Wordpress MU

[techtimmy]

Anybody using this. I've spent the last 3 days banging my head against the wall. Nearly got it working exactly how I need but WHAT A MISSION.

Arrrrgghhh

 

[davedevelopment]

I use it for a few little minisites, thought it would be a good way of knocking them up pretty quickly. I didn't have much trouble with it though, were you trying to do something specific?

 

[retired_member13]

I'm using it on a 30+ site install with URL mapping, shared & system wide plugins, multiple templates etc.

Might be able to help.

 

[stevebrowne]

I'm using it on a batch of sites as well.

 

[techtimmy]

Cheers for the responses

Eveything seems to be working fine except...

I've used a custom structure for my permalinks for the main blog
Boost My Business

However the new blog I have just added and mapped to
Word Search Maker
I can't select anything other than the default setting for permalinks. Well I can 'select' them, but anything other than default shows a 500 Internal Server Error.

Any ideas?

 

[retired_member13]

I'm not really sure what you mean by this.

Neither of these links looks like a site to me, and the top level of the BMB site is a directory listed folder.

What is it exactly that you are trying to do?

Qs:
How are you mapping the new blog to a url?
Are you using cpanels to create the domain etc?

If you PM me your number I'm happy to give you a quick call - might be easier than trying to type it all out - it's possibly a 5 minute thing to sort.

Cheers for the responses

Eveything seems to be working fine except...

I've used a custom structure for my permalinks for the main blog
Boost My Business

However the new blog I have just added and mapped to
Word Search Maker
I can't select anything other than the default setting for permalinks. Well I can 'select' them, but anything other than default shows a 500 Internal Server Error.

Any ideas?

 

[techtimmy]

Cheers Ty, thanks for offer but stuck at work at the moment so phone call is out of the question as its not actually work related.


They are both proper sites, they just currently use the basic Wordpress default template so look fairly naff. I wanted to nail the install before getting creative with the template.


Quite simply, I installed WPMU in the www.boostmybusiness.co.uk/blogs folder

The added a new blog and used the Domain Mapping plugin to map wordsearchmaker.boostmybusiness.co.uk to Word Search Maker

Just cant get the permalinks working for both blogs

 

[stevebrowne]

I'm using a different plugin which maps a domain to a blog (MU Multi-Site, from JerseyConnect Development it says in the comments) which works for me, but I'm not sure how it would cope with a sub-domain redirect.

Is there anything that looks odd in the .htaccess file?

 

[retired_member13]

I think that the problem is more than likely one of the following:

1) WPMu needs to be installed at the base level of a domain, not in a /blogs folder for domain mapping to work properly.
2) Mu also needs to be installed with the subdomains option, not the sub directories option for domain mapping to work.
3) If you're using shared hosting / cpanel, the 2ndary domain needs to be mapped the the SAME subdirectory name as the blog name you used to create the new blog in Mu, and Mu needs to be on the MAIN domain name that runs the shared hosting account.

As such:

Install Mu at the base level of boostmybusiness.co.uk using the subdomains option, so that new blogs are created as newblog.boostmybusiness.co.uk

This will only work on a cPanel installation if Index of / is the main URL of the cPanel installation - as it's only then that the new domains added will be mirrored to newdomain.boostmybusiness.co.uk.

At present Index of / goes to another directory listing - it looks like the same one as Index of /

(This is why I asked you if you were using cPanel)

 

[techtimmy]

@stevebrowne
I've seen that plugin and wanted to try it but the download button gives me some weird unusable file.

@Ty
There's no mention of the Domain Mapping plugin needing to be in the root. But...its an option I havent tried so looks like another re-install of WPMU is on the cards. The instructions to MU clearly say you can stick it in any folder so I thought it was OK.

One of the main reasons I placed it there was because you need to set the root folder to 777 and my FTP client won't let me change the root folder permissions, even if I log in as server admin (I have a virtual server with DSVR). So looks like I need to learn how to chown stuff to do this.

.htaccess looks fine

 

[techtimmy]

Sorted.

Re-installed WPMU in the root folder, messed with permissons in SSH.

Bish-bash-bosh

 

[retired_member13]

Seemples!

Might not say it in the documentation, but it's the way to go.

Nice one.

Ty