WordPress MU

Hello everyone, i've decided to migrate two wpmu installs to an unique one using multi-site.

But doing this, i want to keep the old url structure i had:

http://www.domain.ltd/en/blogname
http://www.domain.ltd/fr/blogname
http://www.domain.ltd/de/blogname

each language was a standalone wpmu install, i wish to regroup them around one unique install using multi-site.

Here is my setup:

Env: Apache2 / PHP5 / FBSD / wpmu 1.3 / multi-site-manager 004

Main site : hub.domain.ltd, has a ServerAlias of *.hub.domain.ltd, and of course a wildcard DNS Alias.
wpmu is installed in subdomain mode for this "hub" site.

Blog1 url : http://www.domain.ltd/en/ ; subdir mode

Blog2 url : http://www.domain.ltd/fr/ ; subdir mode

BlogN url : http://www.domain.ltd/N/ ; subdir mode

...

As you can see, my goal is to use the same domain all the way, adding the language, than the blogname to form subdirs urls

So, in the Site admin section, i just create new sites with :

Sitename : English blogs
Domain : http://www.domain.ltd
Path : /en
Clone: All from hub.domain.ltd

Sitename : French blogs
Domain : http://www.domain.ltd
Path : /fr
Clone: All from hub.domain.ltd

Etc.

Problem :
When i try to access one of the multi-site create blogs i get :

No WPMU site defined on this host. If you are the owner of this site, please check Debugging WPMU for further assistance.

Now, if i switch the Path to "/" for one of these sites, than, i can access the domain GUI, but, accessing the domain thrugh http://www.domain.ltd/<lang>/ produces a 404..

In the other hand, if i create a new site, directly using a path of "/", things seem to work fine ..

The issue is that this would force me to use "<lang>.domain.ltd" kind of urls .. thus breaking all my permalinks :/

Any ideas ?

IT WORKS !
-edit almost works .. see next post

Actually, i found out why it didn't work:
My conception of the setup regarding the filesystem was wrong.

Mostly because i couldn't find any simple readme or install docs for the plugin .. and got fedup of old forum threads that google throws back.

But, after the n'th search for a documentation on this plugin, i miraculously found this post that explains it all : http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wpmu-trac/2007-October/000934.html

Finaly here is how i made it work:

Create a shell/user/whatever and it's homedir in :
/home/user

Create the main wpmu install docroot :
mkdir -p /home/user/hub/docs

Create an apache vhost with *.domain.ltd ServerAlias

Create the fake docroot that will be used by all http://blogs.domain.ltd/<*> :
mkdir -p /home/user/blogs/docs

Create the matching vhost (no ServerAlias needed)

Than, simply symblink your main wpmu install /home/user/hub/docs to the fake documentroot we just created /home/user/blogs/docs/<LANG> (in my case <LANG> = en, fr, de, etc .. but could be anything else):
ln -s /home/user/hub/docs /home/user/blogs/docs/en
ln -s /home/user/hub/docs /home/user/blogs/docs/fr

Final step, when creating the site :

Sitename: our english blogs
Domain: blogs.domain.ltd
Path: /en/
Clone: (works whatever you select)

Sitename: our french blogs
Domain: blogs.domain.ltd
Path: /fr/
Clone: (works whatever you select)

!! Beware, you must add a trailling "/" to Path, otherwise it won't work !!

So...

It appears going to http://blogs.domain.ltd/en/ or http://blogs.domain.ltd/fr/ leads to the same and only 1st created site (/en/ in my case) ..

Also, in the admin section, i can only switch from "hub" to "english blogs" from the top selectbox .. clicking any other refreshes the site to the "english blogs"..

Whatever 'virtual' site i add on the domain, i get redirected to the first 'virtual' site created ..

Now why is this happening .. :?

Anyone ?