[SAC] New Wordpress Install this month [Need Volunteers]

[Alex M]

Jody,

Jeff passed me a copy of the theme, which we will move to an osgeo repo.

Doing further research, here is the official guide to migrating a
Wordpress site including changing the url.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
We'll need to decide today what url we want the development site to be on.
After that the vendor can follow the steps to create an export of the
website and database, and provide us a means to copy those outputs.

>From there SAC will use those files to put up an instance. Though we
have not determined where/how/who yet.

Thanks,
Alex

> On August 28, 2017 at 5:08 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Afternoon Alex:
> 
> We are going into our meeting with the vendor on wednesday, it would be
> good to have an action plan from  SAC for website deployment to share with
> them.
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 15 August 2017 at 19:11, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> 
> > The new website overhaul needs a Wordpress instance by the end of August.
> >
> > The related tasks are here:
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&
> > milestone=Website+rebranding+2017
> >
> > 1. We need a volunteer familiar with Wordpress to handle the install and
> > migration OR we need to identify a contractor (There is $3000 USD
> > allocated from the Board for this)
> >
> > 2. We need to decide on the best method of deployment: since a
> > Production and Staging site have been requested, I think we need to do a
> > multi-site install.
> >
> > 3. Simply installing is not the hard part, it's planning for the db, db
> > backup, Wordpress upgrade, and LDAP integration that need some thought.
> >
> > OSGeo7 is still just an idea so that's not an option. So it's seems like
> > OSGeo6 is the logical place for now.
> >
> > Something containerized seems like a good idea but I don't know how to
> > handle the frequent Wordpress upgrades if we do that. A Wordpress docker
> > is available, but if I understand correctly docker is immutable, so to
> > upgrade you replace your docker instance with a copy of the new one.
> > This might work if the docker image includes the plugins we need, media
> > is in a docker volume, and the db is external on the main host (pretty
> > sure a Mysql db is there already).
> >
> > Fallback options include 3rd party hosting like AWS Lightsail,
> > Wordpress.com or Pantheon. I estimate these options would cost $60-$300/yr
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
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