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I just downloaded and am using the plugin. Very nice; however, I don’t see how to implement the ‘categories’ feature. Please advise…thanks.

The first link (Andy’s video) are what I followed initially. Didn’t work. However, the second link worked like a charm. I’m good so far. I’m not at the point of configuring the site as a multiuser WP install….and while my site is running fine, I’m a bit stumped as to a few more settings. Will create a new post for those. Thanks.

So – can anyone tell me if the two files I’m using are accurate give the desire to host a local wp multisite Dev environment? At this point I’m looking for someone who has successfully setup a Local host WP multiuser Mac platform using MAMP. Thanks….

Yes I know….that’s my problem. Do the two system files ‘hosts’ and ‘httpd.conf’ look correct?

OK….am taking the ‘path of lesser resistance here – going to start over and go the subfolder approach to install.

So – I deleted all…reinstalled WP, tried to setup multiuser and got the proverbial error message – Error: You cannot install a network of sites with your server address. You cannot use port numbers such as :9016. HOWEVER, I am able to pull up something if I enter: https://pbn.dev:8888/ — when I do this, I get the “Index of / screen with the root folder PBN — which I can click that and the site opens. When it opens, the URL is: https://pbn.dev:8888/PBN/

Uggghhh. I just want it to open with https://pbn.dev (which would be the main site for a multisite blog).

So, followed the thread (ABOUT THE 20TH TIME) at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-multisite-on-a-local-development-site?replies=43 – and made the mods suggested to my ‘hosts’ and ‘httpd.conf’ files. I still can’t open up the page in a browser. Getting the following error messages:

Safari can’t connect to the server.
Safari can’t open the page “https://pbn.dev/” because Safari can’t connect to the server “pbn.dev”.

Here is the text of my ‘hosts’ file:

# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
127.0.0.1 PBN.dev

Here is the bottom portion of the ‘httpd.conf’ file:
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot “/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/”
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot “/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/”
ServerName PBN.dev
Alias /PBN.dev “/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/PBN”
<Directory “/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/PBN”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

————– Can someone please advise me of where I’m going wrong here. SO MUCH thanks in advance. I’ve seriously been pulling what little hair I have left out of my head for the last two days trying to get a local dev environment setup. Waiting with eager anticipation.

FYI…I have MAMP running using default port settings for both Apache and MySQL and my site is stored in the /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ folder….

From what I’ve read…modifying correctly the vhost, hosts and httpd files can get this going correctly. But, I’ll still have to manually enter the new subdomains into the ‘hosts’ file. Am looking for someone that has done this to review my file code above and confirm if I’m there.

I’m sorry, but that doesn’t tell me anything helpful. Can you be more specific on my last sentences.

I’ve had Andrea tell me you can’t use subdomains with wildcard, but you CAN “if’ you want to put them in manually. So which is it…need a final answer of either YES YOU CAN USE SUBDOMAINS or NO YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT use subdomain setup locally?

If YES, isn’t what I did above the correct way to do this?
If NO, then I guess the only option is to reinstall WP, make it subfolder setup and then figure out how to use a local version that’s subfolder setup…yet, a live site that’s subdomain.

Aaaaarrrrrggggg. Solid direction anyone? Thanks in advance to all takers.

Is it important that ‘multiuser’ be enabled on WP ….BEFORE…..we attempt the file mods changes noted in this thread, or not? I went ahead and did it, but didn’t enable WP for multiuser yet…..doooopsss..

So Andrea,

My situation is that I’ve got a WordPress 3.0.1 installed at a hosting company (Dreamhost.com) with subdomain multiuser enabled, with buddypress running. You can see the site here: https://jobs.localjobs.com

I want to establish a local host testing environment – what option do you think is the best – given that you said the subdomain approach won’t work on local host testing environment:

1. I’ve created a fresh local install of WordPress (I’m running Mac with OS X (latest version) and I”m using MAMP. Should I try to now configure this as a multi-user locally and then import my live site data via the EXPORT/IMPORT WP approach to populate a local database.

2. Other….????

Thanks. You may want to post that on your GENERAL SEO ‘Settings’ page where you have noted DELETE SEO FOR BUDDYPRESS. I would think most users who have spent some time in configuring the initial SEO for BuddyPress will probably want to keep their settings if possible.

On another note…I’ve seen on more than a few occassions where the TITLE setting has a bunch of extra “////////” in it. For example – may say for Profile blog title: %%displayname%%\\\\\\\\\\\\’s Selected Blogs on %%sitename%% – this ends up showing exactly that on the page title (not good). They can be manually removed, but may want to take it out on your end for next version.

And finally – am I to understand that your product also creates a Google Sitemap (or was that another product I was evaluating at some point)? Please advise. Thanks.

Still want to know…..DO I DELETED the old version of ‘SEO for BuddyPress’? Much thanks.

Thanks Sven,

Do I delete the old plug-in once the new one is activated (which it is now).

Also, will your code recommend fix the main blog title tag which is currently pulling the new post title?

Thanks.

Cool. Much thanks ipstenu!

Thanks ipstenu – that seemed to fix it. I agree with you that the top half is probably not needed, if I were to take it out, what would the entire new file look like?

Yep, that’s what I ended up doing. Works fine. Much thanks!