WordPress won’t care about the IPs, It’s Apache’s job to map IPs to your vhosts. You need to look at the Apache config: set up either 5 separate VirtualHost entries that all point to the same DocumentRoot, or tell Apache to listen on all available IPs, and use a wildcard match on a single VirtualHost … Read more
Your .htaccess and wp-config.php seem to be correct as well as your wildcard dns entry. It looks like the problem is with your apache vhost. You have to include the wildcard entry in your vhost for Multisite to work correctly. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName mysite.com ServerAlias www.mysite.com ServerAlias *.mysite.com UseCanonicalName On DocumentRoot /home/mysite/public_html ErrorLog … Read more
There are a lot of specific to figure out, but your basic options are to handle it: In runtime. Stuff common core into plugin or just load it from same directory for all core themes. In development. Set up a version control, make a script that will check out common files to all core themes.
I think that is possible with the plugin WordPress MU Sitewide Tags: (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/) With that plugin you can republish content from all sites OR a selection and you can choose to publish it to the main site OR to a new subsite.
Although I have not tested a use case such as yours. If the trouble is with path to the images in the posts and other you can give WordPress OneClick Migration a try. It was designed with Database level migration but it should work. You may need to run it in forced mood. See the … Read more
It’s definitely possible. And there are a few plugins to help make it easier Diamon Multisite Widgets Bloglist, recent posts and comments from the whole network. WordPress MU Sitewide Tags A central area where all the posts on a WordPress MU or WordPress MS site can be collected. This plugin creates a new blog on … Read more
Try this: global $current_blog; $blog = get_blog_details($current_blog->blog_id);
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”
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.