MU 3.0 Changing Default Blog

Content-wise or address-wise?

Actually Andrea i have gotten more serious about this change and i tried several times to go back to a single wp install but it breaks every damn time, following your tutorial step by step?

Are you still trying to make blog #2 the main blog? And then go to single?

Cuz I don’t think you can do that easily.

My instructions (untested past, say 3.0.4….) bring you back to the main site only.

Yeah not easy, i would have tom completely start over after saving everything including all photos and files then reinstall to create a new database, i have tried every hook and query to accomplish this with no such luck!

Why not export/import?

My database is completely different isnt it with mu?

Wont the images and post url’s be unmatched when i import to new single install?
htaccess rewrite to redirect to old url’s?

My database is completely different isnt it with mu?

No, not so much.

remember the devs worked hard to make it so people on WPMU could upgrade to 3.0?

Literally, the only difference is the naming of the main blog’s table. And some config code.

the multisite site in 3.0 is almost exactly what wordpress mu was. they just rolled it in.

Wont the images and post url’s be unmatched when i import to new single install?

No… not if it’s on the same domain….

But if you really want to make blog #2 the main blog of the network… just edit the config file.

See where it says
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

make it 2.

Thanks Andrea, i have already done that, i actually added those table because when i upgraded to 3.1 it took all that away in config file?
Yet it still worked fine?

The upgrade doesn’t touch the config file.

Andrea, when i upgraded i checked htaccess and config and it changed and took away all these which i had to add back to config.php

define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘seahawknationblog.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 2 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 2 );

HOW did you upgrade?

Because it’s not scripted in wordpress to touch those files.

I auto upgraded Andrea, and it did in fact change my config.php file, i have no clue why or how but it did?

I have no clue why or how, either, which is why I’m trying to get more info. ??

Kinda hard to help fix something if we don’t know exactly what broke, how it broke, and whether or not it will break again.

Stab in the dark:

did you use the multisite *plugin* to set up the network? Cuz that hoses things.

No to the using of Multisite plugin.

My problem is my site is hanging up all the time in front end and backend, it appears my htaccess rules are making double calls for everything to the server? way overworking itself, i cannot pin point the problem?

Here is my rules for wordpress:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# END WordPress