Running a test WP 3.0+ on Ubuntu 10.10 (Server & Desktop)
MySQL, PHP 5.3, Apache.
Installs fine and works ok,
I installed a CentOS VM and wordpress is loading way too faster and its very quick as compared to the one on Ubuntu.
I haven’t got alot of plugins or anything on this wordpress install
would be grateful for your insight / suggestions on it.
Also, just today I realized that for some reason the WP 3.0.1 on Ubuntu won’t show “an update is available” whereas on CentOS it was showing and updated fine. Any ideas ?
Kind Regards
It looks like that wordpress can’t check for updates on the one server but can on the other. WordPress does not output much information if it can’t, it’s just an request which takes it’s time to time-out.
Install the Disable WordPress Core Update (WordPress Plugin) and the Disable WordPress Plugin Updates (WordPress Plugin) to disable those update checks and see if it helps.
With the Core Control (WordPress Plugin) you can check which transports do work or not. You can even disable updates with that one as well. So it’s probably the only one you need to install.
According to the phylosophy of the fine folks at Debian (which Ubuntu inherits the package from), it is security-wise much better to have wordpress installed under root permissions.
As a consequence, it’s not possible to use automatic installation of plugins, themes and the auto-update.
(to be more precise, the wordpress package contains a patched version of wordpress)
Thus, is common practice for many people to simple download wordpress from the web and install it manually in the webroot.