[DUG-TO] wordpress

[Julian Egelstaff]

Charles Nahm wrote:
> First posting to the group, sorry if this is an elementary or stupid 
> question.  Can Wordpress and Drupal co-exist on a single server (with 
> WAMP)?  I'm just trying to experiment and learn about hosting both 
> (plus Joomla too) and would like to be able to do all of my testing on 
> a single server.
Yes, they can entirely coexist.  They ought to each use a different 
database, so you will need to setup two.  And you can put their files 
each in different folders, and there's no problem.

At the end of the day, both are PHP web applications.  And you can put 
as much PHP as you want on your web server, wherever you want.  Just 
don't try to get your wordpress pages to appear inside your Drupal 
website...although they can operate from the same web server, in 
different folders of the same domain if you want, they cannot interact 
as applications because they are architecturally designed to be 
proprietary monoliths with no ability to reach out to other PHP 
systems.  The fact they're both open source software, written in an open 
source programming language doesn't change that fact, unfortunately.

--Julian