WordPress MU

hi there,

my problem is when I sign up for a new blog, I get the mail where I have to click on the url to activate my blog but clicking that link gives me a DNS error...

I am attempting a fresh wpmu install on my own server running Debian 3.1 stable, php4.3 mysql 4.024, apache2 2.0.54 and bind 9.2.4. I am trying to install the subdomain version

I am testing this domain: http://zice.ro
the /etc/bind/pri.zice.ro contains this:

zice.ro. A 85.214.51.208
www A 85.214.51.208
mail A 85.214.51.208
*.zice.ro A 85.214.51.208
ftp A 85.214.51.208

so the important section: *.zice.ro A 85.214.51.208 is there.

the apache vhost looks like this:

<VirtualHost 85.214.51.208:80>
Options FollowSymLinks
<Directory /var/www/web5>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
SuexecUserGroup web5_postmaster web5
ServerName http://www.zice.ro:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@zice.ro
DocumentRoot /var/www/web5/web
ServerAlias zice.ro *.zice.ro

the serveralias *.zice.ro is set, FollowSymlinks is set, the only thing I am unsure about is whether I did ok including that directory directive inside my vhost with AllowOverride

can someone please test? you can go ahead and sign up for testblogs please.

also another question arises: can I get rid of the main site blog residing inside zice.ri/blog/ ?

Please throw up a test blog so we see if we can see it. Looks right though.

As to the /blog/ question, you really can't get rid of it. I would delete all posts and Pages out of it as well as any links you come across to it. Goota say though it's a great way to communicate with your clients though.

Alos, to look like /blog/ isn;t there, just edit the home.php page in that theme for whatever you want the main page to be.

It's blog/archives/ for some reason.

hello there,

thx for the responses.

a) I did not make myself too clear about the main page residing in /blog/ - what I meant was if Ican make the mainpage available in the root of my main domain aka http://zice.ro and have my users have their blogs as h**t://user_01.zice.ro ; I just do not want the main blog inside the http://zice.ro/blog/ - any way to achieve this without hacking too deep into wpmu?

b) as for a test blog you can go ahead and use the existing installation at http://zice.ro to sign up for testblogs and see if it works for you, was that what you meant? no problem spamming that installation :-)

I made a testblog manually it should be here: http://ovizii.zice.ro - feel free to signup for a blog on that site...

As to the /blog/ question, you really can't get rid of it. I would delete all posts and Pages out of it as well as any links you come across to it. Goota say though it's a great way to communicate with your clients though.

Not sure if this will help, but this is how I did it:

dns entry for *.wpmu on edublogs.net (catchall)

in vhost file, ServerName wpmu.edublogs.net
ServerAlias *.wpmu.edublogs.net