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Andrea

I forgot to thank you!

I’ll give that a whirl.

If your sitewide tags plugin isn’t working properly,

1) check that the blogs you want to appear are public and/or

2) Non-Public Blogs is Enabled (to Include posts from blogs not indexed by search engines.)

Very occasionally I found that when nothing shows up immediately, reloading the page, clearing the cache or just waiting a bit seems to resolve it.

Hope that helps!

The An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request seems to occur if your server’s firewall blocks outgoing connections from www-data.

I discovered this in moving several WP installs to a new server … and then promptly forgot that I had done it.

Later the problem recurred when commissioning a new server and installing WP … seems to be a rare issue, thankfully.

I’ll take a look and post here if I can make sense of it; distracted by another mega monkey database task right now.

Thanks

Hi Andrea

I actually have wp-multi-network installed and it seems to be working as expected.

But I want to move existing WP single install on a live domain to be the parent of a new network created with the wp-multi-network plugin

the network plugin seems to require a live domain A-named and aliased correctly, so I was wondering whether you could somehow make an existing subsite a network (I’ve already done the migration and config)

I can’t see a way of doing it without repointing my old site domain to the multisite IP and creating a new network site, except this seems to entail downtime (for propagation, and reimporting the full site, problem fixing, amnesia)

I feel like it is tantalisingly close to be being possible, but my small brain (the size of a baby vervet monkey) can’t quite work it out … (like I could set it up as a subdomain?)

I am using subfolders …

Cheers

Philip

Thanks for sorting it! Take care.

Thanks for that David, I thought that might be the answer!

The problem arises that mysite.com is already a live site, in the process of being split/migrated to a multisite, so I cannot change the A records / server alias, which are necessary steps to create a network.

A conundrum?

Oh dear, I meant to post to an WPMU forum.

That “Error Establishing Database Connection” can be so frustrating.

You’ve obviously got the right database name and password, and from wandering around these forums most people get this far and are still tearing their hair out, deleting their databases, usernames and passwords and starting all over again.

So it is probably because the hostname ‘localhost’, which works in many (most?) instances is incorrect.

Your hosting company will give you the correct hostname. Or if you have access to a control panel head over to a “databases” section to see if you can find it there. It is not always obvious!

For example it may be something like:

mysql-03.some-company.co.uk

Hope this helps someone

Pi^2 aka Ecomonkey