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HaeJu Lee
HaeJu Lee
3,811 Points

Hi, I am planning to create a service, using wordpress on Ubuntu in a hosting company's server. I have a question :)

(this is a bit long, and I'm not fluent at English ^^; I appreciate you understand that :) Thanks a lot !)

Hi, I am planning to create a service for students from many universities, using wordpress on Ubuntu in digitalocean server. While thinking about how to build a website(worpress) for my service, I become lost. I want to know how to make my website that meets my need.

My service is about informing students what kind of events are taking place in their own universities (for example, in college A, there are events 1, 2, 3, and in college B, there are events 4, 5, 6 ... and so on).

The format, or the thing my service provides will be similar from college to college. The only difference is that there are different events in each college, so I have to provide information locally ( I mean, I have to inform college A student events in college A, not B).

In order to do this, I will make a first page, which induces students to select their college.

For example, at the first page of my service, there are buttons to select colleges, like college A, college B, college C ...

And after hitting a college selection button (college A, for example), A new page shows up, which contains information about events in college A ("my service College A")

If college B student clicks college B button at the first page, he will move to "my service College B" site

... and so on, like "my service College C" appears when clicking college C at the first page.... and so on...


My concern is that I have to build multiple pages according to different colleges. I can't figure out how I can do this.

Maybe I have to set up different wordpress things (different wordpress, different database ..) and do https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04 once again

Or maybe I have to setup different databases according to each university.

What should I do to build my service? Can I find all needed information from wordpress forum ?

Actually, I have to redefine my problem and ask clearly, but I don't know what I need to know...

I'd really appreciate answers from many talented people :)

1 Answer

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

You can use ftp server to drag and drop wordpress script. Install phpmyadmin with ubuntu. Then log into phpmyadmin create a database to connect wordpress.

But you have to install ftp server, lamp stack with CLI first.

https://youtu.be/K3k_q2hRaLU <-- my favorite linux nerd. LOLs

An easier route is just go with apache server. Like use namecheap or godaddy. So something with ftp hosting and apache server. phpmyadmin will be provided and apache php server. So it's drag and drop. Create database on phpmyadmin. Then connect it through php script.

LAMP stack is pretty frustrating to set up due to permissions.... plus those .conf files YOu'll see then .htaccess will tear new bum hole everytime you type something wrong.. LOLs. Real life experience goodluck.