sigurdvt

The WordPressMU README file says, near the beginning, “If you’re not comfortable editing PHP code, taking care of a complex webserver and database system and being pro-active about following developments of this project then run, don’t walk, to https://wordpress.com/ and sign yourself and your friends up to free blogs.”

I’ve installed WordPress using the automated “SimpleScripts” at the web host I use, bluehost.com. That was stunningly easy to do. I don’t know PHP, and don’t have time right now to delve into that, MySQL, and who knows what else if those are going to be necessary skills for MU. Perhaps in the future – but I’d like to know if I can use either of my suggested strategies to get 5 groups of students active each with their own copy of WordPress.

mpuri,
In the thread I started asking essentially the same question, I got a reply from a BernardBorealis saying:
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Try logging into your WordPress and, in the Settings, make sure that the blog URL and WordPress URL are both domain.org, and not otherdomain.com/domain.
For links which have already been made at otherdomain.com/domain, you may need to use a find and replace plugin to fix those. Also, try changing your permalink structure, then changing it back again.
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I changes the two settings mentioned in the first sentence, and that seems to have fixed things. My site is just getting off the ground, so there’s not lots of extra structure that might have needed patching.
— Sigurd

Bernard,
Will try your suggestions this evening. Not sure about your comment about “links which have already been made at otherdomain.com/domain” as otherdomain.com/domain and domain.org are, from the server’s standpoint, the same set of files with two ways to get to them.

I am not clear what you mean by “doing the add on redirect correctly” – systalk.org is hosted by bluehost using the account for solbakkn.com, the primary domain for the account. The standard way that bluehost sets up things is to make a secondary site available both as primary.com/secondary and as secondary.com .

I used bluehost’s automatic software installation to get word press running. It seems to me the difficulty is on the Word Press side of things, not at bluehost. Do I have this wrong?

I have the same question – and posted it before finding that you’d asked the same thing. In my case the host is bluehost, the primary domain is https://www.solbakkn.com, the secondary domain is https://www.systalk.org . I don’t want solbakkn.com to show up in the links on systalk.org . I tried changing the Word Press address, and also had problems – so changed it back. I’m wondering if doing something with the permalink information is the solution.