[Chester LUG] An idea

[Steve Lilley]

would love too just v.busy at the moment, miss the lugs and will be back as
soon as I can.

On 8 December 2014 at 11:37, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am using the digital ocean setup. Just easiest way to do it. You'll have
> to demo it Steve ;)
>
> On 8 December 2014 at 11:32, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>
>> “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:
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> PS the $5 instance will only support a few sites (512MB).. I have to
>> upgrade after a while
>>
>> On 8 December 2014 at 11:18, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Steve is the best person to speak about this as he works a lot
>>> with Wordpress.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 December 2014 at 11:07, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ok loldogs or whatever is this year.
>>>>
>>>> Anyhow, I need some assistance and I think you may know a bit of stuff
>>>> ;)
>>>>
>>>> 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 ?
>>>>
>>>> On 8 December 2014 at 11:03, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Lolcats? What year is it again? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8 December 2014 10:58:21 GMT+00:00, Stuart Burns <
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8 December 2014 at 10:41, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That would be cool. You’re lagging a bit though mate - I suggested a
>>>>>>> crypto-party four weeks ago ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > On 8 Dec 2014, at 10:38, Stuart Burns <
>>>>>>> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > 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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