WordPress MU

1. sysdevuser
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   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 µ" 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

2. andrea_r
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   No, you;re doing it right. At least one way. you can also create a new blog from the backend under Site Admin -> Blogs.

   It does NOT create a physical directory.

   If the blogs don;t show, since you're on windows you need a paid IIS rewrite module. The htaccess file is used to create both the permalinks and the members blogs in the subfolder format.

   Click on the hello world post. If that doesn't show, then that's definitely the issue.

3. sysdevuser
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Andrea,

   Yes, I was looking for a physical directory. So, now I know better. The .htaccess is there and I was ignoring its use under windows.

   Thanks,

   Juan

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