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thanks drmike, for that short little post. if I waited just five seconds I would have had to get blisters on my fingers!! you beat me to it!)

lol

https://mu.www.remarpro.com

Be prepared for HOURS and HOURs of development time to get the site up and running. It’s not a plug and forget app, but it will suit your needs.

read the forums. edit your themes for all your users, optimize your home page for new user subscriptions.

read the forums.

You MUST have VHOST enabled in Apache if you want to use user.yourdomin.com for new accounts. Strongly reccomended.

read the forums

Did I mention to read the wpmu forums?

It’s very young and in it’s infancy. There isn’t a lot of support, but there are knowleable people around on the M forums that will get you through the rough patches.

read the forums

This isn’t for the faint at heart, but as mentioned, it will suit your needs perfectly.

There really isn’t anything else out there that I know of that will do what your asking, although I’m sure if you look hard enough, you’ll find something.

Since your familiar with WP, WPMU would be he next logical step.

I’m assuming your a developer, so I don’t think you will have much of a learning curve, you just need development time. Itwon’t be up and running over night, since you will need to modify/test most the themes (read the forums for MU specific themes).

You will also wan to read the forums for WPMU widgets. Most WP widgets will work, but not all. Some need modification, usually only a one or two line adjustment.

just check the forums.

Separating WP, from WPMU administration is a little confusing at first, but you’ll get a handle on it.

So just head over to https://mu.www.remarpro.com and read the forums.

Good luck!

Reupload the affected file. If you encounter further errors of this type, reupload the entire package to your server.

Sometimes file coruption occurs during FTP.

The post’s are protected until the user has logged in. There isn’t a way around this AFAIK.

I like it. Plain and simple and to the point. Everything is in place where it should be IMO.

Your font for the about sidebar should be a little smaller then your main blog, in fact the entire sidebar should be one or two px smaller then the rest. It will keep the reader focused on your content and further separates navigation from content.

Nicely done.

I like the look and feel. It’s appropriate for an Art related site IMHO.

One thing that I feel is needed is more information about your site. Opon first glance, all I saw was blog postings and nothing telling me, in my face, what your site is about. You have an about page, which is good, but I had to look for it.

When I go to a site, I want to know what it is within 5 seconds, or I leave. Thats just me, I realise, but I also feel it’s important to convey the message to new visitors.

The blog is a good idea, go with it if it works for you. You may want to expand your content as your users grow and your blog may not be enough to keep up for demand, but it’s efinately achievable. What I’m getting at is that you may want to consider designing to appear as a CMS type of site where more information can be thrown around for your users.

Just my $0.02

Nice job, good idea, looks nice. Keep up the good work, your onto something with a great name like that!

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

I don’t see how this will affect Firefox and I don’t understand why your host would think so. I would move if they can’t answer a simple thing like this with any degree of acuracy.

For your first question, it’s shouldn’t matter. Your site looked fine to me FF 2.x as well btw. So long as they meet the minimum php and mysql requirements, you won’t encounter any difficulties.

For your second question regarding WPMU, make sure they offer Vhost if you are going to use the sub-domain option which is highly prefered and seriously recommended to avoid hassle. Certain hosts like godaddy.com will not give you vhost even if you ask, so you need to ask questions before you sign up for a new hosting accont.

Vhost is generaly not enabled by default, but a good webhost will enable it on your domain when you ask. This is a simple Apache configuration that can be enabled within minutes of recieving your request.

A typical vhost directive looks like this:

<VirtualHost 10.1.2.3>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.foo.com
ServerName host.foo.com
ErrorLog logs/host.foo.com-error_log
TransferLog logs/host.foo.com-access_log
</VirtualHost>

Hope this helps and good luck on your search for a more reliable host. I use Surpasshosting (www.surpasshosting.com) myself and they have been very accomodating for me. Reall good deals on the packages, you should at least check them out.

Thanks Lorelle for posting this.

I just found this little gem while doing a search!

What version of apache? With 2.0.x, it may be possible that you need to modify your php.ini, or it’s possible that you will have to chmod any folders that are 777 to 755.

It’s been a while, but I”m assuming php_mod_auth for Apache has had a few security enhancements, and will not allow directorie to be world writable, hence the CHMOD change.

You could also restart MySQL and Apache with your modules as well.

Check the changelog for your MAC OS and see what might be affecting your connection to the DB. It’s a minor upgrade. You may need to update your modules, apache, php or mysql versions.

Not much of a help I know, but I hope it points you in the right direction.

Are you clicking save and continue editing, or just save by itself.

I have run into a related problem, but it may be because of an edited plugin or core file I have changed on my own.

Myself, I cannot click “save and continue editing” almost exclusively. It’s something I know I did, but i’m curious about how your saving your posts to comapre wih my own experience and troubleshooting.

Make your .htaccess file writable (CHMOD 777)and then go back to the permlink settings and select your format.

I beleive this will fix your problem, so long as your .htaccess is writable. WordPress will rewrite your file accordingly. Mine differs slightly:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

You will be able to note the changes in the files administration pages as mentioned.

Once acheived, CHMOD your .htaccess back to 444