WPMU Installation Problems?
WPMU Installation Problems
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In the installation process this week for a client…encountered some little tips that might help the installation process go a little bit easier for you.
No WPMU Website Defined on This Host
Firstly, a very common error message is No WPMU Website Defined on this Host. Unfortunately, the codex is not completely clear on the fact that the MU autoinstaller has a function built into that created a wp-config file. Even though the distribution package comes with a wp-config-sample.php as regular Wordpress does, it is not the same installation process to change the parameters in this file and rename it. The same thing goes for the .htaccess file. There is a .htaccess.dist that comes with the package. Although both of these files are in the zip or tar.gz package, neither is actually utilized. That’s right…you should have neither file, wp-config.php or an .htaccess file, these will be autocreated by the install. You will be guided through entering your SQL details, logins, user, database, etc.
Installing WPMU in Root Directory
You might find that there are some issues with your host and the autoinstaller when attempting installing WPMU in the Root Directory. The codex and searches don’t provide a ton of information on this. Since the write properties of the directory that contain the WPMU files must be writeable, there are some issues with write permissions being blocked out and prohibited from change to allow for the write access. This is the only way for the WPMU auto-install to work. The easiest solution, obviously, if you encounter this, which you likely will, is to install MU in a directory, which can easily be changed in most cases for permissions via FTP. Still looking for a good solution for installing WPMU in the root directory. This had been done on a project, but it has been several years, so the notes seemed to have vanished. It did work fine when installed in a directory however, which worked fine for the clients application due to the need for ability to enhance the main design of the site quite a bit which might be more limited with Multi-User.
WordPress MU Forums Tag: installation
Those are not errors they are warnings.
You have error/warnings set to display to the "screen" which is not recommended for production servers. Change your PHP settings to log to a file instead.
2010 02 08Hi,
Even i am facing same problem. It throws some error on top of page. And i checked apache rewrite module. I updated my wamp server to WAMP 2.0i(php 5.3.0).
The code is
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-settings.php on line 522
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-settings.php on line 537
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-settings.php on line 544
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-settings.php on line 580
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-includes\cache.php on line 103
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-includes\query.php on line 23
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\wamp\www\wpmu\wp-includes\theme.php on line 623
2010 02 08
Wildcard DNS, Subdirectory, WPMU Hosting
You will need to decide whether you want to utilize the subdirectory method or the folder option. The difference is how the new blog sites created by users are accessed once a user is done creating a blog with WPMU. Your host will have to activate Wildcard DNS should you wish the following type of address for a blog (if you have your own server, this article explains how to setup Wildcard DNS on Apache, otherwise, your host would do it):
musubdomain.domain.com
With a folder access installed in a separate directory, you would get something like this, which does not require the DNS Wildcard. Some hosts may not support this. The host, asmallorange.com which is listed on our Wordpress Hosting Page does.
sitedomain/directory/mu-user
WordPress MU Forums Tag: DNS Wildcard
Forget about wildchar dns.
This is a simple trick to configure this.Create a subdomain
*.yourdomainname and point it to the folder which the yourdomainname points to.Issue is solved.
for eg : If yourdomainname.com points to folder
public_html then create subdomain *.yourdomainname and point it to public_htmlthis trick works with shared web hosting. I just now configured it in computerkid.info
2009 02 09The DNS wild card is needed when you are running in sub-domain mode.
Without it blog.my.domain , blog2.my.domain, blog3.my.domain won't work as the names will not resolve. By default most DNS records are set up to handle my.domain and http://www.my.domain
2007 10 26
WordPress MU Forums Tag: subdirectory
Hi,
This seems to be the same we are talking about in the thread:
"Home page loads but links to sub-pages say Could Not Find Blog"I'm having the same problem and have no clue why this is happening.
Anyone?
2010 02 05did you check idotter.ch/buddypress?
Yes the main-site is working but when you go to the tab "Blogs" and choose an other blog, you'll get an error 404
2010 02 04
Professional WPMU Installation, Hosting, MU Developer Install
As always, we are happy to direct you where to go for WPMU hosting or for a Professional WPMU Install.
WPMU can be installed without create Wildcard DNS, please read this tutoorial http://wpmuzone.blogspot.com/2009/07/install-wordpress-mu-on-shared-hosting.html
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