I unfortnately have no experience with this but evidently it can be done as these articles and plugins address some of the issues: HOWTO: Install WordPress On Nginx WordPress + nginx Compatibility Plugin Howto nginx + wordpress + ubuntu shortest setup Nginx front-end proxy cache for WordPress WordPress Pretty Permalinks with Nginx WordPress, Nginx and … Read more
Its not recommended often enough, but Flickr is an excellent image host for blogs as well. Their pro account costs only $25/year. You get unlimited image, video uploads and no bandwidth limit. If you don’t want your blog image uploads populating your personal photostream, you can easily create a separate account for it. You can … Read more
Saw that you and a few others had their doubts about Media Temple. First off, if you have any questions feel free to ask. We have a good amount of customers with different experiences, be it bad or good. The shared service gets a lot more grief than our VPS, which many of our customers … Read more
Any difference between dev and prod is bad. Here is what I do: Have a different ip for dev server (Whether internal, external, or on local computer is unimportant) — but dev server must be the exact same setup (see bottom paragraph) Change the hosts file (see here) (on yours or a testing computer or … Read more
My suggestion is: use the same standard .htaccess configuration for WordPress on a single domain in each WordPress directory. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> Along with it, add a small CODE to make sure users are redirected to the … Read more
Yes, it is possible. You can setup subdomains sites like this: subdomain1.domain.com, subdomains2.domain.com. Then, after you setup the network, use a domain mapping plugin to setup a domain name for each of them. subdomain1.domain.com becomes domain1.com, subdomain2.domain.com becomes domain2.com, etc. There are several domain mapping plugins out there: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/domain-mapping (the one I would recommend, but … Read more
While this might be not the easiest task for a beginner, it is very well possible – with a little help from some plugins. In a similar scenario I would usually install WordPress under a subdomain. When everything is looking ok to launch, I would recommend to first (always!) make a backup of everything. You can … Read more
I’m probably overcomplicating things. Right now, you are. As I have no traffic as of now I don’t really need to do this, but …. I don’t know what to choose as I don’t understand what these services really do, other than it’s supposed to be “better” to host externally… Then why bother with a … Read more
Please read through the following: http://codex.wordpress.org/License http://wordpress.org/about/license/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html You can’t can sell it as software or development, although and/or you can also charge for maintanance and install. Anyway, you should at least donate to the plugin developers, if you make money with their work somehow. EDIT I’m am sorry for my previous lines: I … Read more
There’s a pretty good step by step on moving WordPress in the Codex. It is what I follow when changing domains. Moving the files is pretty straight-forward. It is the hard-coded references in the database that are tricky. However, serialized search and replace will take care of all database changes. I’ve used the Velvet Blues … Read more