Day 22

And I begin.. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/08/how-to-take-wordpress-to-the-cloud-with-amazon-s3-cloudfront/

Well good lord.

The above artical I got to the step:
"USING W3 TOTAL CACHE AND CONFIGURING S3"

And then my troubles began.

From here, to install the plugin on wordpress is easy.  Just log into the server's FTP and let it install itself.

So that lead to, "how do I connect to my server's FTP."

Which lead to... oh... I don't think it came with one.

Which lead to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7052875/setting-up-ftp-on-amazon-cloud-server

Using that, I believe I successfully made an FTP user, especially since WP was able to log in to the FTP enough to download and attempt to unpack.

Unfortuantely, that's when I was hit with "Could not create directory"

But it should be simple enough from here.  The way I see it, there are two options:

1. Enable FTP user to create directories or figure out why it can't if it should be able to (the "forever fix" right solution but possibly timely.)

2. Go into linux, make the directories necessary, and hope that the plugin installer "figures it out" or just dumps into the directories made.  This is a less attractive answer, but it's essentially a possible work around if option #1 fails.

And if they both fail, it's research project time, or ditch the plug-in entirely and try to establish the cloudfront -- WP blog connection without it.  A plugin MAY be required though.

Well, my hour's up.  See you tomorrow, ROARS.