KansasCoder

We are getting ready to install this plugin on our blog (a network of 30 blogs) and will require RSS to work. Thanks for posting the fix, errr..workaround… Nicole2292. Any idea what the implications of that are? Do you now get the RSS feeds on your https pages?

Back to my original post. When a network of sites is installed using localhost (or an ip or a domain name) as the Primary Domain there are entries made in the database in several tables that require changing. Using a host file doesn’t help in this case, although that did help for us to reach the blog inside our network. Once we reached it I had lots of errors because WP was looking at the wp_site, wp_blogs and wp_options tables for informaiton on the urls. But IIS was no longer pointing to localhost. it was now using the domain name.

It’s been suggested elsewhere to do a dump of the database (using the mysqldump command – be sure to read the syntax at the mysql site for our specific version if you don’t know it already) which creates a series of text files containing Create Statments and your data. This can be used to search and replace the domain names with your new domain name. This is probably the fastest way to do this but I chose to do update statments in the database and it took about an hour.

I also had to make changes in the wp-config and to the header.php file inside my theme directory where a call to a local jquery file was being made (I think by default this is to a remotely hosted instance but we made it local).

We had about 30 blogs setup but no posts. It was basically a fresh install. I would imagine that doing this kind of alteration on a blog with tens of thousands of posts would be impossible without stored procedures and dumping that amount of data via mysqldump, I’m guessing, would lead to a pretty big file to search and replace on.

At any rate this issue has been resolved! Thanks to all who chimed in.

The user needed to have access to the mysql database in addition to the db that was created by the installer. all is well.

make sure port 3306 is not blocked

Resolved. Rule 5 in the web.config should read:

<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" />

resolved! This issue was resolved by alter Rule 5 as suggested in a post elsewhere.

Rule 5 should look like this:
<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" />

Really? The only way to have a professional looking blog without the hello world post is to not use any plugins? I must be missing something.

This got my styles showing up but the themes don’t seem to be getting used properly. I created a second site, a different them from my default site, and it only uses the default site’s theme. Is there a 2 somewhere that needs to be changed to a 1?

I should add that there is no ‘test’ directory made either so when I try to add a post it throws a 404 on that as well.