Comments on: WPMU Version 2.7 is released – an overview & upgrade tips

By: Levi Putna

Levi Putna — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:35:47 +0000

Anyone noticing any issues with the menu on some of the wordpress MU plugins? the ones in mu-plugins. I’m having an issue with a few plugins I developing that have a top level menu. Seems there might be a bug in menu-header.php.

I have a small post explaining how to fix it http://ozblog.com.au/2009/02/23/wordpress-mu-27-sub-menu-problem/ hope that helps.

Thanks for the post Andrea, saved me a lot of pain.

By: Umesh Sirsiwal

Umesh Sirsiwal — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:27:19 +0000

I updated last weekend at http://techievarta.com. All looks well. I like the new Admin area compared to old one.

Thank you for the run-down though.

By: Kenneth Newquist

Kenneth Newquist — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:54:27 +0000

I figured out my issue, which had nothing to do with WPMU 2.7 OR Admin-SSL; the issue was that ssl.conf’s AllowOverride instruction was set to “none” rather than “FileInfo Options”.

Many thanks for your “Installing WordPress MU” ebook; in it you reference issues with blogs in subdirectories not loading because of this configuration issue in httpd.conf; naturally, the same thing happens to SSL-protected pages if you’ve set “AllowOverride None” in ssl.conf

“Obvious” in hindsight of course.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:06:04 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I just set up my first WPMU site in the automotive niche and haven’t “opened the doors” yet so I’ll upgrade first rather than screwing up others data if 2.7 seems stable. Also, I dropped a link to this post in a big IM forum.

By: Deepanshu Goel

Deepanshu Goel — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:14:59 +0000

solved the problem, i overlooked the new settings in new wp-config.php file.
the default blog domain and its path needed to be set manually in wp-config.php file.

By: Deepanshu Goel

Deepanshu Goel — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:13:06 +0000

Hi andrea,
yesterday i have upgraded my WPMU installation on Goelji.com. i was logged in at that time but, since morning i am facing some crazy problems.
1. the login page is not working.
2. the logo above login form is pointing to a invalid web address.
3. the signup page is not showing up.

Please can you help me out

By: Kenneth Newquist

Kenneth Newquist — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:50:26 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up! My co-workers and I spent last week experimenting with the beta, and decided it was a big enough jump forward that we’d run with it for our spring semester pilot of MU. I’m very glad to know I can go forward with an official release.

On a related-but-unrelated note, do you have any write-ups on the best way to enable SSL login and admin pages while operating in directory mode in 2.7? (as opposed to subdomains?)

I’ve tried Admin-SSL, but I’ve been having some problems with 403 page not found errors. It worked with the main blog but not the daughters. I suspect some more mod_rewrite experimentation is needed on my part to get it working properly.

I also tried using the FORCE_SSL_LOGIN and FORCE_SSL_ADMIN config flags, but again, I ran into problems with the daughters and 403 errors. I plan on revisiting it with fresh eyes on Sunday, so hopefully I’ll find something I missed last week.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:43:20 +0000

Thanks for the prompt reply and good ideas.

Unzipping on the server is a great idea. (Moron me, not to think of it before.) I’ll have to polish up my mad comand-line skilzzz.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:24:36 +0000

Thanks Andrea,

This will be the first WPMU upgrade I do with live sites, so thanks for the reassuring upgrade instructions at the end of the post!

WP single user has a maintenance plugin which will temporarily show a message while activated. It seems just the thing when deleting and uploading core files on a slow connection like mine. (Sometimes it’ll take an hour or more to upload WP core.) Does WPMU have a similar function? I guess it’ll be made redundant with auto-upgrades now.