Self-hosting journey update, and WordPress: latest development from a super-newbie
I must recap as I set my instance to delete 2-weeks-old posts.
Months ago, I talked about my very first journey with self-hosting my digital services, including my website.
As I’m not very skilled with sysadmin stuff, I use a YunoHost installation with all its pros and cons.
Having severe accessibility needs (I’m totally blind) I have limited choices for what concerns CMS software with related extensions if any. So after months of exploration and test, I’ve come back home. To WordPress.
Last time I updated Fediverse about my experience, I was struggling with multisite network giving an unpleasant error in the non-main site, such as “too_many_redirects”
Making it short, I discovered that YunoHost doesn’t let me run a multisite properly when installed in a subdomain such as blog.domain.tld
So I had forcefully to install it in the main domain, and a subdirectory such as domain.tld/wp
Now I’m concentrating on my theme, I will clone it with the plugin “CreateBlockTheme” then activate it network-wide.
I need a multisite for multilingual, as all current multilingual plugins have poor accessibility support, and are mostly paid.
Then I may need a new taxonomy registered to organize stories, the glossary plugin, SEO plugin, ActivityPub, and I should be all set!
The last, hard, challenge I have, is the fact that now my site runs into “domain.tld/permalink-post” for Italian, and “domain.tld/english” for English
The new one should run “domain.tld/wp/post” and “domain.tld/wp/english/post”
YunoHost doesn’t let me build a WordPress site in the root directory with multisite installed, so I must find the way to tell nginx I want the product to be physically on /wp/ but browser can point to domain.tld/post or domain.tld/english/post…
And if possible, this change to be in a file on its own, in order to be able to delete it without damaging the whole nginx conf.
Last detail, I’m on hostinger, kvm2 package. vps.
#experience #multisite #nginx #SelfHosting #WordPress #YunoHost
I’ve had to lean on backups many a time. It’s one of the reasons I make them and test them in a VM, because my dim brain coupled with fat fingers are a disaster waiting to happen.
@irmadlad I must find a reliable backup system which fits my accessibility needs correctly - backup is crucial, if you have some unidentified controls, information conveying just on colors, etc… you’ll be screwed