I decided to spend some time this morning playing around with WordPress. I figured the experience with such a packaged php blog system would be good, having blogs imbedded in webpages is a popular thing.
First thing I needed to do was get an apache server with php and mysql. Unfortunately for me no such box existed that I can play with, so I went ahead and installed them here on my workstation. I won’t be able to share my lovely internal blog system, but I don’t really intend to host one myself right now (princessleia.com gets too much spam for me to want to deal with it).
Installing apache2 + mysql + php4 was pretty easy in Gentoo, except I forgot the mysql USE flag the first time and had to recompile mod_php. Then there was just one line in one file to edit get php working, which is a bit less than I had to do previously (of course the last time I set this up it was about 2 years ago on debian stable, and that was apache 1.something). Then got wordpress going.
I can see how this could nicely be morphed into the center of a whole website, editing the style is very easy, and editing the html for the pages can be done in the browser itself.
*wanders off*