OMNINOGGIN

Over the past few months, I’ve been meaning to create a staging WordPress blog that is an exact replica of my production OMNINOGGIN blog so I can test major feature changes before releasing them to my production site.  I have to admit that there are many other interesting things to spend time on (see also: Make Popularity Contest Work with WP-Super-Cache and NowThen Photo Display WordPress Plugin) so I have been lagging at getting this task done.  Fortunately the WordPress 2.5 released was enough to motivate me to get this done.  My goal in this post is to provide a step-by-step set of instructions (or checklist) for getting this task done.  I run Apache 2.2.8, MySQL 5.0.51a, and PHP 5.2.5 on a FreeBSD 7.0 machine that I have complete control over.  Keep in mind that these steps will vary depending on how your blog is configured.  It is a good checklist nonetheless so without further ado:

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I hope I can get some part-time consulting jobs to do this optimization for small businesses. All in all, it doesn’t seem too hard to do and I enjoyed doing it. If you run into a problem just google it for the answer. Anyway, here is the recap of the steps I took to set up my FreeBSD 6.2 Web Server.

1. Installing OS
2. Setting Up Apache, MySQL, and Other Services
3. Migrating Wordpress from WinXP to FreeBSD
4. Optimizing Apache
5. Optimizing MySQL
6. Optimizing PHP
7. Proxy Caching
8. Optimizing Wordpress with WP-Cache
9. Keeping Your FreeBSD Ports Up-to-Date Effortlessly
10. Setting Up Sendmail on FreeBSD 6.2

Similar to Apache, you do not want MySQL to start hogging all the memory in your system. To configure your MySQL settings, open your /etc/my.cnf file for editing. Under the [mysqld] section of the file modify the following variables: Read on…

I admit that I cheated, but since I’m newbie in FreeBSD, I am allowed to follow another very nice tutorial on deploying a server found on Open Addict. My job is not to recite the tutorial to you. Instead I will comment on the tutorial’s instructions and point out any roadblocks I ran into during my installation process. Read on…