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Directory Paths for New Users (3 posts)

  1. vlm
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    We are using WPMU 2.7, configured to set up users in directories, not subdomains. Suppose our installation path is blogs.domain.com. Then when we create a new blog, I enter "Users/<UserName>". where <UserName> is the user's name. My intent is to store all the users in the location blogs.domain.com/Users/. BUT ... Wordpress removes the slash in "Users/<UserName>", resulting in "UsersUserName".

    Does anyone know how I can enter the path I desire, as described above?

    Thank you kindly,
    Elchanan

  2. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    That is because it is asking for a name, not a directory path so it strips it out for very sensible reasons.

    Why do you want it to be blogs.domain.com/users/UserName? It just seems to be making the url longer for no real gain.

  3. vlm
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    We're just learning the product.

    Interesting. The UI says "blog address" and provides the WPMU root in the form of a path, which we assumed sought the rest of a path.

    We thought that the program would actually create a directory for each blog. But upon further experimentation, we see that this "blog address" has no corresponding directory, it's literally an address/pointer.

    Believing that the program would create a directory per blog, we wanted to isolate/segregate these so that we would not end up with a pile of directories, one per blog, at the same level as wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes. But now we see that this is not an issue.

    The length of the path would not have been a problem, we have created a rough equivalent of snipURL (but with some extra functionality we desire).

    So I guess "case closed", and I appreciate your help, SteveAtty.

    Best regards,
    Elchanan

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