CallMeAndy

Allen – things interfered I’m afraid anyway back on the case earlier.
So retracting my original statement as you said in spite of the error message the feed does render, so cool I can live with that.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Allen,
Yes this is exactly what I’m doing.
Hopefully later today I will disable all the plugins and go to default theme etc and see if there is a conflict but a bit pushed for time at the moment.

Your commitment to user issues is looking exceptional BTW, hats off my friend.

So Multisite BuddyPress and WP now, all other plugins removed.
This makes no difference there is no interface for someone newly registerred to act as a contributor.

On delving it is obvious why – new registrants are not added to existing sites including the main blog. If you add a user manually to the main blog he gets his contributor interface.

So I guess what I need to know is if there is a way to automatically add him to the main blog on sign-up.

Got to the bottom of it – I dont read what is writtain I merely assume I have!!!

As I suspected there was a connection active. Credentials were always correct. So two things led me astray, the first the inappropriate error message. THe second the readin error that I mentioned.

In the section Moving WordPress Multisite in the text at http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite
It says this:

If you’re moving Multisite from one folder to another, you will need to make sure you edit the wp_blogs entries to change the folder name correctly. You should manually review both wp_site and wp_blogs regardless, to ensure all sites were changed correctly.

The opening line threw me off course thinking the paragraph was about folder moves only, so I must have only scanned what was there and didnt realise I needed to fix the wp-blogs table, but then why would I think that was an issue if there was not yet a database connection!! Ha ha!

Unfortunatly I spent a load of time debugging the remote install with print_r and echo statements embedded all over the place so I could trace the execution. As you can see below, included for posterity in case anyone is intreested in how you might troubleshoot problems (reading the bloody manual would be a better idea though). The clue I should of seen quicker and I put down to lack of WP experience or knowledge was the get_blog_details() call – which when you look at the code in ms-blogs.php its is quite clear there is already a database connection, and analysing the sql statements enables you to see what data might be missing – of course all my blogs were still showing localhost.

After that for anyone looking for a quick passage to getting your data in shape try the searchandreplacetool

Saved me ages. Particularly in relation to post data.

Anyway thanks for your time guys,
a sounding board always help.

So for posterity and anyone wanting to debug remotely here is an example – which is no doubt totally worst practice but will get you there!——-
Actually $current_blog was derived just a few lines above in ms-settings.php
I put the debug lines in the code below but to be frank I am not sure

if ( is_subdomain_install() ) {
...
}else{
     $blogname = htmlspecialchars( substr( $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ], strlen( $path ) ) );

        if (defined('WP_DEBUG')){
            echo '
            $_SERVER[ "REQUEST_URI" ] ="';
            print_r($_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ]);
            echo '"';
        }

		if ( false !== strpos( $blogname, '/' ) )
			$blogname = substr( $blogname, 0, strpos( $blogname, '/' ) );
		if ( false !== strpos( $blogname, '?' ) )
			$blogname = substr( $blogname, 0, strpos( $blogname, '?' ) );
        if (defined('WP_DEBUG'))
            echo '
            $blogname ='.$blogname;
		$reserved_blognames = array( 'page', 'comments', 'blog', 'wp-admin', 'wp-includes', 'wp-content', 'files', 'feed' );
		if ( $blogname != '' && ! in_array( $blogname, $reserved_blognames ) && ! is_file( $blogname ) )
			$path .= $blogname . '/';

        if (defined('WP_DEBUG'))
            echo '
            $domain = '.$domain.' $path ="'.$path.'"';

		$current_blog = wp_cache_get( 'current_blog_' . $domain . $path, 'site-options' );

        if (defined('WP_DEBUG')){
            echo '
            $current_blog(1)=';
            print_r($current_blog);
        }

		if ( ! $current_blog ) {
			$current_blog = get_blog_details( array( 'domain' => $domain, 'path' => $path ), false );
            if (defined('WP_DEBUG')){
                echo '
                $current_blog(2)=';
                print_r($current_blog);
            }
			if ( $current_blog )
				wp_cache_set( 'current_blog_' . $domain . $path, $current_blog, 'site-options' );
		}
		unset($reserved_blognames);
	}

The output from this was

$_SERVER[ “REQUEST_URI” ] =”/”
$blogname =
$domain = adventurebod.com $path =”/”
$current_blog(1)=
$current_blog(2)=
$current_site = stdClass Object
(
[id] => 1
[domain] => adventurebod.com
[path] => /
[blog_id] => 1
[cookie_domain] => adventurebod.com
)
<h1>Error establishing database connection</h1>

No

Local setup = development environment WAMP and phpmyadmin. This install of phMyadmin only connecting locally

Remote setup = No dev, LAMP cPanel and phpmyadmin. Using this install of phpMyadmin only to connect within the remote environment

I wonder if you see it differently the way i have left things at the moment is with:

define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);

which seems logical as this is a subdirectory implementation, unyet the original configuration read true and was created by WP autmotically. Right now niether value is redirecting which is strange as I am sure changing this value was switching back and forth between redirect and connection issues. But I am getting tired and really need to go to bed.

Thanks for you help so far.