Hello world!
Launched my first blog post after installing WordPress! Wow….
I installed wordpress in a codebase -> symlink jailed public_html structure. So the WordPress code is seperated from the blog specific content. On this way Wordpress can easliy be upgraded, and I can easily create another independend blogs.
~/wordpress/contains all unchanged wordpress code and can be upgraded by extracting a new tar ball.~/public_html/bastiaan/contains a symlink jail to ~/wordpress/
Non-shared items like wp-config.php are just individual files.
I had to hack a new ~/wordpress/wp-config.php so it uses the wp-config.php from the link jail directory (found by $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']):
/* 2008 Bastiaan Welmers haasje@welmers.net - wp-config.php usefull for symlink jails */
$dir = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) . '/';
for ($i = strlen($dir); $i > 0; $i–) {
if ($dir[$i] == '/') {
if (file_exists(substr($dir, 0, $i) . '/wp-config.php')) {
include(substr($dir, 0, $i) . '/wp-config.php');
break;
}
}
}
?>
Update: fixed code block 
Tags: symlink jail, wordpress, wp-config.php