WordPress MU

When I try to install WPMU, I get the following message:

"/home/www/XXX/html : FAILED
Quick Fix: chmod 777 /home/www/XXX/html
Warning!

One or more of the above directories must be made writeable by the webserver."

I changed the permissions of /html/ and every subdirectory to 777, so everything should be fine. But it isn't. :-) When refreshing the page, the same error messages appears. So what else can I try?

What is the html-folder? Did you install in your root folder or in a subdirectory?

try setting www and XXX at 777 as well. I think that's overkill but that may be what the server is looking for.

HTML is the root folder, I uploaded all the WPMU files (except the "wordpressmu-1.0" folder itself) in this directory.
Because I don't have "higher access" I can not set chmod 777 to www and XXX. Why should I chmod these directories? WPMU asks for /html/ not for XXX or www. I wonder why WPMU *still* wants me to chmod. As I mentioned, all files are in /html/ and all folders & files inside this directory have chmd 777.

simonsimon, I had the same problems - so I've created a subfolder /html/wpmu/ and redirected my domain to that subfolder which became my new root-dir that way.
The chmod on this folder worked, now running Wordpress MU without Problems!

WP MU needs the access to it's root-folder to create e.g. the wp-config.php file, maybe it's possible to do that by yourself, but I like mine solution better ;-)

Thank you, Bruz! I've created a subfolder and set the permission to 777. WPMU seems to work now. ;-)

OK, there's one more problem: I've installed WPMU in the subfolder /blogs/, but I don't want the created blogs to be like subdomain.domain.tld/blogs - I want them to be subdomain.domain.tld without the ending /blogs/. Is that possible?

For sure - but you'll have to point your domain domain.tld (depends on your hoster how) to /blogs/ instead of / - than access domain.tld and install Wordpress with your desired option.

Hi all! New to muwp. I have a regular WP install in my web root. I have also installed MUWP in a /blogs folder. These systems/installs are self-hosted and i have full access to them. I want users blogs to be subdomain.domain.tld without the ending /blogs/. I have a dyndns.com account and i also have DNS inside our network. I have a dnydns record with a wildcard "*".domain.tld and all that works fine. I just don't want users to have the ending /blogs. Can someone explain how to do this?
The post from Bruz says:
you'll have to point your domain domain.tld (depends on your hoster how) to /blogs/ instead of / - than access domain.tld and install Wordpress with your desired option.
Exactly how does someone do this?

You will have to install it in the root of the site, not a subdirectory.

Thanks for your reply lunabyte. Am i mis-reading the above posts? Simonsimon says he did the exact thing i did and wants his users to goto sub-domain.domain.tld instead of /blogs. Bruz then answers, sure you can do doing this:
point your domain domain.tld (depends on your hoster how) to /blogs/ instead of / - than access domain.tld and install Wordpress with your desired option.

Ran into the same problem installing Wordpress MU 2.6.3.

What I found out is that the script checking if the given directory is writeable is a little bit flawed - at least for my configuration.

The root of all evil is that the PHP function is_writable($dir) returns false, if the hash is missing from the end of $dir!

So what to do? I solved this by hacking the file index-install.php and changing the function checkdirs() as follows:


function checkdirs() {
global $dirs;
$return = true;

$errors = array();
foreach( (array) $dirs as $dir ) {
// HACK STARTS HERE
if( $dir[strlen($dir)-1] != '/' ) {
$dir .= '/';
}
// END OF HACK
if( false == is_writeable( $dir ) ) {
$errors[] = $dir;
}
}


I hope this helps.

Sorry for the formatting above... The code tag obviously doesn't like empty lines... Here the code again, hopefully more legible:


function checkdirs() {
global $dirs;
$return = true;
//
$errors = array();
foreach( (array) $dirs as $dir ) {
// HACK STARTS HERE
if( $dir[strlen($dir)-1] != '/' ) {
$dir .= '/';
}
// END OF HACK
if( false == is_writeable( $dir ) ) {
$errors[] = $dir;
}
}


Sorry guys, it's late... Meant 'slash', not 'hash'... :-)