Testing a photo blogging workflow
Testing a photo blogging workflow
Doug Lane has a fun idea for an informal photo challenge on Micro.blog. I love the idea of something that makes me post more photos on the blog/Micro.blog, so I’m definitely in.
I’ll tag my photos as snapshots and maybe even some special challenge tag, but I’ll get back to you on that.
Here’s the themes for the photos:
- Day 1 (Sat): “Squares”
- Day 2 (Sun): “Tasty”
- Day 3 (Mon): “On the Move”
- Day 4 (Tue): “Up Close”
- Day 5 (Wed): “Liquid”
- Day 6 (Thu): “Seasonal”
- Day 7 (Fri): “Shadow”
Turns out the problem I was having with everything except the front page was due to permalink rewrites not working. It seems three things were incorrectly setup.
First, the WordPress folder wasn’t writable by the www-user.
Secondly, this needed to be done:
You have to edit the Apache conf file (in Ubuntu 14.04: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf) and change the AllowOverride setting from None to FileInfo
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
Require all granted
</Directory>You may need to enable the Rewrite module:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
It appears things only semi-work on the new server. All the backend stuff works and the front page works but no other page or feed does. Strange.
Yep, the site is moved to the VPS now and it is indeed faster now than before.
Holy smokes, it seems like it worked!
(This boring picture is mostly for testing purposes.)
DNS records are now changed. Waiting for propagation and trying not to bite my nails.
Also, I need to change my gravatar.
I’ve been putting off moving my main site from a shared host to a VPS for what feels like an eternity. I know I got to do it because it’ll make the site a lot faster and thereby making blogging more enjoyable.
Maybe tonight’s the night when I start the process?