploads posed a real problem. I realized that this was caused by some security-like settings to how the install of apache2 directory and its ownership. In the midst of finding a solution, I stumbled upon Bitnami Wordpress stack - which I would say is my saviour. After fully purging and uninstalling all traces of the separately installed components earlier, I now have WordPress Bitnami Stack running natively on my machine. Now to press on with other important questions:

• How do I port my WordPress codes to my website?
• Which part of WordPress directories/ files should be transferred?
• Is this the right solution? Or should there be a better way this could be done?

TeX Installed

Did a TeX install on my system using the

 sudo apt-get install texlive-full  

But waited too long for it to finish with installation.

First Post

Welcome to this blog. It has been awhile since I've actually wrote something (or in this case, typed). I suppose without wasting much time let me begin with my first thoughts down. Ever since completing my research aptitude defense, I have been working on my what thesis proposal to come up with. But what's been bugging me for awhile is that I have been holding back major plumbing works for my systems - both in the lab and at home. As I have 3 machines disposable to me, I realized that it is a waste not using them to the fullest. Thus, as planned I've finally promoted one of my machines to be a full functioning Linux machine (and that is my laptop) where as the rest are still with Windows. I am pretty much happy with my Ubuntu setup - although I still learning lots of things as I go along (Never really used the Ubuntu guide, which when I checked it out was pretty ok for a beginner's guide)

Note to self: Learn about web development tools and deployment with your Ubuntu machine and figure out a way to make some cold hard cash with it.