chaplaindoug

A full-function GUI would be nice. I test installed WP a few times. So there are some junk databases that were created that I would like to delete, in addition to the other tasks mentioned above.

I have no GUI for MySQL. Can you recommend one that would enable me to do as I describe?

wp-config.php tells me what they are, but not how to change them.

Thanks for the reply. I do not know how to export, nor do I know what a Cpanel is. Can you clarify and provide some detail? Thanks.

“Then grab your real .htaccess:”

My platform is IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Is not .htaccess an Apache file?

The web.config code provided by WordPress during the initial setup of multisite appears to have been the problem. I found someone who had made it work and copied their web.config. The discussion is found at here. The code for it is below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^index\.php$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="wp-includes/ms-files.php?file={R:2}" appendQueryString="false" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}wp-admin/" redirectType="Permanent" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 7" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="." ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Mika:

Thanks for giving my posts some attention.

I would really have liked to have my sub sites have “domain-based” URLs like site1.goodnewsjail.org, but after reading Before You Create a Network it made it sound like “go ahead and do it, but it will be like defusing a bomb that has twenty triggers.” What I mean is, there were so many “musts” and “if you do this it will blow up”s that I said, “Easy? Right . . .” The “musts” were so cryptic and the hidden blow ups were so ominous. Am I missing something?

The instructions say:

<b>If you want to use a sub-domain install, you must install WordPress in the root of your webpath (commonly public_html).</b>

Apparently, per Curtiss’ post above, my root folder is “GoodNews” (c:\inetpub\goodnews). Does this mean that WordPress is installed in my root folder? As you can tell, I am confused by the statement above.

Mika:

You can perhaps understand my trepidation at switching a working web site over to a new model and finding I am hosed. Thanks for the help.

Mika:

How does WordPress acomplish routing for instance https://www.goodnewsjail.org to the fixed IP I have for the main site and then routing site1.goodnewsjail.org to the proper sub site?

I also assume I will have to go to my DNS records and define site1.goodnewsjail.org to be the same IP as the main site?

Another question.

If I choose to make each sub site a differnet “subdomain” (e.g., site1.goodnewsjail.org, site2.goodnewsjail.org, etc.), must I assign a separate IP to each sub site, or will the main site sort this out for me?

In the article Before You Create a Network, it is stated,

For another example, if all you want is for different groups of users to have access to different information, then you can probably achieve what you want in a single site by using a plugin to switch capabilities, menus, and link URLs.

Easily said. But I have yet to find a plugin that would accomplish this. To which plugin(s) is the article refering?

This is not an issue of my skill level. I have 33 years experience building missiles, writing programs to take them to their target, managing networks, designing web sites, and tons more. The issue is TIME. I am a one man department managing dozens of servers and systems, designing sites, writing financial tools,and a plethora of other IT issues. I thus do not have the time to learn every tool intricately. I need some tools to just work at a very high level, without me knowing much about them than pushing a button. I can use Windows backup this way and need a similar tool for backing up MySQL.

Something as simple as installation instructions for this tool are not even included.

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php

Just a zip file with stuff I don’t even know where to start.

I include phpmyadmin among the conunderous “tools” of which I say “Argh!”