A weekend spent learning how to get a blog working on my server. As you might notice from past posts, I had switched from a hand made blog using Freeway Express to one made using iWeb. It was very enjoyable and simple to set things up with iWeb but I ran into some limitations. I’m not using .mac to host my iWeb site, so I had to upload the entire site anytime I changed anything. There was also some post processing I would have to do to the iWeb site to make it totally ready to post.
So I started looking into other solutions. First I created a blog on blogger and thought that would be cool, but blogger 2.0 doesn’t work with Journler (at least not yet), and I still wanted to explore posting my blog and running my own server on a computer sitting here otherwise doing nothing. Then my journey began in learning wordpress, php, and mysql. The server part, getting php and mysql to work was the trickiest. While there are some somewhat clear instructions on setting up such things on a mac client, I still had to do allot of trial and error changing of files, installing, un-installing, re-installing things. Finally in the end I got it all to work out (I think).
So I’m back to using Freeway Express to make web pages, and I’ve updated my audiojack@earthlink site and added a new site address for the new blog. So now there is the following:
www.audiojack.selfip.net – the main portal to my “web presence”, which will automatically redirect you to my earthlink hosted site
www.squidaudio.selfip.net – the new blog, if you have the old RSS address in your reader, replace it with the one you can find here
You can even make comments on my blog now to posts! (I’ll have to test that out….) The blog still needs alot of work but that will all come in due time.
In the time this weekend I wasn’t geeking out on the interveb stuff I was working on the filemaker pro touring databases, which are getting every so closer to being finished.
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