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By Abhishek Ghosh August 29, 2012 10:56 pm Updated on August 29, 2012

Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files

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Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files is tricky as WordPress PHP will not work on Cloud Files. It is nice to have a Edge powered site. Creating a WordPress Generated Website will follow the basic trick described on Serving Full HTML Webpage From Rackspace Cloud Files CDN, but many tricks will be needed.

 

What is the advantage of Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files ?

 

Rackspace Cloud Files has Akamai Edge Computing behind for CDN technology – this the real next generation cloud where geographically the contents are distributed Worldwide.  Additionally you can basically server a Full SSL website without paying a single dime. It will cost hardly $5 / month for 10K pageviews per day (base price $2 / month). The price is lower, advantages are many, but the work for creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files unless you need a full static website.

 

Steps for Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files

 

First you need a WordPress installation on your local computer. You can follow the guide on installing AMPPS to Run WordPress on Windows PC or use MAMPS for Mac. Create posts, pages in the way you like. It will be better if you use %postname% permalink structure in WordPress. Now you need static HTML webpages. You can follow the steps described on How To Create HTML Pages Using WordPress as Software.

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Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files : The Final Steps

 

But the generated HTML pages will have URL like http://localhost/wp-content/themes/bg.png like URLs. This is painful as you have to use Search and Replace function on an good text editor like Gedit :

 

Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files

 

Run it numerous times to make sure there is no problem. Now create a folder with any name on your computer. The sub folders should absolutely like WordPress :

 

Creating a WordPress Website on Rackspace Cloud Files

 

 

This the master copy for creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files. Copy Paste all the javaScripts, CSS, Image files properly in these folder from your working local computer’s WordPress installation those will be needed for frontend. Use Cyberduck to upload all the files to the intended container.

Now, If you have used the permalink %postname% for WordPress, as described in How To Create HTML Pages Using WordPress as Software , copy them to the root. %postname% will provide a flat structure with less sub sub folders. The method for creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files is somewhat like old day Dreamweaver created websites !

As far we know, you can only use cname for subdomain to change the container’s URL to easy names like cdn.mydomain.com, we will love to create blog.mydomain.com for this purpose ! You can use the idea domain hack and 301 redirect the main website (mydomain.com) to this subdomain (blog.mydomain.com) in this example or use it as an hand coded home page. Here is the guide from Rackspace for using CNAME for Cloud Files. If you want to use SSL for creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files, simply use the trick described here. Do not forget to claim ownership on Google Wbmaster’s tool, adding robots.txt etc !

 

If you can suggest any automated method to make the uploading process, updating process easy for Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files, do not hesitate to post as comment !

 

 

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Creating a WordPress Generated Website on Rackspace Cloud Files," in The Customize Windows, August 29, 2012, January 27, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2012/08/creating-a-wordpress-generated-website-on-rackspace-cloud-files/.

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