upgraded ro mu 2.8.1

This site uses WP MU, (multiuser) and i have just upgraded to 2.6.3

This Blogging Platform is built on WordPress MU, WordPress MU is slightly different to WordPress in that it has support for multiple independent blogs on top of a single user database, when running in folder per blog mode WordPress MU is totally dependent on the apache MOD-ReWrite feature to rebuild URL in the fly. This is a feature that has been missing from IIS until now, Microsoft have released, albeit CTP1 at the moment, a URL rewrite module for IIS7.

WordPress and WordPress MU can also use url-rewrite to create “friendly” permalinks

Well I did it, installed a copy of WordPress MU on IIS7 in folder per blog mode

• Server 2008 enterprise
• IIS7 URL-ReWrite CTP1
•  WordPress MU 1.5.1
•  mysql-5.1.25-rc-win32
•  ZendCore-2.5.0-Windows-x86

Using the URL-Write Module and some help from IIS.net, it was fairly straight forward; URL-ReWrite is still in CTP1 and has a few known issues. For instance the import wizard correctly identifies the  [L] parameter in .htaccess and create the correct XML, but the ”stopProcessing” attribute does not get copied to the web.config file and the ReWritecondition flag created a NEW rule with no action , rather than apply the condition to the next rule.

So after a bit of fiddling and some help from IIS.NET I got it all working including CSS and themes for folder based blogs.
The Only issue I did not fix was an issue with ONE of the CSS files which controls the layout of the TOP of the admin pages,

SORTED !!!!!!!!!!

Just so i dont lose it the web.config file is here

And dont forget the rewrite server variable fix too

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

Just got my self a Canon EOS400D DSLR with 18-55 and 55-200 lenses

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