Setting Up Multisite For College

  • I am in the process of setting up WordPress Multisite through a VMWare virtual machine running a Bitnami stack of WordPress.

    Everything installed just fine and I’m in the dashboard, trying to create blogs.

    At the moment, we have the virtual machine only on our campus network (and it as an IP address assigned as 10.99 range). We’re wanting to configure everything before we place it online.

    When I create a new blog, it gives it an address blogname.10.99.x.x, but I then can’t access the blog to look at it or configure it through its dashboard.

    Do I have to set up DNS for the virtual machine to work correctly, or what do I need to do to get this thing set up, then turn on DNS for it?

    Thank you for your help.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Try using Subfolders instead of subfomains. So you get 10.99.x.x/blogname

    It’ll be easier.

    Thread Starter wncmacs

    (@wncmacs)

    OK, I’ve switched subfolders on in the wp-config.php file by changing the Define Subdomain Install to define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false ); . I am now able to create multiple blogs within subfolders, but they are not loading the CSS properly. Is there another setting I need to modify to get them to work with the installed themes for WordPress?

    Thread Starter wncmacs

    (@wncmacs)

    I have also noticed that there is mention of a .htaccess file that has to be modified. I haven’t been able to locate such a file in my directory. Is it something I need to create and add the code for .htaccess in order for it to work properly?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Is it something I need to create and add the code for .htaccess in order for it to work properly?

    Yes, when you set up Multisite it should have told you what to put in your .htaccess though, so you missed a step.

    Go to 10.99.xx.xx/wp-admin/network/setup.php

    You should see it there ??

    Thread Starter wncmacs

    (@wncmacs)

    We created a .htaccess file in the /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs directory and put in the code on the setup.php page and saved it there. It did not affect the new blogs we created separate from the initial blog created by the WordPress multisite installation. The pages load, but the CSS doesn’t work. Could this be a permissions issue for the .htaccess file or did we put it in the wrong place? The path I listed is where WordPress lives in the Bitnami stack.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The pages load, but the CSS doesn’t work.

    Ahhh see if AllowOverride is set to Options All on your httpd.conf

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