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I did a tweetup mentioning GP. I’m tweaking a couple of things, then I’ll renew my GP license.

Great work.

https://twitter.com/joji_teira/status/1180995660830711808

Tom,

The problem was with neither GP nor WP2Static.

My git workflow missed some files. In-My-Head-ware.

Resolved.

Thanks!

I found that, for some reason, my git push routine missed adding a directory.

I have changed my routine.

Resolved.

Thank you for your attention to this point.

Will do. Rock on.

Hi Frans,

I posted on the GeneratePress theme support forum as well.

Response below. Somehow a css file is being missed in the staticization process.

That support forum post is at:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/use-with-wp2static-plugin-messing-up-appearance-of-site-using-generatepress/#post-11998833

Best Regards,

Jud

——— response from Tom at GeneratePress

Hi Jud,

I’m not familiar with the plugin, but one issue I’m seeing right away is the style.min.css file is a 404: https://your-website.github.io/wp-content/themes/generatepress/style.min.css

That file is necessary for most of the structure on the site.

Thanks, Tom!

I found out about your theme through AWAI.

Given that many that find GP via AWAI will probably need not-so-dynamic websites, I think getting WP2Static working well with GP would enable those needing only static sites to save money on hosting, and allow them to worry less about hacks.

I’ll forward this info to the WP2Static team. Sounds like it should be straightforward to fix.

Best Regards,

Jud

Hi Frans,

I have cleared the deploy cache, slightly modified text on the website, re-staticized, and re-pushed to github.

I looked into the source code, and see references to GeneratePress as the theme.

The appearence of the site (at soft-copy.github.io) is still odd. The appearance on localhost (screenshot at https://github.com/soft-copy/imgs/blob/master/Screenshot%20from%202019-10-03%2014-08-59.png) looks proper.

What logs can I retrieve and send?

Thanks!

Hi Mark,

Thanks.

I’ll be delighted to send any log files or similar to help resolve this.

Best Regards,

D

@joyously @jnashhawkins,

Thanks for your help.

I deleted my install (it was brand new, and empty) and reinstalled, and this time the .htaccess files had been created.

I proceeded with the www.ads-software.com standard instructions.

Seems to have worked.

Thanks again.

JNashHawkins, thanks for sticking with this.

The WP install I am working on is a brand new one. No real posts or pages after instaallation.

Perhaps it will be easier to nuke the current, empty instance, then re-install.

If I reinstall, I’d like to install WP in a location that will be optimal for multisite.

Since I plan to use a plugin to create static copies of the sites managed on the multisite WP, and the plugin will rewrite URL’s, the URL structure used by the WP multisite is not critical. Noentheless, if there are reasons that one structure or another will be easier to install or use, I’d pay attention to that.

If you were me, what source would you use to install a brand new instance of WP, configured before production use as multisite?

Thanks.

Sorry for the above. I entered URL’s as text, and they were auto-converted to snapshots or whatever they are called.

Regarding your advice to handle webroot and server root;

The page at the link talks about moving wordpress as a file structure out of the root of the server, to avoid clutter.

Right now, my html file structure is like this:
#subdirs
/var/www/html/wordpress/ # see below
/var/www/html/phpmyadmin/
#files
index.html
phpinfo.php
(no .htaccess)

My wordpress file structure is like this:
\var\www\html\wordpress\wp-admin\
\var\www\html\wordpress\wp-content\
\var\www\html\wordpress\wp-includes\
#files
wp-config.php
wp-login.php
(etc)
(no .htaccess)

So, my wordpress core is in its own happy subdir.
At present, to get to the front page of the website from a browser logged in to WP, I go to localhost/wordpress/

To be able to view this website at localhost/
I suppose I’d use an .htaccess file, right?

Then I’ll probably be able to set up mutli-site?

Thanks,

Jud

@jnashhawkins

Thanks!

The Apache2 index.html that is provided with my Ubuntu18.04 install does not show what modules are installed or active.

How can I check whether mod_rewrite is working? I expect mod_rewrite is a mod to Apache2, and that WP might have a setting to use Pretty Permas.

How would I detect whether PrettyP is available and working?

As a note, the page

Create A Network

has a link
https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/introduction-to-blogging/#pretty%20permalinks
that is bad, since it has the %20 in it.

That link is at the text

Using mod_rewrite or lighttpd you can produce much nicer permalinks (see Pretty Permalinks).

The link should probably be directly to

https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/introduction-to-blogging/#pretty-permalinks

But the text there does not explain how to check whether mod_rewrite is installed and active, or how to additionally turn on PrettyP in the WP interface, if that is needed.

And, where is webroot specified?

Browsing localhost/phpinfo.php makes use of the file /var/www/html/phpinfo.php, whereas wp-admin is at /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-admin.php.

I turned on debug mode, and debug logging.
No visible errors when loading wp-admin.php, and no ../wordpress/wp-content/debug.log exists.

Joy,

Here is code copied straight (I am purposively not using a code block) from /var/www/html/wp-config.php
…lines above

define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, false );

define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */

lines below…

Hmmmm… I’l try turning debug on. I’ll look for where the debug logs go.

@jnashhawkins Thanks for your response. I’ll try to follow your instructions, starting tomorrow.

I appreciate your advice and time.

My goal is to have two, unrelated websites managed by WordPress on my laptop, and use Simply Static or WP Static (or something else, if you know a good one) to
– produce local, static copies of the two websites
– push them to separate github.com accounts, to be served via github’s functionality that serves requests to ACCOUNT.github.io from static content stored in a repo https://www.github.com/ACCOUNT/ACCOUNT.github.io (or another static server provider)
– procure fancy domain names and have requests forwarded to those repos

One of the two websites is my toy site at https://gptix.github.io

It is still visible, since I have not pushed since I started working on trying to migrate to Multisite.

I do have all of /var/www/html/ backed up, so I should be able to revert to status quo ante if thinks slide further sideways.

I will try to follow your instructions. they are not Greek to me, as I co-founded a content management software company some years ago, and remember the joys of URL’s, IP addresses, databases, tables, user accounts, and scripts.

I have created a second installation of WP at /var/www/html/wwpp/ and created a second github account, with static output visible at https://thoriumnext.github.io

I am actually not sure if Simply Static (plugin) will work correctly on multisite, so two instalces of WP on one laptop is a backup strategy. As you’ll see if you look at the baby thoriumnext site (or just take my word for it) I am having issues with getting the theme twentyseventeen working. I am tracking this issue on the WP.org/Simply-Static forum.

Anyway, thanks for your answer!