I would recommend using Peters Login Redirect to redirect users after login I have used it before and works well. You could redirect users to the secure area by adding the below to your .htaccess file : Redirect 301 blog1.example.com/wp-admin/dashboard.php secure.example.com/wp-admin
Have you tried installing and configuring the “WordPress MU Domain Mapping” plugin? There’s an excellent tutorial available. Please note you have to manually install this plugin.
This tutorial was just published at DevPress by Patrick Carey: http://web.archive.org/web/20111222021406/http://devpress.com/blog/how-to-setup-subdomains-for-a-local-wordpress-network It should help you. It has been written for Windows but you should be able to translate it into “Mac”
Have you enabled Plugins for network sites, via the Network Admin? Also, MU (must-use) or network-activated Plugins won’t show in the site dashboard, IIRC.
WordPress multisite only has one table for users, so yes, users can use the same account on both sites. You will just have to be sure to set the appropriate role on each site, as network users are not necessarily users of a given site.
Try using AdRotate, it’s quite good. You can define block of ads that are displayed randomly (at will) at each page load. You can define single ads and the put it in your theme. You can paste the adsense code in the blocks, and you can manage all the aspects from the backend. Give it … Read more
Since you installed wordpress in a sub directory called “wordpress” you should try changing your last rewrite rule like this. RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
Actually, it is because you set up wildcard subdomains. You don’t need to set them up if you just want to use subfolders. Because of this, http://test.shallbetterdesigns.com/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css can be found, but http://www.shallbetterdesigns.com/test/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css can’t.
“As far as I know, if you want to install BuddyPress you’ve got to have a WordPress MU installation “ No, you do not. You can install BuddyPress on a single WordPRess installation. If the blogs are all on different server,s then you do not have what is meant by a WordPress network (multisite – … Read more
No, you do not use temp domain names. You migrate all the files to the new server, then you update all the DNS records for the mapped domains to the new server.