Installation Advice

Hi everyone

I’ve talked briefly about this in another thread, but I thought I would post in more detail here.

After an aborted installation attempt, I’ve removed everything and hope to start again. Here is the situation:

I have a linux machine on my home network that runs an Apache web site and MySQL. I want to install and run WordPress on the same machine. I own several domain names, and use the DynDNS Custom DNS service to overcome the limitation of Comcast’s dynamic IP address.

My primary domain is MyLastName.net (only with my real name), and the IP address that Comcast assigns me is identified with this domain name, and propagated to Internet DNS servers by DynDNS. I almost never shut down, so the IP address does not change often.

I also own the domain name boomer-blog.com, and I want to run WordPress on the linux machine so that I can have my own blog(s), and other people (baby boomers?) can sign up and have blogs on my WordPress implementation as well.

I also own other domain names, and have a sub-directory on my web server for each. I use the DynDNS web redirection service so that the basic http://www.DomainName.com address can be redirected to a sub-directory as if the address was http://www.MyLastName.net/DomainName/ (this redirection is ‘cloaked’ from the user).

I was hoping to do this with the boomer-blog.com address as well, but I learned on another thread that WordPress does not work with this kind of web address redirection. It seems a pain for visitors to have to use an address like http://www.MyLastName.net/boomer-blog/ instead of http://www.boomer-blog.com/.

Sooo… my first question is it normal/possible to run WordPress at home and allow others to sign up and have their blogs on your site?

Second, is there any way around this redirection limitation? If not, what would some of you suggest my installation of WordPress should look like, and how do I get it that way?

Or am I too ambitious?

I’ll appreciate any comments, advice, or solutions!

Dave