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Maybe not something you can do here, but any recommendations on such a host? Preferably one that I start out shared (and do the parked domain thing) for now, and upgrade later.

Turns out the a-name/c-name issue and the www issue didn’t happen on another browser, and now that I’ve cleared my recent history in firefox they’re also better.

I would still be interested to learn if there’s any way around this working only on the “main domain” and if there might be options now or down the road so I don’t have to do the parked domain thing.

Thanks!!!

Thanks Andrea.

I found this https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/13088 which I think is the reason. I’m a little confused though.

Maybe I need to replace update_usermeta($user_id, 'bb_capabilities', array('member' => true)); with update_user_meta($user_id, 'bb_capabilities', array('member' => true));?

I figured it out. Note to self: always listen to Ipstenu and do what he says right away (ie update wordpress)

This isn’t really the place for this, but since you all were so knowledgeable about this files (which I think might be causing a problem) I thought you might have some thoughts.

Would any of these cause problems when loaded in an external program? I have bbpress installed and it works fine, but to get my theme to work I need to load wordpress too.

I’ve done this by adding require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-load.php'); to my bb-config.php file (like wp-config.php). This makes the screen go blank for my bbpress install.

The funny thing is that this works perfectly well on a WP 3 single user test site, and a WP 3 multiuser site on subdirectories.

I can’t think of what else is different between the sites so is there anything about using subdomains, or the files above that might cause this?

Good thought! Could’ve been a week ago. Or so that I last updated

Yeah, that’s where I got the code I posted originally, which wasn’t working:

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]

It’s similar, but not the same. Maybe my host is just different?

So there’s no problem using the “old” WPMU code even though I’m using 3.0? Does that mean that code that 3.0 gives you during setup is wrong?

It’s now working thanks to my host. They did change my .htaccess file though. They said it’s the default WPMU one.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

Is this going to cause any problems? Is there any reason this is bad?

I thought my host had figured it out based on your comment, but it seems that’s not the case. The response I got from them based on your comment is:

“This was a change made in WHM but it does take care of the changes that are needed in apache as well.”

Does this seem correct?

Is this definitely a web host problem, or is there something I could have messed up with my install that would cause this?

Thanks!

Clayton, thanks so much. You’re a genius!

This whole thing went SO smoothly thanks to this thread. The only snag I hit was the server redirect problem. It’s working fine in IE, so I’m sure once I restart firefox with a cleared cache it will be fine too.

This video might also be helpful to people: https://wordpresstheming.com/2010/03/wordpress-3-0-enable-network/