jirimenzel

OK, well even though my shared hosting wouldn’t allow me to turn open_basedir off, I’ve managed to set open_basedir to = Off over at a dedicated hosting and I′m still getting the same issue there.

Any help in this forum?

I know localhost always works, it was local.localdomain that wasn’t working and I needed it to setup the subdomains.

How I can get my database to be only local.localdomain is beyond me.

Anyway, the problem turned out to be the user. Apparently the database username has to be ‘root’. I don’t know how to configure a user like ‘blogger’ that will be accepted by local.localdomain. Just goes to show how much I’d know if I knew the mechanics.

So in the unlikely event anyone out there like me chances upon this thread, and the others, that was it… after days of research…

Now I have other issues to deal with, how to learn to transfer the sites form one domain to another.

And more importantly, I wonder if there’s any way to have more than one subdomain empire in my Xampp. It doesn’t look like it. Rather it seems that because the wordpress has to be installed into the root (the htdocs) there’s no space for any other domains or subdirectory installations. I hope I’m wrong.

Thank you Andrea for your suggestions.

This is what i get with xampp when i try to set it up with local.localdomain as my host.

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at local.localdomain. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.

Before doing this I:

1. Restarted the PC ??

2. Installed XAMPP (again)

3. Setup a database in phpmyadmin called ‘blog’

4. Setup a username in phpmyadmin called ‘blogger’. Give it all the permissions possible.

5. Extracted the wordpress 3.05 folder into the Xampp folder, like this: xampp/wordpress

6. Tried to configure the wp config file and get the message.

You mean set it up in the hostfile? Yes. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But mostly yes.

It’s really incomprehensible to me why localhost is still on the map even when i’ve replaced it with local.localdomain into the host file.

Perhaps a key to why i fail at local.localdomain.

? Sorry, this doesn’t make much sense. ??

The 500 Error I was yabberin on about ??

*sigh* That has caveats. Locally on my machine I have multiple wordpress setups, running multisite, in folders. Not with subdomains or mapped domains. THAT is the issue.

So, whether or not it’s in the www folder is irrelevant.

You mean in order to get subdomains it doesn’t matter if its in a subfolder as long as you’ve mapped the database to a subdomainish host, like local.localdomain? Well that’s something, at least. It would mean if I ever got subdomains working I’d be able to have more than one wordpress working…

Anyway, WAMP was a rivetingly complete disaster for me, for months. When it wasn’t one thing it was the other. Today I switched to XAMPP, which for some reason allows me subdirectories wordpress super admin and no mention of the Internal server error so prominent in WAMP.

But subdomains continue to be a disaster. With XAMPP it’s a differently styled disaster: whenever i try to switch my host from localhost to local.localdomain, I get ‘error connecting to database’ from the wordpress. No matter if I try to send local.localdomain to 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file, no matter if it appears to be there, whenever I try to build a wp-config file, XAMPP or WordPress acts like if it were still sitting in localhost, as if there were some deep down code I’d have to change within the XAMPP architecture to make it realise this.

Maybe there’s a problem in the httpd files, but I wouldnt know where to start. I guess I’ll have to lurch into the phpmyadmin forums in this ridiculous quest.

Well I went to the httpd.conf file and switched mod rewrite to override all instead of override none, the default one.

The override that was talking about the htaccess file was already on ‘all’ so I doubt it mattered much.

And no luck. It doesn’t seem to be that either.

The key must be in the .htaccess code. Localhost just won’t dig it.

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

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Hey thanks for your answer. HOWEVER, the situation is as desperate as usual, only a bit worse.

Now I finally managed to get my wordpress to install subdomains, I’m back to where I started because I’m getting:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

This is the error I was getting in the thread I opened up before this one, which I thought was over since I thought the error might have been I wasn’t actually installing the subdomains from within wordpress.

So the situation is critical because this internal server error is completely incomprehensible.

Steps I took:

1. In order to make sure everything was on local.localdomain, I uninstalled Wampserver and installed it from scratch.

2. Extracted WP3.05 from the RAR.

3. Extracted it into the www file because the rules in the documentation say multisite won’t work if wordpress isn’t installed in the root.

4. Therefore I installed the wordpress index.php over the default index.php that comes with Wamp, whatever it means this doesn’t sound good.

5. Left a file called testmysql among all these wordpress files, which again doesn’t sound good.

6. In phpmyadmin set up a database called ‘blog’.

7. Went to local.localdomain/wp-admin and was asked to give names to the database. Called the database the same as I’d called it in phpmyadmin, ‘blog’. Called the user ‘root’, the host ‘local.localdomain’, and didn’t put any password in.

8. Added the wp allow multisite line into wp-config.

9. Went to the Network submenu inside wordpress. Screamed horray when I saw the subdomain option available.

10. Said to it to install.

11. Created the blogs.dir folder inside wp-content

12. Copied the lines in the Network menu into wp-config and .htaccess as required.

13. I clicked on login and got the despairing horrifying message I should have been dreading but was ecstatic I’d thought I’d finally left behind.

14. Before all this, I already had the following already enabled in windows hosts file:

127.0.0.1 local.localdomain
::1 local.localdomain
127.0.0.1 local.localdomain

Clearly a much clearer guide to isntalling subdomains on WAMP is required.

That guide says subdomains won’t work if the localhost is the same as 127.0.0.1, but that doesn’t make sense because whatever the name of the fake domain is you have to rewrite it in the windows host file to redirect to 127.0.0.1

And as I addressed in a more recent post at the multisite forum, even when I point localhost.localdomain to my phpmyadmin, my wordpress installation won’t budge and will remain as localhost.

And if it’s true subdomains only work in the root folder, then what to do with the default index file that comes with the phpmyadmin…

Way too many things can be going wrong with subdomains on localhost for there not to be a step by step guide out there on the entire internet.

It’s kinda pitiful, but I guess it’s to be expected from free software. There’s no incentive to improve it. I admit I’m not the brightest in the bunch, but this is ridiculous how difficult it is to install subdomains on localhost, if at all possible.

Can an admin plz transfer this question to Multisite section?

Is there anything specific I have to do ‘to my Apache’ apart from these mod rewrites and htaccess?

lol, found my other self ??

https://www.ads-software.com/support/profile/jiri2

sry bout the bother ??

Quite sad I was making the same questions over a month ago that I am today lol

I’ve also tried without the regexp:

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

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

as .htaccess.

And I’ve tried understanding ‘Path to current site’ as the directory it’s in in my Windows Vista, but that doesn’t cut it either.

I’ve tried the subdirectory example in

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

and writtern this into the htaccess:

# 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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Just in case it works that way on localhost, but no luck. And when I write the order into the wpconfig, but leave out the htaccess, I’m told the page isn’t redirecting properly.

I thought so. It’s just i entered that into wordpress password recovery and it said it had sent it to my email address, but i guess it does that to all invented usernames then.

Well, I guess they were erased erroneously. Very odd.

Hey there thanks for your time

Maybe ‘joaodedeus1’ is mine, but I’m not sure. Maybe all my questions are in that username. Perhaps check if he has questions to his name?

Though I find it very odd I can’t find it in the usual emails, perhaps if you tell me the email of that user I might remember the password.

THere’s no way my questions were spam, duplicates or harrassment. They were about setting up WP on multisite, on WAMP etc, very useful for me, at least…

Vert frustrating, this.