WordPress MU

I'm thinking wordpress-mu-1.0 = version 1.0 of wordpress.

What I'm looking for is the ability to assign users to certain category or blog and only ability to manage what is assigned. For example, I like to setup:

http://www.domain.com/dept1 --> user1 (as administrator/editor)
http://www.domain.com/dept2 --> user2 (and so on...)

Is this possible with the version I'm using or is this possible with the current version of WordPress? Thank you.

Regards,

-- Mike

Well if those /dept# were individual blogs, you could just assign specific users to them.

I'm having trouble adding users in the USERS menu, it won't let me: "User not found. Please ask them to signup here first." is the error message.

Additionally, the default installation (which I didn't participate) puts http://www.domain.com/blogs. Do I need to create a different directory in /var/www/html for dept1, dept2, etc. and simply copy the contents of directory blogs into dept1 and dept2 and manage it that way? (via outside of WordPress, by way of Apache with separate site?)

Or is this more of a WordPress management features? Please expand on details, thank you.

Regards,

-- Mike

I sort of go back to the installation procedures for WordPress, and saw instructions for multiple blogs at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs --is this something along the line what I'm doing with WordPress MU? To give each department its own administration, etc.?

Thanks.

-- Mike

As the site admin, you add users in on the Site Admin menu. The Users menu is for the individual blog admins to add in folks who have already signed up.

You don't create additional folders. Everything is done via the htaccess rules and the mod_rewrite.

And the codex article is for additional wordpress installs while using one database. It's for wordpress, not WPMu.

I'm able to add users on the Site Admin menu and assigned them Admin rights (or should it just be Editor?). I like for each user to have complete access to their blog (and ability to add sub-users to their blog) but not able to access/manage other's blogs/sites.

Secondly, on the htaccess rules and mod_rewrite portion. Do you mean to create specific category for each user, assigned them as admin/editor? and then using .htaccess and mod_write (especially mod_rewrite) to point/forward the category links to the higher directory?

[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html]

For Apache Hackers

The following list gives detailed information about the internal processing steps:

Request:
/xyz/oldstuff.html

Internal Processing:
/xyz/oldstuff.html -> /abc/def/oldstuff.html (per-server Alias)
/abc/def/oldstuff.html -> /abc/def/newstuff.html (per-dir RewriteRule)
/abc/def/newstuff.html -> /xyz/newstuff.html (per-dir RewriteBase)
/xyz/newstuff.html -> /abc/def/newstuff.html (per-server Alias)

Result:
/abc/def/newstuff.html

This seems very complicated, but is in fact correct Apache internal processing. Because the per-directory rewriting comes late in the process, the rewritten request has to be re-injected into the Apache kernel. This is not the serious overhead it may seem to be - this re-injection is completely internal to the Apache server (and the same procedure is used by many other operations within Apache).

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Thank you.

-- Mike