CentOS - Nov 2013 - Using CentOS Wordpress rpms

Greetings,

Apologies for my seeming daft naivete.

I'm wondering if there any sort of conventions for using Wordpress on 
CentOS?

Generally until now, I have had users install Wordpress from tarballs on a 
case-by-case basis. This means that you can have several different 
versions of WordPress operating on a site.

With the RPM you have a version that can be consistent across multiple 
websites on one server.

Is this done through the use of symlinks, or is there some other, 
additional magic that gets put to use.

I've done a little searching of the Google genie, but I'm only led to 
webpages outlining installing Wordpress from tarballs.


Much thanks,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:46:33 -0500 (EST)
Max Pyziur wrote:

 
> I'm wondering if there any sort of conventions for using Wordpress on 
> CentOS?
Is this what you're looking for?

Available Packages
Name        : wordpress
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 3.6.1
Release     : 1.el6
Size        : 3.4 M
Repo        : epel
Summary     : Blog tool and publishing platform
URL         : http://www.wordpress.org
License     : GPLv2
Description : Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it
            : very easy, almost trivial, to get information out to people on the
            : web.


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On 12/11/13 10:46, Max Pyziur wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Apologies for my seeming daft naivete.
>
> I'm wondering if there any sort of conventions for using Wordpress on
> CentOS?
>
> Generally until now, I have had users install Wordpress from tarballs on a
> case-by-case basis. This means that you can have several different
> versions of WordPress operating on a site.
>
> With the RPM you have a version that can be consistent across multiple
> websites on one server.
>
> Is this done through the use of symlinks, or is there some other,
> additional magic that gets put to use.
>
> I've done a little searching of the Google genie, but I'm only led
to
> webpages outlining installing Wordpress from tarballs.
>
>
> Much thanks,
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz at brama.com
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I always install from the latest tarball from the WP site, as it's the 
latest at the time of installation. With regards to WP updates and 
versions, this is generally performed with it's own built in 
updating/upgrading mechanism which is the first thing you should check 
or do after install and on an ongoing basis - IMHO anyway.

I've not tried the repo's or rpms, but i'm guessing if you install
from
them, the same process applies for updates with WP i.e. it's done from 
the WP web console and you would definitely want to check that after an 
install from those sources as they would be a bit behind.

Cheers
Keith