'siteurl' on site edit page gets re-written upon logout/login

Where do you actually have wordpress installed?

And in the config file, what value does it have for $base?

My /var/www/html/wpblogs/wp-config.php says:
$base = ‘/wpblogs/’;

Thanks for such a quick reply!
David

Turn off all your plugins, including those in mu-plugins (if applicable) and try it again.

The results described in the first post are with all plugins deactivated and cache/cookies emptied. Unless there is a separate page I don’t know about for mu-plugins?

The mu and the wp3 folders are installed in the same folder on the server: /var/www/html/:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 22 13:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 19 2010 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 79 Jun 23 07:12 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 3 2010 wordpress-mu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 13:43 wp09
drwxr-xr-x 5 apache wpgroup 4096 Nov 16 22:03 wpblogs

Our district senior web engineer installed mu first last year–I don’t think I ever used that. When wp 3 came out he created a new install for that. He had been experimenting with various AD authentication schemes but was never able to get them to work and I needed to get going using this great software with my students. As mentioned, I have deactivated all plugins, including those LDAP/AD plugins.

Thanks for your help,
David

The siteurl field is ignored if the ‘Update siteurl and home as well’ is checked. The siteurl will be updated to https:// + domain + path.

What is DOMAIN_CURRENT_PATH set to in your wp-config.php?

Either your config, wp_site record, wp_blogs records are misconfigured or a plugin/theme is causing that.

Thanks for explaining how the siteurl works. I’m using the 2010 theme. I did try to upload a new picture last year but didn’t succeed. Wonder if I should try another theme – which might be a standard one?

I don’t have a DOMAIN_CURRENT_PATH in my wp-config.php file.

This is what I have:
$base = ‘/wpblogs/’;
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘fle.mpls.k12.mn.us’ );
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/wpblogs/’ );
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOGID_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘1’ );

In case this is useful, here’s my wp-config file: https://pastie.org/1305989

I’ve located wp_site:
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.MYD
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.MYI
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.frm
and likewise my wp_blog:
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_blogs.frm
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_blogs.MYD
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_blogs.MYI

I’m not sure which of these to check or exactly how I would check them?

THANKS Andrea and Ron for your help.
David

Everything Ron posted about has nothing to do with your theme. the theme is irrelevant – it can;t control base values such as site url.

???

You said:

I’m using the 2010 theme. I did try to upload a new picture last year but didn’t succeed. Wonder if I should try another theme – which might be a standard one?

I’m saying it’s not the theme.

Any other ideas or links? I really need students to use the sites but they can’t…

Did you check the db like ron suggested?
Did you disable all your plugins, including any in the mu-plugins folder? (Yes, I know you said you deactivated plugins)

Also, go look at the Edit page for any other sub site. Is it correct? Do not edit it. Do not save. Just LOOK.

Can you post to any other sub-site?

Did you check the db like ron suggested?

Check database? I think that means check one of the following files, right? Which one? Do I just open it with a text editor?
I’ve located wp_site:
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.MYD
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.MYI
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.frm
and likewise my wp_blog:
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_blogs.frm
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_blogs.MYD
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_blogs.MYI
Please link me to a page that explains what you mean about ‘checking the db’.

Did you disable all your plugins, including any in the mu-plugins folder?

I don’t know how to disable a plugin if it isn’t on my plugins page at the root level of my site.

Also, go look at the Edit page for any other sub site. Is it correct?

—I’ve got 1 root site and 9 sub sites.
—When I click on the ‘edit’ button to get to each of those 10 sites, the all properly say at the very top: “Edit Site – https://fle.mpls.k12.mn.us/wpblogs/teachers” for whatever site it is. This example is at the sub-site called /teachers.
—Looking at the Siteurl on each of the 9 sub-site edit pages, I see that on 7 of them it lists the root site, and on 2 of them it lists the proper site!!! But even when I try to add a new post on one of these 2 sub-sites, the post always goes to the root level blog. Thanks for your continued help!

Check database? I think that means check one of the following files, right? Which one? Do I just open it with a text editor?
I’ve located wp_site:
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.MYD
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.MYI
/var/lib/mysql/wpblogs/wp_site.frm

Um, no. Ideally you;d have some way to manage the database, like phpmyadmin or a way to search if you know SQL from the command line. Do you hace a tech guy at your school?

Did you disable all your plugins, including any in the mu-plugins folder?

I don’t know how to disable a plugin if it isn’t on my plugins page at the root level of my site.

look at your folder. under wp-content. Is there one called mu-plugins or not? If not, don’t worry about it.

—Looking at the Siteurl on each of the 9 sub-site edit pages, I see that on 7 of them it lists the root site, and on 2 of them it lists the proper site!!! But even when I try to add a new post on one of these 2 sub-sites, the post always goes to the root level blog

you’ve definitely got something wrong with your site, and if you can’t narrow it down you may have to just reinstall it.

I ‘checked the database’ with phpmyadmin and nothing stood out–not sure what to check…

Andrea, when you say,
… just reinstall it. Do you mean simply doing a reinstall of wordpress 3.0.1 from the reinstall page (I did this and didn’t help). or are you saying create a new database and a new install and importing in the data? Technology–great when it works…

Thanks again

or are you saying create a new database and a new install and importing in the data?

That’s exactly what I’m suggesting. If you have time but no money, this may fix it.