As you can probably tell from my lack of a theme I use WordPress for this blog. I use it cause it’s simple and I’m not doing anything crazy with this site. Anyways the last couple times I’ve logged in it there’s a new update. Now I don’t log in that often, only when I can actually think of something to write about. I really like how they have auto-magical updating, but it’s annoying to log into SSH and back up the site and database each time. I suppose I should just write a script for that, or see if any one has done that already… Looks like most people just write their own scripts, I’ll probably do the same or just copy one I like. But one of the more annoying things about the auto update is they don’t tell you what the new features are or what issues have been fixed, it would be nice to know what I’m getting. They could at least put a link to a page that tells me what is in the new version. Yes, I do like the updating system, but it could be better. Guess I probably should update now.

Well I got some of the site updates I wanted to do. There are still more content and style updates I need to do. But I did get WordPress moved to the root of the domain, which was super simple. I followed this tutorial and got it done in five minutes.

I also got pretty permalinks working, which took me a while because I wasn’t reading the instructions correctly. But that’s all working now. If you have mod_rewrite enabled in Apache edit your site configuration file under apache2/sites-available (at least that’s how apache is setup on my box). And place the following config in any relevant <Directory> tags.

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

Then all you should need to do is log into WordPress and choose your pretty permalink style from the ‘Permalinks’ section in ‘Settings’.

If you don’t have mod_rewrite enabled, on Ubuntu you can enable it with this:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To disable, use the a2dismod command instead. Thanks to this guy for those commands.