Integrating web-based analysis applications using WordPress as operational base?

  • kostuj

    (@kostuj)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    Up until now my self-hosted WordPress site has been a rather simple endeavor and not too complex to manage, consisting mostly of blog articles and other related, principally static business informational matter. Nothing more than that like even a supplemental video has ever really been deemed warranted or added to this point, though I will soon begin selling (no more than a select few) products/services through the site. I am vaguely aware that this can be integrated successfully within a WordPress site.

    But as the business starts to grow a bit, I now have a (malfunctioning) version of a web-based, interactive analysis application that can (eventually) be gone to and used by interested parties. As it was being developed I was instructed to go to a specific web address for testing, but the contractor ultimately abandoned the project. And based on his performance I consider myself lucky to have at least recovered his code, which I finally did yesterday after months of trying to track him down.

    However, I am not immediately sure of how to go about testing what he left me with in the end. I do have a hosting provider (which I will be changing soon). And I will contact them separately regarding exactly what and how to upload what is needed to the server (presumably keeping it separate from WordPress files) in order for me to try to evaluate what the contractor left me with.

    My broad inquiry is can web applications as described generally be deployed directly within or through WordPress as a whole efficiently and effectively? I mean I do like WordPress for various items, and on the surface such functionality might seem to technically keep things a bit simpler for someone like me having more limited experience in the applicable area(s). Any comments, even if brief, might be helpful toward not only being able to test what I have recovered, but also toward best choosing a next hosting provider for my small but (hopefully) growing business.

    Thank you very much in advance for any comments. I really appreciate it.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Maintaining a separate app on the same site is in theory possible, but success depends on the specifics of the app. Assuming it’s a stand-alone app that does not rely upon WP resources, it could be installed in its own sub-folder. That folder would be part of all URLs used to utilize that app. As long as the requested files actually exist on the server, WP will stay out of it.

    If the app uses “virtual paths” like WP does for its permalinks, then there will be issues because such requests will get routed to WP instead of the app.

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