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Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 14 Aug 2011, 22:11
by force317
I just received my 1TB B3 and I intended to install Wordpress on it.
But it seems that this application might be a bit heavy on the B3 ?

So my question is : should I avoid installing applications like drupal, joomla or wordpress because they run too
slow on the B3 ? If that is the case, it would be a waste of time trying it !

What kind of applications should I try instead ? I found some information on the forum about other appliations, but some info concerned the older B2.

What CMS for instance would be a better choice for installation on the B3 ? CMS Made Simple ?

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 15 Aug 2011, 04:39
by DanielM
I'm running Wordpress on my B3. It isn't the fastest Wordpress in history, but it works well within the limits in my opinion. It's really easy to set up, so I suggest you just try it out for yourself.

/Daniel

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 15 Aug 2011, 05:48
by force317
Thanks for the advice. I will try it. Where did you get you info to install Wordpress 3 ?

It's the standard procedure for installing Wordpress 3 on debian or ubuntu ? Nothing special
to do to make it work on B3 ?

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 15 Aug 2011, 07:02
by DanielM
Well, all I did was an "apt-get install wordpress" :D

/Daniel

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 15 Aug 2011, 11:55
by pcrene
Me too, running Wordpress, not fast but useable.

Rene

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 16 Aug 2011, 06:23
by HnLn
Same here, running a drupal 7 for dev purposes and it runs but very slow as it maxes out my bubba cpu (http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3225).

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 17 Aug 2011, 14:00
by force317
Isn't Drupal or Joomla even heavier than Wordpress ?

There are some 'lightweight' systems around, but then, they have other disadvantages.

I considered applications like CMSMadesimple, PHP-Fusion, GetSimple, etc ... .

But I will try out Wordpress as a blog/cms system.

Will post here on how it went. Thanks for the reactions.

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 02:39
by RandomUsername
I found Joonla to be tolerable on the B2 but didn't do much with it.

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 13:05
by Ubi
In my experience Joomla is the behemoth of CMS systems and acts as a black hole for system resources. If Joomla runs on a B2, Wordpress will certainly run on a B2 or B3.

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 13:19
by force317
Found some info on the internet on installing Wordpress but under Ubuntu ... but all I managed to do is download latest.tar.gz, unpack it and move the wordpress folder to /var/www

I know this is for Ubuntu Server and not Debian Squeeze ... .

Since this B3 is based on Debian, apt-get doesn't seem to work, but apt either ... or better, I am not using it correctly !

Phpmyadmin is apparently not installed either. And apt-get install wordpress gives an error message : E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. And I rather prefer to have some control over the installation procedure.

Could someone post the complete procedure to install Wordpress on Debian Squeeze ?

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 13:25
by DanielM
force317 wrote:Found some info on the internet on installing Wordpress but under Ubuntu ... but all I managed to do is download latest.tar.gz, unpack it and move the wordpress folder to /var/www

Since this B3 is based on Debian, apt-get doesn't seem to work, but apt either ... or better, I am not using it correctly !

Phpmyadmin is apparently not installed.

Could someone post the complete procedure to install Wordpress on Debian Squeeze ?
I don't really follow what you are talking about here. Of course apt-get works on Debian, it's the primary tool used for installing stuff on Debian. I wrote the complete procedure needed to install wordpress in my last post in this thread. Just SSH into your B3, then su to become root and then "apt-get install wordpress" and press enter. No need to manually download or unpack anything at all.

/Daniel

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 13:33
by force317
When using apt-get install wordpress i get this error message : E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Will try the dpkg command, then install wordpress.

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 14:04
by DanielM
force317 wrote:When using apt-get install wordpress i get this error message : E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
Ok, then there is some problem with your installation. What happened when you ran "dpkg --configure -a"?

/Daniel

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 14:15
by Cheeseboy
Perhaps the package database is not up to date?

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# apt-get update

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# apt-get upgrade
I'm sure you have tried this already, but just wanted to make sure we eliminate the easiest fixes first...

Re: Wordpress too 'heavy' for B3 ?

Posted: 18 Aug 2011, 14:22
by force317
Just ran dpkg --configure -a , and after that apt-get wordpress worked, he installed an older version 3.0.5, not
in var/www, somewhere else.

Then I tried installing phpmyadmin, with apt-get install phpadmin, the downloading went ok, but during setup
I couldn't complete the installation, so he installed it without root + password. So I can't start up phpmyadmin in the browser to create the wordpress database, I can't login.

How do I completely remove phpmyadmin 'am used to synaptic for sort of thing, so that I can try to reinstall it ?