I have various wordpress blogs installed and running at some hosting sites. I have, also, each one of
this blogs installed locally for backup, upgrading, and up and down ftping when needed.
Now, I want to install (locally) wordpress mu to, eventually, relocate all local blogs and delete the
non-mu wordpress. Installation started ok but then ... .
My local setup is windows 2000k, IEII, php 5.2, mysql 5.1
This steps where ok:
1. Downloaded wordpressmu from http://mu.wordpress.org/download/ two days ago
2. Unziped to k:\islasite\blogs\ and renamed to wpmu
3. Created blank database wpmu in mysql
4. Modified winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost to 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.com
5. Created a virtual directory wpmu pointing to k:\islasite\blogs\wpmu
6. Started firefox and localhost.com/wpmu/
7. The "Welcome to WordPress ยต" came up and filled the blanks with the following:
radio-button Sub-directories (like example.com/blog1) (my requirement)
Database Name: wpmu
User Name: root
Password: <my password>
Database Host: localhost
Server Address: localhost.com
Email: sysdevuser@yahoo.com
--- and pressed the Submit button ---
8. The "Installation Finished!" came up and "You can log in using the username "admin" and password
eaf157e7afc8" which I did.
9. Updated my profile with my preferred password.
10. Pressed on "Visit Site" on top of the dashboard.
11. I have now a wordpress page with "Localhost.com Blogs" which looks like a blog.
12. There, in the sidebar under meta, is a link for "New Blog".
13. I want to add a blog, thus, I press "New Blog"
14. Then I see this message:"Greetings Site Administrator! You are currently allowing 'none'
registrations. To change or disable registration go to your Options page."
15. Following the "Options page" link I end up at "Site Options" page where I enable "Allow new
registrations" and updated,
16. Pressed on "Visit Site" on top of the dashboard again.
17. At the "Localhost.com Blogs" main page again.
18. pressed "New Blog" again.
19. This time I end up at a new page "Get another Localhost.com Blogs blog in seconds" to fill.
20. Blog name: cocosite
21. Blog Title: Coco Beach Web Log
22. Then I press the "Create Blog" button.
23. And I get: "The blog Coco Beach Web Log is yours. http://localhost.com/wpmu/cocosite/ is your new
blog. Login as "admin" using your existing password."
And here is my problem because I can't login to the cocosite blog, in fact, there is no such thing as http://localhost.com/wpmu/cocosite/ . That directory does not exist.
I have repeated this procedure three times: dropping the wpmu database, creating a new one, deleting
wp-config.php from the wpmu directory, running localhost.com/wpmu again, and all the following steps to create the new blog. Ending up with the same results. So, I am doing something wrong or this can't be done.
Can you help?
Juan