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WordPress 2.1 Image Upload Problem May 5, 2008

Posted by scoopseven in IIS, WordPress.
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After upgrading to Fast-CGI, my WordPress 2.1 image upload tool started asking for a password every time a image was uploaded. Turned out to be a permissions issue with WP/Fast-CGI-IIS that was solved by following the steps below from Joseph Scott’s Blog.

  1. Edit upload_tmp_dir option in php.ini. In my case I created an uploads folder in the wwwroot: upload_tmp_dir = “c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads”
  2. Create the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\uploads folder and grant the IUSR full control of it
  3. Create the uploads folder in your wp-content folder, for me this was in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress-trunk\wp-contents\uploads, then grant the IUSR full control of it
  4. Restart the IIS service (to pick up the php.ini change)

Multiple Blogs, One WordPress Install July 12, 2007

Posted by scoopseven in WordPress.
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From http://likemind.co.uk/journal/?p=64…

In the home directory for my new blog, I created an index.php like this, pointing to my existing blog directory:

<?
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require_once(‘../journal/wp-blog-header.php’);

In the same directory I created a .htaccess to route other requests to the existing blog:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/portfolio$
RewriteRule . /portfolio/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/portfolio/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/portfolio/index.php$
RewriteRule ^(.+) /journal/$1

Then I edited wp-config.php so it specified a different table prefix for my new blog, changing the assignment of $table_prefix to this:

if(substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 0, 10) == ‘/portfolio’) {
$table_prefix = ‘pf_’;
} else {
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
}

At that point I requested the new blog and got the installation dialog. After following it my new blog was basically ready, except for its theme. I wanted to re-use most of the existing theme, so I simply edited the files to test the global $table_prefix wherever I wanted different output.

For just two blogs this approach is OK. I’d tidy it up before I added any more.

WordPress Wish List January 25, 2007

Posted by scoopseven in WordPress.
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In order to make WordPress suitable for content management, we have to:

  • Allow for multiple authors for one post/article
  • Be able to display “editions” or compilations or multiple posts in one page