Running Wordpress 3.0 Multisite

Hi,

I’ve been successfully running the Wordpress Bitnami MAMP stack on my Intel MAC (development server only) for over a year now. There is some work I need to do with the new Wordpress 3.0 beta multisite feature. The instructions for installing multisite are here:

http://tinyurl.com/2vml4kc

I also have updated Wordpress to 3.0 using this plugin – which worked fine:

http://tinyurl.com/ylyavaz

I added this line to wp-config.php like the instructions say, and then restarted the servers.

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true)

Here is my problem. When I try to run Wordpress, this is the error I get:

Create a Network of WordPress Sites

Error: You cannot install a network of sites with your server address.

You cannot use port numbers such as :8080.

Can you give me some advice about working around this problem?

Thank you.

Hi,

It seems to have a restriction in the port values that can be used. You may need to install the stack as root so it has permissions to use default http/https ports: 80, 443

I hope it helps

Hi,

I have the same problem. Due to the privilege of the normal admin group account in Mac OSx, I cannot change the listen port from 8080 to 80 in the httpd.conf. Can you advice me what changes I need to do? Do I really need to create a root user in Mac?

You can install the stack using “sudo” from a Terminal so the Apache port will use the 80 port.

$ sudo bitnami-*/Contents/MacOS/installbuilder.sh

Hi,

I have tried to use the virtual appliances to build the wordpress multisite which use the default port 80. Although it seems all procedures are properly set up, I find out that the new sites can only exist in the database of the stack, there is no actual creation of new subdirectory so that other user can put in their stuff. So when I try to access the new site, it only gives me the http 404 error.

Any other people faces the similar problem?

Could you post the apache log file?

Hi,

Here are the access.log and the error.log. I guess the problem may be originated from the .htaccess. Do you think I put a .htaccess in the htdocs under the wordpress folder will have the necessary effect required by the Wordpress MU?

Attached Files

Hi,

I see some errors because it does not exist some files. Is it possible that it is a permission error? Could the apache user (daemon user) write in the /apps/wordpress/htdocs folder?

Hi,

The current permission of htdocs is:
drwxr-xrwx 5 daemon root

Is it right?

Yep, it seems right. Sorry but not sure what could be the problem.

Hi,

Thanks for all your advices.

It seems it is somewhat complicated to proceed on the installation of the WordPress Multisite using the Virtual Appliance. I am looking for another approach. I have a machine which is using Ubuntu 10.4 netbook version. If I want to use Bitnami LAMP, how can I change the default port 8080 to port 80 because WordPress Multisite can only install on port 80? What is the best installation procedure of LAMP under this requirement?

Hi,

In order to use port 80, you just need to run the installer with root privileges using sudo:

$ sudo bitnami-*-linux-installer.bin

Hi,

I’m running the WP-WAMP stack. The set-up and installation of the multi-site works, but when trying to view a newly created site I get a broken link. Once implementing multi-site, I get broken links for pages as well.
Any ideas as to why or how to fix this?

Thanks.

Could you post the broken link and what should be the correct link? In the wordpress admin panel you can configure the url.

For both the pages and the sites, they’re subdirectory url’s. So “http://mywebsite.dev/wordpress/site2/” and “http://mywebsite.dev/wordpress/page2/”. I tried to change the url as well, to exclude the /wordpress/ portion and still no avail. Now it seems I’m getting broken links when assigning categories to menu links as well. Chrome just spits out “Oops! This link appears to be broken.”

Could you post the Apache log file?