WordPress MU

i have modified everything that the readme requires
except this:

In the <VirtualHost> section of the config file for your host there
28 will be a line defining the hostname. You need to add the following
29 if you want virtual hosts to work properly:
30 "ServerAlias *.domain.tld"
31 Replace domain.tld with whatever your one is, and remove the quotes.

I am receiving this Error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Can't use localhost as domain name. It must be localhost.something. MU was supposed to give you a warning, really.

Also, I think the last time I tried WPMU locally with WAMP, i had to hardcode the subdomains I wanted to test.

let me rephrase, I am calling localhost.localdomain. I got to the install page, it created the wordpress db, and then gave me the error after that.

It doesn't create the db for you. :)

that error could be a lot of thing actually, but they are all likely something wrong with your setup.

well i created the .db but it created like 17 tables. i thank you for your help if you or anybody else knows of something else let me know.

you need to edit your hostfile to include the subdomains

127.0.0.1 test1.domain.tld

every subdomain will need to be added like that. you also need create your .htaccess. but you have to use FTP. xp/vista won't let you save dot-anything files. most forums say to rename .thaccess to something like .htacess.txt - but it shouldn't work. the issue is with the '.'.

dont use the 'virtualhost' part of the readme. every time i tried it, apache would choke to death.

this is for WAMP only. XAAMP is a different beast.

make sure to restart apache when youre done.

oh, did enable mod_rewrite? i ended up having to edit httpd.conf and uncomment it. the UI wouldn't do it.

thanks i'll try that

And yeah, it creates a lot of tables. :)

ok got it to this point

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

still no luck, is this thing this fricked up after the install too?

ok resolved -->

must load rewrite_module and change "AllowOverride FileInfo Options" in the httpd.conf, then add the
127.0.0.1 test1.domain.tld to the hosts file.
then type 127.0.0.1 in the address bar, not localhost.
be sure to create db named wordpress. i changed my config-sample file to 'root' for user name and '' since i did not have a password locally.

thanks for all the help, hope this helps someone in the future.

That worked? Your not actually meant to manually edit the config file. WP does it for you.