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Yet Another URL Problem&Question (3 posts)

  1. tansu
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Hi to all,
    I installed WPMU successfully and using it very well.
    Here is my setup. Any other different combinations and suggestions are very much appreciated.

    My root domain is: http://doctus.net This is a forum.
    My secondary web site, which is a WP blog is http://blog.doctus.net
    Third a wiki http://wiki.doctus.net

    Finally I decided to give my users their own blogs and installed WPMU. First of all I could not instal it to root with my forum. I tried, doctus.net/index123.php (this is my forum:doctus.net/index.php). well it didnt work. If there is a way it can work with vbulletin forum in the same directory, all my pain will gone. That was my main problem.

    So I installed WPMU to doctus.net/a/ so I can give my users username.doctus.net/a/ That looks kinda ugly. So I think maybe, this can be redirected with a .htaccess file. For example, if someone types the url username.doctus.net .htaccess redirects it to username.doctus.net/a Meanwhile, it should not redirect www, blog and wiki subdomains. And this was my second problem. And if there is a way for my first question, just ignore this.
    Here is my existing .htaccess:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml\.gz|txt))$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
    # Fix trailing slash problem
    RewriteRule ^([^\.]+[^/])$ http://doctus.net/$1/ [R=301,L]
    # Remove http://www., always.
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.doctus\.net$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://doctus.net/$1 [R=301,L]

    AddHandler php4-script .php

    Still any other clever setups will be appreciated.

  2. drmike
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Same answer as all the other times. :)

    Install wpmu into a subdomain like users.doctus.net and do subdirectories off of that. ie users.doctus.net/joeblog

    While technically you can install it within and around another install within root, as you note, it's a pain in the ass. The /a/ bit is what a lot of folks do by mistake and, again as you note, you wind up with usersblog.docus.net/a/. That's going to cause you issues with Pages and permalinks down the road.

    For reference, do a search for previous subdomains here in the forums for the preexisting subdomains. It's been covered a number of times. (No ofference, it;s just a pain to copy and paste code here)

  3. tansu
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Thanks mate,
    This time I will have to go with subdomain.domain.com/blogs or something :)
    Regards

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