My Technical Tidbits

I wanted to try out some things with the populair online website and blog creation tools. In my search I ended up trying these two tools:

1. WordPress
2. Drupal

If you visit their websites it all looks so incredible well: you want both…
Well that is not going to happen, so I start my incredible learning learning curve with this one: wordpress.

Multiple Sites

It all started with adding network capabilities to a fresh install. I used and sub-domain website and for some reason I didn’t get it working with a 4th sub-domain like:

http://<extra_sub>.sub-domain.domain.com

I was starting to dislike the Network function within WordPress that makes this “easy” … but after a complete reinstall and trying above with an appropriate website naming I ended up again with a website link to the admin pages that didn’t work.

In that stage I was considering to deinstall the WordPress software and move on to Drupal … but, than I read a blog that came up with DNS troubles … DNS is off course important if a new sub-domain is added. So I did a refresh on the hosting platform and it still didn’t work. Then I did this magic in my command prompt:

after that command I could reach my newly added website and the wp-admin : I was happy. I could create multiple websites!!

Themes and plugins hell

So I created a couple off dummy websites (including this my-tidbits part) to get familiar with the WP parts. Themes and plugins can only be installed through the main WP website. After that you “enable network” on the installed theme/plugin if you like to use it in the other (network) websites.

But be careful, it will not be easy every time … I tried to use an incredible plugin: Participants Database, but trying to use it in the network website I could not get it working. That is because the Network plugin does a copy of all the WP tables with a prefix:

wp_ is the default and the wp_2 and wp_3 are my network websites that I created. So the pluing uses alle the wp_ stuff and there is one wp_participants_database table added.

I copied that table with phpMyAdmin:

I tried to do insert into the groups table, that was not available. So these are the 3 tables that should be copied:

After these copy actions I could use the Participants Database in the network WP site.
I think I should give this as feedback to the creators of this plugin. That is the way we can help each other. So I left a message on the xnau website.

 

 

CoverOS

On my search to gain knowledge over tools that are used to make Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) easier, I surfed to a website of CoverOS through a link from an other website.

That´s how it goes many times, off course : They offered a solution for a complete open source stack for CI/CD.

There are plenty off tools that I want to be familiar with:

1. SVN/Git (versionering)
2. Jenkins (build tool..)
3. Nexus (artifact repository)
4. SonarQube (testing if it has the needed code quality)
5. Selenium (testsets)
6. Maven (automatic deployment to (a) certain enviroment(s) )

There are a couple of other tools that I heard off but never used, but want to know about because the endless posibilities that I might not even know off.

Download

Covering the easy part: downloading was easy. After filling out the form on their website, you get an email with a link on it, just in cases that the redirect to the download page doesn’t work. Saving it, will give you an OVA file that you can import with Oracle Virtualbox.