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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

      @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

      @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

      @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

      Looking into things I found this link. Granted this is about packaging for RPM but still.
      https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Web_Applications

      Web Applications

      Web applications packaged in Fedora should put their content into /usr/share/%{name} and NOT into /var/www/. This is done because:

      • /var is supposed to contain variable data files and logs. /usr/share is much more appropriate for this.
      • Many users already have content in /var/www, and we do not want any Fedora package to step on top of that.
      • /var/www is no longer specified by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

      Hmmm... point two I understand. It's already in use. But it was always in /var specifically because it is variable data, that's where upload caches and stuff go.

      No idea about the hierarchy.

      Looks like I got the /opt thing from you. Your LEMP challenge used /opt/wordpress.
      https://mangolassi.it/topic/1082/the-wordpress-on-centos-lemp-challenge

      Now I know there was a subsequent discussion somewhere on ML about /opt, I just cannot find it.

      I have a feeling that it was or is the nginx default directory.

      No, you continually reference /opt as the directory to use for 3rd party applications.

      It I guess the better question is whether or not web apps like this are considered third party applications or something to put in webroot. A Google site search of this site and the term /opt returns many threads with directions from you installing things to /opt.

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      • BRRABillB
        BRRABill
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        He also has said that /var is the only place data should be stored.

        Hmmmmm.........

        Come on @scottalanmiller let's get it figured out! 🙂

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        • BRRABillB
          BRRABill
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          @JaredBusch

          Perhaps this is offtopic, but what is the swappiness setting you are supposed to use? Would that be applicable to this article, or is that a more "general CentOS setup" setting?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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            @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

            @JaredBusch

            Perhaps this is offtopic, but what is the swappiness setting you are supposed to use? Would that be applicable to this article, or is that a more "general CentOS setup" setting?

            Neither. It is not related to WordPress, web hosting or to CentOS directly. It's a memory setting that would be dependent on many factors, like the IOPS you have, the storage and memory that you have, how you want your disk used, how the disks are shared with other systems, how much disk capacity you have spare and so forth.

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

              @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

              @JaredBusch

              Perhaps this is offtopic, but what is the swappiness setting you are supposed to use? Would that be applicable to this article, or is that a more "general CentOS setup" setting?

              Neither. It is not related to WordPress, web hosting or to CentOS directly. It's a memory setting that would be dependent on many factors, like the IOPS you have, the storage and memory that you have, how you want your disk used, how the disks are shared with other systems, how much disk capacity you have spare and so forth.

              Isn't it one of the settings you normally always enable?

              Or am I thinking about something else?

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @BRRABill
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                @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                @JaredBusch

                Perhaps this is offtopic, but what is the swappiness setting you are supposed to use? Would that be applicable to this article, or is that a more "general CentOS setup" setting?

                Neither. It is not related to WordPress, web hosting or to CentOS directly. It's a memory setting that would be dependent on many factors, like the IOPS you have, the storage and memory that you have, how you want your disk used, how the disks are shared with other systems, how much disk capacity you have spare and so forth.

                Isn't it one of the settings you normally always enable?

                Or am I thinking about something else?

                generally he says he always sets it to 30 or something like that in other threads.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                  @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                  @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                  @JaredBusch

                  Perhaps this is offtopic, but what is the swappiness setting you are supposed to use? Would that be applicable to this article, or is that a more "general CentOS setup" setting?

                  Neither. It is not related to WordPress, web hosting or to CentOS directly. It's a memory setting that would be dependent on many factors, like the IOPS you have, the storage and memory that you have, how you want your disk used, how the disks are shared with other systems, how much disk capacity you have spare and so forth.

                  Isn't it one of the settings you normally always enable?

                  Or am I thinking about something else?

                  It's not enabling or disabling, it's setting it. The OS default is 60. Many cloud providers change this in their own defaults because it impacts other customers. On my cloud instances, I normally set to 10.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    If this was a physical box or a one to one VM install (only VM on a host) then a swappiness of 60 is a good starting point.

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                    • BRRABillB
                      BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said

                      It's not enabling or disabling, it's setting it. The OS default is 60. Many cloud providers change this in their own defaults because it impacts other customers. On my cloud instances, I normally set to 10.

                      I install Centos 7 Minimal on a Vultr VM, and the default was 30.

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                      • BRRABillB
                        BRRABill
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                        Going back through this today.

                        What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                        Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch
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                          @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                          Going back through this today.

                          What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                          Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

                          I would install this on Fedora today. If you want to be on CentOS 7, then install the Remi repo and enable the PHP 7.1 repo.

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                          • BRRABillB
                            BRRABill @JaredBusch
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                            @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                            @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                            Going back through this today.

                            What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                            Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

                            I would install this on Fedora today. If you want to be on CentOS 7, then install the Remi repo and enable the PHP 7.1 repo.

                            That's two votes for Fedora,then. I know @scottalanmiller is also a fan.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                              last edited by

                              @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                              @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                              @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                              Going back through this today.

                              What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                              Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

                              I would install this on Fedora today. If you want to be on CentOS 7, then install the Remi repo and enable the PHP 7.1 repo.

                              That's two votes for Fedora,then. I know @scottalanmiller is also a fan.

                              My install guide is written for Fedora 🙂

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                              • BRRABillB
                                BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                Going back through this today.

                                What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                                Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

                                I would install this on Fedora today. If you want to be on CentOS 7, then install the Remi repo and enable the PHP 7.1 repo.

                                That's two votes for Fedora,then. I know @scottalanmiller is also a fan.

                                My install guide is written for Fedora 🙂

                                Is that here on ML?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                                  last edited by

                                  @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                  @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                  @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                  @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                  Going back through this today.

                                  What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                                  Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

                                  I would install this on Fedora today. If you want to be on CentOS 7, then install the Remi repo and enable the PHP 7.1 repo.

                                  That's two votes for Fedora,then. I know @scottalanmiller is also a fan.

                                  My install guide is written for Fedora 🙂

                                  Is that here on ML?

                                  Yes. I think it is in two parts. One for the stack then another for WP. Since one is standard without the other.

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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch
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                                    Just use this guide but install Fedora instead of CentOS. You will get PHP 7

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                                    • BRRABillB
                                      BRRABill
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                                      I've actually been playing around with @scottalanmiller's Salt writeups to do this.

                                      But there is still a bunch to do from this guide as well.

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                                      • ObsolesceO
                                        Obsolesce @BRRABill
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                                        @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                        @JaredBusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                        @BRRABill said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                        Going back through this today.

                                        What did we ever decide on PHP 5.X versus 7.X

                                        Since WordPress seems to be recommending the move to 7.X, is it reasonable and desired to install that instead? Even if it is not in the official repositories? (I am, just asking for future reference for others.)

                                        I would install this on Fedora today. If you want to be on CentOS 7, then install the Remi repo and enable the PHP 7.1 repo.

                                        That's two votes for Fedora,then. I know @scottalanmiller is also a fan.

                                        I'm all about Fedora as well... even Fedora Desktop for personal use, moreso than Korora.

                                        So make that 3 votes.

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                                        • brianlittlejohnB
                                          brianlittlejohn @Obsolesce
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                                          @Tim_G I'm not running fedora instead of korora as welll

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
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                                            @brianlittlejohn said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

                                            @Tim_G I'm not running fedora instead of korora as welll

                                            No, he IS running Fedora instead of Korora.

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