Obviously, no one needs the heavy iron of an IBM i just to run a web server with Wordpress installed. One could do it on a much cheaper server.
However, if I'm using PHP on the IBM i anyway, I could distribute the cost of licensing support for the Zend server by running open source applications as well. A department that doesn't care what I can do with PHP on the IBM i might help pay support fees for the IBM i Zend server so they can have a content management system (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla), a wiki (MediaWiki), a bulletin board (phpBB3), a survey package (LimeSurvey), a time tracking package (Kimai Time Tracking), or some other PHP-based package.
Thanks,
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maurice O'Prey
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 4:01 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP
Kelly
I have nothing against Wordpress. I should have clarified my point by saying
'Why run it on an i' or at least predict the Board of Directors reaction to
the proposition?
Since Aaron has 'extinguished me' from further communication, and is not
listening, I would point out that the comment was mainly aimed at him and
his attempts! (thankfully he will not reply)
I agree with your point that Wordpress can have commercial benefits.
Regards
Maurice O'Prey (if I have not been filtered that is)
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kelly Cookson
Sent: 09 December 2010 19:58
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work
without FTP
We may soon get some commercial value out of WordPress.
Our company has a nice newsletter that gets mailed to several thousand
employees each month. The newsletter is professionally printed on glossy
paper with color graphics. We are looking at installing WordPress to
distribute the newsletter as an online publication. WordPress can be used to
make professional-looking online publications.
Although we might still mail printed copies to employees who prefer to
receive it that way, it would save us money (publishing and mailing costs)
to get as many employees as possible to read the newsletter online via
WordPress.
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Maurice O'Prey
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:17 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work
without FTP
I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative ease
And the commercial benefits are?
Hi all,
I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative ease
and now I want to install additional plugins. The issue is that if the user
profile used by the currently running script doesn't have access to the
folder where the plugin is going to be installed, then it will prompt you
for FTP login information.
Here is an article that talks about the issue:
http://hecode.com/why-wordpress-asks-for-connection-info-when-i-try-to-insta
ll-new-plugin/
In the article then recommend creating a simple php script with the
following:
echo exec('whoami');
I did that, and it is executing successfully (no ZendServer error logs or
warnings) but it returns blanks, so that doesn't help. I have even gone as
far as giving *PUBLIC all authority to the entire directory structure with
the following command (running V6R1):
CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(*PUBLIC) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
SUBTREE(*ALL)
Still no go.
Anybody else resolve this?
Aaron Bartell
midrange.com
