Multi User Web Hosting: WPMU From Scratch

February 24th, 2008 — Shrewdy
Multi User
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How different is Multi User Web Hosting compared to a standard hosted WordPress installation?

There are more similarities than differences, but you must prepare properly and keep your wits about you.

My standard WordPress installation wizard starts after you have a domain up and running. WordPress Multi User (WPMU) installation requires some changes to how your domain is configured. Specifically, you need to change DNS records if you want user blogs to be userblog.domain.com rather than www.domain.com/userblog.

I need to do a separate Multi User Wizard, but for now, I will list all the steps I took to get WPMU running. I’m pretty sure that the plugins and other configuration steps will differ, so I will generate the first phase of my Multi User Wizard over the next few days.

For now, the installation steps, with a couple of warnings, are:
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    Web Hosting For Dummies

    February 21st, 2008 — Shrewdy

    Web Hosting For Dummies

    I know many people seeking web hosting for dummies.

    Millions of people have gained benefits from “For Dummies” books. Most don’t really like admitting to being dummies. Many are far from dummies, but want to get back to basics so they have a good foundation for whatever they want to learn.

    These people are Shrewdies.

    They want to gain the benefits of web hosting without years of learning technology secrets.

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