install as subdomain with virtual host/proxy (Stanford)

This is my first wordpress install, so I’m a little in the dark here. I have some previous experience with PHP (it’s been a while) and WordPress (fairly little) and more with HTML/CSS, but I’ve never done an install.

Also, the Stanford group I’m making the site for uses spilf.stanford.edu as their site address even though their actual space is stanford.edu/group/spilf. So I installed WP through Stanford’s backend (through stanford.edu/group/spilf), and it automatically installs WP in the cgi-bin/wordpress subfolder instead of the root. I followed the basic “Giving WordPress Its Own Directory” instructions, but I still get nothing when I go to either stanford.edu/group/spilf or spilf.stanford.edu.

Two side nuggets (not sure if they matter, but I’ll put them anyway). 1. There’s now a 404 error even when I got to stanford.edu/group/spilf/cgi-bin/wordpress, but I’m less concerned about that right now.

2. I activated a “reverse proxy” plugin that came with the WP install through the Stanford backend. The code is below.

Thanks in advance!

Desperate in Silicon Valley –

thomas

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<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Stanford Reverse Proxy
Description: Turn this on after you set up this blog to work with a reverse proxy.
Version: 1.1
Author: Marco Wise
Author URI: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/

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*/

# Disable the Canonical Filter
remove_filter(‘template_redirect’, ‘redirect_canonical’);

# Strip out extraneous path information from REQUEST_URI
# but only if page is requested from a reverse proxy
if (!empty($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST’])) {
$su_rewritebase = $_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’];
$su_rewritebase = preg_replace(‘/\/(?:wp\-admin\/)?[-\w]*\.php$/’, ”, $su_rewritebase);
$pattern = preg_replace(‘/\//’, ‘\/’, $su_rewritebase);
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] = preg_replace(“/$pattern/”, ”, $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]);
}
?>