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v0.5 and Subdirectory Installs

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  • Started 2 years ago by ikailo
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  1. ikailo
    Developer

    It has come to my attention that sites which are installed in a subdirectory are having issues accessing wp-admin. This affects you if you currently access your WordPress site like this:

    http://domain.com/blog

    and your WP Admin like this:

    http://domain.com/blog/wp-admin

    This is now fixed in the latest build, but it also requires that you to make one change in your WP Hive configuration after installation.

    Here are the steps:

    1. If you are being redirected to http://domain.com/wp-admin when you try to log-in, then you need to upgrade. Get the latest build from the download page and install it according steps # 2 and #3 in the documentation.

    2. *Important* Log-in to the WP Admin and go to WP Hive > Edit > domain.com/. Modify the Sub Directory for this site so that is reflects the correct path. It is likely set to '/' now, so change that to '/blog', or whatever is appropriate for your installation.

    Going forward, if you are adding subdomains or domain sites, then you must specify /blog (or appropriate) as the value for the Sub Directory.

    Eg: subdomain.domain.com/blog
    or: domain2.com/blog

    It is not possible to create sites as subdirectories to this install. (eg: domain.com/blog/anotherblog will not work).

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. iconize
    Member

    I'm having this issue but i'm not using a subdirectory as indicated above. I download the files today. Installation went fine but after I create the subdirectory eg: (mysite.com/fl). Now the issue Im having is that it redirects back to the original login.

    How do I fix that?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. bridges
    Member

    "It is not possible to create sites as subdirectories to this install. (eg: domain.com/blog/anotherblog will not work)."

    Is this a permanent and/or inherent limitation of WP Hive?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. ikailo
    Developer

    It's not permanent.

    This, and the whole subdirectory feature in general will be getting a facelift in a future version of WP Hive.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. jebus
    Member

    I'm sorry to appear dense, but I need to clarify something. I have a main site set up to server from domain.com. The WP installation is in /wordpress. I added another site in a subdirectory, domain.com/subdirectory.

    The site itself seems to work fine, but the admin is still redirecting to domain.com/wp-admin. I upgraded wp-hive, but I can't do step 2 without breaking the main site. Is the problem that the domain.com main site is accessed at domain.com, but the actual Wordpress install is in /wordpress?

    Thanks for any help.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. ikailo
    Developer

    Please see this post. A resolution will be out ASAP.

    Thanks very much for your patience.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. gilliancs
    Member

    I have my blogs organised like this:

    http://www.mydomain.com/projects/08-09Lab1
    http://www.mydomain.com/projects/08-09Lab2, etc

    http://www.mydomain.com/courses/08-09Lab1
    http://www.mydomain.com/courses/08-09Lab2, etc

    So I would like to have wp installed in the directory /projects/ and in /courses/ and then to have subdirectories which hold each blog. I'm not clear from the documentation and discussion if this is possible or if not, what would be possible

    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. ikailo
    Developer

    gilliancs:

    Sorry, but this configuration won't be possible. WP Hive currently only looks at the very first directory, which in your case would be the same for each site ("courses").

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. gilliancs
    Member

    So what would be possible?

    http://www.mydomain.com/blog1
    http://www.mydomain.com/blog2
    http://www.mydomain.com/blog3

    OR
    http://www.mydomain.com/sites/blog1
    http://www.mydomain.com/sites/blog2
    http://www.mydomain.com/sites/blog3

    My problem is that if in the future an upgrade of Wordpress breaks an old site, they become unusable.

    The reason I wanted to use subdirectories is so I could have a hive of all the sites of a particular year and not update them if they broke with a new update.
    Like this:

    http://www.mydomain.com/08-09/blog1
    http://www.mydomain.com/08-09/blog2

    http://www.mydomain.com/09-10/blog1
    http://www.mydomain.com/09-10/blog2

    Posted 2 years ago #

  10. ikailo
    Developer

    This configuration would work:

    http://www.mydomain.com/blog1
    http://www.mydomain.com/blog2
    http://www.mydomain.com/blog3

    I am planning to add support for the other configuration you are requesting within the next few releases.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  11. starapple
    Member

    Hi,

    Why not use the script to get the sever environment for the WP installation and use the full path info rather than relative paths or URLs, as I think is the case.

    My installation is in example.com/blog but my index.php is in my root directory. Adding a blog then using Hive creates example.com/blog/site1.

    In the WP Hive > Edit screen, by using the full path for Sub Directory, 'site1' could be created in the root (serverpath/blog/site1) so that I could keep example.com in the Domain Name field of the Edit form.

    The environment script could tell the plug-in where my wp-admin is so that it doesn not depend on the site URL in the form.

    Would site1 directory being at the same level as wp-content create a problem?

    Just my two cents worth before saying thanks for the great job you've done so far.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  12. starapple
    Member

    Please excuse the multiple posts. Firefox was preventing a redirection or reloading of the page and I switched to Explorer before realizing that the post had been submitted.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  13. starapple
    Member

    Posted 2 years ago #

  14. gilliancs
    Member

    Thanks ikailo: I'll wait for the release. As I run a main website and 8 blogs a year it helps to be able to keep them separate. Thanks for your great work.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  15. starapple
    Member

    Hi ikailo:

    I thought everything was fine with my installation of Hive until I was suddenly locked out of my site admin. Deleted wp-Hive and things are back to normal. It must be something to do with WP being installed in a directory of the domain root.

