Grrr… I’m about to surrender
Posted on January 25, 2006
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Ok, I’m –> <-- this close to giving up, throwing in the towel and moving off my IIS server to a Linux server. Hosting Wordpress on IIS is indeed very possible — and ultimately, quite limiting. I’m tired of wrestling with stuff that “just works” for the other 98% of users. I’ve literally blown 5 or 6 hours the past few days researching work-arounds for a few little side projects that I wanted to try.
*sigh* I hate deciding that past decisions I made were just plain wrong. It seemed like a good idea at the time though!
If only I had a spare box to build up. I’m rather constrained unless I decide I want to host on a Pentium 233. 
Yikes. Worst case, Maybe I’ll just go offline for a few hours some saturday morning and use the same server. That might be easiest in the long run and it is the best candidate (that I currently have) for the job. Hmmm… Trick is, I know I can install it and get it going in a couple hours.
What linux distribution would I use? Probably CentOS, to be honest. From past experience I think it makes a great server. I heard a wee bit about an Ubuntu Server project, but I dunno. While I like ubuntu for the desktop, I don’t know enough about the server variant to know if there’s anything compelling there. Suppose some reading is in order.
Tags: Centos, linux, Ubuntu, Windows, WordPress
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What the devil are you talking about? Everything works just great for me. I didn’t know you had other readers lol.
KIDDING!
Seriously though, is there something I’m missing by mostly being converted to being a feed reader? Some bug I’m missing that I could be taunting you for? *grin*
just don’t lose your blog entries… I’ve got posts that point to them and then I’ll have dead links and monika will come after me! EEP!
Well, yeah… see there’s part of it. Because I’m on IIS and haven’t paid for options that are equivalent to mod_rewrite in the apach world (and couldn’t puzzle out the free options)… I have to have index.php in my urls.
That drives me bonkers.
And when I migrate, will likely change and break bookmarks. Now, if I’m smart enough and have someone really bright work with me (hi Peter) I bet I can work up redirects so as not to break those links…
so where I type simplerich.com/blog you have to include the index.php after it? How tragic! That’s teh suck!