Following on from Outbreak of wordpress, it must be contagious and WordPress MU in a Corporate environment

WordPress MU is now a Live service inside BT, for all employees to use !

The platform is currently a single, yet rather large linux VM running WordPress MU 1.3.3 with the LDAP auth plugin into the Corprate AD.
as the need and used grows this will be fronted by a cookie insert load balancer and more apache/php instance

• The front page includes some blog guidelines and a few a few MU plugins
• Recently update blogs
• New blogs
• Top Bloggers (quantity not quality)
• Global Tag cloud

We have also …

• Disabled the self registration system, as by default wordpress MU gives you a blog name based on your username( a meaning less 9 didgit number in our case).
• Enforced logon for comments on all blogs, and modified the PHP to prevent anyone changing that
• Pre loaded the WP_users table with ALL employees, so no registration is required for a User account (require for comment), LDAP to the AD deals with password policies
• User Blog are (Currently Manualy) created using the email address prefix, replacing “.” with a “_” for john.smith@ get a blog called john_smith
• Group Blogs what ever name they wish (within reason)

This make an intersting read

HOW TO: wordpress on IIS7 with some extras too

http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-WordPress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx

My ldap enabled enterprise bloging platform at “the firm” is picking up momentum, lets hope it scales properly, it has been built on the same 3Tera grid technology as wordpress.com But only time will tell

Only one little snag, guess who has to do a blogging with wordpress demo at the Xmas meeting

Here starteth my new project,

A New blog dedicated to  my warped view of technology , it’s use and abuse, news, discoveries etc etc and within my limited command of my mother tongue, the english language, it should present a professional picture of my life and the technology that infects it.

Some technology related blogs have been imported from my “personal” Blog , Hence apparent 2 years of history

This new project is stood up on wordpress MU (multi user) 1.3 which gives me the ability to offer blog microsites to like minded individuals. WordPress MU 1.3 is based on the WordPress 2.3.1 core, including native support of Tags and Tag Clouds, providing yoiu have a supporting themes, (so i guess i need to fix this theme to get the tags worksing correctly)

Watch this space

I have just spent several hours trying to setup wordpress MU 1.2.4 with LDAP in to a CORP Active Directory,

MU does what wordpress does best, it just worked
LDAP auth was fantasic,
but everynow and then i was experiancing a 30 secs slow page load

Well before some of you start shouting, what i now know are obvious things,
I eventually noticed, using a cool tool called ieHeaders, that the page load delay was exactly 30 seconds every time, so came to the conclusion this was a timeout rather than a random thing. After some head scratching I remembered that some of the admin pages on wordpress get data from wordpress.org on NEW features etc

Eureeka, give the PHP http client (snoopy) a proxy server to use and everyones a winner !

[update]
This was done with?? wordpress MU 1.2.4 , and LDAP plugin 1.2.0 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196841??against a WINDOWS AD / LDAP
The search and user DN need to be in this format OU=aaaa,OU=bbbb,DC=zzzz,DC=yyyy,DC=xxx
where the number number of OU fields and DC fiesl will vary depending on yoiu LDAP config