riffschelder

I did start over, uninstalling the multisite as instructed at the end of your first book.

I’ll probably come back for help again. In a few months, maybe, or years.

Thanks for your help anyway, Mika. Your books are great.

That’s what I tried and failed. And that’s the situation I was describing in the very first post.

I tried removing the www, but that didn’t help much.

I’ve installed a complete new copy in another directory, which is a waste of disk space considering lots of the files are the same. Ah well, it’s working.

I’ll leave the whole multisite thing aside until I’m more savvy on computer stuff.

Basically, I want everything concerning my blogs to go to r1ff.com/blog/ . I want to reserve r1ff.com for other business, should I want to do something one day.

I just don’t want the very root of my site to become the entrance to blog.

I give up. I’m installing a fresh new copy in another directory.

What is the effect of this operation? Is it going to redirect r1ff.com to r1ff.com/blog/? I don’t want my whole site to be a blog, and want people to see other stuff when they visit r1ff.com .

Oh Mika Mika,

I wish I could scream in joy ‘it worked’…

but now I’m getting a 500 internal server error. I read a few posts online and it seems to be some kind of discrepancy regarding encoding, but I’m editing the files directly with ssh and don’t know how it could be an issue…

This is so frustrating.

Oh lord. So much was posted overnight.

I’m starting to read Mika’s ebook. This line caught my eyes.

If you install in a directory and run it from ‘root’, configure it before you turn on Multisite
One of the most popular things to do is to install WordPress in a folder off of the HTML root – for example in /public_html/wordpress/ – but use the forward facing URL of https://example.com instead. 1
As of WordPress 3.5, you can do with with Multisite. Simply install WordPress in the subfolder and set it up to run from root before you create your subsites.

I have my blog at https://www.r1ff.com/blog/ . I want people to see other stuff when they go to https://www.r1ff.com . What is meant by, and how should I set it up to run from root?

That I unfortunately don’t know…

Note to self: must learn to use database.

Hi Ray,

I too remember seeing a suggestion regarding the www prefix, and even now in my network admin settings, where I can set up the admin email address, it recommends me to fill in something like “support@www.r1ff.com”.

I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the multisite issue, but if anyone could enlighten me on this topic I would really appreciate it.

I think what the other poster mentioned in your thread was to open myPhpAdmin and find all rows with “www.example.com”, then manually change them all to “example.com”. I doubt that’s why the infinite redirect loop is happening, though.

If you worked out your problem I’d be glad if you could share your solution.

Happy holidays!
R