mikelesser

All of the above is fine. It’s my normal root account for MySQL – works from Perl & from little apps. I used both the shell & a little exploration widget app that uses the hostname, username, and password. I can connect from either, just fine. Weird. I have a .cnf file; maybe that’s affecting it.

Okay that makes sense to me. I installed WP on my machine, but the admin/install script can’t connect. Weird, since every other MySQL script & app I have works fine! I suspect I’m missing something…

But do you run them on your own machine locally?

I thought of installing a local copy of WordPress (I’m doing it right now), so that I could at least use my own machine for testing and as the repository. Then if all is well I can ftp it up to the ISP. I’ll also be able to see if the Subversion housekeeping futzes WP!

I looked into the remote Subversion options, and it mostly depends on things I can’t get from the ISP right now: WebDAV, terminal support, and new/recent software installations.

Hmm. I’ve canceled redirection. Assuming I’m not suffering from a subdomain issue…

I’ve set my Options up like so:
WP address: domain.com/blog
Blog address: blog.domain.com
for my blog which currently resides at the address domain.com/blog.

Entering the URL blog.domain.com sucessfully loads the ‘main’ page, the same as it did when I had redirection to domain.com/blog. That was easy.

However, the clicking on the posts will now attempt to load a page at
blog.domain.com/<datestuff>/<slug> (I have edited the blog root’s .htaccess for this form)

This always fails with a 500 error. I’ve just realized that my blog is not at the root level, but in a folder within root; the account is set up by the provider as
/public-html/blog/
Since I’ve never used the /public-html/ path segment anywhere in setting up anything, does that mean the provider has some kind of redirection set up on his end (httpd, et al)?? I’m starting to get confused…

Okay let me absorb…

Absolute URLs to images – check
Don’t sweat absolute URLs or fixing existing posts – check
I want to use my subdomain, and not redirect – I think?
And the Options will allow WP to use the subdomain (sans redirection) automatically- I think?

I need to try this tonite and see.
Thanks guys

Thanks for responding. So, am I correct in assuming that absolute links is the way to go, that is, it’s what people normally do? It makes sense of course, but I wonder what happens when people try to move their entire blog? Is my method of inserting <img> tags right into the posting considered odd?

I think I get the reference to the bit about removing the offending part of the path. This is similar to the snippets I’ve seen about protecting images and such. I add the bits into .htaccess to manipulate the URL as I see fit, including eliminating requests for images that don’t come from my own domain. Is that about right?

I just (in the last few mins) added the bits to use the name & slug in my URLs, which is a step in that direction. I can’t recall any examples at the moment, but my intent is to have my URLs (in addition to being maintainable) look something like:

<blog1.mydomain.com/datestuff/slug>
<blog2.mydomain.com/datestuff/slug>

Would this be considered a horrifying faux pas or something? I freely admit to being a noob and ignorant of most netiquette. Thx, Mike