I logged out as admin and tried to create a blog as a new user. The screen says the the blog is set up and I will receive an activation email - it never comes.
When I log into the admin panel, it says that the blog is there. However, when I click on the link, it does not display.
my blog site: http://moms-diet.com/blogs/
blog having problems with: http://test.moms-diet.com/blogs/
Thanks in advance!
Bek
It's here:
http://moms-diet.com/blogs/test/
If you have the WPMu installed in a subdirectory, you have to do the userblogs as subdirectories under that. You can't do it the way you're trying to do it.
As to the activation emails, you need to check the email server logs as well as your spam inbox.
how would you suggest I correct that? Do you think I should just re-install?
Posted 17 years ago #
Yes, and put it in the site root, not a subdirectory.
Agreed. if you put it in the site root and follow the instructions with the changes to Apache and Bind, you'll be able to do the subdomains that you'r trying to do.
all is fixed. http://moms-diet.com/blogs/
THANKS! :)
Posted 17 years ago #
momsdiet,
I have been searching all over the web and I believe you are the closest to my problem. I see that you have your website up and running. I have my own domain which is http://theevilblog.com and I installed WAMP5 and Wordpress. Wordpress made a folder by itself. When I access the site from the server it opens fine, all the colors, the theme works, everything. If I try to open the site from another PC either internally or external, the site comes up but I do not see any theme, its just plain. If I hit refresh I can see on the status bar using IE that it says connection to localhost. How did you manage to get it to read not from localhost?
This is part of the source code from a PC not displaying correctly. Do you see where everything says http://localhost blah, blah, blah?
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The Evil Blog - Where Xpressions Are Heard Globally RSS Feed" href="http://localhost/wordpress/?feed=rss2" />
<link rel="pingback" href="http://localhost/wordpress/xmlrpc.php" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#page { background: url("http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
</style>
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://localhost/wordpress/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="page">
I also would like to change the folder and name it blog instead of wordpress, but if I do, then I'm not able to login to the site, or open phpmyadmin, etc., since it pulls the info from /wordpress instead of reading the new folder /blog. I'm pulling my hair, I need help please.
Thanks
TheEvilBlog
@theevilblog - blow it away and reinstall in the folder you want. If it's reading some info from localhost as the address, then you must have typed it in the wrong field somewhere in the setup.
You need to be using the domain, not localhost. Please remmeber that for everybody, localhost is the box you're sitting on. It's not accessable from elsewhere. It's looking at the viewers computer for the files.
Posted 17 years ago #
@andrea_r - Thank you for the reply. I have done 4 installations and they all come out the same. I followed http://lifehacker.com/software/blogging/hack-attack-set-up-and-host-a-blog-on-your-home-computer-214455.php these steps to do the installation. I have done it 4 times exactly the same way as that page.
@drmike - Thank you for the reply. I'm not trying to use localhost. I'm entering theevilblog.com on the web address like anybody else would do to pull up the page. When I look at your code you have http:///moms-diet.com/blogs
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://moms-diet.com/blogs/wp-content/themes/greenday-10/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Moms-Diet RSS Feed" href="http://moms-diet.com/blogs/feed/" />
<link rel="pingback" href="http://moms-diet.com/blogs/xmlrpc.php" />
All of my source code reads http://localhost/wordpress... from any computer. Anything special that I need to enter in the httpd.conf file that I probably overlooked? Or in the MySQL? I have looked and looked and reviewed those files many, many times, and I don't see anything wrong. Again, I might of overlooked.
Thanks
TheEvilBlog
Can you please check your hosts file then and see if you have theevilblog.com in there as pointing to localhost? Or do a 'ping theevilblog.com' from a command prompt please.
When you setup WPMu, what did you put in there for the domain?
Can you also check wp_site within the MySQL and see what you have listed as the domain for the number 1 record?
Thanks,
-drmike
@theevilblog - in the directions you are following, DO NOT FOLLOW STEP 5.
That is for Wordpress, NOT MU. Mu is different. Check what drmike said to check. Then, I want you to follow these steps:
- drop the database tables
- delete the htaccess file
- go to yourdomain.com. It should show a message saying to install it.
FWIW, the instructions you linked to just show how to set it up locally on your computer. They didn't exactly show how to get it to appear to the outside world, so maybe you missed that part buried soemwhere. And if MU is pointed ot localhost, it will not work.
And if you are inviting the outside world in to your computer, you'd better have the firewall setup correctly, and if you're running MU, you'd better have one big fat pipe connection.
Posted 17 years ago #
@drmike and @andrea_r
Thank you again for your prompt reply. This is what I did. I deleted the whole stuff including WAMP and did a brand spanking new installation with WPMU :)
I have followed all the necessary steps and I saw that the database was created and had a green checkmark or a green OK, something like that. I changed the folder from wpmu to blog cause I like blog better. I click on blog from the WAMP server configuration page and it took me to a page to type a username with letters and numbers and the email address which I did, but I have not receive anything. Anyway, now I'm having a different problem. When I try to open my blog, it comes up but I I see that its pulling the info from http://com/blog/theevilblog. I found this page: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=872
but I can't seem to understand the fix. Again, help needed :)
Thanks
TheEvilBlog
Posted 17 years ago #
theevilblog -- are you familiar with importing/exporting/backing-up your mysql databases? If so, this is a longshot, but you might try exporting your entire mysql database (say, with myPhpAdmin, which is installed on many hosts) as a text file of SQL statements. Assuming you have the option to do so, be sure to check a box/option that says something like "include DROP TABLE statements". Try doing a search-and-replace for the incorrect url string, then import the SQL strings back into your database.
And, of course, BACKUP your database before you try something like this!
On a side note, I just discovered that the reason I wasn't getting any activation emails was because gmail was putting them in my spam folder. Doh! Seriously, though, just FYI -- it seems there's something in the activation message that may alert some spam filters. It's definitely in the content of the message -- when I replaced the message content (in the wp_mail function, in the wp-includes/pluggable.php file) with something simple like "abcdefg", the message got through.
