WordPress MU

I'm attempting to install WordPress on a server but right now I'm staring at a No-www message on the install page. I appreciate the sentiment and I've done it on my servers for 10 years, however I am not installing this on a top level domain and I have no control over the use of "www". It was preordained long before I entered the picture. The fact is, if you remove the www it won't resolve so enforcing this No-www rule (by stripping it out) prevents me from using WordPress.

I'm using sub-directories, so is it possible for me to disable this so that I can use the url I've been given which starts with "www."?

Actually if the domain won't resolve without the www, there's some RFCs being violated.

But anyway, I believe we just covered this 2 days ago:

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5752

Hope this helps,
-drmike

Thanks, that helps. All of our services use a reverse proxy so yes, it technically resolves without the "www" but there's nothing configured there on port 80.

Yea, there's reasons why not to use the non-www version. It really becomes an issue with folks add the 'www' bit in as a forth level tld.

If you do get it working 100%, please consider writing up a specific step by step write up. If you didn't notice from that other thread, I was kind of winging it.

Got it working. I had to zap several places in index-install.php and another in wpmu-settings.php. I also had to be naughty and alter $_SERVER variables in order to make it work through our proxy. I'll test everything for a bit and then post what lines I commented out.

Thanks. (I don't remember any bit in the wpmu-settings.php file...)

Here are the lines to comment out in index-install.php.
238-239
358-359
459-463
471

I also have the changes to wpmu-settings.php.

Add proxy support:
Insert before:
$domain = addslashes( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );

// Naughty, but effective proxy support.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST']))
	$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST'];
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))
	$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];

Disable no-www:
Comment out the following lines after:
$domain = addslashes( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );

if( substr( $domain, 0, 4 ) == 'www.' )
	$domain = substr( $domain, 4 );

Did you really need to go and drag up all these old posts just to basically spam your blog all over the site?

I could have sworn someone tried that previously and ran into problems.