    In my previous post I was not clear in what I proposed. The suggestion was to get example.com/site1 created by Hive although the WP installation is at example.com/blog, and is accessed via example.com/index.php using .htaccess.

    In the WP Hive > Edit screen, by using the full server path for Sub Directory, 'site1' could be created in the root (serverroot/site1) and not be dependent on the Domain Name field, which would have the full url to the WP install example.com/blog.

    Hope this is clearer.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  16. bryon
    Member

    What happens if we already have subdomains setup with wp-hive, like sub1.site.com and sub2.site.com and everything is installed in a subdirectory like site.com/blog. Should we add the /blog to all the entries and it will work? I can't even get it to work with my main site with /blog (gets an direction loop)

    I think the problem for me is that I have it all installed into /blog but that subdirectory is there only to keep the folders tidy, when the site is actually viewed (maybe installed at?) it is site.com with no subdirectory.

    I am okay with having to delete db.php to get to my main site's dashboard. I might export all my posts and rebuild around wp-hive sometime in the future.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  17. bryon
    Member

    To be more clear, if you follow along in Dashboard > Settings > General

    My site is setup like this...
    Wordpress address (URL) = http://site.com/blog
    Blog address (URL) = http://site.com

    Posted 2 years ago #

  18. starapple
    Member

    That's my setup too, Byron. Are you saying that deleting or renaming db.php enables access to your admin, after which you reinstate db.php?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  19. bryon
    Member

    That is what I do starapple.

    Subsequently my subdomains are at http://sub1.site.com and so on.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  20. starapple
    Member

    Thanks Byron. Now another question, which I posed in another thread: exactly what does Hive do? Does it create an installation at the location to which you point it - that is, whether sub-domain or sub-directory?

    I see an "Install" button available after I've added a site but nothing happens. Well not really: either no subdirectory is created and I get a 404 after clicking "Install" or if I manually create one and click "Install" I'm directed to the empty directory.

    Do I need to place WP files in this directory? I was under the impression that Hive automates the creation of new blog instances under one installation of WP.

    Thanks again.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  21. ikailo
    Developer

    bryon: If you have installed WordPress in a subdirectory off the root and access your site(s) like this: domain.com/blog or sub1.domain.com/blog, then all your sites in the hive should be given a /blog path. WP Hive reads only the domain and the first path to determine which site to serve.

    starapple: Don't create any directories for the new sites. WP Hive uses Mod-Rewrite / Pretty Permalinks to determine which site is being requested. If you create a directory, then all you will see is a blank page because the webserver is serving the directory instead of WordPress.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  22. starapple
    Member

    Thanks John. Now just one more clarification. Is WP Hive creating a new (virtual) blog instance using the WP Installation and I could create domain.com/toronto, domain.com/kingston, domain.com/waterloo etc?

    Also, I'd wish to use the same favicon across all the blogs.

    Thanks again.

    Mark.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  23. bryon
    Member

    In wp-hive>edit when I change any entry with the values below, visiting returns "Unknown Host".

    Domain Name: sub1.site.com
    Sub Directory: /blog
    ... for all subdomains...

    and

    Domain Name: site.com
    Sub Directory: /blog
    ... returns Unknown Host for all pages...

    Also, thank you so much ikailo for your patience and help.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  24. bryon
    Member

    Also, something that may be note worthy. All my sub-domains can access their own dashboards via sub1.site.com/wp-admin

    Posted 2 years ago #

  25. drmwvrsquilts
    Member

    Sorry ikailo, but I'm really confused about this issue. I was already running v0.5.3, but all of a sudden having this redirection problem.

    I read this above:

    "This is now fixed in the latest build, but it also requires that you to make one change in your WP Hive configuration after installation."

    and I assume that the latest build IS in fact v0.5.3, right?

    So I did what you said would fix the problem, and added "/content" in the Subdirectory box, and it still doesn't fix the problem. My site is still redirecting to domain.com/wp-admin when I try to login.

    But then later you said this:

    "Please see this post. A resolution will be out ASAP.

    Thanks very much for your patience. "

    And when I look at that post, and it says that a resolution is coming. So first you said the problem is fixed, but you need to do thus and so after installation (which I did and it didn't help), but then a resolution is coming? Can you please clear this up?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  26. drmwvrsquilts
    Member

    Actually, it's even worse than I thought: If I put in "/content" in the Subdirectory box, the main site gives an unknown host error, so clearly that solution doesn't work at all. Is there any word on a timeline to make it all work again?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  27. ikailo
    Developer

    To be clear, regarding WP Hive v0.5.3.

    For WP Hive to work correctly, WordPress must be installed in the root. Giving WordPress its own directory eg: domain.com/blog still has outstanding issues, especially when trying to access WP Admin.

    WP Hive currently supports installs like this, as long as WordPress is installed as a regular site for domain.com:

    domain.com
    domain.com/blog1
    domain.com/blog2
    sub1.domain.com/blog1
    sub2.domain.com/blog3
    sub23.domain.com
    otherdomain.com

    Just make sure that when you access WordPress BEFORE installing WP Hive, that you access it using a domain name only, and not have to add a path. For Example: If you access it like this: domain.com/wp-admin, then it will work. If you access WordPress like this: domain.com/blog/wp-admin, WP Hive will NOT work.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  28. ikailo
    Developer

    My apologies if I haven't answered all the questions in this thread. There are a lot of questions that I'm not sure if they have been resolved or not yet.

    If there are outstanding issues, please start a new thread, as it will be easier for me to understand what needs to be addressed. Thanks!

    Posted 2 years ago #

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