Apache, Blogs, and Which Directories to Use
 

I'm probably trying to do something beyond my ability, but here goes.

I've set up a real low traffic website on my home computer hooked up to a dynamic DSL line. I have static webpages working beautifully. I have a dynamic update service through "no-ip.com" and the little program that checks every few minutes to make sure the ip address hasn't changed.

Now I would like to a blog to my static html site. I choose nanoblogger because it doesn't require a database server, or any php or sql knowledge. Currently, my website is in Apache's default Debian directory, "var/www/". This needs root privilages to edit. I would like to use nanoblogger without being logged in as root all of the time. So my directory questions:

Can I create a nanoblogger directory in my "/home/user" directory, and somehow <a href=""> to the blog html file that is created in that directory?

Should I move the whole website to a directory on my "/home/user"?

Should I change the permissions for "var/www/"?

What would be the steps to carry this out? (Remember I'm new and still learning about this stuff)

Are there options that I haven't considered that are better?

If anyone could point me to instructions along these lines as far as the best way to set something like this up, I would happily read those too. I did some searches with "Google" and here, but I didn't turn up answers that applied to my case.

Thanks for any advise you are willing to offer. Thanks to Jeremy for this site and all of the moderators who do such great work to make this a great community.

mowestusa

I like wordpress, and It is easy to set up, but you will need mysql and phpmyadmin for a easy way to set it up.If you want to do it or nanobloger doesn't work out let me know.You can run it from /var/www or /var/www/wordpress .You do all the configuration from your browser once it is set up. good luck
http://wordpress.org/
It may be as simple as apt get install phpmyadmin wordpress then set-up mysql
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/de...rivileges.html another good one for mysql;
http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tu..._on_linux.php3
Open phpmyadmin and create wordpress database;
untar and move wordpress to /var/www/wordpress
go to http://localhost/wordpress/install.php or setup.php
follow the directions and that is it.