Hi, I have a site which I operated at wordpress. I then got some assistance to install WPMU. All good so far. I asked the host to set the wildcard for the DNS The host said they would install blogs on Fantastico for me. I don't think they knew what wpmu was, but wasn't sure, then they later said they didn't know what wpmu was in live chat. After going into the cPanel and adding three blogs in fantastico, and trying unsuccessfully to do add further blogs they told me to email support. As soon as I tried the links on my website www.pacelegal.com.au. which had been working fine, I got 404s on all links. I have since done two posts on the blog and they show up but otherwise 4o4s on all pages. I'm wondering is this irreversible and what might have happened. Is it possible the host has installed other blogs on top of my website thus wiping out the files for www.pacelegal.com.au as they say that the files are not there for www.pacelegal.com.au Yet I havn't touched it. The problem is the host is pushing my requests into the too hard basket and wondering whether there is a reason for this. Any comments/insights appreciated. Kind regards
sorry the blog posts seem to be okay, but not the home page and copyright law, trademark law etc pages
Well, I'm not certain what is happening, but its looking like You are trying to have a Wordpress installtion nested in the directory of a wordpress installation (Rather than a typical MU blog). I dont think this is possible. What I'd recommend doing is going into the backend of the blog that has posts, backing it up; going into fantastico, uninstalling ALL wordpress blogs; Making sure all files have been removed from the file directory; Reinstalling Wordpress 3.0 and activating MU, (documentation on Google), and then importing your original Wordpress posts back into your new MU blog. You will have to manually install MU (Or use fantastico)... All you really need is 3.0 because it not supports MU. You can use a domain mapping plugin for the multisites, but I'm never mapped sub-domains, which it sounds like this is what you are wanting. Backup Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup/ Domain Mapping: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ 3.0 MU Setup : http://www.hatnohat.com/internet-development/advice/wordpress-3-0-multiblog-setup/
Sorry, I didn't see your reply. Thanks for replying. YES. Installed accidentally when I was in the course of speaking to live chat. I didn't think you could install MU over the top of WPMU I've had some assistance from a forum member for which I was grateful. The tech support at the host fixed the problem up. I was surprised the livechat reps didn't know what WPMU was. Thanks kindly