Anyway

The next step in the OpenSol­ar­is odys­sey (here’s the first post) is to come up with the to-do list. I will prob­ably for­get a few things, but this list will get me star­ted (and remind me when I have to do this again in the future). Since I’m doing this for my per­son­al web sites, I don’t have to be ter­ribly effi­cient about meth­od­o­logy, as long as it all works in the end.

• fig­ure out which web sites I want to rep­lic­ate on the new sys­tem and their require­ments for soft­ware and lan­guages (Ruby? Perl?) [mostly done]
• find out how to change the DynDNS set­tings auto­mat­ic­ally on OpenSol­ar­is, i.e., wheth­er the script I’ve used without touch­ing for years on Debi­an will work
• fig­ure out how to con­fig­ure vir­tu­al hosts on OpenSol­ar­is Apache, which is bound to be dif­fer­ent to the Debi­an Apache way of doing things [done]
• set up log file archiv­ing and roll-over [done]
• down­load and install Word­Press, one for each Word­Press sys­tem I main­tain [done]
• down­load and install the pack­ages for the oth­er sites I run