[Chester LUG] An idea

Michael Crilly michael at mcrilly.me
Mon Dec 8 11:33:12 UTC 2014


“a few sites” - err, I should hope it only supports one! lol

> On 8 Dec 2014, at 11:31, Steve Lilley <steve.lilley at nohp.com> wrote:
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> Yes I use digital Ocean for Wordpress at the moment. I use rsync to keep files in sync and version controlled on PC, then rsync to push changes to live sites (leaving out just 2 files wp-config.php and .htaccess as these have instance specific data in).
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> Then I do a database dump/import and use the amazing searchreplace.php script to do a ‘smart’ find and replace for all the URL’s buried in the database. Smart because it solves the issue of serialised data where the length of the URL matters.
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> https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ <https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/>
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> Steve
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> PS the $5 instance will only support a few sites (512MB).. I have to upgrade after a while
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> On 8 December 2014 at 11:18, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com <mailto:les.pritchard at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I think Steve is the best person to speak about this as he works a lot with Wordpress.
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> There are a few plugins that claim to do something similar to what you want but I've never tested them. You can use the WordPress export and then import functions to copy content over, but it's not that straight forward sometimes.
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> What are you looking to test? You can do quite a lot with draft pages in WordPress if you're playing with new pages etc.
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> On 8 December 2014 at 11:07, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
> ok loldogs or whatever is this year. 
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> Anyhow, I need some assistance and I think you may know a bit of stuff ;)
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> I have a new wordpress setup and I want to be able to mess around on my local machine (ie dev) and then publish to the web. Any ideas ?
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> On 8 December 2014 at 11:03, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
> Lolcats? What year is it again? ;-) 
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> On 8 December 2014 10:58:21 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Well we need to do something ;) The NSA could be spying on us NOW. This very minute and realising that Mike is on lolcats 24/7
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> On 8 December 2014 at 10:41, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto:michael at mcrilly.me>> wrote:
> That would be cool. You’re lagging a bit though mate - I suggested a crypto-party four weeks ago ;-)
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> An encrypted mailing list is a bit of an oxymoron. It’s also difficult to work with. The only way it would work is if the mailing list server had a copy of everyone’s public keys and then auto-encrypted using said keys. That’s not very secure, for a compromised server means an easy MITM attack.
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> > On 8 Dec 2014, at 10:38, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > You know, we could have a key signing party one evening. Maybe we should also show the way and start using encrypted mailing lists ;)
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