Running WordPress on SourceForge
Running WordPress under SourceForge project web hosting service can be frustrating. It just doesn’t work as seamlessly as it WordPress normally does. When I first installed WordPress, the Akismet anti-spam plugin wouldn’t work (still doesn’t) because SourceForge doesn’t allow remote connections. Yesterday I wanted to include an image in a post only to find that I couldn’t upload an image due to a permissions problem.
It took a while to figure it out and with the reorganiztion of SourceForge, a lot of their documentation is either wrong or missing. SourceForge allows a “persistent” directory for uploads but it isn’t in the htdocs tree – it is in a different area of the file system. To get uploads working I had to create a uploads directory in the persistent file system space for my project and then create a symbolic link from wp-contents/uploads to the uploads directory in the persistent directory. Certainly not real striaight forward but at least it is now working. It shouldn’t be this hard. I did all of this with sftp, I couldn’t figure out a way to get a shell open via SSH.
While I was at it I also updated WordPress to the latest (2.6.2) version.
Thx for your post. Now i know the workaround to get it working.
Maybe they’ve updated their help. Now there is a good help document about how to iniciate a ssh session.
Yes,creating a symbolic link may be a solution.
but,did you found the bad performance of wordpress on sf server?
the nginx server always gives a 504 Gateway Time-out response,oh,my god!
I never really looked at the performance of the SF web server. The post volume for what I was using it for was very small so I don’t think performance ever would have been an issue. SF was running a really old version of PHP at the time, not sure if that is still the case. I haven’t used the SF server in moe than a year now.
Your post helped me avoid reading and searching lots, thanks.