[plug] plug Digest, Vol 97, Issue 15
Paul Del - Simplifying Information Technology
p at delfante.it
Sun Jun 24 10:00:07 WST 2012
Hey Alex
Yes WordPress is good and so is Drupal and Joomla.
Myself I prefer WordPress for small and basic websites.
A lot of PLUG members have used or do use WordPress Drupal Joomla.
I don't know of any plugin which locks users down to specific pages.
(We usually do that from MySQL)
I'll look into it as it would be handy.
Ciao Paul
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:15:43 +0800
> From: Alex Hartner <alex at j2anywhere.com>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Wordpress Alternatives
> Message-ID: <4FE3FF7F.3000706 at j2anywhere.com>
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> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all these great suggestions. I ended up going with wordpress
> (at least for now). My next obstacle is to find a plug-in which allows
> update-only access to certain pages. I am deploying wordpress in a
> multi-user environment. However each user / usergroup should only be
> able to update a defined set of pages.
>
> There seem to be lots of plug-ins which do this. So far they all seem
> rather complicated to configure. Any recommendation on a plug-in which
> allows me to control page (not post) access on a user / role basis.
>
> Thanks
> Alex
>
> On 20/06/12 12:00, Tim wrote:
> > On 20 June 2012 10:30, Alexander Hartner<alex at j2anywhere.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I was about to start a new website project using wordpress but ran into
> a problem. It appears that wordpress is masked on Gentoo due to security
> concerns.
> >>
> >> http://dltj.org/article/gentoo-abandons-wordpress-in-portage/
> > Given that article is 2007, I would be ignoring it to some effect. As
> > Chris said, all platforms can suffer vulnerabilities.
> > Also, given that it's a webapp, I wouldn't be worrying about using
> > portage to install/uninstall it, just install it from wordpress.org
> > using the instructions there.
> >
> > I run a number of wordpress installs for companies, the key is keeping
> > things updated, and I have a great script that keeps all installs
> > updated easily. (Ask if you want it, it'll need some tweaking for
> > individual setups).
> >
> > For webapps, a distro not carrying it is fine IMHO, they are things
> > that should be easy to install and update outside of the distro
> > package manager. Generally the package manager is only good for a
> > single install of the software anyway, not allowing you multiple blogs
> > for example. While it would be nice for apt-get/portage/yum to keep my
> > wordpress installs upto date, I put the security of them in a
> > different boat, as the time taken for a security fix to get from
> > upstream, into my distro can take way too long given how exposed it
> > can be.
> >
> > I suggest if you have used wordpress before, and you are comfortable
> > with it, then use it. IMHO, it's one of the easiest to keep up to date
> > as well, I find drupal a pain to update.
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:56:22 +0800
> From: Alexander Hartner <alex at j2anywhere.com>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] DNS Server configuration
> Message-ID: <83EDB577-3438-49C0-816F-AC211E1FA4A7 at j2anywhere.com>
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> Hi all,
>
> I configured my primary DNS server to host a particular record:
>
> /etc/bind/named.conf
> ....
> zone "mydomain.com" IN {
> type master;
> file "mydomain.com";
> allow-update { none; };
> };
> ...
>
> /var/bind/mydomain.com
> $TTL 4h
> @ IN SOA mydomain.com. alex. mydomain.com. (
> 201206213; serial, todays date + todays serial #
> 8H ; refresh, seconds
> 2H ; retry, seconds
> 4W ; expire, seconds
> 1D ) ; minimum, seconds
> ;
> NS [my external ip]. ; Inet Address of name server
> NS [secondary dns server]. ; Inet Address of name server
> MX 10 mailhost ; Primary Mail Exchanger
> ;
> A 10.10.10.10
> www IN A 10.10.10.10
> ...
>
> dig @[my external ip] mydomain.com
> ...
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mydomain.com. IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mydomain.com. 14400 IN A 10.10.10.10
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> mydomain.com. 14400 IN NS [my external ip].
> mydomain.com. 14400 IN NS [secondary dns server].
>
> ;; Query time: 60 msec
> ;; SERVER: 203.59.39.207#53(203.59.39.207)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Jun 21 14:46:33 2012
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
>
> However the secondary server is not picking up the domain. Is there
> anything I missed. I had this working for quite a few years, but it stopped
> some time ago. Not really sure when though.
>
> I tried adding various configuration changes to set the transfer and
> notify by adding:
>
> allow-update { none; };
> allow-transfer { [secondary dns server]; };
> notify yes;
> also-notify { [secondary dns server]; };
>
> but none of this has resolved my problem.
>
> This used to work, but for some reason no longer does. I suspect it is a
> problem on my dns registrars side, but it could also be an update to bind.
>
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