Wordpress MU

Wordpress MU

As you have probably noticed the site has been bouncing up and down over the last couple of days.  I got an email from my hosting provider to say that I had run out of space on my hosting account.  I had two installs of wordpress on it and wanted to add another but without the space (my hosting provider has upped my limit).

So after abit of searching I tried to use wp-hive which is suppose to be able to use the same installed wordpress code.  I gave it abit of a whirl but at that time it did not provide what I needed, ie the ability to easily move my two old wordpress sites into a central one.  After abit more googling and reading around I thought I should probably try the proper version of wordpress mulit user (WPMU) environment, this runs wordpress.com itself and a number of other high profile blogging sites.

The install of WPMU as for a normal wordpress install was really smooth and worked first time.  I suppose the biggest choice that I had to make when installing was whether to use subdomains or subdirectories.  Initially I thought subdomains so installed it, running through the rest of the install I then hit on whether I could actually update my hosting account to point to the subdomains to the correct location.  So I switched to subdirectories (using a great article).

Using the import I attempted to convert this blog first into the WPMU environment and then switched the subdomain pointer that I already had to point to WPMU.  Sadly this didnt work (still not 100% sure why but I suspect it was something on the URL rewriting), so I had to find a way to do the subdomains with my host.

More googling some time later I found a little trick for cpanel, that in the subdomain pointing its possible to use * as a subdomain and if the host has done the hardwork already in apache (or what ever is being used) all should work.  So I switched WPMU back to being subdomains and setup the blog correctly and everything seemed great!!!

Sadly I hit a few errors as you can probably see if you are reading this in the next day or so all the photos appear to have vanished from the blog! I also hit another couple of problems that I will blog in later blog posts so that they are easier to find for people searching.