How to host

  • Resolved Trunkles

    (@trunkles)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    Hallo folks.

    I run a very small host for friends and non-profit organisations. I’d like to provide users with wordpress that they install themselves but ot by copyng stuff around and editing files. I’d much prefer a single web page with a form that they complete and, on submission, the files get copied into the correct folder and wp-config gets modified for them.

    Does anyone have a tool that will do this, or a sample page and back-end code or whatever other method is used to do this.

    Thanks.

    Simon.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    WP doesn’t use files or folders to store content. It’s all stored in the database.

    Thread Starter Trunkles

    (@trunkles)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Ah, I’ve mis-explained what I want to do.
    On the server there’s a folder called, say, /package/wordpress-install and in there are the files and folders needed to install wordpress. If a user wants to install wordpress they access a page a complete a form withe the title, user name and password ont. When they submit the form, the files get copied from /package/install to <UserHomePage/wordpress. the wp-config.php file gets modified to reflect the contents of the form and to add the unique database prefix and wordpress is then installed.

    I think that explains it better, but I can’t be sure!

    Simon.

    transom

    (@transom)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Why not setup WordPress MultiSite – every one shares the same copy of WordPress but can have their own theme and content. With domain mapping they can also have their own domains once your server knows how to map the domain to the IP address.

    Thread Starter Trunkles

    (@trunkles)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Aha! that sounds like just the job.

    Thank you transom!

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