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Hosting WPMU

November 9, 2005

If you want to be a WPMU host, rather than “just” a blogger, then you need to either run your own hardware, or find a hardware/operating system/etc. host. There seem to be several suitable hosts already. If you’re interested, take a look at, or keep an eye on, this topic at the WPMU forums.

This entry was posted on November 9, 2005 at 11:49 pm and is filed under WPMU.


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2 Responses to “Hosting WPMU”

  1.   ovidiu Says:
    November 26th, 2005 at 10:39 am

    Hi there,

    I just started a few days ago, trying to st up a free blogging service with wpmu. I have read a lot of posts in the support forum, but the only thing that helped was and .htaccess advice.
    I want to run this servcie on my own server, so I can basically get everything woking the way it is meant to be, but there is so little documentation…
    In my personal opinion the forums are not very helpful as I often stumple upon old information, saying wpmu does or does not support this and that and when I finally get around to trying it out, its completely different, because they constantly change things.

    Also I think there is a big lack of information about how wpmu is supposed to work, I’ll give you just a few examples:

    - whats supposed to go into the mu-plugins dir and what to go into plugins?
    - on which wordpress version is the current (daily snapshot) wpmu based on so I know which plugins would potentially be compatible,
    - what is the difference between a normal wp theme and one meant for wpmu? what should I modify to get themes compatible?

    and there are lots more questions I did not find an answer in the forums.

    AND I found the ones who succeeded in setting up wpmu do not really like to share their information, I mean if someone answered all my question it would be a complete faq *lol*

    Maybe I just did not find the information, if so could you give me a hint?

    regards
    Ovidiu

  2.   cori Says:
    August 22nd, 2006 at 9:27 am

    Hey Ovidiu;
    The forums at wordpress.org are a little difficult to use – the searching mechanism isn’t so hot (personally I use google – site:mu.wordpress.org works pretty well), and you’re right – since the software is in such active development it’s important to note the date of the post before trying it out.

    As far as your questions above, I can help a little (and some of these might be answered in the forum).
    * The mu-plugins directory is for plugins that are automatically turned on for every blog and the plugins directory is for ones the bloggers can activate or deactivate. Note that you have to have the plugins menu enabled for anything in the plugins directory to be of any use.

    * for the wp version, take a look at http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/timeline and look for changesets that say something like wpmerge. they often say iin the changeset description what rev of wp they relate to.

    * as far as I’ve been able to tell there’s not a whole lot of difference. I could see where some themes which are desgined to find files or images at a certain relative url might have problems based on MUs file structure but I don’t know for sure…

    As another possible resource, there’s an irc channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/wpmu that might be of some assistance. There’s not alot of traffic there yet, but hopefully as word gets out we’ll get more people in to help out ;)

    HTH;
    cori