{"id":1,"date":"2023-08-12T03:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:45:21","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/192.168.10.35:8000\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing WordPress Sites without a PHP server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;m typing this up, I am watching the Boston Strangler movie on Netflix with my wife. I wanted to see how fast I could spin up a blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Must be simple<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must be fast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can&#8217;t build it from scratch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Content must be served from my personal domain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inexpensive solution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s known for blogging, WordPress is a great CMS. Chances are, you&#8217;ve engaged with many websites that were built in WordPress. It&#8217;s a powerful tool. The dilemma is that I want to pay as little as possible to host the content. A web server with PHP and database server MySQL are required to run WordPress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress, PHP, and MySQL will require updates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MySQL requires maintenance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bad actors will attempt to exploit web servers with PHP, WordPress, and MySQL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though server hosting has been commoditized these days, I&#8217;d prefer to not have these worries. Some of the top web hosting companies have had issues at scale. I don&#8217;t anticipate my content demanding too much from their infrastructure, but my neighbor might cause me issues. Not to mention security concerns that have to be maintained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one of the design agencies I worked, we consulted an enterprise that required running Content Management Systems behind a corporate network. All content would have to be compiled to static HTML pages before being published. This meant no live systems were allowed to execute PHP or have direct\/indirect access to a database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This site gave me step by step instructions for knocking this out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/aws-builders\/hosting-your-static-wordpress-site-on-aws-s3-4cib\">https:\/\/dev.to\/aws-builders\/hosting-your-static-wordpress-site-on-aws-s3-4cib<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, it walks you through setting up a WordPress site on your local computer using Docker. You can make all of the content changes you want. Once you&#8217;re ready to publish- you utilize a plugin called Simply Static. This bundles up all of the content into text files and images. The content can be uploaded to your hosting provider of choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some trade-offs going this direction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Some of the server-side capabilities will be lost once you have the static files from Simply Static (you give up built-in features like comments and search).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s more steps to publish content (content is not in real-time).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You have to be familiar with how to upload content to a web server or Content Delivery Network (CDN).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Pros<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The required database to server will no longer be needed and simplifies your server needs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s less expensive to host with a server provider.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s more secure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s highly scalable without needing to tune servers and databases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes &amp; Observations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress and Simply Static have issues when using localhost:8000. Instead, I have to connect to my host NAT IP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The new version of WordPress is wildly different from the last version I used years ago.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turning on Permalinks makes the URLs makes it easier to browser the files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The dynamic features like comments will publish as though they work, but do not. I ended up removing search and comments from templates. 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