Aruba and wordpress

Aruba allows, using its admin panel (admin.yousite.com), to install cms and blog plat­forms using a nice wizard.

BUT the root isn’t allowed.
I also got a prob­lem show­ing images due to a wrong absolute URL cre­ation.
The worst prob­lem is that auto­matic update throws two warn­ings about gzip.

A Com­mon solu­tion is to upload the extracted fold­ers of the new/updated word­press pack­age using ftp BUT it’s not my case: my BUGGY Belkin router modem has prob­lem with ftp so i have to find a solution:

1) down­load word­press (zip ver­sion) and rename to wordpress.zip
2) go to your Aruba admin site
3) go to ftp man­ager
4) upload to the root folder your zip
5) down­load this library pclzip (http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/index.en.php) and upload the php file to the root
6) cre­ate using the same man­ager a php file, i used extract.php
7) edit using the edit but­ton in the file man­ager
write this code:

<?php
  require_once('pclzip.lib.php');
  $archive = new PclZip('wordpress.zip');
  if ($archive->extract() == 0) {
    die("Errors: ".$archive->errorInfo(true));
  }
  else echo "done";
?>

9) Save and Open the URL that cor­re­sponds to extract.php you should get a sim­ple white page with the “done” mes­sage.
10) use admin util­ity in the Aruba tools area called “repair per­mis­sions“
11) edit if needed wp-settings if is your first instal­la­tion
12) have fun.