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Upgrading Self-Installed Ghost on Linux Server (CentOS 6)

Context These are instructions for how to upgrade a self-installed ghost blog on a linux server (These instructions are used on CentOS 6). It assumes you have installed ghost yourself. This was used to upgrade ghost from 0.4 to 0.5. In this case the old ghost directory was located at /var/www/ghost. First Step Make a…

Different Methods of Backing up and Automating Backups of Ghost on Linux (CentOS 6)

You may backup ghost using the ghost UI, or using command line. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages. Ghost UI Command Line Easy to use Requires command line knowledge Doesn’t require stopping ghost requires stopping ghost Can’t automate (currently) Can be automated Doesn’t include images (currently) Includes images Let’s go through them: Ghost UI…

Creating a WordPress MultiSite Network on Linux (CentOS 6)

This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6) A WordPress MultiSite installation gives you the ability to make more than one WordPress site using one installation directory (though each site has its own upload media directory). You can allow anyone to make a WordPress site from your WordPress…

Setting Up Pretty Permalinks in WordPress WITHOUT htaccess on Linux (CentOS 6)

This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6) As shown here, when we setup pretty permalinks using .htaccess we end up having to do it manually. It is also mentioned by Apache that enabling .htaccess causes a performance hit, so why not just configure Apache properly to beging…

Setting Up Pretty Permalinks in WordPress Using htaccess and mod_rewrite on Linux (CentOS 6)

This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6) Getting pretty permalinks to work properly on WordPress has turned out to be a much more involving process than what I was expecting, which is a bit annoying. None the less we gotta do what we gotta do. Requirements WordPress…