Savannah W-ITS

Moving your Wordpress site to a new URI?  If so, you will need to update the database entries that are specific to your new URI.  Some solutions to making global data changes:
Solution A – pre-import data massage

export the SQL data from the current site
make changes via a ’stream editor’ like ’sed’ (replace all instances of [...]

Some thoughts on Automating and standardizing how you might create new scripts (or other) tools
Seasoned Unix/Linux administrators will usually have some level of experience with automating various aspects of their duties including:  backups, deployments, monitoring, code management, system config management, build management, etc.  A number of us will also have simple tools that we use [...]

Bash – Changing from a proven, ubiquitous tool to a new one – need a reason?  In this case it’s time to explore Ruby – I’m not ready to change yet but I do want to see what Ruby might bring to the table.   I’m starting with a simple Ruby script (extracted from a [...]

I previously posted about migrating static pages to Drupal – in this post I will explore importing/migrating data into Wordpress.
Solution A – a simple approach to import new POSTS from static HTML files.
At this time, Wordpress is one of the best documented (IMO) Open Source solutions – the project’s information sharing model is a great [...]

If you have a number of old web sites or even a significant number of static HTML web pages then you may decide that moving them into a web based content management system (CMS) or even a blog might provide a benefit.

First, reasons NOT to migrate:

• not enough time, money, resources
• static pages actually ‘perform’ better (i.e. they will display faster since there are no, or fewer, dynamic components); in fact, many

This seems to be a topic of interest so here is a bit more information about using Cobbler to provision Linux systems under VirtualBox. The steps are fairly simple and allow you to use virtual NICS to reach your Cobbler server. To use this information you need: a) a system with an operating Cobbler install and b) Linux VMs configured within VirtualBox.